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    communion * --and such , in . fact , " a test constitutes it— -they would find . it impossible to stop ; they can only stop consistently by shutting out whatever they account heresy—and that greatest of all heresies—an unholy life . Then , indeed , they will be consistent ; but not till then .

    Little did those who opposed the formation ~ of-the ~ TrmitaTian' ^ "Bibre Society imagine that so short a time would suffice to show the impracticable nature of the principle on which

    it was founded . Experience has enforced her lessons more quickly than usual . In the mean time , how lamentable is the fact , that the new society has been fruitful in nothing but mischief ! It has occasioned

    schismand has been itself the victim of it ; it has given birth to innumerable and most angry controversies ; it ; has impaired the unity , and has done all the little it could to circumscribe the

    energies of the noblest institution of our age —~ - while it has completely failed of the great object for which this and every Bible Society is ostensibly founded . We believe we speak the truth , when we say , that . it has

    NOT YET CIRCULATED A SINGLE COPY of the scriptures ! If we have been misinformed , we shall be most happy to contradict our own statement . Instead of circulating the Scriptures , without which a Bible

    Society , let it be ever so * pure in principle / is a mere mockery , its whole life has been spent in ceaseless agitation . ¦ ' A Trinitarian Society * it may call itself , if it pleases , but a ' Bible Society' it certainly is not .

    Strange to say , it has exhibited , in the course of its short history , most of the very faults which it charged upon the old society—but in an aggravated form . It condemned , in its great rival , the avowed co-operation of all

    parties ; it finds , within its own bosom , equally incongruous materials—and that too in spite of a principle of exclusion . It denounced a society in which there was only a possibility ol a heretic having a voice in its manage-

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    ment ; it finds them swarming on its platforms and its committee . It was to be free from all difference of opinion ; and it has witnessed in its committeej ^ QOms , and at its meetings , more stormy debate , more bickering and quarrelling , in seven or eight

    months , than the Bible Society has known in thrice the number of years , * If ^ g-g ^ gept ^ th ^ n 3 islurBances ~" w EiafiT these very men occasioned before they constructed a society for themselves , where they might wrangle at leisure . There is one charge indeed , with which they bitterly assailed the

    old society , which cannot be justly brought against them , and that isof falsifying , or ' adding to , ' or * taking from * the sacred volume . Against this , they have most effectually guarded , —by not circulating the Scriptures at all ! Thus if it has exposed itself to such censure , before it has done

    any thing , may we not reasonably expect , that if it should live to the age of the - British and Foreign Bible Society , and should fill ( which we admit to be an extravagant supposition )

    a sphere of operations equally vast , and be engaged in concerns equally complicated , it will fall into errors of at least equal magnitude ? ' There is , however , but little chance of seeing this experiment tried .

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    Israel Polliathan , or Pallatan , one of the members of William Roberts ' s church at Madras , is now in I ^ ondon . He seems very simple-hearted and earnest in hisXeligioUs ¦ profession He came over as cook in an Indiaman , and would , we believe , like to

    remain some time in this country , could a situation be found for him . His knowledge of the English language is very imperfect . He speaks with much feeling of the valuable instructions and excellent character of William Roberts .

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    Widows Fund . i The annual sermon on behalf of the Society for the Belief of ' the Widows

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1832, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1811/page/13/