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      UNIT ARIAN FUND REPORT I wish that a more splendid series of Unitarian successes could have employed the able pen of this Reporter . But never let the want of such a circumstance discourage us .

      We are not to look for the main triumph of our cause in the detail of local conversions ; although the zealous prosecution of them at proper times and places ought not to be abandoned ; especially , since past events furnish the most decisive

      encouragement and justification to persevere . But it is the peculiar glory of Unitarianisni to be involved in the general march , the incFeasing illumination of the age . The two names which , for more than a century , have stood at the head of natural and intellectual

      philosophy , to say nothing of Priestley and others of later date , are ours , and thus furnish a fair characteristic symptom of our natural destination . An exact and philosophical annual survey of the progress of our cause would be a very different thing from the document before us , which , however , is

      undoubtedly faithful and full , with respect to its explicit purposes . Wherever the reign of prejudice , in any of its forms , declines ; wherever once angry and opposing sects unite , even though it be for the express purpose of crushing Unitarianism : wherever candid

      Trinitarians are found , ( and they are every day to be found , ) who acknowledge that particular texts , such , for instance , as / and my Father are one , must be abandoned by the honest and consistent of their ov * n party , ay any proof of the Trinity ; wherever Eclectic or Quarterly Reviewers are se ^ n

      battering the authority of interpolated portions of Scripture , and orthodox L « ords in Parliament are heard vieing with each other to overwhelm us with the most liberal praise ; wherever the

      success of the cause , in one country , suggests the well-founded expectation that a corresponding sympathy and fac tion may sooner or later take Place in others : —in all these and si-

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      milar cases , every addition made to the general stock of liberality and acknowledged truth , is but the increase of so much gravitation at the distant end of a lever , which , however sfewly , is irresistibly effecting the elevation of Unitarianism . v

      Should such an amalgamation of the several leading societies in tHe connexion take place , as is proposed at the end of this instrument , would it not , in general , be well for the Annual Report of the new consolidated body to glance at something like a sketch

      of the foregoing topics , and thus mark the indirect , as well as direct , triumphs or defeats of the cause ? Such surveys would impart a peculiar excitement , dignity , scope and energy to every local effort . On the one hand , they would teach us to look at something

      above mere paltry proselytism as an object of exertion ; and , on the other , they would inspire us with new confidence and calmness in avowing our religious belie f , and would justify us in any degree of steady , consistent zeal in its propagation .

      Dr . J . Pye Smith on the Geneva Controversy . Violently as this writer has espoused the side of the Geneva Calvinists , I do not fear that he will establish any other conclusions than I have already admitted in my former remarks on M . Ohenevifere ' s Defence .

      Mr . Smith is determined to make no allowance for the long-existing constitution of things at Geneva , the very worst parts of which , be it remembered , and those against which the modern Caivinists most bitterly

      complain , were planted and bequeathed by the jealous intolerance of tlieii * ancient predecessors . They have principally to thank Calvin himself for the wrongs they profess to endure . It is amusing to see Mr . Smith compare M . Chenevifere to St . Dominic or

      Gregory VII . To say nothing of the revolting absurdity and exaggeration of the comparison , might not the very city itself where t } xe ^ Professor resides have afforded , in one of its former

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      No . CCXXXIV . ] JUNE , 1825 , [ Vol . XX .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/1/