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    Besides the usual Resolutions of thanks to the Treasurer , Deputy Treasurer , Secretary , Committee , Auditors , and Missionaries of the Society , the following * were also passed . That the Unitarian Society , the Unitarian Association , and the Christian

    Tract Society , be respectfully invited to unite with the Unitarian Fund in the appointment of a Committee for the purpose of ascertaining the expediency and practicability of forming a General Unitarian Association , which shall embrace all or many of the objects contemplated by those Institutions , together with any other objects the promotion of which may be deemed needful for the prosperity of the common Cause . And , That a special Committee be now appointed on the part of this Society for the above object , with power to proceed and report thereon to a General Meeting * , with deputations of such of the above Societies as are disposed to accede

    thereto . That the Rev . R . Aspland , R . Taylor , Esq ., J . Christie , Esq ., and the Rev . W . J . Fox , be a Deputation to carry the foregoing Resolution into effect , and that they be authorized to act as Members of the proposed Committee on behalf of the Unitarian Fund .

    Of the Females a smaller proportion . Of the Boys , about one-half , of the Girls Not quite one-fourth . A rigid moral discipline appears to be kept up . Three Members have been ejected for irregular conduct , one of whom attends divine service at the Chapel door , waiting the satisfaction of the Members as to his ^ formationj for re-ad mission .

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    Calcutta , a monthly Unitarian Magazine nas been established by the R & v . W . Adam and Rammohun Roy j the subscription for a chapel has increased to about 1100 / ., and by this time , it is to be hoped , that the erection has actually commenced . Assistance is relied upon from the Unitarians of this country , and your Committee think that the time is fully arrived for such .

    assistance to be rendered . The formation of a respectable congregation at Calcutta , which , they are fully convinced , would promptly ensue on the erection of a Chapel , would be a most propitious event for the Cause of

    genuine Christianity throughout the whole of British India . A considerable impression has been made upon the minds of intelligent Natives , and that without European agency . * Truth is working her own triumphs ; our chief task is to remove from her path the temporary impediments created

    bypecuniary difficulties . In presenting this unvarnished statement of facts , your Committee cannot but feel that those facts are fully sufficient to evince the great utility of this Institution , and recommend it to the zealous support of the Unitarian

    public ; to strengthen our hopes of the approaching prevalence of a more simple and liberal interpretation , that is to say , of a more correct interpretation of Christianity than has been , and is yet , commonly adopted 3 and to excite thankfulness to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the religious light which his Providence has shed abroad , and which is brightening into a glorious day of truth , charity , and righteousness .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/21/