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Christian Examiner.

VOL. III.] November and December, 1826. [No. VI.

Miscellany.

FOURTH LETTER ON MISSIONS AND UNITARIAN RE

SOURCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

SIR,

THE Reviewer has again replied to the Seeker, and with more than his usual self-approbation. The style in which he writes will convince every one, that he is abundantly satisfied with his own arguments.

In order that in my answer I may be as brief as possible, I will, without taking up time in considering his prefatory matter, or introducing any of my own, approach at once the chief points of difference between us. The Reviewer, finding that Unitarians were engaging in some measures preparatory to the establishment of an East Indian mission, published a piece, in which they were asked, with a tone by no means conciliatory, why they had not moved in this business before; why, with all their vast resources, they had not sooner contributed to the support of foreign missionaries? I will tell you why you have not, he says, in answer to his own question; it is because your system of faith is a cold and heartless one; it is because Unitarianism is not the doctrine of the gospel.

I

I undertook, in reply, to offer a different statenient. asserted that the resources of Unitarians were not vast; that their numbers were not large; that their means of cooperation were, at present, feeble and few. I supported my assertion by a statement of facts.

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mented each other on the happy news, and assured their readers that the last day of Unitarianism was at hand. The Reviewer rejoices too; but he tempers his triumph somewhat, for the sake of his argument, and rejoins, that no man ever pretended we were very numerous, but that our wealth and means of moral influence were undoubtedly great, for the Boston merchants were rich, and the North American Review and Harvard University were influential. The answer which naturally suggested itself to me, with regard to the instances brought forward of our literary means of influence-an answer which the Reviewer cannot, and which he has not attempted to confute-was, that neither the North American Review, nor Harvard University could become, on this subject, instruments of influence, because they were bound and pledged not to meddle with matters of public religious controversy.

a proof of the neutrality of the Review, I adverted to the fact, that two professors of Andover Institution had lately written for it. My conclusion was, that nothing could be more irrelevant to the question, than to bring forward witnesses, who, from their character, could have no concern with it.

If I were to imitate the style of the Reviewer, I should here exclaim, And what think you, Sir, is his answer to this most overwhelming statement of mine? Why, truly, that Mr Sparks and the President and Instructers of Harvard University are learned men, and that I cannot deny it. Can any thing be imagined more stupid and absurd?-But far be it from me to imitate his style. I will give his answer in his own words, which are as follows.

'It is not denied that the editors of the North American Review, and the majority of their contributors are Unitarians. It is affirmed that the University and the Review are pledged to use no sectarian influence. What then? Does it follow that the President of Harvard College--" a lever of mind to move a world of matter "--is not a man of great learning and great intellectual power? Does it follow that the Hollis Professor, and the Dexter Professor, and the whole catalogue of the wise and mighty are paralysed and fettered? It is affirmed likewise that the two last articles of a theological character in the Review, "came from Andover Institution." And what then? Does it follow that the "learned" Mr Sparks and the "superhuman" Professor Everett cannot, if they would, turn the energies of their powerful and cultivated minds, to advance the conversion of the world?'