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    ate agency or command of God ? Did Moses , Joshua ^ Samuel , and David nitm fcw $ t ^ Hucli phraseology thai do the dWOUT ~ bf our own days ? t could rtislt t 6 see tliis question discussed and settled .

    Yqur correspondent W . seems to h&ve ao clear idea of the Genevan controversy . I know not who has attempted to prove in your pages that " the Church of Geneva is still Calvin is tic . "

    Scruples as to the East India Mission . Mr . Fullagar is perfectly right to inquire into these things , and shews a justifiable independence in resisting for a moment the torrent of popularity whicti'ifi whirling along the East India Unitarian cause . It is useful to have

    in the bosom of every sect a few scrupulous and imperturbable spirits , inaccessible to any sudden zeal even for a good thing . Their inquiries , objections and doubts , are of service , not only in restraining the rest of the fraternity from extravagance , but also ,

    in eliciting new , unexpected , safe , and satisfactory reasons in behalf of any object in pursuit . Now , although I will allow to Mr . Fullagar that a little novelty , and a little emulation towards other sects , were probable ingredients in the combined impulse that lately caused so noble a movement in favour

    of Mr . Adam , yet , on a moment's reflection , it is easy to perceive , that if erer zeal was rightly and truly directed , it was on this occasion . For it would neitherthave been just nor generous to abandon Mr . Adam at a

    moment when he was willing to devote himself to the already planted cause of Unitarianism in India . Then , surely , it is worth while to try an experiment , which may be productive of incalculabl y beneficial effects . And tor this purpose , what extraordinary sacrifices are we called on to make ? ^^ ^^ wr * ^ - m ^ v w % ^^ *«• ^ y ^^ ™ 4 m v w- ^ - *^ v

    y ^ *** ve rtainly , at the most , none very prodigious . And let Mr . Fullagar be assured , that the sums which he fears will be thus drawn away from the support of domestic Unitarianism , will J ) e far more than counterbalanced by tbe increased excitement , attention * nd consequent attachment produced every vvhere in favour of the cause . w knows how many converts Uniwianigin will acquire to herself among « e pious and benevolent people of ^ g » and , by the simple fact of her

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    becoming missionary ? I wonder that Mr . Full ^ gar ' s own observation and experience did not suggest to him that it is a great thing to awaken up people ' s benevolence , and once to enlist their hearts on a side . A good habit is better than a good principle . To

    throw a check on the existing prepossessions for the foreign mission , in the liope of saving a little money by it , would be to kill the bird that lavs the golden egg ; or , to speak without ; 3 Esop , it would repress that generous and lovely spirit of enthusiasm , on whose future incubations and sacrifices

    we may indefinitely calculate . One word more in the prudent ear of Mr . Fullagar . Who can tell but ever so many thousand rupees will , in the course of twenty years , be contributed by the dusky congregations of Hindostan to the purpose of domestic missions in England ? I aver that it is not a very improbable thing .

    Mr . Eaton ' s Account of the Unitarian Fund . Quite interesting . I am anxious for the sequel . But does not Mr . Eaton draw , in rather too strong colours , the trimming and hesitating maxims of the Unitarians of his

    youth ? The writings , discourses and history of Priestley , Cappe , Lindsey and others , render some of his positions inexplicable to me . Churches in Scotland . An instructive and interesting view . Let us cursorily speculate a 3 to \ vhat , in a

    country where perfect freedom of inquiry prevails , would be some of the effects of such a complete internal organization and statistical policy of the several religious sects , as this writer

    recommends to the Associate Synod . The immediate results would probably be ungracious and unhappy . By making deeper the lines of Lntervallation between the differing parties , it would at first tend to render them more

    uncompromising towards each other . The pride and esprit du corps of each sect would be increased by a tangible view of its own numbers and power *

    Mere proselyting" zeal would be stimulated to a high degree . This state of things would probubly continue , until the whole community were divided into a number of obstinate and

    constituent castes . But among these , it must be recollected , Avould be the caste of sceptics , who , though sifted out but in small proportions from

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    Critical Synopth of tA * Monthly Repository for June , 1825 . 391

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/11/