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    THE UNITARIAN FUND REGISTER. t No. V.

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    The Unitarian Fund Register. T No. V.

    THE UNITARIAN FUND REGISTER . t No . V .

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    Rkport of the Committee of the Unitarian Funo , read at the Annual Meeting , June 9 th , 1824 . Thomas Hardy , Esq ., in the Chair . The Committee have endeavoured to justify the confidence implied in

    your selection of them to manage the affairs of this Institution , by a diligent fulfilment of the duties of their office $ and they have the satisfaction of believing that they have not laboured without success for the promotion of its important objects . It is impossible that the Report of every year should possess the interest which belongs to the announcement of new enterprises

    in the Cause of Free Inquiry and Religious Truth ; or to the record of splendid successes in that Cause . All that , in general , can reasonably be expected is , that measures which have been found productive of good should be steadily persevered in ; and that the narrative of their results should shew that they have been not less efficiently directed , nor less extensively useful

    than heretofore . Such expectations ,, your Committee feel assured , will not be disappointed on the present occasion . If it has not been deemed expedient to deviate from the path of their predecessors , they trust it will appear that they have gone forward in that path . If in one or two cases the progress of our opinions has been arrested by unpropitious circumstances , in

    others unexpected openings have been found , and taken advantage of , for their diffusion ; and if many congregations must continue to be mentioned in their Report as still under the care , or receiving' the aid , of the Unitarian

    Fund , there is yet reason to believe that , even during the twelve months to which the Report is confined , most of those congregations have increased as to the number of their members , their general prosperity , and the favourable impression produced by their religious profession on the public mind in their several vicinities . The conviction which we feel that Unitarianism must

    triumph , because it is the truth of God , does not lack the corroboration afforded by fact , of its gradual progress . But little has been attempted by your Committee , because they have sccix little encouragement to attempt anything , in the Metropolis , or its

    immediate neighbourhood , during the past year . Desires have been expressed to them for the establishment of Unitarian Lectures , or of regular worship , at the West end of the Town , in Oxford Street or its vicinity ; but the expenditure which would probably be incurred , and the want of assurance that any

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/15/