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    •—each body avowing or confessing its faults- ^ in-viting , or , on compulsion , receiving admonition ;—shall Unitarians prove the exception ? They took the lead— -their nobleminded ancestors , we mean—took the lead in bringing on the present movement J will they , the Unitarians

    of this day , those who said the men of the last generation ( whose power was threefold as men now are ) , who took up the work which the lot of nature , and not the ceasing of their heroism , terminated ; will oar juniors too , who ought with new energies to breathe a new spirit—especially our

    junior ministers , the hope of the body —will they , who ought to weigh all things in the balance , not of usagenot of prejudice—but of the sanctuary ; and finally , will our associations , and especially the Metropolitan , whose very existence stands in their utility , which were constituted to lead onward

    the public mind , by keeping themselves ever in advance-and -ever in action , and ever improving—will these several agents act as dead weights on the social machinerycontent themselves , in the abandonment of their principles , with merely regulating its movements ? * Things

    as they are , ' surely can never be the motto of Unitarians . We , therefore , believe that the impatience of truth , evinced by some at the sound of the 1 Watchman ' s' rattle ; and the spirit of narrow prudence and sectarian manoeuvre , enjoined by more than one 4 Unitarian Elder , ' are subdued

    if not removed . Nigh as they are unto death , we have begun to think of topics for their epitaph , and , wrong or right , our mind has turned spontaneously to the mother of mystery at Rome , and the lovers of ( larkness

    in the New Testament . Those , however , who * ljve move ,. and have their being , ' are too full of God ' s energy—working as it is around them on every side , to allow a cause so sacred as that of the truth , to languish and become extinct by reason oiindocility and inertness .

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    To such , mainly , is the * Truth * teller * addressed . Its title declares its phject . Its motto sets forth its spirit . * Speaking the truth in love . ' We are devoted to the truth . What we say we shall study to bring to the line and plummet of truth ; uttering— -not less than the truth in any

    case , whatever it may be , whether of friend or foe—for fear of man ; to serve a party ; to conciliate favour } not more—to gratify passion ; to discredit an opponent ; to round a period ; to honour an error ; to gild a prejudice . We have no interests to serve—we will serve none—but those of the truth . We . claim no exemption from frailties . Doubtless we

    have our share of prejudice and passion . Doubtless , therefore , we shall err ; ftuf ; never willingly ; irever to cover wrong , or disallow right . 1 Tros Tyriusque milii nullo discrimine agetur . ' In plain English , all are Philistines to us who do defend or conceal a

    wrong . Not that we are without principles and predilections . We are not by birth , but by connexion , Unitarian-Christians : and the first part of the appellation is dear to us , for it is the symbol of what has indeed been good to us—yet is the second

    dearer , for it gives its main worth to the first . And what is its synonym—its friend—its element—but truth ? Therefore , we lpve truth- —* are proud of o . ur name , ;^ to vindicate our claim to it % our conduct .

    Yet in the spirit of ' love ; ' love of the truth as the predominant passion of our breast ; love of cjharity ; that chanty which hopeth all things that may promise a favourable issue ; foe * Ueveitrallffi side of a favourable construction ;

    endurewi all things . Jhat may be per * sonally offensive ; love of justice ^ which , calls things by their proper names in the spirit , not of severity , but of kindness ; which is only ano * ther appellation for truth , and' a vir * tue recommended in the Christian

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    % UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/2/