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    from the object of this discourse . They have been qarefull y * and thoroughly , and patiently considered by , the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian ? Association * That Committee _ was instructed by its constituents at the General Meeting held at Manchester in 1830 , to inquire into the practicability of the plan . During a large portion of the following twelvemonth it had their earnest and anxious attention . At the last

    anniversary , held in this place , the result appeared in their full conviction of its practicability , and in the adoption by the meeting of a resolution that it should be carried into effect . And I believe that nothing but the want of the requisite funds can prevent its being in operation before the next anniversary of that Institution . I wave , therefore , a long and unprofitable

    discussion of details . I appeal to your hearts and minds on the great principle . I ask , will you do this for the poor of this city ; and thereby , perhaps , by the force of example , the stimulus of success , and the evidence of blessed usefulness , do it for every city and large town in the kingdom ? I implore mercy and kindness for them from your human sympathies . I require of your public principles something towards the renovation of society , and the more fair and equal distribution of its advantages . I urge upon you the claims , the moral claims , of your injured , wretched , and degraded brethren ; and , as the followers of Christ , demand of you in the name of Christ , justice for the poor .

    For has not He whom Christ revealed as your Father , as the universal Father , thereby constituted all mankind brethren } And is not a brother ' s claim that of sympathy , and protection , and care , and help , and active affection ? Is not the doctrine made yet more palpable by the fact of common origin and descent , by natural identity , so beneficently ordained , when he made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth ? It was on man that the grant of earth ' s lordship was conferred ,, the heritage of the human race , and shall not they have so much of its produce as will support existence ? The Christian law is , " Thou shalt love

    thy neighbour as thyself . " Ask of Christ , Who is my neighbour ? One of old put the question * and you know the answer . " Go and do likewise . " Who shall dare even by inertness and indifference , though they feel nothing of the spirit of exclusiveness , to make divine truth a monopoly and a privilege , when the very tenure on which we hold its blessings js ,. " freely ye have received , freely give" ? Who of you does not profess to love God ? But , says , the Apostle , ' Whoso hath this , world ' s good * and

    seeth his brother have need , and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him , how dwelleth the love of God in him ? " Talk we of faith ? It is shewn by works ; and these , are works by which it is shewn . Is knowledge given us ; and ha . ve they ftp right at our hands to have a ray let in upon the dungeon of their , ignorance ? Are the comforts of life bestowed by Providence upon us ; and have they no claim on us for immunity from the physical privations of which they experience the bitter endurance ? Is

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    The Claims of the Poor on the Followers $£ , gjfe& £ 803

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 803, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/7/