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of the orthodox to whom I allude , are not only pious but learned , of irreproachable moral character and acknowledged liberality , and are engaged in a course of active efforts in their Master ' s cause . Among them are to be found all the most strenuous supporters of Bible Societies ,
Missionary Societies and Sunday-schools . Iudeed , the American Missionary Society , you are aware , had its origin in this part of the country , where it still maintains its head-quarters , in the very focus of Unitarianism . All this is the more important , as New Eno-land is the €€ Officina Gentium" of
America , and is destined to supply much of the population , and impress its own features strongly on the character of the new States .
¦ w -w -V a . . . ^ • _ " With respect to the ministers , — Mr . Dwight among the Congregationalists , and Dr . Jarvis among the
Episcopalians , occupy stations of peculiar importance , and seem likely to effect much . The former is the son of Dr . Dwight , the late eminent Professor of Yale College , and is apparently of respectable talents and great activity . The latter is the son of Bishop Jarvis ;
and I am disposed to believe the most learned , and , as respects most of the duties of his responsible office , the most accomplished Episcopal clergyman in America . He has a high standing in society , possesses great personal respectability , and was appointed some months since to the new
and handsome Episcopal church in the most fashionable part of Boston . Many of the most respectable inhabitants of Boston have joined his congregation—not a few from Unitarian societies . Many families are divided in their religious sentiments ; some of the members attending the Episcopal , others the Unitarian churches .
c < The most portentous feature in the history of the present state of Unitarianism in this country , is the strong hold it has obtained in Cambridge College , near Boston ; the most extensive , and , in a literary point of
w , the most respectable college in the Union ; in which also a large proportion of the mpst influential persons of the nation are educated . Many parents are prevented by religious considerations front sending their children thither ; but I wish I could say the objection was more general . This ,
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anjl perhaps Transylvania University at Lexington , are happily th < e only colleges under the influence of Unitarian sentiments . Yale College , Princeton , Columbia , and all the others that I am acquainted with , are opposed to them : and Yale College has the
happiness of having its principal professors men of decided piety . But the noble theological institution at Andover , liberally endowed , formed for ttote express purpose of raising up able champions to contend earnestl y for the faith at home , and accomplished missionaries to diffuse it abroad , blest
with * learned and pious professors ardently engaged in the great objects of their institution , presents pernaps the most cheering view . The only confident assurance , however , of the
triumph of truth , is to be found in the promises of Him who has infallibly predicted its universal reception . I am ^ lad I have done . It is a painful office to remark on what appear to be the doctrinal errors of others , when
conscious of so many practical errors of our own . But 1 could not refuse your request /'
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Unitarianism in the United States of America . 459
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Hachneyi Sir July ' 17 , 1 S 22 . 1 I 1 HE subject of prosecutions for M opinions has been so often and so ably discussed in your work , that it would be mere repetition to argue
the question generally ; but I cannot refrain from expressing surprise and mortification to find that several of the Jury who lately convicted Mrs . Wright for the publication of theological writings , are members or * a sect who have the reputation of an enlightened liberality above their fellowchristians . Lamentable as the fact is ,
here are professing * Unitarians become the instruments ot a bigoted , cruel policy , and assisting in the suppression of religious liberty ; engaged in crushing others who are ready to suffer and are suffering for opinions which in
their judgment are best calculated to promote the happiness of mankind . Stigmatize their publications as blasphemy and calumny , if you please ^ it is blasphemy and calumny against the written doctrines and opinions of
other men , and in branding honest objectors to Christianity ( for so I am bound to consider Mrs . Wright and others ) with an unhesitating sentence
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/3/
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