is. Let us promote the religious education of children at home and in the Sunday School, because children, when they grow up, are scattered to the four winds of heaven. There have been wanderers abroad, there are overseers of slaves in our own land, who would never have brought such reproaches on the Christian name and the name of man, had they been made Christians in youth, at home. Let us collect and cherish all good influences around us, by books, by efforts of reform and philanthropy. Let us keep religion pure, and make it effectual. Let us soften the asperities of sectarianism. Let us sustain that blessed institution of the Ministry to the Poor, the holy suggestion and care of some of our own lamented dead. And when we have done all this, and while we are doing, there is a way in which we may effectually aid the cause of missions even by staying at home. It is first by privately befriending any one individual whom we esteem, who is actively engaged in the work; and secondly, perhaps more easily for most persons, by contributing to the funds of the Bible Society, which is open to no objection or doubt as to the nature of its work, or the good which it accomplishes. He that will do all this may yet lack something in the sight of God who searcheth the heartbut before man he stands honorably discharged of his share in the Saviour's great commission.

THOUGHTS

ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE;

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CANDID ANSWER TO CANDID INQUIRERS.

BY REV. WILLIAM BARRY.

PRINTED FOR THE

American Unitarian Association.

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MARCH, 1844.

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The following tract was written under peculiar circumstances, of a local nature, and was called forth, in part, by an aggravated assault upon Unitarianism and Unitarians. This explanation, it is hoped, will afford a satisfactory apology for retaining its local character, without the alterations which would better adapt it to general reading.

I. R. BUTTS, PRINTER,

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