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God-Blast come , and the period must arrive when his will shall be done on earth as it is done in heaven . It is de-j light Ail to think of the Rajah , educated in polytheism atid idolatry , as , even , from the mtore apcient forma of -his native religion , able to discern the adorable
excellencies of the One God ; and , as now , with the full confidence which Christie anity gives , cherishing the . great truth that " of him , and through him , and to him are all things , " and desiring to glorify him in all things through Christ Jesus . ¦ ¦
. At that meeting , even if the lateness of the hour had not forbidden , I should have been unwilling to advert to the strictures made in the Eclectic Review § eight or nine months ago , on some expressions of mine at the meeting of the Association , held last June at Manchester , ^ but for the recent remarks of Mr .
* See JMonftfeiy Repository for . 1830 , pp . 563 , 564 . It may be desirable ; to repeat the passages to which I particularly refer . . . r *' , The time must sooner or later come when Unitarian Christianity will , in the same manner , encircle the globe , for prophecy distinctly points out that such a period will come . I see multitudes doing our work , whilst they
imagine they are acting against us . They are preparing the way for that simple system of Christianity which we profess . When I see numbers of churches building throughout the country , my first impression is , how error is supported ! But when I look further , I consider that
they are all building for us , and 1 cease to regret my- share of the two millions which have been levied for their erection . They are doing good among multitudes whom our efforts could not reach ; and they will all eventually come to us , to that great and universal church which will embrace the . whole earth .
Our friends who mix in the world more than I do , often see great difficulties and discouragements ; but , looking on as an observer , I see abundance to animate and encourage . All sincere Christians , of whatever denomination , are tending to one common centre of light and blessedness : they may now be widely apart ; but in proportion as they approach it , they approach each other . "
" The mode of teaching Christianity adopted by the missionaries of different denominations , might often be employed by Unitarians without any dereliction of principle . The accounts I heard given by Mr . Wardt > f bis method of instructing
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Ellis himself , in the new edition of ^ Polynesian Researches . — -The strictures to which I refer , were written in so pad a taste , as well as in so bad a spirit , that I did not , at the time , think it needful to offer any explanation : indeed , I thought none could be influenced by them who would by any reply I might make .- Perhaps , however , it might have been
desirable , in reference to the expression respecting the new churches—^ ' they are ail building for us . " Members of the Establishment , ( amoug them at least one clergyman , ) with whom I have to act in a public institution , have been led , through the Eclectic Review , to entertain opinion ! respecting , the views of Unitarians for which one would not wiU
lingly give them any plausible reason . The clergymau gave me to understand , that it is clear the Unitarians expect to get the emoluments of the church into their own , hands . Certainly we do not anticipate any such thing ; nor , for the sake of Unitarianism , should we desire it be
that ^ should associated them , or made the religion of the state . What I do , expect is , that within those walls where , now , " God the Son , " and " God the Holy Ghost , " and the " Holy Trinity , " are made distinct objects of worship , the prayers of the worshiper will be formed on that model which
teaches us how to pray , and directed exclusively to the Father , the " Only True God . * ' In that sense these churches will be all Unitarian—all ours . I never had the idea that they were building for us , as a sect : perhaps before that period , our sectarianism , whatever we have of it , may have merged \ x \ some more comprehensive system . My
sentiments are , perhaps , more distinctly conveyed in the following passage of " A Unitarian's View of Christian Faith , " to which I directed my clerical opponent . " On this important point , ( the worship of the Christian , ) the Unitarian Dissenter leaves his fellow-christians , since he believes that they leave the Scriptures . It is a source of grateful joy to him to
the Hindoos , brought nothing into view which I should not myself have gladly taught them ; and those who have examined the work of Air . Ellis , on the South-Sea Islands , ( Polynesian Researche $ , ) may perceive , that in them the simple principles of Unitarianism are essentially taught ; and such men are preaching those doctrines more effectually than we- often now do , because they are'more in the habit of addressing men through their affections . "
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U 8 g Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/48/
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