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THEOLOGY .
Art . L — Tracts printed for the American Unitarian Association ^ Nos . 31—36 . The Danger of Delay . By Rev . W . Ware . The Theology of the Cambridge Divinity School . By F . W . P . Greenwood .
On Christian Salvation , By B . Whitman . The Divinity ofJestis Christ . The Genius of Christianity . ByW . H . Furaess . Evangelical Unitarianism adapted to the Poor and Unlearned . By A , Young " .
More good things from America . We Englishmen would dp well to remember there is no law of primogeniture in literary and theological merits , and except we bestir ourselves quickly , the younger will have supplanted the elder brother . The British Association will not be to
blame if we do not possess series of tracts equally useful with those that have been published and are now a publishing in the United States , for they have done what in them lay to call out the talent of our younger ministers ( and others ) by the rewards which they have offered for tracts on several important
subjects . Independently of the distinction of being crowned by the worthies who so ably preside over the association , the educated portion of the Unitarian community would do well to reflect , and to let that reflection prompt them to
act , that the thinking , learning , and inwardly digesting which would be requisite to prepare themselves for writing on any one of the giveu subjects , would prove highly beneficial to their minds and greatly enlarge their capability of usefulness .
Each one of the tracts , the titles of which we have above enumerated , is a theological gem . If they cannot be procured in numbers sufficient for circulation in England , let them be reprinted . In some particulars it is true they go over the ground that has been much
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trodden in this country . But old topics are often treated of in a new way , and diversified with new matter , and rendered interesting by what to our minds constitutes the chief excellence of American productions—a fervour and simplicity of spirit which win their way to the heart . The American Unitarian ministers being provided for the most part with the means of subsistence without secular
employments , are eminently pastors . In consequence they have every opportunity of knowing men as they are , and the way in which their bosoms can be penetrated . Their writings have , therefore , an eminently practical character . They do not smell of the lamp , they have not the savour of the schools , but of actual life . Less learned , they are more useful than the compositions of our writers .
Hoping that the tracts themselves will ere long be in the hands of our readers , we shall not attempt an analysis of them , but content ourselves with making atfew extracts . Where all is excellent selection is difficult . This remark is emphatically true of the first in our list on * ' the danger of delay . " From the second we learn , that " The institution , "
viz . the Cambridge divinity school , " has risen up gradually from small beginnings , and lias never yet been endowed with any satisfactory approach to completeness . Though the system of instruction there is now much more perfect than it was a few years ago , there is even now
only one teacher , the Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature , whose time and attention are wholly devoted to the theological students . Should the Rev . Mr . Ware return from Europe , as we pray Almighty God that he may be permitted to return with health and strength sufficient for the duties of the new
Professorship of Pastoral Theology , to which lie has been appointed , and which has recently been endowed with a temporary fund ( for ten years ) by the contributions of generous individuals , the school will then possess the undivided labours of two instructors . The other Gentlemen
who are engaged in it as teachers are also in the University with which it is connected , with the exception of one , a clergyman of this city , who is teiupora-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/42/
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