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coincides with the Christian rule of doing to others as we would that they should do unto us ; and which I regard as the end and summing up of all virtue and all religion . I would
carry out this principle to the extent of teaching all persons to enter into all the beauties of nature , and by such discipline leading them to more vivid conceptions of that heaven which we believe to be ultimately reserved for all . There is no
incongruity between the two worlds ' of a Christian—he is not fit for a world to come , who does not strive to be wise , benevolent , and active in the world in which we live . These were the objects to which all his ( Mr . F . ' s ) exertions : were directed , and it was
pleasant , from time to time , to feel that the seed was not sown on stony ground , but that the minds of others responded to these principles . A German poet has said that ' voice has many echoes . ' He had found it so , and when he had raised his voice those echoes had cheered him on .
He trusted that he was as independent as most people of the encouragement of applause and sympathy , and that he could act up to his own ideas of right without that support ; but , he must say , that from his earliest youth to the present time he had had
as much of it as those who were most servilely dependent upon it . And though not sought , it had flowed in upon him , and he trusted it would still flow in , and that It would accompany him on his bed of death , and he desired no better dirge .
The Rev . Mr . Taggart , in proposing * The Friends of an enlightened theology in Switzerland , Germany , France , America , and Hindoostan , ' related some facts which he had iiist heard from the last-named
country , showing the progress of Unitarian opinions among its natives , and also the rise of the religious communion , styling it 3 elf the French Catholic Church , and which might be called the French Catholic Unitarian Church . What would they
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think were they to see a priest enter a gothic Cathedral , arrayed in his grand robes , sprinkling the holy water , and surrounded by all their pompous ceremonies , and then to hear him deliver to the people an Unitarian eermon ? Yet such was the fact . The priests see through
the mummery , but say , We must let it go on for a time , and we are preaching the truths which will lead on people to see it also . There were here too many clergymen of the established faith , who , if their congregations would support them ,
would get rid of much of its lumber ; and amongst the rest , of the Athanasian creed , of which archbishop Tillotson said it was a thing the church were well rid of , and would preach the sentiments of those before him . Let ministers
he allowed to preach , and their congregations to hear what is most acceptable to themselves , and then Unitarian sentiments , it must be believed , would diffuse " themselves much more extensively . The Chairman said he had a toast
to give , which he should give under suspicion , * The health of the treasurer , ' with whom , from time to time , he had very acceptable communications in his official capacity . They all knew his public and his private claims . His exertions in their service had been most laborious , and most useful , as they had been also in other capacities in which he ( Mr . Fox ) had cooperated with him .
Mr . Tayjlor , the treasurer , after returning thanks , begged to propose as a toast * Success to the Monthly Repository , ' Mr . Fox said he had to thank them for the toast which they had last drunk , almost as much as for the
former , because his personal sentiments were embodied in that work , because he had its success very much at heart , and because one of the most acceptable modes in which they could afford him pleasure would be by co * operating with him jn its support /
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88 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1833, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2609/page/24/
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