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Remarks oft Air * / . ff ? or $ ( 6 $$ better on Missionary Pr&whing . 74 7
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l& at seeped pr ^ c tjc ^ b te $ * $£ , - without the least hesitation , I veqturq to uflirui , that all along- the Committees of tlie Unitarian Fund have done all that w ^ p practicable to dq Hi their circumstances-$ nd w&t | their means . So &r fro n ^
being f ^* g # Miie gr ^ tfe misapplication of the money put at their disposal , I be ^ feve tfeati ^ vf ! if any societies , ever did so much as they have done , uith such slender means and amidst so many difficulties a « d discouragements ; nor have I apy cjpubt but our otb $ r
Missiopajry Societies whose pperatip ^ h $ ve but recently qommsoeed , wjiU shew tksin selves children worthy of the Parent ; § o <* i $ jty af \ vhicfc I ha ? $ been speaking . Hitherto , th $ Ujiit ^ r ri ^ n Fujid Committees have npt h& 4 the ? pecuniary aad other means
necessary to ei > abi § % hem t ^ support t | i < £ expense of regular Missioiijary circuits upon the plaa Mr , W , suggests . Had they from the fig ^ t possessed t | i $ means , the thing woixjcj a ^ e bee n impracticable till s ^ ucli pjai& ap they
actually adopted prepare 4 tb ^ way fo ^ it—toy spreading tk ^ e Unitarian ^ pctriae , and preparing individuals and societies capable , of l | € H ?<> mipg tl ^ e basis of such Missionary circuits . Ka 4 no plan but what Mr ; I . W ,
reepmmewls * been attempted , % h $ C ! pmPUt > te ^ s mighty according to his advice , have kept i € t ^ ir mean ^ of d oing good for a more favourable oppprtunity " - * - * to tbiSj and I know npt to what * future
time : but they actpd ^ mch \ yiner m Aomg ' what they eo ^ ld , than If fji ^ y had sat still and done not ^ in ^ n ^ epely bec ^ upe they could * not 4 o ev ^ ry th ^ ng they wished .
What authority capx Mr , I . W-. have to say , th ^ t Unitariau Missionaries " have gone about the country witl ^ o ^ t any regular plaix of a < # io& ** ? - Jsfathing can be uior ^ unfounded % \ i o # such an assertion . If he \ n %$ n % h $ , %
all the places where , and tii » es ^ he ^> he ( the Missionary ) should preach , have not been always previously arr < Wged , thi $ will not justify liis ^ ss ^ iv tioii . Such a previous ? arrangement \ i $ & hot always b ^ en practicably , tho ^ li when practicable it has lieen made ,
p « d the people ir > the different places informed of such jgrrangemer ^ L X £ h-e Oftly mean that , when going tq ^ di ^ tant ; part ^ of the country , the Missiqftr ury hog chosen to travel on foot , that «« might do it with less expense to
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ik $ Fund , and have opportunity of preach ? ng ^ distributing tracts and con * , versing with persons , in different towns ancl villag ^ i on the road , or take a more circuitous route lor such purposes than he could have done if lie
haq travelled by public conveyances * it is admitted ( hat such is the plan wkich has been pursued . -If the Mi $ * sionary had consulted hi $ own ease , &e . . h $ wpiUd have preferred going through the journey at once in
stagecoaches , or stopping only ir * gqq ^ tawns sit genteel inns ; but this would have i ^ ot only it ) volved much more expense , it would have prevented \ m having Ui ^ opportunity of doing good in various places .
Many of Mj % I . W / s remarks are directed against the itinerant labours of the Missionaries , thear being s £ nt first to the North s then to the West ^ or elsewhere . The inqney spent in suck itinerant missions he asserts to t €
be sadly misapplied ^ and the laboi | r , " for the in ^ st part , thrown away , " But was not the pure and primitive gospel first prop $ ga < ted , and Christian societies first formed and established , by itinerant labours ? -r-Have R $ t the Methodists , whom Me
I . W . holds up for our imitation i $ ovtr missionary plans , extended their doctrine and formed societies every \ vhere ? And do they not keep up the popularity of their cause to this d $ y by itinerant pre ^ qhiiig ? Will he tell us how the Unitarian doetrine is
to be rnade kno \ vn in districts where tliere are x \ q Unitarians , an $ wliere it i ^ , heard of only as a pest , without nine rant preaching ? Will he point out ho : uf fm ^ ds are to be raised to
procure regular places of worship , a&d support ministers , or \ ly for a few years , to supply those places regii ~ Isurly , in a number of good towps , in different districts , where Uniiaria # ism
Uas no friend ^ ? How are friends to the cause to be raised up- in different place § wUere there are none , who in ^ y ultimately introduce regular Unitarian vvqrship , if not by occ ^ ai <>« al preac h ^
ing , the distribution of tracts , a ^ dcon *' versation ? In opposition to Mr * I > W / j ^ as sertions , I can produce nume * . yous facts which fully prove the utility of itinerant Missionary preaching ' , ^ nqi that it has been attended with the
most important results . In { Scotland-, the Missionaries were merely itiutv
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/43/
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