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Har with them than ourselves , will be less willing to make sacrifices for their assertion and extension , Caleb . But the needs of the next generation may be greater than ours . Bigotry ever becomes more exasperated the more opposition it meets with . Ebion Adamson . And impotent in proportion to its exasperation . The day of power of the Ulster Synod is , in fact , passing away . The heats of its fierce anger have now been for some time endured , and whatever evening storms may be coming up , the horizon will be refreshment in comparison .
Elhanan . Besides , a friendly shelter has sprung up towards the south ;—an institution not destined , I trust , to grow and fade in a day . —The Irish Unitarian Christian Association presents another opening by which we may aid the persecuted . All honour be to those who have opened such a way ! Ebion Adamson . They were virtuously moved at beholding Truth so treated as in that unhappy country , —nearly stifled by the Catholics , starved by the E piscopalians , tortured by the orthodox Presbyterians . * ' Wan , wasted Truth in her utmost need , Their kingly intellect shall feed Until she be an athlete bold' *
to wrestle with , and strong to overthrow , the powers which oppose themselves to the gospel she serves . The same intrepidity which carried them to her side will achieve their victory , if their followers will but do their part in furnishing the weapons , and we ours , in cheering them on to the struggle .
Caleb . I wish we had but more such appeals to our voices . The Geneva Unitarians are very stealthy in their operations . Why do we hear of no defiance , no warning , to the enemy ? How dare they suffer the foe to slumber on holy ground ?
Ebion Adamson . There are brave spirits among them , too , who would fain persuade the people that the time for a struggle is come . Slow as they * are to be persuaded at present , they will arouse themselves by and by . Indeed , they have just shewn some promising symptoms . They may urge , in common with all our forces elsewhere , in the infancy of their organization , that , however well they have been provided with mail and shield , weapons have not been duly furnished .
Barnabas . Without metaphor- —what is your meaning ?
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Ebion Adamsan and his . Friends . 663
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/11/
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