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Rkport Of The Committee Of The Unitarian...
number of avowed Unitarians such a plan by their personal attendance , permanent Society , have prevented an desires . Service has been discontinued spotwould come forward to countenance and thus immediate at the ] lay the foundation of a ; compliance with those room in Woodd Street
SomersTown , for which assistance was voted last year . At Stratford , where Unitarian worship was first introduced by this Society ,, a Chapel has been erected which is well attended , and considerable good appears to have been effected . The only pecuniary grant which your Committee has made for the furtherance of Unitarianism in this district is a vote of _^ 20 towards the
Institution for the Education of Students for the Ministry under the superintendence of the Rev . J . Gilchrist at _Newington Green . A grant which , independently of other considerations , was thought to be fully authorized by the readiness with which the Unitarian Fund has to employ the Students in its operations , and by at all times been allowed the services which they
have actually rendered . Mr . Harding has continued his valuable labours as permanent Missionary in Kent and Sussex , under the immediate direction of the Unitarian Association of those Counties . He was employed by your Committee for several weeks at Gravesend , in the Autumn of last year , during which time
he introduced Unitarianism into the neighbouring town of Dartford _. The Chapel at Cra ? ibrook _, where Mr . H . officiates when not engaged in Missionary labours , is encumbered with a debt so heavy as to have rendered it doubtful whether it could be retained by the congregation , which had
been much reduced by dissensions previously to his settlement with them . An _application has been made to the Unitarian public for aid towards liquidating this debt and consequently retaining the Chapel , which your Committee has sanctioned by a conditional grant of < _£ 10 , should the _olyect prove to be attainable ; and to which they _heartily wish success .
The grant to the Congregation at Battle , has been reduced this year from £ 30 to £ 25 . The importance of this station , and the laborious exertions of the Minister , Mr . Taplim , were adverted to in the last Annual Report . The hopes then expressed of the returning prosperity of the congregation have been amply realized . Many who had been drawn away from the Chapel have resumed their places ; and there have also been accessions of
many who never heard of Unitarianism till it was preached to them by lvlr . Taplin . . £ 10 have been voted to the Congregation at Lynn in Norfolk , which appears to be in a reviving state _; and though still _struggling with
difficulties , yet with a fair prospect of surmounting them . Mr . Valentine , of Diss , has continued till lately to supply the infant Society at Harleston , on Sunday mornings , and j _£ 10 have been granted to him for his expenses _during the past year .
The Committee voted £ 5 towards the expenses incurred by repairing the Chapel at Doncaster , and the same amount to Mr . John Cooper , of _Namptwichy in remuneration of expenses incurred by him in village preaching * , to which he has devoted himself with ardent zeal and with considerable success . Our Missionary for Newcastle and thePotterhv , Mr . Cooper , has been
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 9, 1824, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_09061824/page/2/
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