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550 Critical Syhepsis of th ) e Monfhhj Repository . By hn American *
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and ptiysiciahs for the cure of a malady which timely exertions raiight bare prevented ? " The writer of the letter before tne furth&f considers , that an " odium is ihdu 3 trioiisly levelled against Unitarians , that theirs is not the religion of those to whoin the gospel is proclaimed to be
peculiarly adapted , * thfe poor of this world ;* " and that it has " but a too solid foundation on the ground which he has taken ; " aftd asks , " on wlrat principles or reasoning * and from what motives can a Unitarian
maintain an indifference to the education of the youthful poo * V There is a Postscript added to the letter , in which the author admits , * ' that there are exceptions to the general application" of his remarks :
and he cannot but name an honourable and exemplary one—* Birmingham /^ Now , Sir , I do most positively deny the correctness of his general statement as to the / acts , and the conclusions which are drawn must
consequently fall to the ground , and with them , I trust , the odium which they were fitted ( I hopfe not designed ) to fix iipon the Unitarian body , or those Christians who maintain the Unity of God in one Person .
In the first place , I know of no Unitarians ( and I have a pretty general acquaintance with them ) who are " either averse or indifferent to the education of the yoiithful poor /' and I never heard before I saw the
letter from Bristol , of any who are of this description . 2 dly . I know not of any large and populous town where they have placed of worship , with which places of worshi p *
Sunday-Schools are not connected . 3 dly . I know but of very few of the country or smaller places of worship , add of nori& ifr rtiy neighbourhood ^ in which Sunday-Sfchools are not established . I a * ft ft resident at Sheffield . In that
to \ vfr the Unitarians hav 6 supported * t Sftnday-Scbool during the last fourteen y ears . Similar institutions are united trith all their chapels in the vicinity . With respect to public ) donations &nd th ^ i * nott-ihsertion in thfe lists of
charity , *« which teem With itetos for ministers and chattel / ' & ., thGy are not found amongst them for an obvious reason . Thdy need them not ; and th ^ ir conductors \ VO \ iid be ash amed
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Sir , , WITH your approbation , I prdpose furnishing the Monthly Repository with a course of papers , containing desultory remarks on all the articles which it contains , beginning with the series of the present vear . 1 have for some time been an
eager and a constant reader of your Magazine , aiid have frequently wished that I couM sit down and dispatch to you a few of my reflections on
different subjects , as they occurred in my perusal of it . But the distance of time which must necessarily elapse between the writing of a communication on this side of the water and its
publication on the other ^ has always appalled me . I have been discouraged at the thought , that my remarks oh any particular article must come
lagging in , several months after the appearance of the article itself , and thus lose perhaps the principal advantage they might generally possess , in the freshness of interest attached to
the topics under discussion . The plan , however , which I now propose to adopt , will gratify my own tnorbid desire of scribbling , and , if tolerably executed , may have the good fortune to co-operate in some of the
excellent purposes of your interesting Journal . I may presume that your re&dertf will have sufficient curiosity to penile a tegular syftoptical feview of your numbers , even at thfe distance
of six mofiths from th&it publication . Although nfiost of my remarks , suggested by the discussions , and views , and styley of your correspondents , would be too insignificant to be scpa-
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to apply for ahy foreign support ; . The yottng meii arid women of thie respective congregations are the teach
ers , and in sortie cases , the old scholars themselves : and all this is done gratuitously ; and , as far as practicable , on the Lancastefian plan oi education . Annual sermons and
collections supply what may be further wanted and required . I hope , Sir , your Bristol correspondent , if hereafter he should step forward as the advocate of any liberal institution , will be careful neither to commit
himself nor injure others , by hasty or illiberal aspersions , and will connect his advocacy with a zeal that is according to knowledge . VERUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/38/
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