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    ttapLf-tiW ? Jt ( v ) &Wh .. ' fyuvA : <*> y experience . -I * was of the ufcnaost impor * tance to the ea ^ se of liberty and free inquiry , and to the interest of Christian tmtthy that a magazine should }) e open to all parties for the free discussion of all religious subjects ; such a magazine the spirit of the times and the eause of truth , which can never suffer from the free discussion of subjects , absolutely required ;

    and such a magazine the Repository has throughout been . It has ever cherished liberty and free inquiry , and allowed every writer to assert and defend his own religious views . Conducted on this plan , it has done

    much to promote scriptural knowledge , to expose error and superstition , and to promote candour and charity . For more than twenty years it has maintained its independent and liberal course through good report

    and evil report , cherishing and promoting the glorious cause of pure and undefiled religion , and affording ready aid to all our public institutions and to any of our churches when in trouble and difficulties , by lending its columns to their advocates . I

    had a better opportunity tljan many of my brethren of knowing the important services which the Repository rendered to the cause of Unitarianism , during the years which I travelled as a missionary ; but it is impossible to ascertain the information it has

    silently diffused , the zeal it has excited , and the influence it has had in promoting free inquiry , and in stimulating exertions in the cause of God and Truth . It has been a

    channel of communication among Unitarians throughout the kingdom - y it has made known our proceedings in the cause to its friends in distant parts of the world , and in return brought us important information from those

    remote regions . It is impossible to state in few words what has been done in the Unitarian cause since the Repository was get on foot , in all which it has been an important auxiliary ; many

    new congregations have been collected , new chapels erected , old congregations which were in a depressed state have been revived , old chapels repaired , and some which had been nosed re-opeued \ many new institutions ior tUe promotion * and extension

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    of Unitarianism kme hem ; $$ * ablished ; district and nwte local associations ^ ave beea fo rmed In various parts of the kingdom , and societies for the distribution of tracts , by which our religious views . have been made generally knowa and our

    principles widely diffused ; missionary plans have been set on foot and carried on with considerable success ; more active plans have been adopted in many congregations and numerous Fellowship Funds established ; communications have been opened with the friends of the cause in distant

    countries , and an Unitarian mission set on foot in the East Indies ; and an increase of zeal has been gradualLy excited and diffused in the Unitarian , body at large , and a disposition to unite more closely and act in concert has been manifested . Thus as the

    way was prepared and the state of things called for the Repository , oa the plan then adopted , in the year 18 ( 35 , so the way has since been prepared for , and the state of things in

    1825 evidently required and rendered practicable a more general and compact union of the Unitarian body at large throughout the kingdom ; the opening which God in his wise providence had made for our exertions in

    the East , the increased exertions and pecuniary resources required at horae , and the brightening prospects before us , imperiously Remanded that individuals , churches , district associations , all the friends of the cause throughout the land , should cordially unite and co-operate , and that they should have some visible union ,

    simple organization and well-digested plans of mutual exertion ; that their whole strength might be put forth to root up the foundations of mystical Babylon , ami build the temple of the one and only God , the Father ; that

    such resources might be created , and such measures adopted as would promote pure Christianity , not only throughout Great Britain , but in all parts of the world where an opening for their exertions should be found .

    This being the case , The British and Foreign Unitarian Association was established ; and it is hoped it will bring into union and co-operatioa the whole body of Unitarians , oM out their latent strength and resources , and greatly accelerate the progress of

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    M ^^ W ^^ ^ ySh ^ t ^ Mf ^^ - £ 0 * i ** of The MmMg Repository . 721

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 721, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/21/