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
information respecting him , very acceptable to your readers . A friend of mine , who is a merchant in Calcutta , an intelligent young man , who has received a most liberal and , pious education , and whose opinions ,
dispositions and conduct are worthy of it , has formed some acquaintance with him . The letter , from which I am about to give you an extract , was written vvithout the least conception that the name
of Rammohun Roy was known in England , and the book referred to was wr itten by an Unitarian . It is delightful to have received , through so unexpected a channel , so satisfactory a confirmation of the attainments and
excellencies of a man who seems capable of doing incalculable good in India , and whose qualifications to diffuse amongst his countrymen purer and nobler conceptions of the Supreme Being , one cannot think have been bestowed on him in vain .
SOUTHWOOD SMITH . Extract of a Letter from R — — , Esq . € C Calcutta , Nov . 27 , 1820 . < c You recollect a little book of our friend —— , sent me by my brother .
I have shewn it to three of my most rigid acquaintance , who have been so satisfied with the justness of his reasoning , that they are now converted to our opinions .
" We have in Calcutta a very learned native , a Hindoo of very large . fortune , and a Brahmin , who lias changed his opinions , and is now what we should call a Free-thinker . I know not exactly what his religious opinions are , but the good people of Calcutta call him a Deist . *
" He is one of the first scholars in India , Europeans not excepted , quite a critic iti the dead European languages , and is altogether one of the first men of the age . This man is now avoided by all his family and friends , not one of
them can eat with him without becoming an outcast from his friends , and this , in their opinion , likewise in a future state . Still he is firm in his opinions , and has written various excellent works for the instruction of the native youth , in which he is succeeding to his wish . This Bran ,
~ T—* According to this writer ' s explicit acknowledgment he is not accurately acquainted with Rammohun Roy ' s religious opinions . That he is a Unitarian we now know : whether he be a Unitarian Christian still remains a matter of doubt .
Untitled Article
mra ' s name is Rammohun Roy , and I have the satisfaction to inform you , that he is quite delighted with our friend ' s book ; says it is one of the * most convincing books he ever read , and his opinions incontrovertible .
€€ I expect he will call on me , and when I am sufficiently acquainted with him , I will endeavour to get a few of his books to send you /*
Untitled Article
528 Account of the Establishment of Presbyterianisrh in Manchester .
Untitled Article
Account of the Establishment of Pres - byterianism in Manchester . From the Original Document ,
No . II . Manchester ? Sir , September 15 , 1821 . ACCORDING to my promise I now send you an account of an ordination , from the Register of the first Classis , described in my last ( p . 387 ) .
*« Ordination by the Presbytery of the first Classis , in the county Palatine of Lancaster , of seven Expectants , viz . Mr . Tho . Clayton , Mr . Tho . Holland , Mr . Nehemiah Pott , Mr . Hen . Vaughan , Mr . Jn ° . Maiden , Mr . Jn ° . Worthington , Mr . Jn ° . Bridges .
* ' Preparation thereunto ( according to ordinance of Parliament ) begunne March 4 to , 1646 . €€ Mr . Tho . Clayton , aged about 24 yeares , Mr . of Arts of St . Johns , brought a certificate of his good conversation from Blackburne , where he was borne , took the nationall covenant before the
Classis , desired and freely elected by the people of Didsbury in this county of Lancaster , was examined according to the ordinance . An Instrument affixed on the church door of the said Congregation .
Answerred without exception . His question in Divinity , An gratia Dei sit irresistibilis ? His deff . affirm , [ defensio alHrmativa ] appro v'd . And the 15 th of April , 1646 , ordavn'd . See the file . "
The other six Expectants are entered in the Register in a similar manner , mutatis mutandis ; and as what relates to them personally cannot be interesting , I think it unnecessary here to transcribe it .
" Upon the 15 th day of April , 1647 , being appointed a fast for this present bwsinesse , Mr . Walker preacht . The aforesaid Expectants , having made publique confession of their faith in the Congregation at Manchester , according to the ordinance , with earnest prayer , they were very solemnly sett apart for the work of the Ministry by imposition ol
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/24/
-