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accounts from India shew , that the Englishman is very highly thought 6 f by the natives ; and how great are his advantages , when contrasted with the disabilities of natives , of the Idwer castes , which seems to be the description of these our brethren ! How can
we expect that the Bramins will deign to be taught by these abject and profane persons ? How much does one wish , that such inquiring Bramins as those whom Mr . R . mentions , should have their attention called to the existence of Unitarian ,
European Christians ! To gain respectful attention to Christianity , is more than half to win the day , A gentleman , who lately published a work entitled , " Sketches of India / ' asserts , that he was a witness to the reading and
teaching of a Baptist Missionary , for several weeks , during a great religious fair , before an attentive audience of above 8000 persons , including many Bramins . One cannot but suppose , that it was the European who commanded so much attention .
I would argue , secondly , from the superior intelligence and information , which a - Well-instructed Missionary must possess over a native Hindoo , on subjects connected with Christianity . He has read the originals of the Scripture ; he knows at large the history of the church and the world ; he has seen the ends of controversies , and the tendencies of opinions ; he has a philosophical expansion of views , and a Christian superiority to superstition , to which the native Christian can
seldom have attained . An infant church , in such a land as Hindostan , seems to need such a guide . But what is a stronger argument , our Indian friends feel themselves their need of such a helper . Probably , indeed , with the gospels in their hands , they
may discern and embrace the essence of our simple religion ; but then they nfeed some person of authority , tp assure them , when this is attained , that they have the one thing needful , to set them at rest that they are Christians .
A third source of argument , is the importance of opening a channel of communication . Thi * our Indian brother praves , in order , as he sayp , " th « it we iiyiy faoM up to them tt * e true light , and encourage and raise their spirit * in their duty . " I humbly hope that
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this letter of William Roberts , which is so plainly the call of Jesus to feed his flock , will not be disregarded by us * Such an opportunity may never be given again ; a finer never opened before the eyes of Christian philanthropists . I have been considering usefulness abroad : but I must add ,
that undertakings of this kind leave a rich reward at home : they call religious feeling into animated and delightful action , and promote the general sympathy and love of Christians to one another ; and as to Unitarianistm , I believe , that under the Divine blessing , they would be to it as the bread of life , T , F-B *
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370 The Emperor Cmistantines Sermons *
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Loughborough , Sir , May 9 , ISIS . WAS examining lately a coin of I Constantine , surnamed the Great , and had occasion to turn to the life of
the Emperor , as given by Lempriere , in his Classical Dictionary ; it is there related , that" Constantine w as learned ; and preached , as well as composed , many sermons , one of which remains . * Constantine , it seems , was a preacher , and employed in the propagation of
the doctrines of the gospel , not only the keen logic of the sword , but also the weapons of the ecclesiastic , the tongue and the pen . The use of force was sufficiently consistent with the Emperor ' s general conduct , but the
office of Christian minister accorded not with his character ; and the illustration and enforcement of the mild , merciful and benign system of Christianity , came with a bad grace from him who took away the life of his own son by means of poison .
When we call to mind that the first Christian Emperor employed his pen ia defence of the religion of Jesus , we are inclined to wonder that his productions should have been consigned to oblivion : but when we recollect that this same writer of serr
mons murdered his own son Crispus , * it is no longer difficult to account for the forgeffuinesH in which his discourses seem to have been buried . If any of the readers of the Repository would favour us with some account of the subject , style , &c- of ,. f _ ' . .- ITI ; . ^ . _ _ , ^ ;; ¦ •; . . ' 1 ; ' " ••' , " ¦/' , ¦ . ¦ - . ¦ ¦ - * See the article * CrUpus and Conslatttinus , in Leuipriere ' s Classical Dictionary .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/26/
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