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authority of a respectable Baptist minister , that after a warm debate , which continued for upwards of two hours , the mover and seconder begged to withdraw the motion . ( Lvud and continued cheers . ) That leave was given , and bigotry in the denomination was consigned to oblivion . Within a few days of the present period , a similar question was to be
agitated among the Independents . Regular notice had been given , and the discussion must consequently come on . Some of the leading ministers in that denomination , than whom truer friends to the cause of liberty never breathed , ( cheers , } had told him with great concern , that they nerer expected to witness such a proceeding ; and that if the object was
carried into effect , they , at least , would never separate themselves from the body . * These were clouds returning after the rain—a few passing showers . They might for a moment obscure the day of liberty , but it was only that it might shine forth with the greater splendour . From the spirit and temper evinced by the Chairman that day , he ( Mr . AsplandJ trusted that his assistance would be
received by the Unitarians , until they had obtained complete success . From the statements made that evening , he ( Mr . Aspland ) sincerely hoped that the Marriage Bill would be carried during the ensuing session of Parliament . He was sure that when the measure was again discussed , it would be seen that the Church of England was dishonoured by the violence done to the consciences of
the Unitarians . The reverend gentleman , after expressing his concurrence in what had been said respecting their departed friends , observed , with regard to the Association , that he anticipated the time when its services would be no longer required . When Unitarian ism and Trinitai ianisin would be merged in the
better and nobler name of Christianity , the true millenium would commence ; not the millenium after which fanatics had been seeking in their mystic dreams —but that happy state in which all men would regard each other as equals , and look up to the great and merciful Being as the common Father of the human
race . Dr . Bowring said , that in following his reverend friend he occupied a very disadvantageous position ; but venturing to take to himself some small portion of the friendly sentiment embodied in the * We understand that this discussion has siuce taken place , and the motion for Heparation negatived by a majority of five . Kd .
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toast , he would say a few words , ft had been his duty in the morning to report the annual history of the Foreign pro . ceedings of the Association—a mingled tale of success and disappointment . Societies , like individuals , were perhaps not the worse for the discipline of a little
adversity . Bat there was one part of the world , of which he was reminded by the immediate vicinity of his friend , ( Mr . Ware , of Boston , ) where all the prospects of the society were cheering aud consolatory in the highest degree—where the accessions to our cause were not of
individuals alone , but of masses—where we reckoned not by the few but the manyand saw the cause of truth taking gigantic strides and accomplishing mighty victories . The goodly vessel bound across the Atlantic had indeed made a prosperous voyage , and reached a harbour of security . It was our privilege to-day to receive a gentleman delegated to bear to us the friendly greetings of our American friends . We stretch out towards him a
hundred hands of welcome , and assure him that we hail every occasion which serves to unite us more closely to those whom common origin , and common language , aud now common faith , have made so dear and so interesting to us . Over the broad Atlantic would we arch
the rainbow of sympathy , desiring that gentle thoughts and kind affections should pass and repass eternally , —none ( like the shadows in the visions of JMirza ) falling through in their progress . With no unholy jealousy do we look on the strength , the moral and intellectual strength , of that great nation—our children once , but now our brethren ; and
him do we deprecate , him do we disclaim , who would plant between us any seed of discord , while we reverence and honour the man who knits us more closely together in the bonds of fraternity , hi connexion with our progress and our history in America , I cannot ( said Dr . B . ) avoid referring to that spleudid writer and high-souled man , whose services
to literature had been of the highest order , and whose career was marked by a series of pure and beautiful triumphs ; whether he unveiled the gentle , the generous , the judicious Fenelon to the stronger admiration aud more correct estimate of mankind , or elevated yet higher our Milton , our own Englinh poet —him whose mind the mind of Cliaiining most resembles—him whose soul was like
a star and dwelt apart , Who had a voice whose sound wab like the sea , Pure us the naked heaven !
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616 intelligence * — Unitarian Association
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1829, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2574/page/68/
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