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I may , perhaps , be over sanguine , though it is a kind of sanguineness I wish to cherish , and which I would , at last , if forced to it , give up with sincere regret ; — -but I am persuaded , that the zsai of enlightened men would soon accomplish more than has yet entered into oar hearts to conceive . Let them come forward ,
a band of brothers , determined to inform the ignorant , to rectify the mistaken , to reclaim the vicious , — and absurdity , superstition and bigotry will flee before them .
And , Sir , what is no unimportant consideration , our zealous co . operation will convince the world tAat we are in good earnest , that we consider our sentiments both true and important , —honourable to God and good and profitable to
men , and that they are not unoperative opinions , cold hearted speculations , as if Unitarianism extinguished the nativQ lire of the human heart , freezing or deaden , ing its nublest sensibilities , reducing man , as a religious being , to a listless statue .
Sir , is there a Unitarian so heartless in the cause we have met to avow and support , as to be willing to lie under thisimputation ? Is there a man in this room who
would be willing to accept the sneering compliment which has been founded on our supposed apathy , " That 'Unitarianism is the most harmless of all heresies V No .
We will wipe away this ' reproach ? We will prove to the world , that while our sentiments agree with our reason and please : our understanding , they interest our best
affections-. Our Trinitarian brethren represent us as in the frigid zone of Christianity ; they grant that we
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have much of the light of knowledge and of reason , but deny th ^ t we have any of the beat of Godly zeal . If it be so , it is to be regretted that we have , respectively so much of the one , and so little of the other . Let us have fellow .
ship as to giving and receiving . There is a mode of expression in a certain district of the north , to express friendship between neigK . bours , by saying that they are on borrowing and lending terms . Let us be on such terms vvith our Trinitarian brethren . Let us be willing-to borrow and lend vvith them , or at least to barter , by imparting
to them some of our light , aftd receiving from them some of their heat * Both would profit by the exchange . And I am fully persuaded , that if we be as active as they are , Unitarianism will soon cease to be associated witha small
minority of Christians , and will centre as at the beginning , in the great majgrity , for , originally , Unitarianism was Christianity . " ' The above report will convey
the best idea of the meeting . It might have been m&de more full , but the limits of the Repository demand brevity . A liberal contribution from the company attested their satisfaction and their attachment to the Unitarian cause .
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478 Intelligence . —Unitarianism in America .
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Unitarianism in America . [ Tlje following letter from Mr . Grundy will explain the embarrassment we feel in making up fjiis article : uppn th « whole , we . think it best to subjoin to it the substance of F . P ' s , letter , presuming that Mr . Grondy w $ H ctf vide vrixfo iw the responsibility of this measure , ED J
Manchester , June 6 th > 1813 SrR , ¦ ' Some of your readers will Jjrabably recollect an article in J * mr last volume , ( viL p . 19 ^ , 0 , 64 ) on t * KJ state of Uiwtarianisjn in America ; particularly to Boi-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/54/
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