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We learn from the '¦* Christian Register , * that the General Agency of the American Unitarian Association , an account of whose formation we gave in our June Number , continues to attract the attention , and to call forth the zeal of our transatlantic brethren
It meets with general encouragement and support ; and appears likel y to be placed on such a footing as shall render it an efficient instrument in the cause of truth and holiness . As might be expected , Boston is foremost in its endeavours to give the agency the pecuniary means for carrying on its work . —
The Rev . Mr . Motte ' s Society has subscribed upwards of 1 , 200 dollars . Th e ' Rev . Mr . R , ipley ' s Society l , 70 rdolErs . The Rev . Mr . Barrett ' s Society 2 , 000 to 3 , 000 dollars . Meetings have also been held of the Societies connected with the Rev .
Messrs ; Frothinghanv Pierpoint , Young , Greenwood , and Parkinan , of the Society in Brattle Street , of the second Congregational Society , and of other societies not named , at which resolutions were passed , expressing approbation of the object , and subscriptions were immediately entered into for its support . We extract the following ^—•
' EMIGRANTS TO UBERIA . * The " African Repository" g ives an account of the recent emigration to Liberia , of a company of slaves from the Valley of the Mississippi . A majority of them , — " slaves of
remarkably good character /' - —were manumitted for the purpose , including eleven belonging to Mr . Breckenriclge , of Kentucky , * who ; we are ininformed , sent with them a considerable sum of money to be expended for their benefit .
' When , ' says Mr . Finley , * the vessel unloosed from her mooring 3 to put to sea , she was visited by several friends and strangers , wh om
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248 INTELLIGENCE AND
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the profession of certain , opinions ,
were shown to be at variance with the genius of Christianity . Equally opposed to the liberty of the gospel is the spirit of sectarianism , under the influence of which men think , as it were , en masse , and are literally members one of another , nioying'as the head directs . As intellectual
beings , the Gospel addresses us individually . Truth , to be productive of its greatest benefits , must be self-acquired :, man must be a diligent iiiquirer , not a passive recipient . Another departure from the old path , alluded tb . by t \ te preacher , were the encouragements held out to the sinner
assurances of bliss , which , disregarding both the moral and mental constitution of man , and the teachings of the gospel , lead the . polluted and the vicious to apply to himself language suitable , only to the holy and the good , and to encourage hopes which iri his case , can be but a fearful
delusion . After divine service the business of the Association was transacted . — S . Kingsford , Esq . Mayor of Canterbury , in the chair . The following was one of the resolutions which was adopted by the meeting : — -That the Committee be instructed to avail
themselves of every means withm their power by which our religious rights , as Protestant Dissenters , may "be secured and extended , and by which every legal or civil inequality may be removed , which sets a mark of inferiority upon any in consequence of the opinions which they hole ! and profess .
The business of the day being gone through , about seventy of the friends present , of both sexes , adjourned to a plain dinner . J . Brent , Esq ., was called to the chair , who added greatly to the pleasure of the day by the able , appropriate , and cheerful manner in which he prefaced the different healths and sentiments that were proposed . E . T .
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AMERICA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/24/
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