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he is a man to do a work or stroke , as tfell as see a noble object , at ohe view . We are not new acquaintances . I expect our meeting-, after sixteen years , will be very interesting . —Havi } ng not beard of fny friend so long , I write at a venture , vet I hope this
will reach him , and that I shall have an answer , as I am about to publish an interesting report of progress soon , and hope t 6 have the pleasure of sending- him a copy . School is daily increasing ;
prejudices are dying away ; I have a printing press and types , and an adopted family of twelve superior native youth who make me as happy as they can make a father . Some are printers and some are schoolmasters . I have
a good library and a fine collection of philosophical instruments . I am about to lecture in Spanish , which will form a new era in my life , if not in the history of this country . The prospect is great , is boundless ; but this thou may be sitre of , that Joseph Lancaster will stick to his great and glorious cause of education while
flesh adheres to his bones and life remains in him . I shall be very glad to hear from an old friend : any school reports or books on education will be highly acceptable , and my friend , R . Ackerman , Esq ., of the
Strand . Will With t * lAtiQ"UWk tmrfmrf-oL-A strand , will with pleasure undertake to forward them . Letters , &c , may be directed to me , Franciscan Monastry , Caracas , and if sent by West-India or Laguira packet , must be post-paid , or the packet will not
bring them . I shall never forget — - " •; I have the picture of it , and of thy house , from some prints of Ackerman ' s ; and I shall never forget ™ y kindness , but the remembrance will be yet more pleasing by a letter to thy friend , JOSEPH LANCASTER .
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™ < Emotions manifested by the A postles upon a Review of the Conascension and Philanthropy of the Messiah , not in Harmony with one Sp ecies of the Unitarian Creed .
Who is he , Lord ? " John ix . 3 fi . Sin S , holars we may feel curious . ;¦* to learn how the God of Abra-^» n and of Christ was dispossessed lls 3 nprernaey , but as readers of
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what are commonly called the gospels and of the apostolic writings , we can only smile or weep over the fcveftt . That when we address " our Father , who is iri heaven / ' we address only a fraction of the Supreme Behrpf , leaving out at the moment two other
persons who are as much 3 n every sense of the word God as himself , is " verily and indeed' * what our more lively neighbours might term a little trop fort even for any established religion but the Roman Catholic . To the credit of the Protestant world in
the nineteenth century , it would ( and to its praise be it spoken ) appear , that this vagary of an avowedly traditional church has at the present day not very many undoubting advocates Otifc of its proper pale . On the Continent the doctrine of a Trinity in Unity has
been , very generally , more tacitly or more avowedly abazuloned : and even in our own c 6 untry , there are , it is pretty obvious , thousands and tens of thousands amongst those who cc to
prevent diversity of opinion ** have more patrio subscribed the Athanasian reverie of a Three-one God , who are as little enamoured of it 3 grotesque phraseology and travesties of Scripture , as any anti-ctfeed and article fraternity .
Well , then , say many of my less H 7 ro % ^ -loviiig Unitarian brethren , this hypothesis , or rather this pure fiction , having been despatched , consigned to so well - merited oblivion , how irresistible and certain is the conclusion that the Christ was neither more nor
other than a mere man , the son of Joseph and Mary , and that the sum and substance of our obligations to him is his having exemplified the doctrines he taiight , especially that of
a resurrection from the grave I Now I am not unwilling to be liberal in my concessions to this inference . Whether it were , indeed , the creed of the IdiotaL who held the monarch y the Idiotaiwho held the monarchy
, in opposition to their quite apostatizing brethren , is a question on which I have more than my doubts . But that it is incomparably ,
indefinitely , infinitely , I had well nigh said , the more h priori probable hypothesis , ( and as an argument this fact always seems to me one as strong in the eye of piety as of reason , ) I grant at once . I am not reluctant to admit that it would , appear to accord bet-
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Objections to one Species of Uniiarianism . 599
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/27/
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