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mates their bosoms , and while their carelessness about communicating their religion to others belies their own sense of it 3 value . Year after year rolls on ; the generation among whom
we are acting our parts is quickly passing from the theatre of life : yet this great work is scarcely begun , and we may fear that we shall run our whole religious course , and see it no more advanced than it was at the
outset . This is the more afflicting when so much is done every day by others ; when every sect which is destitute of the clear light of our reasonable and amiable views , leaves us so far behind in Christian zeal and activity ; and when not only their zeal is observable , but also the success with which their
endeavours are in general crowned . It is indeed difficult , in the midst of all this , to discern an adequate reason , why the Unitarian Fund , as well as the Missionary Societies of other Christian names , should not undertake some labour for diffusing the name
of Jesus among mankind . A deficiency in the requisite resources is sometimes given as a reason against such an enterprise . If we admit this plea , it indeed reflects deep disgrace
upon us as a body . Are we then so much the fewest and poorest of all the denominations , that we can do absolutely nothing , where others do so much ? Are we so poor that we cannot support half a dozen Missionaries , when the Moravians can maintain hundreds ?
For our credit ' s sake , I hope such an argument will not often be urged , nor our opponents allowed such a triumph . Let the trial be fairly made , and let it be seen whether Unitarians have not liberal hearts , and open hands , and Christian sympathy , as well as others . In my < helief they only want leaders .
The late accounts of Rammohun Roy , which make it plain that , after much inquiry , he is become a decided and zealous Unitarian Christian , give us reason to think it possible , that we may , have an excellent Missionary in India , without sending one from
England . Perhaps , were this great and interesting inan assisted by the Unitarian Fund , he might get a chapel erected in Calcutta , and devote himself to the regular ministry of the word . This would probably be attended with the happiest effects , as he
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would command much attention , both from the English and his own countrymen . But I will not presume to prescribe what others are to do . Only the importance of the subject can justify me in saying whal I have . Every endeavour of this kind has for its aim , to diffuse the best of blessings to whole
races and nations of men , and to generation after generation . And when such a work ought to be done , and is left undone , the feeblest may not be to blame if he lifts up the voice of exhortation , aiming , at least , to merit that not mean commendation , " e hath done what he could . " T . F . B .
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York , Sir , Sept . 10 , 1822 . WHEN I published the Second Part of the Family Bible , I expressed my hope that the Third Part , which was to complete the Pentateuch , would appear in the course of the last year . I was proceeding to realize that hope , and had nearly printed the Book of Numbers , when I
was attacked , now more than twelve months since , by very severe illness , which compelled me to lay the work aside , and , till nearly the present moment , has rendered me incapable of resuming it . I am much concerned to learn , from various quarters , that many persons who have purchased the not
two first parts , have expressed , disappointment merely , but extreme indignation at the deluy which has taken place , and have declared that they will purchase no more . Had the delay been occasioned by any indolence or inattention on my part , the encouragement I have hitherto' received would have been justly within
drawn : but in the circumstances which I have been placed , I trust I shall be considered as having some claim to the indulgence of the public . They who may be still disposed to encourage my arduous undertaking * may 01
rest assured that in the prosecution it , I shall spare no exertions consistent with a due regard to rny health , which is by no means re-establis hed , and with other important occupations in which I am necessarily engaged . C . WELLBELOVED .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/26/
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