On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    only used that strength for others . " Can I feed others , " he says , " and not myself ? Can I build for others , and not for myself ? Enough . The time is come . One shall not sow and another reap : one shall not build and another inhabit : but they that sow shall reap , and they that build shall inhabit . "

    The Unitarian has no dread of knowledge as the Orthodox has . He has no ambition to confine , to limit , or to direct it . He knows that knowledge cometh from the Most High , who will inspire it , direct it , and regulate it , but will never limit it . He wishes not to dictate to future generations , but hopes that they

    will be too wise for him to instruct . His faith is , that in the universal spread of knowledge rests the regeneration and happiness of human nature . While he administers the cup of cold water with the one hand , he pours instruction over the mind with the other , and he hopes that neither the one nor the other will

    lose their reward . Finally , he acknowledges a conscience . He is well aware that the great moral truths which it is yet necessary for mankind to know and to feel , are only to be discovered , developed , and expanded , by the most tender encouragement of conscience . Instead oi scrutinizing info the recesses of that holy place , that he may

    establish the torture in it , he regards it with religions veneration as the abode of God . Tell him in his inquiries and his edicts that he is approaching the precincts of the sacred tabernacle , and he instantly retires . He thinks no crime so great towards his brother as to break in upon his sacred hours , his private thoughts , his holy communion with his Maker . " I

    may indeed rap at the door , but I must not enter unless invited ; and if invited , I must for ever bear inviolably in my bosom the secrets which have been revealed to me in the presence of God . " Is there any sect which has this reverence for conscience , but that of the simple creed ? Let the written code of every nation answer it , and every volume of orthodox sermons .

    The Unitarian , tnen , will hail practical Co-operation as the consummation of old institutions and the commencement of new ones—as the death of the old man and the birth of the new man . " Lest I be rich and forget thee , or lest I be poor and steal , " will ever be the cry and the curse of the excessive distinction of ranks : but as Co-operators can neither be rich nor poor individually , they can neither be ungrateful to God nor criminal to man .

    Untitled Article

    A wide and sublime field of work is now open to those who believe that " to do good is to be a Christian . " Let , then , Unitarian societies throw aside their formalities , their controversies , their offensive armour . Let them beat their swords into plough-shares and pruning-hooks . Let them leave their enemies to die a natural death . Let them serve the Lord

    Jehovah in serving one another . Should they adopt Co-operation , they will draw all men to them ; for they will be independent , virtuous , religious , and happy . But if not , perhaps it may please God , who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will , not to give to any sect , as such , the honour of consummating his glory ; but to collect out of all nations ,

    people , and tongues , a chosen race , a peculiar people ; and to bring about by his own independent providence , that it may more clearly appear to be his work , a state of society on this our earth which shall leave nothing to wish for , on the part of the sincere lover of mankind , but that he might live for ever , to see it run its glorious course . ADELPHOS .

    Untitled Article

    On the Proem of John ' s Gospel . To the Editor . Sir , Exeter . I believe the question at present agitated in your pages respecting the proem of John ' s Gospel to be one of the very first moment , whether we consider the influence which a right decision of it may have on the spiritual welfare of the

    individual Christian , or on the progress of Christian truth in the world at large . It is , I think , the essence of the new dispensation that it is a revelation of God in the person of his Son : hence the importance which the Scripture attaches to a just knowledge of the Son , inasmuch as it is only in a knowledge of the Son that we cau have a true and saving

    knowledge of the Father , aud receive the peculiar blessings of the New Covenant . Jt is this feeling which emboldens me to transmit to you a few remarks on your Reviewer ' s late exposition of his views on this subject ( p . 120 ) . With every feeling of respect for the candour , intelligence , and good feeling evinced by that

    gentleman throughout his papers on this subject , I must still take the liberty of declaring my opinion , that he has by no means done justice to his exalted theme . It seems but an inauspicious omen at the outset of his undertaking that he indulges the idea of giving a somewhat new and peculiar explanation of this celebrated

    Untitled Article

    284 Miscellaneous Correspondence .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/60/