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    indulge & constant reader , an old correspondent and one who has ever felt interested in its success , with the liberty of offering to your readers a few brief remarks on the state of things among us when it commenced ,

    and the different aspect they now present , and to glance at the progress of the great and good cause to which its pages have been so faithfully devoted and which it has greatly promoted—the cause of Christian Truth , Liberty and Charity .

    Many of our most valuable institutions , as Unitarian Christians , had no existence when your labours as Editor of the Repository commenced . I may mention in particular the Unitarian Fund , the Christian Tract

    Society , which though not sectarian in its design or character , originated with and has been almost entirely supported by Unitarians , in the comprehensive sense of the term , and the Association for protecting the Civil Rights of Unitarians ; these , in succession , were

    established in London , and without such a medium of communication as the Repository to awaken the attention of the friends of the cause , excite their zeal , and point out how they might unite their exertions , the diffu culty of forming such institutions , and of bringing them into active and

    extensive operation , must , if not insuperable , have been very great . Most of our District Associations , excepting the Western and Southern Unitarian Societies , and of our more local institutions , now so happily extended

    over a considerable part of the island , had no being at the period referred to- and the Repository , as a medium of communication , making known to the Unitarian body at large what was done in any particular district or Place , contributed in no small degree t 0 excite others to adopt similar

    lyans , and to infuse that zeal and activity which gave existence to so many important and useful institutions and continue to render them effective . JiC ' t the reader bring together and tu mto his view the intelligence ll

    "uiese subjects scattered through J * e volumes of the Repository , and ne papers communicated by different corres pondents relative to them , and e win perceive that the work con-« ns such valuable materials for the Ul history of the progress of Uni-

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    tananism , during the last twenty years , as dan be found no where else ; he will be convinced that much more has been done in the cause during that period than he had supposed , and that the Repository has been an effective agent in advancing it .

    At the time of its commencement , Unitarians in different parts of the kingdom knew Tittle of each other , either as individuals or as churches ; they were generally strangers to their own numbers , strength and resources :

    and , having no public medium of communication , few could know much of what was doing in the cause , and many not any thing , excepting what took place in their own neighbourhood . But after the Repository was set on foot , Unitarians in different

    places soon learned to regard it as a sort of Unitarian Gazette , and to expect its numbers as a source of information respecting their brethren and what was doing to promote Unitarianism in different parts of the kingdom . They gradually acquired more

    knowledge of each other , and learned to feel more of their own strength as a Christian denomination . Becoming better acquainted with each other ' s affairs as churches , mutual sympathy followed , benevolent feelings were excited , and opulent individuals and

    congregations came forward to assist their poorer brethren , to aid their exertions in erecting chapels , in freeing themselves from debts which remained on their places of worship , and to promote the cause in places where its advocates could not carry

    it on without such help . At length the Fellowship Funds were instituted , which tend to unite the members of congregations , to give the poor man an opportunity of enjoying the pleasure of adding his mite to the larger

    contribution- of his richer brother , and to combine the exertions of all , according to their means , and to lead them to feel that they are engaged in a common cause , and to regard that cause as their own , while they increase resources for benevolent purposes . It is undeniable that the Repository

    has greatly contributed towards this happily altered state of things , while its younger sister , the Christian Reformer , has had some share in lUe good work . Without siush . iv medium of communication it is not likely

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    Mr . Wright ' s Survey of this Series of The Month ! ;/ Repository * 719

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/19/