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dictory ; and all to be believed on peril of eternal suffering . Even if a man were free in choosing such a religion , it would only be the freedom of choosing the chains with which his intellect was to be for ever after manacled . And * how could the love and hope which are the very life of Channing ' s
soul , co-exist with the practical influences of the faith which denies the universality of the Creator ' s love , and the possibility of salvation , to all eternity , of countless multitudes of his human offspring ? No , he is essentially ours ; and must be while he is himself . Yet I like their wishing for such a thing ; their blind groping after some higher development of humanity than their system has produced , or indeed than it ever can produce . It is something for them to begin to feel that more light and power are needed to guide and controul humanity in its progress .
Philo . But they will never get more light or more power by forsaking the literal interpretation of the written word , and neglecting to apply the just principles of criticism to the text and the interpretation .
Ebion Adamson . Let criticism do its work , and a very needful and useful work it is ; but there is niuch more to be done . We must advance from interpretation to application ; from studying the letter of the word to imbibing its spirit ; and that spirit must be made to bear upon the peculiar circumstances of the times and cquntry in which we live .
Barnabas . You would not plunge us into the stormy waters of politics ? It would only produce dissension among ourselves , and increase the odium in which others hold us . Ebion Adamson .
With mere party politics , with the squabbles o £ parties for place , heaven forbid we should have any thing to do . But politics , in the proper sense of the word , are a branch of morals ; and if religion does not regulate morality , what does it regulate ?
Caleb . You think a good Christian ought to support the present ministry ? Ebion Adamson . Not quite so . I think he ought to support those political principles which have raised them to power ; and which , if they attempt to compromise , they will surely fall , as they ought to fall , a hissing and a by-word to the world . The Reform Question will try them . The ides of March are come . They must either play Caesar or Brutus .
Barnabas . Would you have our ministers preach on retrenchment , corn laws , vote by ballot , and sympathy with all the revolutionists of the continent ? Ebion Adamson . Brother Barnabas , I know you are a man of peace ; but would not you have theft , falsehood , and doing the opposite of what we would be done unto , preached against , and that vigorously ? Barnabas . They are universally known and allowed to be vices . Ebion Adamson . True ; and does not the man who uses the power over his dependent .
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Ebion Adamson and his Friends . \ 93
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/49/
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