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specially if he is ffleased to speak peace to our minds ; arid when he graciously condescends to do this , we gkgll know it to be a peace that the world cajaoofc give with all its enjoyments , neither take away with aU its frowns . "
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my communication , with assurance that they are all of the same opiU nion with myself / ' Another writes to a fttepd in this town as follows : 1 ' There is a very good article by
Mr . Worsley in the last Monthly Repository , respecting Unitarian Mis ^ sionaries , concerning which we perfectly agree with Mr . W . " The same writer again : " In the last Monthly Repository , there are two replies to Mr . W . * s letter on Unitarian
Missionaries by Mr . Wright and Mr . B . P . Pope , of Exeter ; however , we think Mr . Worsley has the best of the question , and I can assure you it is also the opinion of most of the people Itere , who are friends of the cause ; and we hope he will write again . "
A third , from another town : " I have read your paper in the Repository on Missionary Preaching , and fully agree with you as to the plaa that should be adopted in order to its
being effectual . Mr . is of the same opinion , but he feels hurt at the severity of your remarks ; I think you will have to justify what you have advanced , which 1 dare say you am prepared to do . "
To these attestations of approbation from all but one society that is within any tolerable distance , and with which I keep up an intercourse , I shall with some satisfaction add from another note ,
"On a late visit to Exeter , I was requested to assure you , that , notwithstanding Mr . Pope ' s letter , a great many of the members of the Unitarian congregation there , fully coincide with you in opinion upon the above subject . * Fnora what I have heard of
socleties which are now forming in the West , with a view to support Missionary preaching , I am led to expect that plans similar to what I have suggested will be adopted , and a « n convinced that stations may readily be selected where great good may be done by intelligent and active men .
One observation I cannot refrain from making on Mr . Wright ' s letter ; for while I will not say his statement is incorrect , I cannot admit it to he true , that he suggested to me the verp plan which I have offered , and that I declared my unwillingness to Join in it , I can only say , I have no recollection whatever of auch a cona-
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fflr * Worsley on Missionary Preaching . , 213
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Plymouth , Sir , March 3 i , 1825 . SHORT time since I requested A the insertion in the Repository of some remarks on Missionary
preaching * You favoured > me with publishing those remarks , aad they have moved the somewhat angry feelings of some of your correspondents . I expected they would do this ; for when we attack favourite schemes , the favourers of those schemes are wont to be
moved . Far this reason I did not , as I have usually done , address you under an assumed title , nor with the initials of my name alone . With design I wrote that name at length , because I chose that the obloquy of the sentiments should fall upon myself and upoa no other . I will not load youa * pages
with discussions upon this subject . My thoughts are before the public , as well as Mr . Wrijphtfs -and . Mr . Pope ' s ; to which I have refrained from making a reply , because I would not seem tenacious of a controversy , no * tire your readers as many do , who will have the last word . No one can be
more deeply sensible tihan myself of the services that Mr . Wright has ren * dered the Unitarian cause ; but , while I have adiflired his industry , has zeal , his devotedness to the cause of truth ,
it does not follow that I am to approve of all the measures in which he nas been engaged : and , although I were to admit that the course pursued by the U&itcurian Fund through lus instrumentality has been in all
respects right , it may be , that now another course might produce with the same means a more effective benefit to the cause . If I had not thought the subject a very important one , 1 would not have exposed myself to the reflections which have been made
upon what I ham written : a&d * because I do think it highly important , I wiil now offer y < m an apology £ w my conduct , not in words of way owai ¦ choosing , *> ut in those of differed frietids whose notes lie now before me-From one Unitarian Society a few mite * off , I ha * r £ * £€ ie ? ive < i thanks for
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/21/
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