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nature and design—let them lay before their hearers the necessity there is for it , and the many beneficial effects fcf which it will be productive , and I feel fully convinced , that in
ninety-nine instances out of a hundred , it not only would not be opposed , but would be cordially welcomed and zealously supported . It behoves us all , if we are sincere in our professions Of attachment to the cause we have
openly espoused , to assist as far as we are able in every plan which is likely to advance its interests and speed its progress . And so important to this end do I conceive " Fellowship Funds " to be , that I cannot but feel grateful to Dr . Thomson for so wise and useful
a suggestion , and for the endeavours he has made to set it a-going . Many , indeed , are our obligations to that gentleman . His honourable and disinterested exertions in Ihe cause of Unitarianism , his zeal always accompanied with knowledge , and his piety
ever associated with chanty , are well worthy of our admiration and imitation . His praise is in all the churches . When the Fellowship Funds have become generally prevalent , and their operation is widely and beneficially felt , there will " this that he hath -done be told for a memorial of him . ' *
I will also take the liberty of sug-Nesting , that whenever a Fellowship und is formed , it would be desirable as a piece of agreeable intelligence , and as an incitement to the formation of similar institutions , to record it . on the pages of the Monthly Repository . And if I may be permitted to offer another hint , I would further
recommend to every-such society , to subscribe for at least o > ne or two Numbers of this Journal . The money cannot be better laid out than in supporting so valuable a publication , and which is aft the same time so useful an organ of our sentiments , and so important a
register of our proceedings . It would be disgraceful to the Unitarians , as a body , after what has been said upon the subject , to suffer the Monthly Repository any longer to support a sort of precarious existence , just to be able to maintain a feeble struggle betwixt life and death . The
Unitarians are quite numerous enough to keep it actively and vigorously alive , and shame be upon them if they do
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not . Let every one , nay * Jet bat one in ten do his share towards supporting our various necessary institutions , and the burden on each will be so small .
that its weight will be scarcely felt . Union , union , that is for us the one thing needful , and til ] we have that to a greater extent than at present , our individual exertions lose half their
value . I therefore hail the establishment of Fellowship Funds as one great step towards this desired end , and earnestly hope , that every successive Number of the Repository may inform us of their continued progress . THOMAS MADQE .
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$ 38 On Anonymous Communication ^ .
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Jftrminffham , Sir , April 6 , 1818 . IF my mite of commendation may be acceptable to your Correspon * dent T . N . T ., for his valuable Essay lately exhibited in your pages , fpp . 471 , 539 , 660 , ] I feel a pleasure in
presenting it , in confidence that the offering is in unison with the opinion of the majority , of your readers . But why should a writer of so much precision , eloquence and hutnanitv ^ withhold his name from lbe public eye ?
Why not add to the pleasure his talents have afforded , by -giving us the means of knowing to whom we are indebted for his masterly appeal at once to our judgment and to our most refined affections ? 1 can admire
his anonymous efforts , but methinks to know his name would add much to the gratification received , and still more to find that he was within reach of persona ) acquaintance . Will you allow me to present this consideration to the notice of your readers ,
and to urge upon your Correspondent ^ the propriety and desirableness of affixing their signatures to their communications ? In every point of view it carries a strength of recommendation favourable to the interest of truth , of justice , of morality , of science , of
benevolence and of religion , with all their bearings and connexions . It stamps the seal of sincerity , and gives an undisputed pledge that , however the writer may be deceived in his opinions , or however he may overrate the value of his communications , he still holds himself accountable to the world for his intentions ; and though it may be no direct promise for expla-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/40/
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