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OCCASIONAL NOTICES OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. (Continued froin p. 179.)
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WE were led to commence this department of the Repository , by . the desire to contribute to a greater acquaintance between the English and the American Unitarians ; and we began with the Correspondence on the Prospect ^ of Ch ristianity in India , ( published at Boston , U . S ., ) because it
presents a field for mutual co-operation , in which , however , each body is galled to labour , and may labour effectually , Vhether the . other do or not . As we have already stated , the pamphlet has been republished in England ; and we earnestly recommend it to all of our readers who have not yet perused it .
As we have proceeded in our examination of the Correspondence , we liave been increasingly struck , with the soundness of the views which Mr . Adam unfolds , and the matured wisdom and comprehensive prudence of his suggestions . We are quite
satisfied that it cannot be long before the English Unitarians in general will be strenuously solicitous to cooperate with him , and to afford him the means of carrying on , with effect , those services which he is disposed and qualified to render to the cause of Christian truth .
But such efforts must not be too long delayed . The work will eventually be done ; but , as respects our own exertions , and the individual whose services we may now secure , the time may be passed before we set about it with full purpose and efficacious zeal . It seems impossible to peruse the
Correspondence without the conviction that an opening now exists which demands our earnest efforts . We , say nothing as to the stigma under which the Unitarian lies , as being deficient in zeal for the promotion of the gospel among the Heathens : we will not here enter on the causes or excuses
for our past inactivity : but we say that Providence has opened tlie door ; and that if the life and health of Mr . Adam are preserved fur Christian usefulness , and he is enabled by the American and the English Unitarians to devote himself to the ^ rcat work ,
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W ^ mmt ' i according' to the principles which he has himself laid down , and to carry them into effect with the , wisdom that marks his communication to Professor Ware , the best results may reasonably be anticipated .
In the able and perspicuous details before us , we have evidence of Mr . Adam ' s talents and the right direction of his views . In the absence of all moral stigma from those whose creed he has left , and in the direct testimony honourably borne by some of them lo
his principles and conduct , as well as in other considerations , we have adequate ground for the conviction that he is worthy of our confidence . On some points , too , on which the Englishman can scarcely be a competent
judge , we have the best evidence in the testimony of Rammohun itoy : and we will here cite those parts of the Correspondence in which that eminent person speaks of Mr . Adam . In answer to Dr . Ware ' s seventh inquiry , ' What is the number of Unitarian
Christians , and are they chiefly Natives or Europeans ? " Ram in oh uu Roy thus writes : " The Rev . Mr . Adam is the only Unitarian Missionary in Bengal , and he pub * licly avowed LI nitarianism so late as the Jatter end of 1821 . Notwithstanding the
many disadvantages under which he has been labouring , he has brought this system of Christianity into notice in this part of the globe , as previous to that period many did not know that there was such a thing as Unitarianism , and others tried to stigmatize it , in proportion as their prejudices for the corruptions of
Christianity prompted them to abuse reason and common sense , without fear of contradiction . Mr . Adam , although he has made no avowed native convert , has already received every countenance from several respectable European gentlemen , and from a great number of the reading part of the native community in Calcutta . " —P . 133 .
f The next inquiry respects the treatment of the Unitarians by other Christians : to this we find it replied , " The manner in which the rest of the Missionaries have treated Mr . Adam ,
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Occasional Notices Of American Publications. (Continued Froin P. 179.)
OCCASIONAL NOTICES OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS . ( Continued froin p . 179 . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/38/
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