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Barnabas . I confess my doubts are about the practicability of the scheme . I think it should be entered upon with caution .
Ebion Adamson . There is a time for caution , and a time for intrepidity . We were cautious about the grounds of our principle , and the mode of ascertaining them . Now let us be intrepid in its prosecution . When we have once tried to the utmost the issue of a broad , unflinching reliance upon a great principle , we may hope to find that all things are ours . I would that this
might be the one ! And , if so , I should not be sorry that the perplexities and discouragements ( of which I speak from the discernment of others rather than my own ) were a thousand times greater than they are , that we might ascertain whether there be any actual discrepancy between theory and practice , —whether truth can be great and not prevail .
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My dear Sir , Boston , May 23 rd , 1831 . I thank you for your letter of the 5 th of February , long expected , and long delayed as it was . I am glad and grateful to be assured of your sympathy ; and I shall be still more glad and grateful , if you shall be prospered in your purpose of establishing a ministry for the poor . We have here
advantages arid facilities in the work of seeking an improved condition of the humbler classes of society , which I am well aware are not possessed in the older countries of the world . JBut I hope that you will not be discouraged , even by all the difficulties which are interposed by your ' « time-hallowed institutions ; " by your aristocracy , your national church , your monopolies , entails , " taxed food , taxed knowledge , and taxed justice . " In the
pursuit of great objects , difficulties are to be our excitements . Let us make up our minds as Christians upon the question , " have we no accountableness for these great and horrible abuses of power , of wealth , and of all the means of extending human improvement and happiness ? " and I think that we shall at least be brought to the conviction , that we are very faT from being innocent , while we are doing nothing for the intellectual and moral
redemption of the multitudes of our forgotten and neglected , or abused and oppressed fellow-beings . The inquiry may , indeed , at first sight , seem a disheartening one , how is this redemption to be sought with any hope of obtaining it I But while I see the evils to which I have referred existing in your country even to a frightful extent , and perceive more than a tendency to evils almost as great in my own , I yet thank God that I see also a re-
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6 SG JDr . Tuckerrnan on City Missions .
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LETTER FROM DR . TUCKERMAN TO DR . BOWRING , ON CITY MISSIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 666, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/14/
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