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Unitariahism in England . The progress of Unitarian ism , as far as it can be measured by separate congregations , may be stated as follows : Congregations * In England , Ireland , Scotland , and "Wales , there are not less than 300
In India there are . . . ... . . . . . . . 3 In Transylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . ___^___ L 5 Q . -0 _ - _ ... ; ¦ . ¦ ^— —— - *— - - *—~ " ¦ - ' lti * ai is . • • ••••« ¦•• •• . X In the United States of America there are , 1 st . Those who are and who are called Unitarians , amounting to 193 2 d . There are of the Baptist denomination , holding Unitarian
sentiments . . . . ? . , . . . . . . . 20 3 d . The Universalists , who hold and profess the doctrine of the divine unity , amount to . . . . . . . 500 4 th . Of what is called the Free Church in the West there are 20 5 th , More , than one-half of the Society of Friends in America are Unitarians , amounting to . . . ... , . 450 6 th . That interesting body of professors , known by the name of Christians , are all Unitarians , and have not less than a thousand " separate'V 0 i>&g& $ < Sn& ' . ' ~'' . ' ' . . ... . 1000
Making a total number of congregations . . . . 2 , 647 A number which cannot consist of less than half a million of adult believers .. ... uAd 4 l : ta ^ tb ^ eJhe ~ children-aiid--dependeiite - who
are to a greater or less extent under the influence of their principles , and you will at least double that amount ,. so that if the efforts at proselytism were to fail of any future increase , and the progress of the human mind in its search after truth were to be stayed , already within little more than one century , a large body of Unitarian believers has been formed , which out of its own elements must increase rapidly , especially in the United States of America .
The host of which we have now spoken ^ are avowed believers in the supremacy and sole deity of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . A much larger- .. . number . R ej 0 ^ nj 5 ... tQ ; . h 0 ... i ] ae-ia . tion ed > who having in their own minds' —some with their lips—renounced the Trinity , we terra Antitrinjtarians . We say some with their lips , as well as in their minds , and yet we do not rank them with avowed Unitarians , because they have not as yet formed societies for public worship apart from their Trinitarian brethren . This number we separate into two classes , the Antitrinitarian believer , and the Antitrinitarian unbeUever .
One and a very painful effect of the doctrine of the Trinity , and other dogmas with which it has been allied , has been to drive multitudes out of the pale of Christianity . This defection is a most material feature in the history of the decline of Trinitarianisni . To estimate the whole of its extent , would require inquisitorial powers , of which we neither have nor covet the possession ? There is not a Christian community where it has not taken place . In
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THE TRUTH TELLER . 335
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/15/
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