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    for learning m repairing the injuries to religion which learning had done . He would say of learning what had been said of fireit was a good servant but a bad master . He thought that every

    branch of knowledge was not necessary to a religious teacher . Proficiency in the mathematics for instance , which nobody would uudersrand him to depreciate , would not enable a man the better to

    expound the scriptures , the great object of the Christian ministry . He was not hostile to , and would Dot be thought to disparage , any institution now in ' being for the promotion of general learning ; but he believed that the increase

    of U rutarianism among the lower orders of the people made it highly necessary that a class of teachers should be provided , by whose labours rational Christianity might , in every part of the kingdom , be carried to the cottages of the poor . Therefore it was that he mentioned

    with peculiar pleasure a projected Unitarian Academy . He explained its design to be to take young invn of gooJ character and piety and of promising talents , from the age of 18 to that of 25 , and to

    give them religious , scriptural instruction for two years—their attention to be confined chiefly to the Hebrew' Bible and the Greek Testament , and to books in explanation of them , and which contributed to their being understood . the

    ^ time allotted , this single tut important object might under Proper tuition be attained , and he < Ud not doubt but the new institution would train up men like our m issionaries , and , who would *> e eminently useful in the poorer Unitarian congregations afxd

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    throughout the kingdom . He would therefore propose The new Unitarian Academy , and may it cause many of our widowed churches to sing for Joy . Mr , Ebenezer Joh nsto ^ proposed the health of the Secretary to the Fund , Mr . Asp land , who said ,

    That he could not be insensible to the approbation of so many respectable friends , but that he valued their esteem , thus expressed , chiefly because it was a virtual assurance of their concurrence in the object , the plan and the measures of the Unitarian

    Fund . He congratulated the meeting upon their number , their cordiality and their unanimity . When he first lent his feeble assistance to the institution and support of the Society , there Were some of his much-valued friend ?

    who were ready to charge him with enthusiasm ; who thought the design was good , but question * edits practicability ; who wished tKe spread of Unitarianism , but doubted whether the time was

    come for its being proffered to the multitude , He was happy to see some who had hesitated , on this ground , in the present large cdnu pany ; met to do homage , he would not say to this particular Society , but ^ to the great cause in the promotion of which it appeared to him to be so powerful ,

    so necessary an instrument . From the Report of the Com ~ mittee ^ this day , it appeared that much good had been dorie ^ that mucri rnpre was projected , aod that much- beyond calculation wits likely to ensue . The times , it Was added , encourage ancl aid our exertions . The people- ^ re ripe or

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/45/