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( Concluded from p . 260 . )
The general principles already stated , and which more or less apply to every plan of benevolent exertion , will bear a close application to that with a view to which I have embodied them . Whether we consider it as tending to cherish among us that spirit of union and brotherly love , which should exist among all who have the same great objects in view , to encourage and aid one another in our more private labours to promote them , or to give a
wise and efficient direction to our united efforts , to me it appears deserving of the cordial support of the Unitarian body . The very able Address of the Committee , prefixed to the Rules of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , gives information so comprehensive and complete respecting the purposes and plans of the Association , that it mast be needless to enlarge much upon them ; and for details I must refer to the Address itself .
Approaches have long been making towards the more general union of our body which the new Associatioa conternplates . Various societies of minor extent , instituted within the last fifteen year 3 , while carrying into effect their more specific purposes , have contributed , in their respective districts , to promote a spirit of co-operation ; and three , from the extensive nature of their objects , and their earlier institution , have , in different ways , been of pre-eminent service . The first of these , and I believe the first
instance o ( a society of avowed Unitarians associating to disseminate their peculiar doctrines , was the London Unitarian Society , instituted in 1791 , for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue by the Distribution of Books . Among its founders were those revered persons into whose labours we have entered ; and others still living , who with them bore the heat of the day . In the following year , 1792 , through the
influence of the same conviction and the same motives , a similar Society was established in the West of England , by men to whom also we owe our gratitude , and who adorned their profession by their lives . These two Societies have been of eminent service to the cause they were designed to promote , and have answered the purposes of their founders far beyond what could have been their first anticipations . They have provided and sent into the world multitudes of silent missionaries which have extended the
knowledge of our views of Christian truth , convinced many of their foundation in reason and revelation , strengthened the convictions of others , and prepared the way for the more extensive reception of them . They have aided those who have imbibed them to cherish the principles of pietjr and virtue with which their doctrines should be ever connected , and to promote them among others ; and they have greatly contributed to make Unitarians more known to each other , and enable them to strengthen each other ' s hands . After a
lapse of fourteen years , ( in 1806 , ) that still more comprehensive Society was formed , which may be regarded as the parent of the present Association , —The Unitarian Fund , —especially designed to promote the spread of Unitarian doctrines by popular preaching . Those who were concerned in the establishment of that Society , and in the services which it had in view , have reason to rejoice in its success . Without entering into discussion of
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REASONS FOR MUTUAL ENCOURAGEMENT AND CO-OPERATION , IN PROMOTING THE KNOWLEDGE AND DIFFUSION OF THE GREAT P&INCIPLES OF UNITARIANISM ; WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TUB BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/19/
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