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English , in Suiiskrit and Bengallee , and in Persiaa and Hindoosthanee , -as the particular circumstances of the European , the Hindoo , and the Mussulman communities may seeur to require . Your assistance towxtrds sUiyior all of these-directs will be thankfully received . "—Pp . 34 , 95 .
In replying to the thirteenth inquiry , whether Unitarian Missionaries would be useful in Hindoostan , Mr . Adam points , 0 * tt various means < by which , if properly qualified and adequately supported , * kety # nay be of
essential service in diffusing the Jcttowledge and influence of true religion , and in which they would find amr / te scope for all their energies : and fie subjoins the following remarks wMeh strike us as peculiarly important , und in some respects applicable even to
our own country : " In these labours it will hehoro them to guard against that false pride which would lead them to boast of particular instances of conversion , and against that self-deception which would make them estimate the effect of their ejeefttonB in
proportion to the number of those who are willing to cull themselves Unitarian Christians . These nay be few , tn * there way be none at all ; and yet the success of true religion may be certain and glorious . It is not individuals taken
separately , but collectively , that they should seek to enlighten . The former mode will create and encourage imposture , render a most iuvidious surveillunce necessary , and produce frequent disappointments and constant irritation . The latter
consists in exhibiting truth , and in leaving it , if slowly , yet steadily to work its own way ; and although there Is in this less display , there is equal , if not greater , certainty of ultimate success , tfHid far more satisfaction both to the teachers
and the taught . It is the j&rc * gre » s of society that Missionaries ought principally to regard , and aim to influence ; and success in this endeavour is the highest present reward which they should desire . They should seek to increase * he -quwtaty of correct information on every subject ;
to raise the standard of public morals ; to correct the excesses , and to refine and elevate the tone , of public feeling on religion ; and to pour , in well-chosen portio
ns , amongst the various classes and descriptions of men , the light of tr < mti , the rays of which are too powerful a © be long resisted , and too penetrating to he long concealed , even if their fyttweaiate effects should not at first be felt or per-
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ceived . As sure as light and darkness . Gannett Jong subsist together , so sure will be ifce progress of Christianity iti India , if this plan be judiciously and persever-Ingly executed . "—Pp . 96 , 97 .
in the same spirit vnd with the same judgment , he writes respecting schools . 5 and these remarks we deem of great value and usefulness : but vye will now confine ourselves to the less distant prospect .
*< In order to effect tins , " ( the making the Hindoo . people Chxistjans , ) " instead © f seeking to ^ awi a few converts who , whatever may have been their rank or character , become almost useless to us , and are despised by their countrymen as ^ oon as they pas s Into our hands , or as-«« me a eonmron denomination with
ourselves , we must , 1 j 0 xLdopt 4 he similitude -of pur Saviour , by the diffusion of sound kndMedge and the excitement of a spirit of enlightened inquiry , put the mass into a 'State of fermentation , and join labour with patience until the whole be leavened . If , In the use of every «* rudent and
judicious means for this purpose , we trust for success to the progress of society and to the power of truth , our expectations will not he disappointed . At an earlier period and in greater numbers than we may have anticipated , honest , respectable
and enlightened men , in despite of all opposition , and in obedience to the voice *> f conscience , will assume , of their own accord , the Christian name , and , by their virtues , prove its brightest ornaments . "Pp . J 04 , 105 .
W « e will end : the present article in the wards of the Christian Examiner for AugiUBt last , j > . SI ? : "If the time he not now arrived , when the work off foreign missions is to be begun by tHs , we know of no principles by which we may determine when it
Will have arrived . If tlie encouragements TvhicTi we now have to the duty fail of exciting us to it , we shall deserve the reproach that has been cast upon ust tfay more , shall we not have , good reason to fear a far more terrible retribution " *
? We have the pleasure of adding to our enumeration of American Sermons republished in England , " A Discourse © n the proper Character of Religious Inetitutions , by tH ^ n ry Colman ; " and a * ' Sermon on ihe Ordination of the Rev , W . H . F < uawes 8 > % H . Ware , Jun . " They are printing at Liverpool , price &tf . ^ ach .
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Occasional Nstive * iqf Jtmerican Publications . 235
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/43/
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