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Speech by Ram Mohun Roy at the meeting of the Uni-
tarian Association held in London in his honour.
I am too unwell and too much exhausted to take any
active part in this meeting ; but I am much indebted to
Dr. Kirkland and Dr. Bowring for the honour they
have conferred on me by calling me their fellow-la-
bourer, and to you for admitting me to this Society as a
brother, and one of your fellow-labourers. I am not
.sensible that I have done any thing to deserve being
called a promoter of this cause •, but with respect to
your faith I may observe, that I too believe in the one
God, and that I believe in almost all the doctrines that
you do : but I do this for my own salvation and for my
own peace. For the objects of your Society I must
confess that I have done very little to entitle me to your
gratitude or such admiration of mv conduct. What
have I done ?—I do not know what I have done !—If I
have ever rendered you any services they must be very
trifling—very trifling I am sure. I laboured under many
disadvantages. In the first instance, the Hindoos and
the Brahmins, to whom I am related, are all hostile to
the cause ; and . even many Christians there are more
hostile to our common cause than the Hindoos and the
Brahmins. I have honour for the appellation of Chris-
tian ; but they always tried to throw difficulties and
obstacles in the way of the principles of Unitarian
Christianity. I have found some of these here ; but
more there. They abhor the notion of simple precepts.
They always lay a stress on mystery and mystical points,
which serve to delude their followers ; and the conse-
tarian Association held in London in his honour.
I am too unwell and too much exhausted to take any
active part in this meeting ; but I am much indebted to
Dr. Kirkland and Dr. Bowring for the honour they
have conferred on me by calling me their fellow-la-
bourer, and to you for admitting me to this Society as a
brother, and one of your fellow-labourers. I am not
.sensible that I have done any thing to deserve being
called a promoter of this cause •, but with respect to
your faith I may observe, that I too believe in the one
God, and that I believe in almost all the doctrines that
you do : but I do this for my own salvation and for my
own peace. For the objects of your Society I must
confess that I have done very little to entitle me to your
gratitude or such admiration of mv conduct. What
have I done ?—I do not know what I have done !—If I
have ever rendered you any services they must be very
trifling—very trifling I am sure. I laboured under many
disadvantages. In the first instance, the Hindoos and
the Brahmins, to whom I am related, are all hostile to
the cause ; and . even many Christians there are more
hostile to our common cause than the Hindoos and the
Brahmins. I have honour for the appellation of Chris-
tian ; but they always tried to throw difficulties and
obstacles in the way of the principles of Unitarian
Christianity. I have found some of these here ; but
more there. They abhor the notion of simple precepts.
They always lay a stress on mystery and mystical points,
which serve to delude their followers ; and the conse-