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J ? rfe | fcd <* £ Ittdia / No . 23 , for May , l |^> 4 fe IsyiiicU the Editor attempts to defend t ^ nself from the charge of caUtng Ram Mohun Roy a Heathen , that Reformer having acc ^ ised him in the use of tfiis term of ' violating truth , chaxijy and liberality / The Editor ' s defence is , that this was the first hint tliat he had received ( and he
calls it am obscure one , though it is surely plain enough ) of Ram Mohan Roy * s . - wish to be denominated a Christian ; ' and that he ( the Editor ) could not admit any one to be a Christian unless he acceded to certain points of his own creed , * As we belong ' ( he says , p . 133 ) ' to that class who think that no one can be a real
Christian , without believing the Divinity and the Atonement of Christ , and the Divine Authority of the whole of the Hol y Scriptures , while we most cordially wish that he were altogether such , we could not term him a
Christian without a violation of our own principles ^ Here Mr . Ivimey may see . that his Baptist Brethren in India refuse the Christian name to Ram MohunRoy— -not because he does not believe in the divine mission of Jesus
Christ—but because he does not receive also the doctrine of Christ ' s personal deity . . / From certain expressions in his letter , I am happy to conclude that your correspondent would not establish so barrow a test of Christianity .
" I should now be ju * $ | Sed in asking Mr . Ivimey , whether $ | £ kaew , or not , of this passage in $%$ * Friend of India' ? and in remarking that , if he were acquainted with it , p is charge of Paganism against Ram Afofcun Hoy is
scarcely ingenuous , ( not to use a harsher worn *) and tkat if he were not acquainted with it . his study even of the writings of bis ftapiist brethren at Sertunpore , is no $ sjfek t * s to authorize him to undertake * $$ Jmii& of Censor
with regard to the fwleslaafaeal news of Bengal . But , 1 # * W » £ thia topic , I proeeed to ob ^ k 0 £ ^ M a v ^ little time Mil probably , ofetermiaci the merits pf tins cotitrfljffcr&y , as far as relates ; $ <» the Hiudw Reformer , and th ^ t i ^ atever may be the . tenor of furth ^ iuformation fro m India , it has not been Avithout evidence that I have
ranked th&t distingiuahed man amongst OHii ^ tjuo ^ , and vindicated his claim
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to the right hand bt CkrUtmai fellaw ship . S W"ith my views o £ iflifcH £ Mjra $ , v * cannof ;! be sorry that the EnglishJBap tists are about to publish Dtv Marsh man ' s part of the controversy with Ram Mohun Roy , on the doctrine of the Trinity ; although I cannot thelp
thinking that it would be more equitable to the latter , and more serviceable to the cause of truth , to lay before the public the controversy entire , instead of an ex parte statement . Still there may be no reason for long-continued regret : if Mr . Iviraey and his friends will not furnish us with the whole
controversy , others iiaay . be found to supply what they omit , and when the dispute is fairly before the world s the impartial reader wilt be able to determine on which side is the weight of argument , as well as the balance of Christian temper .
' * The accusation against the Hindoo Reformer of reviling miracles will be found , I have little doubt , to be either a forced inference from some , perhaps unguarded , expression of his , or , at least , to be deduced from some of his writings antecedent to his arriying at the conviction of Christian truth .
Having read several of this extraordinary man ' s works on Hindooism , I was not uninformed ( as Mr . Iviraey seems to suppose ) of his hypothesis , that this system was originally simple
tlnitariftnisxtt , and that it has been reduced by successive corruptions to gross Polytheism ; but it would be egregiouB trifling to draw from this hypothesis the sweeping conclusion that the modern Hindoos are Uni £ a ^
rlans . The well-founded appeals that the Baptist Missionary Society is peripetttally making to the liberality of the public , proceed upon the principle that this people are Polytheists , and upon the notorious fact that they are idolaters .
" Your correspondent writes concentring Mr . Adam , the late Baptist Missionary , and present Unitarian Minister at Calcutta , under evident irritation of feelings , for which great allowr ance ought to be made , since he ; afid his friends have been ( to use his own
expression ) ' awfoily di ^ apfttnpt ^ d ^ But there are limits to the venial ir ^ dulgence of resentment , ; ami to othens of your readers besides niyaelf , he may possibly have appeared to go far be-
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Free . 1 * r& * s ami Utv&ariamem l « India . $ 8
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VOL . XVIL 4 T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/33/
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