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and Mr . Meek ( lately of the Unitarian Academy ) accepted an engagement with them for one year . He has laboured very acceptably amongst
them for the last five months . A considerable degree of inquiry , and some controversy has been excited in other parts of the county , and we hope that at the conclusion of the year the prospects will be such as to induce him to retain bis station , and to afford the opportunity of entering upon more extensive plans for the diffusion of Chris ian truth in that part of the country .
6 . Reading was supplied by Mr . Meek till the time of his removing * to Colchester , when another convert to Unitarianism from the ranks of the preachers of reputed orthodoxy was opportunely introduced to the notice of your Committee . This was the Rev . J . B . Smith , of Bideford , in Devonshire , formerly a preacher amongst the Calvinists of the Independent denomination , who had relinquished his office four or five years
ago , in consequence of his change of opinion , and had since been struggling , in obscurity and under many difficulties , to support himself and an aged mother dependent upon him , by keeping a school . He gave references , as to his talents and moral character , to two respectable Independent ministers , and a very satisfactory report having been obtained , he was invited to commence his labours as an Unitarian minister at
Reading , where he is now residing , much , we trust , to his own comfort and usefulness , and to the advantage of that society . 7 . Woolwich . It was announced in the Monthly Repository for November last , that on the 18 th of that month , a Chapel had been opened at Woolwich , under the auspices of the Unitarian Fund . Worship has
since been regularly carried on , by the assistance of the Baptist Students , and of Messrs . Marsom , Moore , Ramsay and Dixon . Mr . Dixon was ., for upwards of twenty years , a preacher among the Calvinistic Methodists and Independents , and became an Unitarian about four years since . He was recommended to your Committee by Dr . Carpenter , and they have
engaged him for the present to preach regularly at Woolwich . The Committee announce with pleasure , that the Rev . Russell Scott , of Portsmouth , has engaged to preach before the Society at the next
Anniversarv . But one other sabject remains to be mentioned , and on that , the Committee hope that what they have done will meet with the concurrence and approbation of the Society . Mr . Wright has been the faithful and
laboriops servant of this Institution from its commencement , and incalculable good has , been achieved by his agency . As a Missionary , he i-s above all praise , and rarely indeed can we expect to find the requisite qualifications for that character , each in such perfection , and so harmoniously combined , as in him . His health has suffered in his exertions in
your cause , and has been several times interrupted during the last two or three years . As useful and efficient a Missionary as ever , in all other respects , he is less able than formerly to perform long journeys on foot , and endure incessant exertion . The expense of his journeys ( which he defrays himself out of the 105 / . per annum allowed him by the Fund ) has therefore considerably increased , and at the same time his circumstances have been narrowed by the closing of certain sources of income , which he possessed while connected with the congregation at Wisbeach , but which being appropriated to settled ministers , were forfeited by the
resignation of his pastoral charge , in order to devote himself wholly to your service . A memorial , stating these facts , being laid before the Committee , they were unanimously of opinion that an addition of 52 / .. l ( ta , should be made to Mr . Wright ' s salary . But while they thought this sum *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1711/page/8/
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