FIRST SEMIANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECOND YEAR, AS MINISTER AT LARGE. BOSTON, BOWLES & DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET, DEPOSITORY OF THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. FIRST SEMIANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECOND YEAR, AS MINISTER AT LARGE. BOSTON, BOWLES & DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET, DEPOSITORY OF THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. Το REPORT. The Executive Committee of the AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. GENTLEMEN, It was not long after I had entered upon the service in which I am employed, before I perceived that it offered opportunities for very various and extensive usefulness; for offices, indeed, of a very humble nature, but of great importance to those for whom we may be called to perform them. For a long time I cherished the hope, that when others should be found who would unite with me in this work, I might obtain their cooperation in my plans and purposes; and thus silently, and almost without observation, that a moral police might be established, the beneficial influences of which, I fear not, would soon have secured for it the approbation, and the willing support of the wise and good among us. But as I have yet obtained no coadjutor, and as I find it to be utterly impossible, while I am exposed to daily calls in every part of the city, to be thorough anywhere in some of the most important objects of my office, I am compelled, with more particularity and distinctness than I have yet done, to bring these objects before you. I hope, by this means, to awaken a more active interest in the cause in which we are engaged; and to do something to obtain fellow laborers, through whose devotion to the work |