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    animadverts , contained , indeed , no su £ fr dharge or insinuation ; but it was worthy of a Protestant Dissenter to feel and express anxiety , lest by any rnisconstruetion it should be

    understood to convey this meaning ; and had your correspondent confined himself to this topic , I should not have troubled you with any remarks upon his letter . But whilst he is vindicating the Society , of which he is a member , he appears to assume a tone that does not become him in reference to

    another denomination of Christians , to manifest a want of candour towards the individuals whom he names , and to misrepresent the religious character of the celebrated Hindoo Reformer , Ram Mohun Roy . " Mr . Ivirney speaks of some persons who call themselves Unitarians , ' and whom he chooses to denominate

    Socinians . On what grounds he thinks himself qualified and authorised to dispute the epithet by which they agree to designate themselves , and to substitute another to which he knows

    they strongly object , and against which they uniformly protest , it is for him to explain . The modern Unitarians are so far from being followers of Socinus , that they universally maintain that practical Socinianism would be Christian idolatry . The Continental , no less than the British Unitarians , refuse to be denominated from that

    Reformer ( excellent as ,. in many respects , he was ) : the largest body of them in Europe , those in Transylvania , amounting to upwards of forty thousand , are described in the Imperial Laws , and protected and established , under the name of Unitarians ; arid I have seen a recent answer to a letter

    sent to them from this country , the first paragraph of which contains a complaint of their being addressed as * Socinians / and thereby misrepresented . * Mr . Ivimey is not unacquainted with the power of a nickname , and would instantly check an opponent ,, who should call his own

    * < * Qu 3 C nominatio" ( viz . Unitarius ) < c Piitrla * legibus stabilita , in Transylvania npud quoslibet Religion is asseclas ita in usu eat , ut aliter , videlicet Socinianos , Servetkmos , &c , compeilari nee placeat . Sec the whote letter in Monthly Repository of Theology . &c . for Jiilv . ¦ ——

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    denominatt ^ ri jffiap&ptists ; yet therewould be just ashaqfacixtruth and libe - rality , just asr timsh gentlemanly and Christian feeling , in this term , so applied , as in the term Soeinian applied , as it is by him , to the present race of Unitarians .

    " Your correspondent says that Ram Mohun Roy * is still a Pagan / The Baptist Missionaries in India might have been expected to save him from this error : perhaps , even now , by a reference to their letters , he may discover his mistake . The truth is ,

    that Ram Mohun Roy ' s conversion to Christianity , although not to the doctrinal Christianity of the Baptist Missionaries , is matter of notoriety in India , and has been the subject of newspaper discussions . In The Calcutta Journal of August J , 1821 , I

    find a Trinitarian writing m opposition to Unitarians , under the signature of * A Christian , ' and making the following statement , which he himself does not appear to have regarded in the light of a concession : * ¦ Ram Mqhun Roy is a very remarkable

    person ; he has been led by reading and thinking" to quit Hindooism in his " search after truth , tend to embrace Christianity according to the Unita ~ rian scheme . This statement might be justified by many extracts from Ram Mohun Roy ' s publications ,

    inserted in the same journal ; but I deem it sufficient to quote from this periodical work a passage in a letter which the respectable Editor ( Mr . Buckingham ) communicates in the Number for August 15 , 1821 , ( pledging * himself to its authenticity , ) from a Native Indian / Sutyu-Sadhtin , who ,

    like his illustrious friend , Ram Mfrhtm Roy , is , I presume , a convert to Unitarian Christianity . This writer says , ' As to the offence of publishing the sentiments that appear so very obnoxious to the Layman , ' ( a correspondent in The Calcutta Journal . ) € X

    may observe , what I believe to be the fact , that Ram Mohun Roy , as a searcher after the truths of Christianity , did keep the result of his inquiries to himself , and contented himself

    with compiling and publishing the pure precepts of Jesus alone , as h $ thought these were likely to be u * efi * l to his countrymen in the present ' P W ^ judiced state 6 f their minds agaroif Christianity . But on . the publicttftift

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    „ « . . ... » „ . ^ ,. ^ r 68 C Free Press and Unitartantstn in fridta .

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    — — - — ^ _ r ^ p j — — w — — ^ r — - -m Vol . XVII . i > p . 437 , 438 / '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/28/