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    LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

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    Abraham ? [ It is evident that they mistook his meaning in this , and also in the following passage . ] Jesus said unto them ' Verily , verily , I say unto you : Before Abraham was , I am he . [ i . e . was pre-ordained to be the Christ . ] Then they took up stones to cast at him ; but Jesus concealed himself [ among the I ^ uiMtujje , ! amL ^ __

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    We have recorded in another place , with great satisfaction , the substance of the annual report of this society . We are always glad to learn that the work of Christian instruction is proceeding , though it be mixed with human traditions , and wrong inferences from misunderstood scripture . The two great commandments of the law , love to God and love to man , must form the foundation of all Christian morals , and extensively , though not entirely , neutralize the effect of false doctrine . The Rev . Dr . Wardlawy who moved the first resolution , must have writhed , however , under the infliction of the following flattery , for it must have opened afresh the wounds received from the- castigating hand of the . Bey . J . X ateS ; and which he cannot have forgotten , however his eulogist may not know , or not remember .

    ' The Rev . Dr . Samuel Cox , of New York , spoke in support of the motion . His soul had often been comforted , and bis ministry

    confirmed , as hundreds m America could testify , by . the productions of Dr . Wardlaw ' s pen against the neology of the British Islands , of Germany , of Boston , and of human nature . ' How senseless is this charge of Neology I The very question in dispute between us and our Trinitarian brethren is which is the new and which is the old doctrine ; and we wonder what good can arise to the cause of missions , or to the Christian cause at large , by bandying about names of reproach which one party may use with as much propriety as another ! but it is easier to revile than to convince , to use a hard word , unknown to the multitude , with a tone of pity or contempt , than to show that British , or German , or Bostonian exposition and criticism , do not display the true meaning of sacred scripture . 7

    Neology I There is a sense in which * the wordshould be perpetually * new' to every Christian , in the increasing light which it sheds upon his mind , in the . increasing influence which it has upon his spirit , in the progressive control which it exerts over his actions and words , so that he may less and less offend against that universal charity which gives its proper tone of harmony to every faithful and zealous labour . Again , we are sincerely grieved that on the anniversary of so

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    176 LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY .

    London Missionary Society.

    LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/16/