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' "C This Journey Employed Me ^Nearly Th...
but I shall not take any particular subject , but address you on the strange doctrines you have heard t 6 _~ mghi . \ On this I wefctand _stootfby the side of him . He began with a _direct attack on Unitarians and their doctrine _; l * _Bt , before he had gone on many , minutes , * fell into gross misrepresentation . On this I stepped forward and said : * I am sorry to interrupt the gk > od man at _fiiy right hand ; but as I came here in , hostility to no man , nor party of men , but simply to state what I _beEeve to be the truth of the gospel , which I have done plainly , without shewing any hostility to other parties , I cannot remain
silent when I hear our views grossly misrepresented and false charges _opfenlyf alleged against us . * I then explained the Unitarian doctrine so far as wasnecessary to set aside his misrepresentation . Having done this I stopped , and he went on ; but it was not long before I had to stop him again , in consequence of the false statements he was giving . Thus we went on
alternately for a considerable time ; till at length he closed the meeting in the usual way . I throughout confined myself to explaining our views , and interrupted him only so far as was necessary to refute his false charges and misrepresentations . We had a large crowd of people together _; among _whores I was told , was the clergyman of the village . At the . close of the business , a young man , a local preacher , who was with us from Nantwich ,
gave notice that he would be there-again on the following Supday morning' , to deliver a discourse on the doctrines for which the Methodist had contended that evening _; and the Methodist _gavfe notice that he also would be there to preach in reply when the other had done . I afterwards _learned that myr young friend , and some others with him , was there , and preached as he had engaged to do 3 but the Methodist did not appear . " * ' _Delamerey -- - - - - - _*>
" On the borders of the forest . H _$ re I preached once , m a private _faKHuse , > to an attentive audience . It was tiaany years since I _had visited the little Unitarian flock in this neighbourhoqa . It is known that the Calvimsts drove them from . the little chapel in wliich they used to assemble at Kingsley . They are about to build another : Mr . Astbury , their preacher-, a poor working man , gives them , the _grpund to build on , and it _» is hoped they will receive assistance from their rpore opulent brethren . It gave me pleasure to renew
my intercourse with them /' " St . Helens . . . : " When I was in Lancashire last year , I was anxious to preach in St . Helens , which is now very populous ; but no room could be obtained , -for the purpose . Since that time a room _hfcs been procured , < and a Sunday _jey _^ _okigservice h carried on regularly . I preached here once to a l _^ rge _$ udieace _*"
" Park Lane . . ; . * " I have reason to think my preaching here last year was of considerable use . The _congregation had for years been very low , and on that _ocqa _^ ion the old _ebauerwas crowded . Lectures have since been _preached there , and the congregation seems to be much improved . I now _preached there once , and had a large audience , considering it was in the time of harvest . ' *
" _frig-an . ' " I waa p _^ evepted pVeaching in this town last . year by the _interference of the Mayor , a _Calvuustic _Pissenter _, who threatened the _vengeance _= of t _^ e law * because the room in which I should have preached was n _^ _rpg , _iatej : jpd . However , a room has since been procured and registered , and regular service is carried on in it , on a Monday evening . I preached here once to a crowded audience . Both . Wigan and St . _ijgifcns were to me aew _ground . " . . . . tx
" _Houghton Tower . iC In this village there is now a congregation of _Unitferfons . Its origin i » rather _singular . A man who wte at _Frestfrn marffeet , tew an _auctioneer _j ) u _* U a volume of Discourses ; _t > eing & _Methoditit _, bethought , as the name of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_02061823/page/3/
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