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af ydufable Correspondents fully discuss it .
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Plan of & Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans qf Unitarian Ministers . Sir The friends of rational
Christianity are n 6 V become ati extended aijtd a respectable body of jnen . In out principal towns , they are fltimerous $ and in those smaller towns Where numbers do
not authorise a Man ' s acknowledging himself to be of their party ? 9 . general conviction prevails that they are Well-informed and therefore deserve the public
esteeiri . Like the philosophers of old } who had far outstripped the vulgar in their inquiries after ftuth , they are envied by num . * fcers who kfe afraid of imitating
thena . The respect paid to them niSay be in some measure attri - buted to the unambiguous and unexceptionable title by which tliey haye of l&te been distinguished , that ' of Unitarian . An Obloquy w $ s always attached to $ e names of Arian and Sorinian :
and aii utter igttoranee of what these outlandish words could imply , Served td prejudice the people altogether ag&inst the doctrines thM were held by the individuals of these parties . » They
stere a sort of abracadabra , that looked like any thing but Christtemity : whereas the name by « frhich w& q , re flow distinguished fttto our fellows * in the Christian
World , is of a signification that a comitioh scholar ttiay interpret ; £ tkd it is generally understood by those whei do tittfc < iome to our
Weeting-hduBes , that v \ re Worship one God , in coutr&dfetiflcti&tt from
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the members of the Church of England ^ nd other Dissenter who worship three it * one . This thought carries a favourable impression with it to the ifciind of every thinking man ; and I could
wish , Sir , that a distinction so honourable to us were kept up afcd preferred to every other * We shduld call every thing belonging to us Unitarian : I have seeii with pleasure , inscribed on the walls of a house dedicated to
public devotion ^ Unitarian Cham pel . I hear of the Unitmrian E \ lnd ) the Unitarian Missionaries ^ and I wish I could read the Unim tartan Repository , However , as you , Sir , and your colleagues
are certainly wiser than I arri , and more deeply versed in the knowledge of man , I leave this matter to your consideration , assured that you will adopt the name as soon as you think it will serve the cause so nesir your heart .
Allow me to state to you and to the public , the plan of an institution which I am solicitous to see established in our own society , with a view to assist a very re * spectable part of those who are immediately and materially interested in Unitarianism : I mean
the widows and orphan ckildren of ministers , whom $ re provident of God may be pleased to call from their public labours . Thjs should be called u The Society for the Relief of tht Widows and
Orphans of Unitarian Ministers . * And I am the more desirous of employing this designation , because it is probable that some of our friends , who are not ministers , may be induced to promote the views of art institution so much wanted . In some counties of England ^ th ^ re are fundfc of thi *
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Society for ReUif tf Wid&tps mid Orphans . fp
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/15/
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