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that his word shall not return unto him void, but 
shall be found even after many days; and it is 
remarkably adapted to cheer the hearts of all who 
are called to labour and wait patiently, sowing 
season after season in hope, without reaping the 
wished-for harvest. 
The universal, and in many instances decisive 
moral and religious change, that has been effected 
in the South Sea Islands, (of the commencement, 
and more important parts of which, a regular, 
though necessarily brief account, has now been 
vindication of what Mr. Ward and his companions 
taught the Hindoos. His sermon on the love of Christ, 
besides other public records which he has left, prevent 
its being questionable whether he taught Unitarianism 
or not. And I cannot but regret, that by Dr. Carpenter, 
towards whom I entertain no other feelings than those of 
respect, and desire to use no other language than that 
which courtesy would dictate, any statement in these 
volumes should have been so misunderstood as to have 
occasioned the declaration to which I have felt it needful 
to refer. It is somewhat singular, that my companions 
and myself, though in each instance we have inculcated 
the same sentiments, should have been represented by 
one class of readers as, “ by my own account,” usually 
choosing, for subjects of address, u the immaculate con¬ 
ception, the Trinity, and the Holy Ghost, and other 
mysterious doctrinal pointsand by another class, as 
teaching u the simple principles of Unitarianism.” 
It is difficult to suppose that, when this latter assertion was 
made, it simply meant, that, in connexion with other great 
doctrines of revelation, the Missionaries taught that, in 
opposition to the 66 lords many, and the gods many,” the 
gods of wood, and stone, and feathers, the works of their 
own hands which the heathen worshipped, there was One 
living and true God. By “ other great doctrines of revela¬ 
tion,” I refer, in addition to the existence, perfections, and 
character of the true God, to the doctrine of the fall of 
man from his original state of rectitude and happiness; 
and, in consequence of this, to an inherent disposition to 
prefer and practise evil, and an exposedness to its penalty ; 
