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not to your fold? Do you not believe, that when you are passed away, and gone to your home, these will coalesce with those of other folds whom you have called Tri-personalists, and Tri-theists? If so, does no responsibility attach to yourselves for encouraging this delusion?

In the presence of Almighty God, will you put these questions to your own hearts, and conscientiously answer them?

And now, brethren and friends, bear with me, if you think I am speaking hastily or unadvisedly in my concluding paragraph.

I think, that you and we are engaged only in a war of words.-I believe that if we could divest ourselves of prejudice and passion, and calmly explain, so as thoroughly to understand each other, we should very nearly accord.-I believe that as far as you allow reason, coolly and deliberately, to influence your decisions, you go hand in hand with us; but that when you separate from us, you then give up reason, you use mystical, unintelligible, arguments; that many of you do not yourselves thoroughly understand what

you mean, and, of course, that you can never give a lucid explanation to others. I am inclined to think, that many of us accord with you in your idea of the New Jerusalem; of a time fast approaching when there shall be a family of Christians in practice as well as in theory, Jesus Christ being the head, or chief corner stone,-when all shall be happy in themselves, happy with each other. But I also believe that you are making many Unitarians; and that, ere this arrive, you will yourselves become Unitarians; that whilst you acknowledge that there is but one Jehovah, and that his name is ONE, you will also receive Jesus, the anointed, as his messenger, welcome him as an elder brother, hail him as the great Messiah, the father of the long enduring age,. till all things shall be subdued unto him, and he shall deliver up his kingdom to his Father, that GOD Jehovah máy, be ALL IN ALL.

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