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Theophilus . I should not expect them to be well grounded in the rudiments . But we should not talk lightly of this . How goes on the Unitarian Association ? Barnabas . Very well , except that the revenues run short of the occasion for them * The City Mission , which was recommended by the Meeting at Manchester , has been discussed , and a plan arranged ; but it waits , together with other good things , for the means by which it must be realized . Ebion Adamson . Then let the means be asked for . The Unitarian public which directed the measure to be considered , will never leave their agents without resources for carrying their own instructions into effect .
Phii . o . I am ashamed to say that I do not know what a City Mission means . Theophilus . Read the Reports of Dr . Tuckerman , of Boston , who is employed by the American Unitarian Association . He is a minister at large for the poor of the city . He seeks out and visits the poor , the sick , the ignorant , and the distressed . He becomes acquainted with those who cannot , or who will not ,
come to our places of worship . He brings instruction and consolation home to the hovels of those who most need it , and who , though they did not seek , rarely refuse it . He endeavours to turn men from the error of their ways , and bring them from darkness to light . He introduces their children into the nearest schools that will receive them . He is the almoner of the rich , and the friend , both temporal and spiritual , of " the needy and those that have none to help them . " Barnabas . An excellent work ! But would it not be best undertaken in connexion with other denominations ? Surely we need not be sectarian in our charities .
Ebion Adamson . What are we to do ? Others will not unite with us . The history of the Christian Tract Society has sufficiently shewn that . We may , indeed , subscribe to their Missionaries ; but that does not avoid the evil of sectarianism . We know that they will only inculcate the Christianity of Calvinism . We should be promoting the worst kinds of sectarianism . No option is left us . We must be charitable alone , or not charitable at all . Theophilus . Collision with others is avoided as much as possible by Dr . Tuckerman , and will be here . He always avoids those who have been taken charge of by other religionists . The field of poverty , vice , and misery , is unhappily quite large enough , even in Boston—much more in London . There is no occasion for the labourers to jostle one another . Elhanan . Nor does he teach Antitrinitarianism , or any other ism or anti ; but simply the gospel of Christ . Caleb . How can this be called promoting Unitarianism ? For that I understand to be the object of the Association . Ebion Adamson * For a very plain reason , namely , that it is promoting Christianity . If it
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/52/
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