The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-30
THE DAILY UNION
For the Union
Grace Archbishop of Canterbury.

VI
Holy and pious men as yoI are deemed to bsae-
c0rdlng 10 the present notions prevalent throughout
Chrstendom, your position, and those whom you
Immediately influence, is, at this eventual period IN
the progress Of society, important for good or
evil than the position Of any other two individual
upon earth--a position in which you may now, 10 a
great extent, materially influence the misery or hap
pnesss Of the present and all future generations
over the world.
Circumstances which you have had no con-
trol-haye made you and your predecessors in Of.
fee unwiltngly the fountains Of all disunon and
uncharitabeness between man and man, and nation
and nation. From the first establishment Of the
Office Of the priesthood, il has been directly ind.
reety the real obstacle to union, charity, morality,
OF real virtue, and to happiness
For these errors and evils you and the priesthood
are blameltss; they have been the necessary result
Of previous circumstances, over which you have had
no control
Now new and extraordinary circumstances, far
very far beyond the control OF men, have made your
present position, and that Of the priesthood gener-
ally, for good, TO be powerful than your posi-
tons are now for evil
You have direct, easy, and delightful path, for
the first time opened, to pursue; path which will
speedily enable you first 10 conduct the population
OF Christendom and, by its example, afterwards
the remaining populations Of the world in the Ger.
tain road 10 universal charity and kindness for our
race TO union, wealth, virtue, daily progress in
physical and mental health, in real knowledge, and
in every kind OF excellence and happiness.
All this, TO its fdn extent, will now, by forlu.
nate or, some viii say, by proyidential combs
nation Of most extraordinary events, you, and the
priesthood Of the vodd, may be enabled at no dis
ant Period, 70 accomplish, benefeially for you and
them, and for the popnIution of all countries.
And this change will be not only advantageous
for all Of the human race, but, through their ad.
yancement IN knowledge, and consequent kind and
charitable feelings, to the improvement also Of the
condition OF animal life in general in order that the
period may be approached when the lion shall lie
down with the lamb
As you made not, and could not make, sny one
Of your own physical or mental qualities al birth
or the circumstances then existing to act on your
individual organizations; and your characters and
the characters OF the human race have been thus
formed for you and them, the open promuIpation
Of this al-imporant knowledge must speedily effect
great change, and terminate the existing system of
society-a society which, from the beginning has
been based on demonstrable error; on the erroneous
supposlion, IN opposition 10 every known fact that
each ore forms his own character, opinions feelngs
and corduct and that for such individual Qualities
opinions, feelings, and conduct although all these
alone the work Of the greqt Creating Power of
the universe, poor, helpless individual man. the mere
child OF the ignorance and prejudice Of his peculiar
latitude and longitude, has been, and he is now
made 10 be, responsible 10 his equally ignorant and
prejudicsd fellow men,-of men who are also The
creatures Of the of the latitude and lon
gItude IN which their characters have been formed
for them
The Straightforward path for you two wen-msnn-
ing men, as all say you are is nsw to use the in
fluence ct your almost all-powerful position TO in
duce the other authorities of the civilized world al
once ard forever, openly and simultaneously TO
abandon the errors which have created and main
tanned crime and misery far among the human
race, and as openly to acknowledge the grsat
truths Of nature, the Unehdnging ldos Of God-nSme.
ly, that the Great Creating Power Of the universe
formed he general qualities OF humanity, and gives
To each, AT birth, his own individual compound of
them, whether they be called inferior or superior
gives hhn his instincts of feeling and powers of
judgment, his capacity to form correct opinions
| whether il be stronger or weaker, and from the
union OF these powers all his actions proceed Of ne
cesSity.
Thus will you forever establish the foundation.
and the only true foundation, for universal ehayifu
kindness, and peace IN the hearts and minds of all peops
and nations, and prepare The tcay for SPEEDY creation OF
superior character for all Of spy color and cline, and
Of TERRESTRIAL paradise upon This earih-to form both
Of tnhieh The materials triSt, might easily be made
10 trist, in great suptrfldiy
/ To effect this glorious advance in the general
condition a humanity the change Of principles will
be few, ,aM with your aid may be easily effected;
while the cnnnge in practice, through the present
machinery of the priesthood over the world might
be made so plain and simple, that every congrega-
ton might, in a short time, be made fully to under
stand it.
Instead Of the dividing, uncharitable, unkind,
and erroneous doctrines which the priesthood OF the
world are now, in every latitude and longitude edu-
Gated TO force, by continued repetition, into the
minds Of the young and ignorant, they will be
educated TO place before the minds of their hearers
the beautiful and unchanglng principles of nature
the all-glorious and henefcent laws Of God, the
same from the beginning as now, and which, so
soon they shall be introduced into consistent and
universal practice will forever secure the progress
excellence, and happiness ofman. The mode Of APP
plying these newly discovered principles to practice,
shall be given in a future communication.
The practice which will necessarily emanate from
these laws of God, will be found to be as simple
beneficial TO oil, and beautiful as the arrange
ments and institutions which have Of necessity ema-
mated from the erroneous laws OF men, have been
complicated, injurious, ever changing, and always
destructive of happiness.
ROBERT OWEN
At sea, on board the Victoria packet-ship,
August 3Oth, 1886.
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