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Dabatnus Helsingforsiae die XV . Januarii , MDCCCXXX . GU 6 T . GABR . H ^ LLS-TROM , Imp . Univers Alex , iu Feunia h . t . Rector . Andr . Joh . Lagus Jon . Henr . Avellan . Dan . Mvrebn .
En . Gnby Helartit * . Carol . Regin . Sahlberg . Wilh . G . Lagus . Fred . Wilh . Tripping . Nicii . N . G Schutten . W . Tengstrom . Joh . Gabr . Linsen . Benj . Trosterns . C . G . Ekelund . Adolpii . Wilh . Wegelius .
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Irish Unitarian Christian Society . On Wednesday , March 17 th , ( St . Patrick ' s Day , ) a meeting of the friends ot Unitarian Christianity in Dublin was held for the purpose of organizing an Irish Unitarian Christian Society . Though only one day ' s notice had been given , the attendance was respectable and
encouraging , and the interest manifested in its proceedings general and decided . Jones Stevelley , Esq ., having been called to preside , Rev . Jos . Hutton opened the meeting with prayer . The Prospectus recently issued by the originators of the Society , explanatory of their objects and the proposed means of accomplishing them , was then read . It is as follows :
** Many sincere and intelligent professors of the Gospel regard the state of the Protestant Religion iu this country with feelings of regret and apprehension . Within the pale of the Established Church , no less than among Dissenting sects , a spirit of fanaticism and intolerance prevails . The grand essential doctrines of Christianity , in which all agree ,
are abandoud for the advocacy of mysterious and questionable tenets . In behalf of these , though but interpretations of men , the authority of evangelical truth is claimed ; and Christians who cannot discern the evidence and admit the importance of these , are regarded with suspicion , and pronounced to be destitute
of the genuine faith . Under the influence of these tenets the right of private judgment has been grossly violated , and a claim to infallibility is virtually asserted . The harmony of families i » broken by the intrusion of controversial bitterness ; the minds of professing Christians are filled with spiritual pride and selfish-
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ness , m the place of that love which is the fulfilling of the law ; religion is , in a great measure , disconnected from the great moral duties of life , and so far the design of revelation is subverted ; and many reflecting minds , disgusted by the distorted and extravagant forms in which religion is usually presented , exchange an unintelligible faith for a cheerless infidelity .
** In the midst of these evils , which are well known to be neither imaginary nor trivial , it appears to be the duty of those Christians to come forward whose views of the Gospel do not contain those doctrines which revolt the rational and inflame the enthusiastic mind . Impressed by this obligation , a number of Chris * tians have it in contemplation to form a Society on the following principles :
" 1 . That subjects of doubtful disputation in matters of religion , are subordinate in importance to the great principles which enter into the faith of every professing Christian ; and that Charity is greater than Faith . " 2 . That all human formularies of faith encroach on the right of private judgment , and virtually deny the sufficiency of the Scriptures .
" 3 . That the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is strictly and personally One . " The Christians who hold these views of revelation denominate themselves Unitarian Christians , because , being unable to discover from Scripture that Jesus is equal with the Father , they
maintain the personal unity of Jehovah This tenet , which it was the grand object of the Jewish revelation to disclose and preserve , ou which Christianity is built as its immoveable foundation , and which , above all others , imparts to religion its simplicity , majesty , spirituality , and power , appears to them to have been obscured and almost lost under a mass of
anti-christian inventions ; and they conceive that they cannot render a better tribute to the cause of the Gospel , than by rescuing from obloquy and neglect this its essential and eternal truth . " The contemplated Society will embrace the following ofyects : * ' 1 . To produce sympathy and co-operation among those who believe in the personal unity of God .
• ' 2 . To bring before the public mum , by publishing and circulating Books and Tracts , such reasonings and such information a « may tend to establish or illustrate the doctrine of the strict unity of God .
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Intelligence .-r-lrxsh ' Unitarian 'Christian Society . / 347
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/59/
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