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but I shall not take any particular subject , but address you on the strange doctrines you h ^ e heard to-night / Chi this I wefrr and stootfby the side of biro . He began with a direct attack on Unitarians and their doctrine ; l * Bt , before he had gone on many , minutes , * fell into gross misrepresentation . On this I stepped forward and said : * I am sorrj ^ to interrupt the ^> od man at ? fiiy right hand ; but as I came here in , hostility to no man , nor party of men , but simply to state what I beEeve to be the truth of the gospel , which I have done plainly , without shewing any hostility to other parties , I cannot remain
silent when I hear our views grossly misrepresented and false charges opfenlyf alleged against us . * I then explained the Unitarian doctrine * so far as wasnecessary to set aside his misrepresentation . Having done this I stopped , and he went on ; but it was not long before I had to stop him again , in consequence of the false statements he was giving . Thus we went on
alternately for a considerable time ; till at length he closed the meeting in the usual way . I throughout confined myself to explaining our views , and interrupted him only so far as was necessary to refute his false charges and misrepresentations . We had a large crowd of people together ; among whores I was told , was the clergyman of the village . At the . close of the business , a young man , a local preacher , who was with us from Nantwich ,
gave notice that he would be there-again on the following Supday morning , to deliver a discourse on the doctrines for which the Methodist had contended that evening - , and the Methodist gavfe notice that he also would be there to preach in reply when the other had done . I afterwards learned that my ? young friend , and some others with him , was there , and preached as he had engaged to do 3 but the Methodist did not appear . " * * ' Delamerey - - .. a >
" On the borders of the forest . Hej-e I preached once , in a private faKHuse , > to an attentive audience . It was tiaany years since I had visited the little Unitarian flock in this neighbourhoqa . It is known that the Calvimsts drove them from . the little chapel in wliich they used to assemble at Kingsley . They are about to build another : Mr . Astbury , their preacher-, a poor working man , gives them , the grpund to build on , and it » is hoped they will receive assistance from their rpore opulent brethren . It gave me pleasure to renew
my intercourse with them /' " St . Helens . ... " When I was in Lancashire last year , I was anxious to preach in St . Helens , which is now very populous ; but no room could be obtained | ioar the purpose . Since that time a room hfcs been procured , < and a Sunday ^ yeaiug service h carried on regularly . I preached here once to a large audience *"
" Park Lane . ' " I have reason to think my preaching here last year was of considerable use . The congregation had for years been very low , and on that occasion the old chaperwas crowded . Lectures have since been preached there , and the congregation seems to be xpuch improved . I now preached there once , and had a large audience , considering it was in the time of harvest . ' *
" Wigan . ' 4 t I waa pjevepted pVeaching in this town last vea | - by the interference of the Mayor , a Calvuustic Pissenter , who threatened the vengeance . of t ^ e law * because the room in which I should have preached was n ^ r ^ g , iatej : jpd . However , a room has since been procured and registered , and regular service is carried on in it , on a Monday evening . I preached here once to a crowded audience . Both . Wigan and St . ijgifcns were to me aew ground . " . . . #
" Houghton Tower . * In this village there is now a congregation of Unitferfons . Its origin ia rather singular . A man who wte at Freetfm rn & rifeet , tew an auctioneer { m * U a volume of Discourses ; \> e \ ng a Af & tfeodtot , 1 ^ thougi ^ t , as the name of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/11/
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