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it was intended . The argument to me appears equal and even identical with that which relates to the Lord ' s Supper . Especially if we consider that baptizing the descendants of
baptized persons was a perfectly novel practice : which would never have been thought of , much less universally adopted , without an express apostolical authority .
It is true , that the New Testament contains many accounts of the celebration of the Lord ' s Supper , and none of the baptism of the infant descendants of baptized persons . The reason of this is very obvious : and ,
consequently , the argument in favour of the permanent obligation of the Lord ' s Supper may be more apparent , though to a reflecting mind , not , I think , more forcible , than the argument for Infant Baptism .
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Mr . Morrison , the Chinese Missionary . Sir , Dec . 14 , 1817-OBSERVING in your last Number , ( p . 670 , ) that it is asserted in a note , that Mr . Morrison , the learned Chinese Missionary , is a native of Aberdeenshire , and studied at
Aberoeen , I think it due to the honour of the real places of his birth , early residence and education , to set your readers right in these particulars , which I have the opportunity of doing on the best authority .
Robert Morrison was born at Morpeth , on the 5 th of June , 1782 . His father removed to Newcastle w hen he was about three years old : at a proper age he was placed under the care of his uncle , Mr . John Nicholson ,
a respectable mathematical teacher in that town , from whom he learned the elements of English grammar , arithmetic , &c . and was then taken apprentice to his father ' s business , which was that of a last and boot-tree maker .
Though very industrious in this mechanical employment , he all along discovered an ardent thirst after knowledge ; and , in the latter part of his apprenticeship , and for some $ hort time after , while he worked with his father
as a journeyman , applied his earnings to the purchase of books and the procuring of assistance in his classical studies . These he pifrsued under the direction of the Rev . Adam Laidlaw , minister of the Scots' church in Silver-
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street , Newcastle , with whom he read most of the usual Latin authors , made himself master of the Greek Gram mar and read the Greek Testament . Hay * ing intimated his wish to enter on a course of theological studies , with a view to becoming a missionary , Mr
Laidlaw recommended to his perusal some of the best books on the evidences of natural and revealed religion and prescribed to him several subj ects for composition , suited to his future views . During this period he was also very useful as a visitor in the
service of a society for the relief of the friendless poor , established in Newcastle in 1797 . In January 1803 , he was sent to the Academy at Hoxton , where he was admitted a probationer on the 7 th of that month , and fully admitted on the 21 st . Here he
continued about three years , and , it is believed , during this time , as well as afterwards , while at Gosport under Dr . Bogue , he studied the Chinese language under a native of that country . But concerning his conduct and proficiency in these seminaries , it will be the agreeable province of some of
their directors to afford the public correct information . Of his important labours as a missionary and philologist and interpreter to the late embassy , the readers of the Reports of the Missionary and Bible Societies , of the First Part of his Chinese Dictionary , and of the publications of Messrs . Ellis , Abel and Macleod , will need no information from V . F .
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732 Mr . Morrison , the Chinese Missionary . —~ TJnitarianisrn in Scotland .
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Sir , Dec . 14 , 1817-rtlHE more I read , the more am I JL persuaded that " there is nothing new under the sun / ' This reflexion
occurred to me the other day when reading Myles ' s History of the Methodists . Relating the first introduction of Wesleian preachers into Scotland , in the year 1751 , that honest writer says , " Methodism has not prospered
much in that country . One great design in sending preachers thither , is to make a stand against the overflowing of Arianism and Socinianism in that country . " ( 12 mo . third edition , p . 65 . ) Can any of your readers tell what this means ? Is Unitarianism an old and nrevalent hereev in Scotland ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/36/
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