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CITY MISSION.
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The annexed report of the Rev . ft , K . Philp , the Missionary to the poor in a district which has abundant need of reMgious instruction , will suffi cientty show the nature of his exertions , in connexion with former reports which have been presented to the readers of the Unitarian Chronicle . He shall be left therefore to tell his own tale , and it is-one which must create sympathy with him in his labours , and a resolution to give him the means of still
more extensive-usefulness .- -Such-sympathy -he-will- reckon reward * suchjncreased means of usefulness for the future , the best praise for the past . If I should venture to say all I think and feel respecting him , I should offend his modesty , and violate that principle of his mind which leads him to seek not the applause of men , but the glory of God in the salvation of his creatures . My object is to point attention to the simple benevolence of this Mission , and to urge the desirableness of its being placed on a footing totally independent of any other exertions .
The nature and objects of the Mission are sufficiently before the public . I shall therefore only ask , whether to seek those who are lost to virtue and religion , to Christ and God , whether to instruct the ignorant , to comfort the sorrowful , to shed abroad hope in the bosoms of those who are ready to despair ^—be not a work of Christian love ' ¦¦? Whether to -visit at their own homes those whom poverty , or crime , or false shame , hides in miserable apartments of miserable hovels , in narrow and crowded lanes and alleys , far from the religious converse of their fellow-men , and the ordinary means of religious instruction , be not a wdrTTo £ Christian love ? Whether endeavours
to introduce order , sobriety ; and cleanliness , into families of such outcasts , to impress upon them a sense of their mutual duties , their dependence upon each . other-ior . h ^ where the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts , and they sincerely and earnestly strive to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ our Lord , be not a work of Christian love ? Whether , in furtherance of these objects , as occasion and ability permit , to clothe the naked , to feed the hungry , to seek a channel for industry , to point out the means by which self-help may be made to avail in raising the wretched to a state of comparative comfort , be not a work of Christian love ?
To these questions , none but an affirmative answer can be made , even by those who doubt whether any success can be hoped for which shall be com *
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THE UNI TA HI AN CH R ONI C L E , AND COMPANION TO THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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PUBLISHED BY C . POX , 67 V PATERNOSTER ROW .
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No . XIV . ] March , 1833 . [ Price 6 d .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2609/page/1/
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