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    additional excitement and help , some excellent results may be in a short time confidently expected . Our report , perhaps , as far as the Unitarian Fund is concerned ,, might end here ; but at Wellbourne , a small village six miles from Malton , where the Unitarian Baptists gladly received our Missionary visits , such highly gratifying results have been attained , that it would be injustice to all parties to pass them without notice . Our audiences have been uniformly numerous , often too much so for the small room in which

    our services are conducted . A Sunday-School has been established , and carried on with much spirit , to the benefit of more than seventy children , and altogether we have found such a real spirit of religion among this poor but truly Christian people , that it is delightful and gratifying to tke Students to spend a Sunday amongst them . As the village is actually at present without any place of worship , we look forward to our friends in getting a small chapel built , where our congregation and school will not be inconvenienced by want of room .

    " We have also supplied Selby once a fortnight , where our lectures have been well attended $ and the congregation there , which averages about seventy or eighty , without the Unitarian Baptists , who , from some unfortunate circumstances , have not for a long time attended , exhibits a slow but steady revival of its religious spirit and an unanimous zeal which must speedily promote the diffusion of Unitarian Christianity .

    " Services have been frequently conducted at Bulmar and Barton , and occasionally at Thornton and Bilton , where small societies of Unitarian Baptists had been formed by the disinterested and active labours of John Mason , a humble but truly worthy member of the Baptist Society at York . " Three or four Students are engaged every Sunday in religious services

    amongst these villages ; and by the extensive diffusion of tracts , with which we have been liberally supplied from various societies and friends , we may , at least , say there is more activity in Unitarianism than there has been for some time in this part of the world ; and with continued zeal and steady exertion we look forward with confidence to the gradual diffusion of the truth as it is in Jesus .

    " 1 am , Sir , " Yours , very respectfully , " EDWARD TAGART , Secretary . "

    In the Isle of Man a number of Tracts has been distributed ; and , fora short time , Unitarian worship was publicly earned on in the house of Mr . Roger Gaskell , who has since removed from the island . Our old and faithful agent , Mr . Wright , continues to promote the objects of this Institution as far as his situation at Tr ( nobridge affords opportunity .

    He has preached and distributed Tracts in the neighbouring- villages : whenever he leaves home , he makes his journey a Missionary excursion ; and he has rendered an important co-operation to your Committee , by preparing Mr . Martin for Missionary labours , and superintending- his exertions in Cornwall . His name necessarily occupies less space in our Report than it did in former years ; but we cannot forget , as we record the state and

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/18/