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© f Commons , and op . the resolution ; concerning it being ixitvoduccd , ^ ery contrary opinions were maintained . On th « one hand it was asserted , that the reports of the conversion of Hindoos , by missionaries , are fallacious in the highfcst degree ; triat of the very few who Were or wl ? o pretended to be converted , every one was a rogue : that the religion of
the Hindoos was pure and unexceptionable , the exposing of children and burning of women being no part of their religious code , and to be pamlteled by the suicides and murders of infants by mothers , in this Christian country ; that the dancing girls of India found a counterpart in the piostitutes of the highly
civilized city uf London ;—that in a population of nne hundred thousand persons , in a district in India , there fcpere only eighty-eight commitments for every species of crime , in ten years ; and in the city of London alone were , in the last year , sixteen hundred and sixty-three commitments ;•—that the moral character of the Hindoos was
a great deal better than the moral character of the people of this coun cil y , high and low ; — and that we ought to euteitain more anxiety to save the lives of thirty thousand of our fellow countrymen , than the souls of ail the Hindoos , by the probable advantages of Christianity . These propositions were all met with counter
assertions , and it was contended , that the communication of knowledge mustjbe a good , and from this good the Hindoos ought not to be debarred ; that no unfair means were to be used in promoting Christianity , but that the natives should , at least , have the opportunity of seeing it in ite true colours -. —that the best
way of rootincr put the foul enormities perpetrated in ISengal , was by introducing Christianity amongst the natives . "We may observe , in general , that on l > oth sides , the word Christianity is used without attaching any definite ideas to it ; and , that the different parties refer % o very different standards in speaking of it . By some it is estimated by the
£ * tat lishtd religion of this country ; by others , by the doctrines of various sects in it ; by others , according to the l fy * & o £ the professors of it ; by a few accord ng ^ o the law of Ufc , in the New Testament . In general , indeed , Hule is meant by the conversion of tl ) c Hint ekuDs , but t * e-x change their WQrship of one sort of a . Trinity for , arwUjtoe * , — -to restrain their numeiou * incarnation * to
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one only , s * ipp ? j * e < J to feave taken place in Palestine ,- —and tb remove their ' brahmins for a Christian priesthood . But much rnore is requisite , and vc e do pot scrap ie to speak it plairily , namely , to take off the reproach of Christianity , by Christians living worthy of the religion they
profess , by shewing themselves to be really the disciples of the Prince of Peace , by b ^ irig able to convince the Hindoos , that they all belong to the family of love , that they all ^ speak the same thing , worshipping in spiritual union , the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , and looking forward with firm confidence to the establishment of
the kingdom of heaveq . When thia is done onl y in this small island , then : may we send forth our missionaries to Jndia ^ and then will the Hindoos no longer turn a deaf ear to those ar ^ urnents ^ which are sufficiently refuted by the appeal to the manners , lives and divenpities of opinions of the prpfes ' sors of . Ctjiistianity .
The attention of the public hes been diverted from religious to financial subjects , and a loan of twenty-severj millions for the present year naturally makes a deep impression . It is attended with this novel circoiastaHce ^ that no new taxes are raised , and consequently the eountry feels little embarrassment fretti the measure . This arises from the
views bow taken of the sinking fund , a mysterious term , like that of the Trinity , on . which , for a long time , it Was scarcely deemed less than sacrilege to meditate . The necessity ^ of the times has , however , dispelled the delusion * an < J people now begin to enquire with freedom , why they should borrow * with © to * hand to pay with the otb « n We » have
now a large annual sum raised on the public , to redeem the national debt , that is to make purchases of sto £ k , whose Jnterest is regularly paid to commissioners , and applied in the same manner for purchasing more stock , the nation in the mean time , not receiving the lea ^ t ben efit from these purchases , the stock bem £ merely transferred from om name ^ t ? another , and looking to a remote 'period
when the stock is to be entirely cancelled . Instead of going ou with thh pernicious plan , and raising' new taxes for a new loan , the government has wade * loan for the services of the pr esent year , the interest of which is' paid liy the sum in the C < Hnmissioners * hands for the reduction of the Rational fa \* This sum will be about ft iftiUiaf * *»*
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433 Siate qf Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/66/
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