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    •* _fifiddletoti , ...- ¦ „ . t € A populous _manufacturing _place , five miles and a half from _ISftoifi _^ _fCfcji I was anxious to have preachied in this town last y £ _af , but _£ cftifld _tiidt ' _'iltt _&' filia _^ n opening . A room Las since been opened _^ and worship is regularly carried on . I " preached here to a crowded audience . _"

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    " During the whole of the journey * I preached in 39 places , in 10 of whi _^ l _* I had never preached before . During the whole of th _^ _titpe since Whitsuii * . tide , I have travelled in the service of the Fund more than 1200 miles . Duriiig my long" journey my health was _several times _interrupted ; once I lost my voice by preaching" in the open air . I might have done more had my _strength been equal to what it was formerly ; however , I did what I could , and . thank God that he enabled me to go through with the journey without breaking a single engagement which I had _previously made ; and I reckon the past summer among the most useful ones wh _| ch I have spent as a _Missionary ,

    " A Committee having been formed in Manchester , for the _establishment of a Fund for Missionary Preaching in the counties of Lancaster and Chester , soon after my _arrival in Lancashire , I received a message ffpm that Committee , through the medium of their _secretary , Mr . Jones , of Bolton _^ requesting that I would visit the different places where rooms had been opened for Unitarian worship , or where attempts were making to introduce Unitarianism , and then meet the Committee , and report to them what

    places I thought they ought to take under their patronage , and give my opinion respecting any matters which I might think called for their attention as a Committee for a Missionary Fund , & c . With this request of the ] Vlanchester Committee I very readily complied . Accordingly , after having visited what places I could , I met the Committee , as had been previously arranged , in the rooms at Cross-Street Chapel , on Thursday , Sept . 5 , and made my

    report to them respecting the different places which I had visited , that have not ministers , and are not capable of providing themselves with ministers ; the places where there appear to be openings for preaching $ such of tlie local preachers as I had been enabled to form a judgment of ; my views of what may be done in the two counties - , and such other matters as seemed to me

    important to state . I was much pleased with the candour and liberality of the Committee , the zeal they manifested in the cause , and the whole of their proceedings , which I had opportunity of witnessing . A Sub-committee was appointed to examine in detail the expenses which the carrying on the cause in different places will involve . The Manchester Committee consists of the ministers of the two counties , and some other gentlemen . If the plan now

    contemplated be fully carried into action , with united zeal and perseverance , great and most interesting effects may be expected to result from it . " My views and prospects respecting the success of the Unitarian cause in the North West , expressed in my papers communicated last year , have been confirmed by what has since takea place , and what I have observed during the late journey . Nothing is necessary but for all the friends of the cause to unite heart and hand , in the adoption of popular measures , in steady , zealous ,

    and persevering exertions ; and Unitarianism in a few years will be , the preponderating system in Lancashire . There are already a number of zealous local preachers ; young men of good sense , piety , and no mean talents ; and it may be confidently hoped that their numbers will increase . In bfrief . the people are beginning to take the cause into their own hands , and to rely on their own exertions for its promotion ; this will gain them the assistance of others .

    This being the last long Missionary tour of which I am likely to have an account to give to the Committee , I cannot conclude } these papers without expressing the sense I fe _^ lof the obligations I am tuuler to the gent lemeii who hav _« fornaed the different Committees , for their _^ _uJvi _^ e , support , ami _t'ouutenance , in the different labours in which I have been _engaged as a Mis-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_02061823/page/5/