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    professed teacher of the religion of Jesus , which broke at once the spell of enchantment which had bound roe , which desecrated the temple of God , the temple not made with hands , in which we stood ; for the sounds told me that man was ungrateful , and that theological error could almos . t- _ mai ^ -the—mag-nifieenee—and

    grandeur of nature , and that taught by creeds and not by creation , man could regard his Maker as a tyrant , and turn away his face and his heart from his Father ' s mercy . The sounds reached my ear in that teacher ' s address to the people collected on the margin of that lake , that all creation was under the wrath and

    curse of an angry God , yea , that the infant of a few months and days old , needed as much to flee from the wrath of its Maker , and to seek a refuge from his viridictiveness , as the hoary-headed sinner whose hair had heen whitened by a century of years . I turned me from these words ofwoe ,

    and I looked to theheaTiens , and the blue firmament seemed a beauteous canopy spread over the earth and earth ' s inhabitants by a father ' s benignity ; and I looked to the earth , and it smiled on me with its promise of abundance ; and I looked in the

    peaceful waters , and they seemed to me theg'lorious mirror in which were reflected heaven ' s purity and earth ' s luxuriance ; and I looked on the little ones by whom I was surrounded , and I could not fyelieve ^ -no creed , no force of created man could make me believe—that those frames were

    the dwelling places of iniquity and pollution ; and I could trace on them and on all no curse , but that , as at creation ' s dawn , every thing was good , every , thing was ., blessed , and the grateful overflowings of my soul

    united , I trust , with the thanksgivings of nature to the Father of mercies , the God of consolation , of hope , arid of peace . ( Cheers . ) And in thankfulness to the eternal Father let us all joiu , that we have been emancipated from such bondage to

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    creed idolatry . ( Cheers . ) It has been said by an eminent divine , that the Unitarians pay too much deference to human authorities in religion . The charge is absurd . Another charge made against us is , that we never rejoice in the beauties of nature ; bow unjust is this ! Calvin , indeedr paints"th ^ woTM ^ s ~ a"howT 1 ng ^ wilderness , but for us our hearts fill

    with wonder and with gratitude at the lovely scenes around us , —scenes which prompt us to use every exertion to promote the good of humanity , and to advance the glory of God their Creator . When man loves God he loves his brother , he loves

    mankind . When man is happy , God is glorified . Believing , as I do , this to be the object of the Unitarian Association , I have for this reason , and in order to promote to the utmost of rny power a warm feeling in its behalf , arrived , amongst you ; and I shall return back to the chiller

    regions of the north encouraged with the kmd notice and approbation which you have bestowed = upon me , and determined to renew with greater diligence than ever , the efforts which I have made to emancipate the human mind from all bondage , civil and ecclesiastical , and to secure to the human race that glorious liberty which is their birthright and inheritance as children of the living God . ( Enthusiastic cheering . )

    Mr . John Christie moved the appointment of the various officers of the Association for the ensuing year . ( See Committee ' s Report . ) Rev . Dr . Carpenter rose to second the resolution , and in doing so he wished to elicit from the Trustees

    whether they conceived themselves bound , in -the event of printing a new edition of the improved version , to adhere to the existing version , or whether it was open to them to adopt any improvement if such could be suggested . Rev . Benjamin Mahdon said there could be no doubt that it was perfectly competent to them to adopt

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    CORRESPONDENCE .- 205

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/13/