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    • THE TRUE METHOD OF DIFFUSING UNITARIAN PRINCIPLES,
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      these offices , fairly aiid faithfully to make trial of one or more of them . If you shallbe successful , you will need , and you will ask , no other encouragement . The reward , to him who gains it , is immense . It is better than " salver or gold . It will

      make you wish to be immortal , if for nir "' otlrer-reason 7-that"you-may ^ be"a minister of the goodness and mercy of God , as long as there shall be any among all his creatures to whom the ministry of his mercy may be extended .

      There are those , indeed , who shrink from the thought of the condition of the children of want and suffering . The office of a visitor of the poor would seem to them to be the office of a self <¦ torturer . They have hardly an association with poverty , but of squalidness , and

      ignorance , and debasement , and vice . And all these , it is admitted , are to be found in the abodes of many of the poor . But should even these fellow-beings be left hi uripitieet and unmitigated misery ? Who has made thee , thou who turnest with revolting and disgust from this spectacle—who has made thee to differ ¦

      from these thy fellow-mortals and fellow-immortals ? And what hast thou which thou hast not received ? And why did God bestow on thee thine abundance , but that , while he would win thee to the holy exercises of gratitude and love by the multitude of his blessings , he would also honour thee as an instrument of his

      compassion and goodness to the sufferers , whom he has enabled thee to relieve and bless by his bounty ? Away , then , with this morbid sensibility ; this false delicacy ; and despair not- to-find a remedy .. of . the evil , even in that which appears to

      thee would be its greatest aggravation ,- ~ a friendly connexion , and a familiar intercourse , with some poor and distressed family . Let this family be selected for you by another , if you know not how to select it for yourself . Go to it , that you may

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      learn how you may be useful to it . Go , and carry with you a garment for a half-clad child , which its parent could not have provided for it ; and gain for yourself an interest in the

      heart of this child , and avail yourself of this interest to strengthen in its heart the principles of piety and vir-HmeT—Gor-and-do-wh at-y o-u-wisel-y-niay to relieve the most pressing wants of this parent , when she knows not where to look for relief . Go to her when she

      shall be upon the bed of disease , and alleviate the distresses of sickness by your sympathy , your counsels , and consolations ; and by supplying her with a few of the comforts with which you would yourself be surrounded , if you were on the bed of sickness . Go , arid open your heart to a sensibility , at once of the weakness , and

      wants , and difficulties , and struggles of this family ; of God ' s goodness to yourself ; and of the unutterable happiness of relieving distress , and of calling forth in the heart a sentiment of true gratitude " to G " o ^ T ~ MaH ~ you will find that poverty , which , it may be , seemed to you like Shakspeare ' s toad , ' ugly and venomous , ' may yet

      **•** *^ . ** *« 4 ^ -mi ¦ & « - ¦* ^* m *^ _ _ ^ w « *^ * . » * t ¦ « w * » A * **_ - \*^ ' a . ^ « J 9 * wear a precious jewel in its head . ' You will find that you may learn from the poor quite as much as you can teach them ; and may receive , through them , as many and as important benefits , as you can confer upon them .

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      UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . £ 7

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      From an excellent Sermon preached by the Rev . Mr . Upham , of Salem , at the Anniversary of the Auxiliary Unitarian Asspciation in the First Parish ( Rev . Mr . Richardson ' s ) iu Hingham .

      Having spoken . of-what 1 . deem ., okjectionable and illegitimate modes of persuading the world of the truth of our opinions , and of advocating our cause , it remains for me to point out what appear to be the proper and certain methods of accomplishing these objects . You are Unitarian Christians :

      The True Method Of Diffusing Unitarian Principles,

      THE TRUE METHOD OF DIFFUSING UNITARIAN PRINCIPLES ,

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/27/