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designed expressly to promote Unitarianism by popular preaching . He will allow us to assist old and regular congregations , and thus escape the charge of innovation , but ,. when our preaching becomes popular , it is disapproved .
1 should scarcely have mentioned the objections of this writer , had he not connected them , though indirectly , with the name of our late venerable friend , Mr . Lindsey , by whom he describes himself to have been led into , and
conducted jn the path of Uaijtarian . isra . Yet when I had the honour , last year , to be called to the chair which . is-now so wortljily filled , I feltroy 3 elf justified , in representing
Mr , Lindsey as consoling himself , amidst the languors of declining age , and in the near propect of dissolution , by observing that the doctrine which he had so well
taught and exemplified , was descending among the people , and likely to become the religion of the multitude , by the means of popu ^ lar preaching .
It was , Sir , the distinguished praise of thegreat moral sage of heathen antiquity , not merely that he reasoned with philosophers , but that be sought the streets and markets of bis crowed city , t 9 gain the" attention of the people at large . Yet Christians , it seems , are liable to
censure * if they teach or hear in a- market place or a carpenter ' s shop , rj know not how other Qhristians * may satisfy themselves , thai jihe dispositions they indulge tee Becoming the followers of Jesus Obrist , bpt I confess , Sir , that if I Could contemplate the conduct ctf our lttissSonari . es with any
feelirfgft **> ut those of the highest resjpect , > &v without gratitude to the } < n * ifi 6 ' Prowhence for raising up
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such men , and preparing a field for their exertions , accompanied as those exertions have been , by prudence and decorum , worthy of those who speak the words of truth and soberness—I should fear for myself that if I had lived in the days of the Son of Man , I must have revolted at the doctrine of the
carpenter ' s son . Yes , Sir , I should fear that I might not have appeared among the earliest followers of him who had not where to lay his head , but rather have hesitated to come in till the eleventh hour , or , perhaps , have waited till all the
hours of life were past , before' I could gain a satisfactory answer to that first enquiry of worldly wisdom * —have any of the rulers believed ? Gentlemen , — -I thank you for the honour you have < lone me , and now , as 1 no longer see my friend ,
the Chairman , in his place , give me leave to address you . It is impossible to regret the case of those , who , agreeing wilh us in faith , are deterred by prejudices from advocating our cause , without recollecting , with pleasure , instances of some who have
overcome such disadvantages . In this connection , give me leave to name a gentleman , who , happily surmounted the prejudices of education , and , at the call of conscience , left the academic shades in which
he delighted , and has , in various ways , employed his talents to give the advantages of a popular form to what we esteem the doctrine of the gospel . Gentlemen , I am sure you have anticipated me , and expect that I shall propose the health of our Chairman .
" ' Mr . Eaton and the Com . mitte . " Mr * Eaton said ,- —! rise , Sir , on the pun of the Committee ,
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund . A > 7 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/51/
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