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and judicious efforts were not useless . The jprospect has since materially improved ; preaching and public worship are resumed ; and , with the increasing prosperity of the congregation , we hope it will become ¦ q station for useful operations among the poor of the surrounding villages . ; .. 3 . Huddersfield . "This /* says Mr . Wright in his Journal , " is a newlyyaised congregation , under the auspices of the late Dr . Thomson , and by the gratuitous labours of Mr . Beattie , the minister at Elland , and Mr . Donoughue , the minister at Lydiate ; who have for more than two years { now between three and four ) supplied Huddersfield on a Sunday evening
alternately , though the one resides five , and the other six miles from it ; and each has to officiate twice on a Sunday in his own place , and a school to attend all the week . " The persevering exertions of these worthy and indefatigable men deserve the warmest thanks of this Society . Their expenses have been defrayed from your funds , for the last year , land it is hoped the Unitarians at Huddersfield , some of whom are in opulent circumstances * will carry into effect the plan ^ which has been formed for erecting a chapel arid engaging a regular minister .
4 . Lutton . The congregation here , when Mr . Wright first became acquainted with them , about twenty years ago , belonged to the new connexion of General Baptists , and were Universalists ; but in other respects reputedly orthodox . Since that time they have become Unitarian ; but from the prejudice against them ; from having enjoyed only for short periods the services of suitable ministers ; and from pecuniary
difficulties , they were reduced so low as , in the winter of 1817 , to appear on the eve of dissolution ; and proposals were actually made , by another party , for the purchase of their chapel . The church resolved , however , to struggle manfully with these embarrassments ; they were greatly aided by the munificence of one of their members , Mrs , Melborne , who gave £ 300 ( the interest being paid during her life ) towards the reduction of their debt ; and at this juncture , Mr . Smith , " a person of respectable
character and talents , and of considerable zeal and activity , who had for several years been minister of a reputed Orthodox Baptist Church" in the neighbourhood , avowed himself an Unitarian . It became , in consequence , necessary for him to quit the congregation with which he had been connected , and with the understanding that the Fund would , for the first year at least , render some assistance , he was invited to Lutton . A grant has been made of £ 10 . 10 s . The cause at Lutton is reviving tinder his care ; and he has laboured in the neighbourhood not without success . 5 . Colchester has continued to engage the attention of your
Committee , and considering the establishment of an Unitarian congregation there as of the first importance to the interests of Unitarianism in the opulent , intelligent , but hitherto very Calviniatic county of Essex , they Jiave made every exertion for that purpose . The services of your very able Missionary , Mr . Lyons , were procured for two months in the last Autumn . By the occasional assistance of other ministers , and of the students of the General Baptist Academy , ( lately under the care of the Rev . John Evans , of Islington , and now under that of the Rev . Jam * s
Gilchrist , of Newington Green , ) the congregation was pretty regularly supplied till the commencement of the present year , when they having expressed a strong desire for a settled minister , and it appearing to the Committee both more economical and more useful to aid them in procuring one than to continue the plan of occasional supplies , a grant was made for that purpose of £ 30 ^ in addition to £ 40 raised by themselves ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1711/page/7/
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