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we regard them as the faith once delivered to the saints . The skeleton was abundantly sufficient for the philosophic Galen to shew to him the
wisdom of the Creator ; and these doctrines , simply stated , must , we think , approve themselves to the sound , unbiassed understandings of men ; hut we wish to see them connected with
that which will give them vitality , which will make them not only direct the understanding " , hut influence the affections , and give scope to that " sacred power" which bears the mind onwards and upwards to contemplate the ways and purposes of Him who dwelleth in light inaccessible .
The influence of Dr . Channing ' s Writings has strengthened greatly the painful impressions with which we peruse his strictures on Dr . Priestley ' s character and labours , which have already met with the animadversion of some of our ablest correspondents , and are well examined in the excellent
Preface to the Liverpool Edition of Dr . Channing ' s Sermon at the Ordination of Vis Colleague-Pastor , the Rev . Ezra Stiles Gannett . We trust , however , we shall , on neither side , let these things move us from kindly feelings and useful purposes .
. Among these we must rank co-operation in aiding the diffusion of primitive Christianity among the inhabitants of Hindoostan , whether Hindoos or Mahometans . We have lying before us a letter , dated June the 9 th , 1824 , from a highly-esteemed brother , who is very earnest in aiding to direct the attention of the American
Unitarians to the subject of foreign missions , and would rejoice to see our attention so directed . He laments , as " a very great evil , that the Unitarians of England , and of America , are but very imperfectly informed concerning each other . A constant communication
( he continues ) is kept up between all classes of the orthodox , in both countries ; and they consequently can , and do , co-operate in every improtant lueasure for the accomplishment of
their objects . This iy as it should be : but why is it not so also among us ? " Soon after our correspondent had preached a Sermon at the ** Thursday Lecture at Boston , " on the causes which have withheld Unitarians from engaging in the work of foreign missions , ( which , by the desire of his
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brethren who heard it , has been printed in the Christian Examiner , ) answers were received from Mr . Adam 9 of Calcutta , and also from Rammohun Roy , to twenty queries proposed to them by the Rev . Dr . Ware , ( Professor
of Divinity in Harvard College , Cambridge , ) regarding the missionary exertions in India , and the probability of good to be done by sending Unitarian Missionaries to that country . These were immediately published at the Cambridge University Press , under
the title of Correspondence relative to the Prospects of Christianity , and the Means of promoting its Reception i ? i India . It forms an octavo pamphlet of 138 pages , of which Mr . Adam ' s Answers , with the Queries ,, extend to page 120 . This
correspondence produced , says our American friend , " a very strong excitement among us , to the end of which I am looking with great interest . —Perhaps the foreign missionary service may become a principle of union among
us , —strange as at first it may appear , —as it is among other denominations . " Whatever may be the case on this particular topic , we shall indeed rejoice to see the bonds of union increasingamong all who have received that knowledge which is life eternal . ( John
xvii . 3 . ) The Editor of the Correspondence , in an advertisement prefixed , expresses his belief " that the information which it contains will be useful in
communicating more distinct views than are generally possessed , relative to the prospects of Christianity ira one quarter of the world ; and that it may assist in giving such a direction to the efforts of Christians , to propagate
their religion in Heathen countries , as shall yield a hope of better success than has been yet experienced / ' It would give us great satisfaction to see the tract reprinted in England , especially if those could be induced to
peruse it , who have so long contributed to support , and have themselves earnestly laboured to promote , the cause pf missionary service in India . *
* We wish it may enter into the heart of some of our rich and liberal-minded men , to form a little fund , ( which might be done with no great iisk , ) to secure the republication of valuable tracts and other works by our brethren ia America .
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1 O 6 Occasional Notices xyf American Publication s *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1825, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2533/page/42/
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