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    other religious bpdies levy their immense supplies > They do not first collect a large sura , and then-think how it is- to be applied ; but they reverse this order : with what means

    they may have in hand , they embark , in the enterprise , trusting to God and their cause for what is to follow * The Unitarians , indeed , are , for their number , and that is not small / a wealthy people , and have little reason to suspect their finances , if there be but first a willing mind . And if , indeed , there has been a sad indifference to

    the conversion of sinners and saving of souls , yet ought we to think that it will always remain > Nay , rather let us regard what is already doing as a pledge that more will yet be done , and expect the influence of the Divine Spirit among us , to stir us up to do

    l ; he will of God . Encouraged by these reflections , I venture to pursue t ) ie idea suggested by Mrs . Hughes a little further . If any thing is to be 4 oi > € , to whom shall we look as our leaders ? IVfay we not to the Com * mittee of the Unitarian Fund ? I ap ^ preljend that such an object as the

    present is very agreeable to the constitution of that society , and one more important and interesting it can hardly pursue . I fancy , then , that the Unitarian Ftjpd might , if they thought proper , proceed in some such tvay a& tins—open « school for friendly discussion between men of the Hebrew

    nation and such Christians as acknowledge with them that God is one : " at this school , appropriate lectures might Occasionally be delivered , and discussions held with any Israelites th £ t

    chose to attend , the discourses being conducted on our part by such ministers and gentlemen as having willingly offered their services , were approved by the committee , or possibly a sub-committee , to which the

    business might be delegated : measures might be taken for relieving any possible converts , who by their change of faith were subjected to temporal distress , observing the precautionary rule of nev $ r advancing them to a , better

    condition than they were in before their conversion : a free school might be established for educating poor Jewish children , especially those of converts : suitable books for distribution might be furnished fey the Uintariaav Society for distributing books ;

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    atid through tlie means of these , some communication might be opened with the reformed Jews abroad : lastl y * tbe Fell © wship Funds throughout the country might connect thetnsel vea with the Unitarian Fund , as a central

    point for promoting this and all their common objects . The funds requisite for carrying these proposals wto effect * would not , I apprehend * be greater than we might confidently expect to raise , if the Unitarians in general were inclined to support the undertaking .

    Having thus endeavoured to second the motion of your fair friend , and pledging myself i » the cause , I commend the benighted children of Abraham to the Christian compassion of your readers * With my worthless name 1 need not at present trouble you ,. EUELPIS .

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    37 $ : Prophetic Numbers . *

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    Sin * June 7 * 1819 . READING your Repository of the last month , I was particularly

    struck with a passage on Dr * Buchanan ' s Researches ( p . 288 )* The fair writer of that paper , after quoting the latter part of Dr . B . ' s volume coacerning the Jews , says * Surely these statement and calculations from the

    most striking parts of the prophetical writings , appear plainly to announce tjhe speedy fall of'the beast' and « the false prophet ; * " by which latter expression she seems to understand the Turkish empire * as also Dr . B . does .

    This is not the general opinion of the commentators on that phrase , but it appears tome to * be the trufe one . Dr . Buchanan does hot give any reason why the I 860 years of Daniel shoyld commence at the Hegira ( the flight of

    Mahomed from Mecca in 622 )* It was in the year 606 that Mahomed retired to his cave , to forge that imposture there , which , two years after , he began to propagate at Mecca * See Dr . Prideaox ' s JLife of Mahomed ,

    p . 16 , Ed . 4 * And this date jpemarkably coincides with the fall of " the Beast / ' or " Babylon , which is twofold : Thus , Maliomeds imposture began in A * D . - - 6 <> 6 Add Daniel ' s duration of - 1 ^ 60

    Ite rise to its total extermination - - - -18 ^ 6

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/28/