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Extracts from Mr . Martins Journal of his Missionary Tour in Corn * wall , in the Autumn of last Year . Dear Sir > Having completed ray mission in Cornwall , I communicate , for your infor * mation , and that of the gentlemen of the Committee , the following account of my exertions and proceedings . I commenced my journey from Trowbridge the 24 th of June , and returned to that place the 30 th of November , having been absent about 23 weeks , during which time I preached 103 times , in 30 different places , and distributed
many tracts . This , the first missionary tour in which I have been engaged , has given me cause for joy * , I trust , will be the means of animating me to greater exertion in one of the best of causes . Wherever I went , the people manifested a disposition to hear ; and , with one or two exceptions , I was uniformly received in a friendly manner , " The harvest is indeed great , but the labourers are few . " The following are the places where I preached , and the number of times in each place :
Times 1 Falmouth . . . 18 2 Flushing .... 43 3 Milor Bridge ... 2 4 Perran-Weil ... 2 5 Penryn . . . . . 4 6 Mawnan * 1 7 Manaccan .. * . *! 8 Coverack . . . . * 1 I ) St . Keverne ... * 1 10 Mullian * 1 11 Lizard Town . . . * 1 12 Constantine . . , * 1 13 Redruth 2 14 Stithians .... * 3 15 Chasewater . ... 1
Times 16 St . Day 1 17 Poole . . . 1 18 Cam borne . . . 1 19 Helston 1 20 Mara-Zion .... 1 21 St . Michael ' s Mount . * 1 22 Penzance .... 1 23 Newlyn 1 24 St . Ives ..... 1 25 Truro 1 26 Probus . . . . * I 27 Grampound ... * 1 28 Plymouth Dock . , 4 29 Moreton-Harnpstead 4 30 Exeter 1
[ At the places marked thus * , there had been no previous Unitarian preaching . ] Sunday , July 6 . Preached morning and evening at Falmouth , and at Flushing in the afternoon , to attentive congregations . The cause at Falmouth seems to be on the increase , although but slowly . By the gratuitous and valued services of Mr . Philp , worship is conducted twice every Sunday . Labouring hard in the work , without the least remuneration—having done so for years—far from any of his brethren in the ministry , which prevents his making any exchange , —his exertions are beyond all
praise . Tuesday , July 8 . Preached at Falmouth , in the evening , to a small company . Wednesday , July 9 . Preached at Milor Bridge to about 40 people . In tins place , bigotry seems greatly to prevail . The Church minister of Milor has made it his constant practice to preach against Unitarians and Unitarianism for the last two or three years , and has repeatedly warned his congregation against holding any converse , or even traffic , with the Unitarians ; and what iew there are who do not attend the church , are entirely under the dominion of the Methodist preachers . A poor woman lent me a chair to stand upon , but was taken severely to task for doing so . At the conclusion of my discourse , an Antinomian preacher called out , " If Christ is not God , how can he save the world ? " Upon which I endeavoured to reason with him , and offered him my Bible to point out any passages which favoured his opinion , and I would endeavour to explain them : but lie flew into a great
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/6/
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