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aqd has not been without its use in exciting that inquiry and discussion which never can be excited without danger to what is called Orthodoxy . Mr . Wright is at present , and has been for some weeks , in that neighbourhood , and speaks encouragingly of the prospect . There was not at that time any separate place of worship at Flushing ; Mr . Wright , as
announced in the Monthly Repository just published , has recently opened one which was hired at the recommendation of Dr . Carpenter . It is the old Methodist chapel , from which the present occupants were , a few years ago , expelled for heresy . From Falmouth Mr . Wrisrht has made several excursions into different
parts of Cornwall , and preached at most of the places which had been previously visited by Mr . Smethurst , and with such increased congregations as to shew that a greater degree of attention is now paid to the subject , and some impression produced . Great difficulty exists as to obtaining places to preach in . This , however , is not an obstacle to the exertions of your
Missionaries . At Penryn , Redruth , Pool , Helston , Penzance , and St . Ives , Mr . Wright has preached in the open air , arid at the first and lastmentioned places , to congregations of near a thousand people . Cornwall is so promising a field for missionary exertions , that it well deserves the continued attention of your Committees .
The usual sums have been voted this year to your Missionaries , in different parts of the kingdom . In reporting the separate cases which have occupied the attention of your Committee , and received assistance from the funds entrusted to their care , they have pleasure in stating , that in every instance in which they have made grants of money , it has been for the direct and
immediate purpose of supporting or introducing Unitarian worship , and not for building or repairing chapels . The absurd practice of incurring ' heavy debt by the erection of splendid chapels , which has seriously injured many congregations , and annihilated some , is , they hope , less prevalent , and has ever been discouraged by this Society . The institution of Fellowship Funds , by increasing * the facility with which
deserving * cases may obtain assistance , will do much towards relieving your Committee from the necessity of attending to such applications . While , therefore , they would by no means lay it down as an inflexible rule that the funds of this Society are never to be applied in aid of the erection , repair , or enlargement of chapels , they have always remembered , and recommend to their successors to bear in mind , that the
leading- and peculiar object of this Society is to make proselytes to what we esteem the pure faith of Christianity ; to embody them in societies for what we esteem pure worship , the worship of the One God , the Father , according to the example and instructions of Jesus Christ ; and to strengthen such societies in the multiplication of their numbers and extension of their influence . With these views they have aided , and have to report as to the progress of , the following congregations : —•
1 . The vote to Edinburgh of £ 15 , which has for some time been renewed annually , has this year been repeated : but from the accounts which have been received of the state and prospects of that congregation , to which the Rev . T . C . Holland has lately accepted an invitation as their regular minister , your Committe hope that they have become so established as not to need the future aicj of this Society .
2 . Your Committee have remitted to Battle the £ 25 , granted by their predecessors , the payment of which had been suspended on account of the dissensions in that place , which seemed likely , at oi *& time , to cabse the final discontinuance of Unitarian worship . Durirtg MV ' . ' ' Wright's tour in Sussex , he made a considerable stay at Xtattfe , anU his temperafte
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1711/page/6/
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