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famil y * seem to warrant us * ta ascribe to him , the cause at Calcutta rwould have had a faker chance of > success than we believe it has . In saying this ^ we have no intention of throwing blame on" Mr ; Adam * A person may be of unimpeachable character , as in bis case is doubtless the fact , and yet not possess the degree of lofty and chivalrous disinterestedness , tiae unity and steadiness of purpose ,. ' the elasticity of mind ? and / unquenchable ardour of ^ • • m ¦ m ^ mm ¦ ... v
• . . . . spirit , which are essentially requisite to secure success to any risingm \ d unpopularca ^ use . < : That Mr * Adam has had to encounter greai ^ various ,, aradmosfciblameabte opposition , we know ; and in oue opinion the cause of the failure is to fa& attributed chiefty to those with whom he was associated * That they or any of > them intended to traverse all his plans , to neutralize and discountenance his efforts * to . damp and extinguish his- zeal , to throw discredit on the eau ^ i 1
of which he was the advocate , and to bring it to iiiretrietiabtertikv wed ©< not affirm ; btrt'Certainly some of their measures could not have been more effectually constructed ; their conduct in some instances could ? not ; have been ) more injuriously planned , if the subversion of the cause had been the object in view . In reading the narrative of the circumstances to which we have alluded ^ ' and which the Report details , we felt alternate pity and alienationpity for Mr . Adam , and alienation as to those who ought to have been his coadjutors . We fear , however , that Mr . Adam is not the only one whov ifr labouring to raise up a prostrate cause and to advance the kingdom of ifesos , has met at the bands even of those who , by the closest bondsj oughts to toavG ' givenihelp and encouragement , with little else than crosses and obstruDfcfemgi ' Such ; things flesh and blood will feel , however great the consolation attisrog from the testimony of conscience and the hope 1 of Heaven's favour ; and in * the case of Mr . Adam , they appear to have been too strong and to < £ nume-i
rous for him to master . We ought to mention that he strongly urges the Unitarian body to send to Calcutta another missionary , and if a persorr could be found whose whole soul was bent on the great work of lighting up a candles ( to use the words of Wiekliffe ) in our Eastern dominions , which should from year to year , and age to age ; increase in the : ' brilliancy and warmth- of its illuminations , whose mind also was well disciplined * and stored with useful learning , he would in all < probability find in : India an abundant reward of sustained , persevering ,: and long-continued efforts .
Thus have we shewn what occasions ? of humiliation ; there are in the : present aspect of Unitarian affairs . What will be the end of this state ? Latent power we have in abundance ^—moral ch aracter ,, intellectual : worth , worldly affluence- ^—none of th e se things are wanting ; Why are they not more available for the cause of God and man ? If we speak of progress it ought not to be that , as in the Report before us , we have to dwell chiefly on'mat--tersisuch as the Emancipatiron of the Catholics , and the Unitarian Marriage
Bill ; which , however important ' in themselves , would , if things were in a healthful condition , occupy but' a small portion of : a document which sets forth * the impression made upon the kingdom * during the space of one year , by ? what we deem the pure and undefined religion , of Christ * We do not undervalue the conquests of civil liberty over intolerance ; but we have '
been-taught to know a freedom of infinitely more value than any which can result from the removal of ! civil disqualifications ; it > is the liberty wherewith Christi makes frt 3 e ; not the body merel y * but the mind and the heart of mani The former is but a means ; the latter is the great end of the gospel ~ the great ? end of - all the works and ways of > God I And a nobler work the Deity could not propose ev ^ n to himself , than to form and )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/26/
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