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398 Unitarian Controversy ** -QuUmtta *
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Here it was Expected that this diseuasion in the Journal would finally close , but the gross partiality of th « Hurkaru in favour of ortliodoxy and intolerance , produced the following
concluding article in the Journal of August 15 , p . 563 , in which the " production of a native Indian , " for the authenticity of which , as I understand him , th # Editor appears to give his own authority , can scarcely fail to excite a peculiar interest . * ' A rejected Letter .
i € The mild and temperate spirit that pervades every line of this intelligent Native ' s rejected Letter , as compared with the intolerant anger and fury of the Layman ' s denunciation , to which it is a reply , and which was so readily accepted by the Hurkaru , that it was published in breathless haste in one of its evening or extra sheets , will convince oar readers of
the utter worthlessness of all the empty professions of the Editor of that miserable paper ; and shew them that he is incapable of the exercise of that impartial justice , which the interests of religion and the amelioration and improvement of the natives of India demand . He can
find space for the lowest and most contemptible writings from day to day , directed against ' The Journal , ' and at the same time denies to a Native of learning and talent the insertion of such a Letter as the present , to the tone and spirit of which the most furious bigot could not reasonably object . This production of a native Indian will be read in England with admiration of its temper and
composition , as indicating the refinement of the mind tfrat gave it birth ; although it has been rejected by the ijarrow and coq » tracted spirit of one calliug himself an Englishman , yet proving by this act , how much he is iuferior in understanding and i n liberality , to this enlightened Hindoo . " The following is the rejected Letter : —
* ' To the Editor of the Bengal Hurkaru . " Sir , " Havipg in a late Number admitted into your pages some very serious remarks on a publication by Ram Mohun Roy , I trust that you , will in justice to him , give a place to the following Reply . " 1 am , Sir , " your obedient Servant , « ' SUTYU-SADHUN .
" To the Editor of the Bengal Hurkaru . "Sir , " I saw a Letter written by * A Lay-
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man / in -jroprpftpBr ef the 2 nd tfi&tom , on tfae subject pf a Letter -and , Ex tract from a late publication of Ham Mobun Jioy ' s , given in the Calcutta Journal of the preceding day . The tone of resentment " and asperity which runs throughout the whole Letter , indicates plainly that the Layman whs actuated in his mode of
expression and reasoning rather by njomentary passion than by cool jud gment . His principles as a Christian will , 1 hope , upon more mature consideration of the subject , serve more effectually to make him aware of the uncharitable spirit which pervades his Letter , than a reply couched in a similar style of expression .
" The Layman declares , in the conr eluding part of his Letter , that ' religious controversy is the last article that should appear in a periodical publica - tion ; ' yet with great inconsistency he nils almost two columns with religious argument , a short notice of which I beg now to offer . " Ram Mohui » Roy observes , in his Appeal , tbaf ; * if it was a practice among the Christians to study the Old
Testament firs * , and then the New , Christir anity would not be liable to be encroached upon by human opinions / The Layman , in noticing this assertion , affirms positively that in the very first chapter of Genesis , { he Trinity hi Unity is distinctly avowed ; ' but he does not refer to the passage or text ; in which ( he avowal of Trinity in Unity may be found : 1
regret to say , that , for my own pavt , so far from being able to discover such avowal , 1 cauuot find the least allusion to Trinity , nor even a word expressing tbe number three in any part of the chapter , " 1 am fiware , however , of the argur men-ts by which this supposed avowal is inferred ; and would beg the Layman ' s ot
patient attention to tbe discussion them in Bam Mohun Roy ' Appeal , p . 96 . In noticing the following assertion of Ram Mohun Roy , found in tbe Extract , ? What credit can be obtained in proving one is not three , and the same Being cannot be God and Man ? ' the
Layman questions him , whether he can explain how the soul and body make one man ? how we feel them distinct though united ? and then concludes , that if Ra * 11 Mohnn Roy lieljeves these things without being able to explain them , he should not reject the mystery of the Trinity in
Unity , though beyot « i caw prehension . The Layman would not , 1 s uf *| > ose , dra w such a conclusion in » cool moment , were he to pay attention to the following passage , found in the same Kxtr&cl from the Appeal of Rain Mohun Roy , that appeared in the Calcutta Journal : * Jt is too true to be denied , that we are led by
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/6/
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