This piece is rather surprising to me as it is much longer than I would have expected, based in what I have heard about Unitarian missionary work in India (or anywhere for that matter). It started out by giving me a chuckle when it notes up front that Unitarian influence in India was minor. I chuckle because it would seem that it's influence in America is minor, and yet it is here that it has its greatest influence. It is hard to imagine less influence than here.
We can sumarize here by saying that the Unitarian mission to India was not exactly Matteo Ricci in China or St. Francis Xavier in Japan.
The whole reading was embarrassing in as much as its length was hardly justified by its content. The only real missionary to speak of was Sunderland who spent a grand total of year there. The rest of it was a synopsis of "interests, correspondence and minute financial support". The success of Wiallim Roberts is played off like somehow Unitarians had more to do with it than patting him on the back and telling him he was doing a good job.
Notable quotes:
Tha Unitarianism should "within its financial limitations, propegate it's form of Christiany." [Wow. Awe inspiring.]
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