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No . I . Present—Ebion Adamson , Barnabas * Elhanan , Tkeophilus , Caleb , and Philo .
Ebion Adamson . Welcome , my friends ; and now at once to business . You have shewn by accepting my invitation to this meeting that you agree with me in considering the Monthly Repository entitled to our support , and that you are disposed to assist it both by contributing to its contents and promoting its circulation . Js it not so ?
Barnabas . Assuredly . And if we can render it more instrumental in allaying the animosities which embitter so many minds in this sectarian country , and diffusing a kind and brotherly disposition amongst all parties , we shall render good service to the cause of peace and charity , which I hold to be the cause of Christianity . ElxHANAN .
I shall be glad to forward so excellent a purpose . There is but one way of thoroughly accomplishing it ; and that is by the dissemination of those principles which are the foundation of charitable feelings . We must teach men the paternal character of the Deity , and his universal love . Then , and then only , will they learn to love one another .
Phixo . The Monthly Repository ought to do much more than merely put forth the doctrinal sermons and moral exhortations which Elhanan and Barnabas desire its pages to be occupied with . It should be a receptable for the thoughts of acute and learned men . It should have more of the character of Dr . Priestley ' s Theological Repository . What excellent criticisms and curious speculations there are in that work ! How desirable it is , if possible , that every individual text should be investigated and understood !
Caleb . Some time will be required to accomplish that . There is a great deal of rubbish to be removed before the building can be put up . We need a besom to sweep the corruptions , and mistranslations , and misinterpretations , and absurdities , and calumnies of Calvinism and Trinitarianism out of the temple . The reformation of nominal Christendom is our first work . Theophilus . Except , friend Caleb—and I am sure you will agree with me—the work of devotion and holiness in our own hearts . Whatever we do should be imbued with a spirit of fervent piety , and should tend to excite that spirit in others . The Repository ought to be strongly marked with a devotional character , and have much in it that may be read with advantage on Sunday evenings to our families by our firesides .
Ebion Adamson . You are all , I think , in the right ; at least so far as none of you are exclusive . The very variety of your co-operation will tend to make it the more efficient . I have communicated with the Editor , as I have anticipated the
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THE CONVERSATIONS OF EBION ADAMSON AND HIS FRIENDS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/46/
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