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    Ebion A damson . Their honours are yet to come . Meanwhile let us honour them by remembering that tbey have left us free to do something better than removing idols .

    Barnabas . Do you mean that we are lingering over our work , or that we set about it in the wrong way ? Ebion A damson . I think that there is a proneness in men , in theologians especially , to hesitation in confiding in their principles .

    Caleb . This from a descendant , and a friend , and a disciple , of confessors

    Ebion Adamson . Hear me out . That we do not faulter in our individual dependence on our principles is proved by testimony , so various and strong , that no sane man can question what the practical triumphs of our faith have been . What I mean is , that we do not trust with sufficient boldness to its operation upon others . We waste our speculations too much upon details . Instead of pushing a good principle with all our might , in the reasonable

    trust that the details will be provided for in proportion to the importance of the principle , we draw back , and spend our energies on the matters of inferior moment , which would follow in course without anxiety on our part . Philo . Are you aiming at those who bring separate texts to prove the Unity of Deity , instead of appealing to the prevailing voice of nature and of revelation ?

    Barnabas . No . He is thinking of the difficulties of the City Mission . Caleb . Or of the evils which some discern in the process of ministerial education in a sect like ours .

    Ebion Adamson . I had none of these particular illustrations of my thought in view ; but I own them all to be illustrations . As to the City Mission , I have not heard a single objection to the principle , but a thousand respecting the details . Now , is it not clear that if our body at large can be convinced of the

    goodness of the principle , they will , as a necessary consequence , provide for the details ? It is , therefore , the business of the Association Committee to urge the principle in the first place , and afterwards to organize the system for which their constituents will have provided . It is no part of their duty to question the practicability of the plan , or to doubt its efficacy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/13/