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BOLTON DISTRICT UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.
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sprung up Within a few years , are respectfully invited to lend their pecuniary aid . The Rev . B . Mardon , minister of Worship - street Chapel , Finsburysquare , delivered at the opening a discourse on the Evidence for the
Resurxectlon ^ -Of Jesus Christ ( which was attentively heard by nearly three hundred persons ) , and proposes to follow this up by discourses on some other parts of the Christian Evidence . The service will begin throughout the summer every Sunday evening at seven o ' clock , but probably in the winter at half-past six .
Communications may be made to Mr . Nash , No . 9 , Tavistock Place ; or to the Rev . B . Mardon , 27 , Tavistock Place . Piscourses on the Evidences of Christianity , now delivering in Burton Street Chapel , Burton Crescent : — 1 . The Resurrection of Jesus Christ ; —2 . The Genuineness of the Gospel
Record ;—3 . The Credibility- of the Gospel Record ;—4 . The Character of Jesus Christ ;—5 . The Apostles and Evangelists no Enthusiasts ;—6 . Mahometanism false , Christianity true;—7 . The Gospel worthy of all acceptance , from its intrinsic value ; —8 . The stability and perpetuity of the Christian Church .
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good works . It is one of the objects of this meeting to originate and promote plans calculated to spread correct views of scriptural truth , and to pro * voke a spirit of zeal and inquiry among those who come more immediately within the range of its influence . Perhaps none of the time appropriated
to these meetings is more instructively employed than that portion which is occupied , in conformity with a regulation of the Society , in the narration of what is doing in the different congregations within the district . The various exertions which are being made for the spread of Unitarianism and the advancement of its interests , —¦ the little schemes which have been
devised and adopted for infusing- new life and energy into those exertions ,- * - the success with which they have been attended , or the causes of their failure if unsuccessful , —all open sources of information of unfailing interest to those who are engaged in the same
work . A spirit of s ) 'nipathy and incitement is produced among the members by such a reciprocal communication of their labours and projects , and they return to their respective spheres of duty encouraged to prosecute their own plans arid to take advantage of the experience of others .
It may not be unin & esting to the readers of this publication to see a brief account of some of the measures adopted in this district of Lancashire for the dissemination of Unitarian opinions and for the general purposes of benevolence .
One of these little schemes was detailed by the minister in whose chapel we had recently assembled . It was formed chiefly with a view to the improvement of the younger part of his congregation . It is a Thursday evening meeting . The object is to
cultivate devotional feelings , and to investigate the truths of Revelation ; and the plan pursued is the reading of a portion of Holy Writ , accompitoaiedwith an exposition of it from oxripox more commentators . A familiar , conversation upon the passage . 41
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The Twelfth Half-yearly Meeting of this Association was held at Bury on Good Friday . The religious services were conducted by the Rev . William
Probert of Walmsley , and the Rev . John Jenkins , who is officiating at Rivington . The latter gentleman preached an interesting and useful discourse on the gradual but certain progress of truth .
The members of the Association and their friends afterwards dined together , and spent the afternoon in that kind of intercourse which fills the breast with kindly feelings and be-Comes an incitement to loye and to
Bolton District Unitarian Association.
BOLTON DISTRICT UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/14/
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