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    take' an opportunity hereafter of mentioning the subject in the "Committee . The reason which chiefly weighs with the Committee for the introduction of French tracts into our catalogue is this , —that as it has been deemed advisable to employ a part of our funds

    for translating our English tracts into JFrench , _ we _ cgnc ^ iv ^ dJ ^ x&tJiMB ^ pnx pose would be better answered by making more generally known those tracts that have been written by French divines , thereby increasing their circulation , and giving effect to those

    valuable efforts . We have imagined that such publications as these are more calculated to do good than any we ourselves can produce ; and I for one rejoice that we have been so ably anticipated by those to whom I have alluded . It is not necessary for me to refer to the almost Universal use of

    the French language on the Continent ? though I may remind the Meeting that , for this reason , no language is better calculated for our purpose , and that , therefore , we ought highly to prize the assistance that we have thus received . I myself have had the pleasure of attending public worship

    at the Unitarian place of meeting in Paris , in company with my own countrymen , with Americans , and with some Frenchmen ; and if they should succeed in obtaining the services of a French pastor , there can be no doubt that the sphere of

    usefulness will be much increased ; at all events , the congregation , as it now stands , has been kept up for more than a year in great respectability and regularity of attendance , although it is not as yet very numerous . I have now , Sir , only to move the following Resolution :-

    —6 , ' That this Meeting hails with satisfaction the various proofs of the spread of a spirit of inquiry , and of liberal and just sentiments in religion on the continent of Europe ; that it regards , with fervent anticipations of good , the establishment of a Unitarian Association in Paris ; and that it views with deep sympathy the efforts

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    now . making by liberal theologians , and especially by the venerable and learned M . Cheneviere , professor of Theology in the Academy of Geneva , to promote the knowledge of the Scriptures , and inculcate the worship of the one true God , as the benevolent Father of mankind '

    Dr .-Bowring . —^ - " 1—have—beeii-requested by the Committee to second this resolution ; and though I undertake the office , I must do so very briefly , for I stand at this moment in the presence of so great a calamitya calamity to mankind in general , and

    to me most peculiarly—that I am afraid I shall find great difficulty in collecting my thoughts for any subject not connected with that which has of late occupied the whole of them . I cannot ; , however , help bearing rny testimony to the interesting circumstances alluded to in this resolution .

    I have lately gone over much of the ground , and have observed with delight what I shall now mention for your encouragement , that the cause of truth and free inquiry is making rapid advances in every direction . The Unitarian congregation at Paris , where I have attended from Sunday to Sunday , and seen three nations

    sacrificing to the one God , appears to be going on with that steadiness of march , that I have little fear for its continuance of existence , and even hope that the day will come when it will exercise great influence over the feelings of that capital . That most

    interesting capital , and most interesting nation , have recently been occupied with topics of a very different character ; and it is therefore not to be wondered at , if , in the midst of a struggle for their existence , or , at all events , for their liberties , they have not directed much of their attention to

    religious subjects . But it is at the same time true that an attention to such subjects has been visible even in the midst of these occurrences . It is certain that there are in France thousands of men restless and inquiring ; and it is equally certain that this spirit

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    UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 105

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1815/page/9/