On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
canal shares , invent machines , tprite books , " &c . &c ., and give the profits to the Fund , is trifling , childish folly , most unworthy of the talents and character of your Correspondent ; but
when he goes gravely on to mention to Unitarians the purchase of lottery tickets , in the hope of gaining prizes for the benefit of the Fund 2 our feelings are changed to those of indignation and disgust . No , Sir ; I trust the
cause of truth will €€ run and be glon * fied" without its supporters identifying themselves with those corrupt and weak financiers who , to fill their coffers , make no scruple of employing means the most obviously calculated for
demoralizing the people . ^ The Parliamentary discussions which have from time to time taken place on this subject , must , I thought , have convinced every man who had the good of his fellow-creatures at heart , that it was
his bounden duty , by every method within his reach , to put down and discourage so fruitful a source of their crimes and misery . Little indeed did I imagine that it would ever be proposed to any body of Christians as a desirable pecuniary resource ; and should any
sect or denomination think proper to adopt it , I would , as a suitable auxiliary , warmly recommend their pro * ceeding in the next place to open a dram shop , which would be a much more certain road to profit , and be little more injurious to the morals of its customers than the lottery office .
I have thought it right to enter a decided protest against this strange proposal , which I cannot doubt will be received by all serious Unitarians with unmixed disapprobation , and remain , heartily wishing that all Christians were equally so , An " Enemy to every Species of
Gambling . P . S . Since writing the above , I have had daily proofs of the indignation which the strange paper alluded to has excited in the bosoms of Unitarians of every description . All lament that a month has been suffered to elapse
without a strong expression havmg appeared , to testif y their decided reprobation of the plans it proposes , as manifestly absurd , and , with regard to to the lottery , grossly immoral . I also beg ; leave to enter a protest against terming money collected by the members ofa society for its own particular
Untitled Article
purposes , a Fellowship Fund . It is a Congregational Fund , which can pretend to no fellowship beyond its own pale .
Untitled Article
Examination of Mr . Daniel I / arwood ' s Reasons for returning to Trinitavianism . €€ Till we all come in the unity of the faith , and of the knowledge of the Son of God , unto a perfect man . —That we henceforth be no more children , tossed to and fro , and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men , " Ephes . iv « 13 , 14 .
Sir , THE €€ painful emotions" which Mr . Harwood supposes must " necessarily be produced in your mind" by the circumstances of his relapse into the complexities of
Calvinism , [ see pp . 388—391 , ] will , I conceive , be limited to compassion for the vacillating mind of the writer . Emotions of a very opposite nature must , abstractedly from this fe ^ Ung , be excited in the bosom of the
Unitarian , who cannot but wish that every similar instance of defection from the Nazarene simplicity of faith , may ever be defended by similar arguments . If by man ' s being a ** fallen and depraved creature , " the writer meant no more than that he was prone to sin , the Unitarian , who believes that it was the office of Christ to €€ turn men
from the power of Satan unto God , that they may receive forgiveness of sins , " Acts ii . 18 , could have no dispute with him : but if by this , as appears to be the case , he understands a < € moral incapacity / ' the demand of
Jehovah , Ezek . xviii . 31 , " Why wijl ye die , O house of Israel ? " and his exhortation , " Make you a new heart and a new spirit , " must be regarded as egregious trifling or a cruel mockery : and if the " overcoming of the native bias to evil , " must be the " effect of divine influence" operating according
to election , there seems as little reason in the advice of the Apostle Peter , ( 2 Ep . i . 10 , ) that we should " give diligence to make our calling and election sure : ' nor if " these things be so , " can the veracity of Pbul remain imimpeached , when he expressly declares , that " God our Saviour mil huve all men to be saved /* To reasonings of , this kwd , we may oppose the question of X ^
Untitled Article
516 Examination of Mr . Daniel HarmoodPs
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/16/
-