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"The existing state of Christianity amongst those who profess it does not warrant
the objection, that all further advance in the development of the perception we pos-
sess of its nature and application is impracticable or unnecessary. If we have the
perfect conception of Christianity, we are making a lamentably imperfect applica-
tion of it; for the world, alas! is to a very small extent under its power; if we have
not the perfect conception of it, then every attempt to regard it from a more lofty
moral point of view should be welcomed as a real and earnest attempt for the high-
est welfare of mankind."- MORELL.

PRINTED FOR THE

American Unitarian Association.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

111 WASHINGTON STREET.

1853.

C1344.49.30 +7.54

RARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARL

1853 Dee 9 lift of the. £. W. &

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.

NOTE.

THE following Treatise was written at the request of the Executive Committee of the American Unitarian Association, who earnestly commend it to public attention. As individuals, they may not concur in every opinion advanced, nor adopt every verbal expression employed by the writer, but they unanimously and cordially approve of the great thoughts and principles that form the basis of the work, and of the spirit and temper in which it is written. They publish it because they believe that the clearness and strength with which it states and enforces the great practical doctrines of Christianity, and the beauty and power with which it portrays and recommends the profoundest religious experience, will secure and reward a thorough study.

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