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given,) appears, in whatever view we can possibly 
contemplate either its nature or its results, nothing 
less than a moral miracle. A change so important 
in its character, so rapid in its progress, so decisive 
in its influence, sublime almost in proportion to 
the feebleness of the agency by which it was, under 
God, accomplished, although effected on but a 
small tribe or people, is perhaps not exceeded in 
the history of nations, or the revolutions of em¬ 
pires, that have so often altered the moral and 
to the Messiah, the divinely appointed and only means of 
deliverance; to the divinity of Christ; to the atonement by 
his death ; to faith in him as the sinner’s justification before 
God; and to the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and the ne¬ 
cessity of his influence to render the declaration of the 
gospel effectual to those to whom it was proclaimed. 
If Dr. Carpenter meant that, with these doctrines as 
parts of a revelation, to the completeness of which they 
were essential, and in the full declaration of which their 
own fidelity was to be proved, the Missionaries inculcated 
a belief in one God ; he must have known, that the term 
Unitarianism, when used as descriptive of such teaching, 
was inapplicable to the sentiments of those who have 
designated themselves Unitarians. But if, when Dr. Car¬ 
penter stated that in the South Sea Islands “ the simple 
principles of Unitarianism are essentially taught,” he 
meant that the Missionaries instructed the natives in the 
belief of one God, to the exclusion or neglect of the other 
great doctrines of revelation above stated, viz. that they 
taught what those whom he addressed considered as the 
essential principles of Unitarianism—then the assertion 
appears entirely gratuitous. 
There is not, and there has not been, a single Missionary 
there, since their first establishment, now four-and-thirty 
years ago, who, had he inculcated what Unitarians them¬ 
selves call Unitarianism, would not have been regarded, 
by his companions, as having renounced his faith, and 
forsaken his Lord. The command of Christ to teach 
all nations, in obedience to which the Missionary had 
devoted his life to the labour of preaching the gospel, 
directed him to baptize every proselyte in the name of the 
