On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
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.
-
-
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
gation , and to the happiness and enjoyment of your excellent family . " We remain , dear Sir , " Your attached and faithful servants , " Joseph Hone , Thomas Browne , Halliday Bruce , Charles Sharp , William Bigger . " To the Rev . Philip Taylor . *'
The answer of Mr . Taylor was delivered in the following words : "MV VERY DEAR FRIENDS , " The elergant and liberal mark with which you low present me of your affectionate attachment to my person , and approbation of my past ministerial services , I accept with feelings of warm and lively gratitude .
" During a full half century my happiness has most materially depended on those sentiments which the congregation of Eustace Street might entertain coucerning me , and the conduct toward me which it might pursue ; my hopes of comfort , however , in my pastoral connexion with you met with no disappointment ; for never has that bond of peace and love , which should invariably bind together a Christian people and their ministers , been with respect to you and me in any instance broken or relaxed .
u This , my much-loved friends , I regard , with religious gratitude , as one of the chief of those many blessings which I have received from the hand of a kind Providence . " With respect to my professional services among you , the quality of them , I fear , you have greatly overrated . The highest merit I can consent to avow is
that of having conscientiously applied my very humble abilities to promote among you just and rational views of the gospel salvation by Jesus Christ , a spirit of vital piety toward the great Fountain of all goad , and of righteousness and brotherly love toward one another , and all your brethren of mankind . Deeply advanced as [ am in the vale of years , and touched with many infirmities , you will now hardly expect much of future public service from
me ; but while I can offer my puvate devotion to the God of grace and mercy , I will earnestly implore him to bestow hia richest blessings upon you and your respective families ; and to grant that , under the assistances of the truly able and pious ministry you enjoy , our beloved religious community may prosper and increase ; long exhibiting a pleasing pattern of Christian unity and lore , of
Untitled Article
charity toward the sincere and good of all other denominations , and of zeal for the noble cause of gospel liberty , righteousness , and truth . " Allow me again to express my high sense of obligation for the generous and very acceptable offering with which , as a Committee of the Eustace Street
Congregation , you now present me—an offering which , I trust , will be carefully preserved in my family for generations to come , as au interesting testimony of the affectionate esteem in which that society held their aged ancestor , and of the happiness which he so long eujoyed in his pastoral connexion with them .
" With every good wish for your true welfare here and hereafter , " I remain , my dear Sirs , " Your grateful and affectionate Friend and Pastor , " Phili p Taylor . " To the Committee of the Congregation of Eustace Street .
Untitled Article
It is with great regret that we record the determination of Mr . William Adam finally to relinquish the missionary and ministerial character . His reasons for this step are judged by the Calcutta Unitarian Committee to be satisfactory , and such as to entitle him to coutinned respect and confidence . Our hopes of the
progress of pure Christianity iti the East Indies are , of course , overclouded by this event ; but still there is no reason for de&poiideucy . Although Mr . Adam will in future rely solely on his secular engagements for the support of himself and family , he will yet co-operate zealously and , we trust , successfully with
the friends of Unitarianism here , and in America , in all practicable ways , for the promotion of our common objects . He has promised to deliver , gratuitously , courses of lectures at such intervals as may be deemed expedient ; and to assist in the publication and distribution of tracts . The members of the Calcutta Committee have
again urged their request for a missionary to be sent out from tjiia country . The erection of the chapel is postponed until more encouraging circumstances shall arise . The funds remitted fox that purpose are in safe keeping , and will accumulate at interest , until the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association shall deem it advisable that the building should be erected , or that the mission should be abandoned and the fund placed at the disposal of the contributors . The latter alternative we can-
Untitled Article
Inteliigen ce . — Calcutta , 447
Untitled Article
CALCUTTA .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/79/
-