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Ripply ta my supfKwrtt atfy > part of the - pjiiilijc « iGtey eicritfusiSa : to yo * V I shall ft ^^ t the elate : of this letter , Until I hear from yo £ to the contrary , ; discontinue drawin ^ tfiftei your funds jkftfe sum wMch : I havfc regularly re- eiVtkd since iny ; ai 0 val in India .
¦* : ; *! If , ia the ; $ * jiblic accounts of the ^ Society ^ you ^ houl cl find occasion to ; jefer to the subjectof this letter , I must beg as an act of Kindness , \ # &&t ? $ &tk I am persuade ^ i&Ul&e disposed Ip gr&nt : M&m ^ pflnop le fcf ^ fftstice , i $ kmyon ^ l # SWaih the whft $ e tif il of
1 l ^ & official menififoa my change of sentimentson sUch a subject in any Mbte $ language tteit in ^ % yn , or the publication of a : parf < m ^ ^ wy statements , I \ vxmld sific&Ve ty flefjileeate a ? ; iJ&M& to create imsabweHeiisions and
fti ^ jifctjices , w | iicK may be - prevented iiymb ^ 0 ^ k&MHk . - / , ^« ' > y ^^^ ffewie [ p rayers for your pro ^ i ^ iey i ^ k Society , and for your jh&j ^ rij&s ais itidividualsy and e ^ u-nestly id treating a continuance of ttiat friend-Ijf and : % { jfeetionate regard which I have ever ^ kperienced from you , , " I atn , dear Brethren , " Yours very affectionately , " W . ADAM . ¦ ¦ ¦ *' i
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When I was writing the above letter , I kn . evv that no language I could e « iploy to express the necessary meaning , would be altogether acceptable to those to Whom it was addressed ; but , after the guarded and
concvliating manner wliicb I : al ^^) tecl , I did not expect those broad charges of a proud and indocile spirit which have been brought against ine both in private and in official
communications , I am willing * to leave the letter to make its own impression upon every honest and candid mind — an experiment which those with whom these charges originated do not
appear to have been desirous of attempting , notwithstanding the permission they received to publish it . Upon the immediate subject of this letter , I wish only to add , that it does not
now correctly express my religious sentiments . The simple humanity of Christ ' s person and the unpurchased niercy of God , are doctrines which , since writing it , have fully recominended themselves to my understanding and my heart , by an accumula-
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tion of eitfcteirae which it is toy chief wonder hoHr ^ J could so long resist I shall jtfcibably hipe occasion toirefer agMni t <^ tji £ iibove letter in the animadversions % hich ; I now prdceed to make upon the letters addressed by , Mr . Iviruey to ^ this Editor ofcthe Morning Chroliicle i respecting Ramrnobun Boy and myself ; ^ and suiee inlei ^ ed in the Nttna b ^ r foKfiTbremfcter
} $ 22 , of ymir ^^« sito ^ Tp MM Aspland , I beg ^ to ^ nx ^ e l § 4 ^ sincere a <| to 6 wledg'mentsN ^ r Jtte ^ pirited . uianner in whic ^ he replied * to ^ I ^ P 3 L ; but thesre &r « £ some points w whieht he dfd nbtf ¦ possess - that H ^ l ^ atioii to
which' I ^ shall ^ adtestvoiir supply , Whe&er RamiB& 3 flin Roy is c ^ r % not a Christian , I shSll leavi * to % imself + 46 declare , as he informs tne ttet , ifiiiis other engagements permityTie iriteiidi to address you upon this subject *
1 . The writer in the Morning Chronicle states that I was ? ' ** awakeried by the arguments of" R ^ iiiraohun Roy . In thik he is perfectly correct . It was he that first shook my belief in the doctrine of the Trinity . It Was he that first made me doubt its trath .
This I thankfully acknowledge ; atid if he had hever rendered me- any other benefit , if he were to bfe / jmy enemy the remaining part of Tiislife , I should still have abundant reason
for gratitude to him during the remaining part of mine . Mh I . says , with a sneer , that it is not for him to deny that I became a Unitarian through Rammohun Roy , and seems to consider it derogatory to a Christian Missionary , and much more , of course , to the minister of Eagle Street ,
to learn any thing from such a person . To say that Rammohun Roy is not perfect either in knowledge or in virtue , is saying only what is true of all mankind ; but saying this , I do not hesitate to add , that there are few who might not derive some accession to their information from the stores
of his erudition , and some additional incentives to goodness from his shining example . Mr . I . is now well advanced in years , and would seem highly to estimate his own attainments ; but profound and extensive as they no doubt are , let him be assured that he has yet to learri the value and loveliness of truth—a value which is nut diminished iu the esti-
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1166 Mr . Adam ' s Letter to the (^ fi ^ mUhevof tkei Baptis t Miss ionary Society ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/38/
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