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SOMERSET AND DORSET ASSOCIA-¦¦ ¦ . - ¦ ¦ ¦ •-¦ • ¦ ' ¦ •¦ . - 'HON. - ••¦• ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ .
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afterwards ensues , which is followed by a hymn and a prayer * Connected with this social meeting is a tract society coiitainiii g nearly one hundred members . These members are divided i n to districts . A subscription of one penny a month entitles a subscriber to the constant use of a track ) wfrfch ~ lTenmayn 3 xc ^^ night . It is interesting to find that in some of the districts parties assemble to hear the tracts read , and to converse about their contents . The state of the Sunday-Schools and all the little institutions Connected
with them , such as sick , funeral , and clothing societies , libraries , and reading parties , engage , in a peculiar manner , the attention of those who attend these meetings . There are very few Sunday-schools hi this district which have not their sick funds
and libraries ; but one only , it is believed , has a clothing society . The object and nature of this very useful society were detailed , in a most pleasing manner , by ^ a gentlemanWho had witnessed , jn the schools connected with his own congregation , the admirable utility of it . The fund is
raised by a weekly contribution of one penny from every child who is a member of it ; arid to this sum is added the produce of an annual congregational collection . The * money thus accumulated is expended in the purchase of serviceable clothing , which is distributed once a year among the children who contribute' . towards the
fund . It has been observed that this society produces the best effects upon the parents as well as upon the children ;—both feel themselv . es connected by a new bond with the institution and society from which they receive s , uch benefits ;
At Hindley great exertions have been made for the promotion of scriptural truth and of oilier important objects , restricted only by a paucity of funds . A city mission ( if it be not a misnomer ) has been commenced in the village—about twenty-five individuals being weekly contributors of a penny—for the purpose gf alleviating
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the wants , of sickness and age . A course of Sunday * Evening Lectures on Ecclesiastical History has been carried on for sometime and found conducive to the spread of a spirit of inquiry , This object has also been , assHted by the distribution of tracts . Many plans of usefulness are in ope * - ? srioirm ^ t"h ^ FpaTtT ^ ftlirti ^ tnct which no detailed account can now be given ; and a considerable number of tracts is in circulation . The Autumn Meeting of the Association will be held at C ho when t , at which place the Rev . W . Probert is expected to preach , supported by the Rev . J . Ragland * F . Baker , Secretary .
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The Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Somerset and Dorset Half-yearly Association was held at Crew kerne ,
on Good Friday , on which occasion the religious service , was confined to the morning ; the Scriptures were read , and the prayers of the congregation offered by the Rev . E . Whitfield , after which the Rev . R . Cree
discoursed on the passage , Acts xxviii . 22 . The principal feature of the business transacted at the close of the service . was the appointment of . the next place of ' meeting , viz , Bridporfc . The time , Wednesday , Sept . 12 th , On account of the unfavourableness of the weather the friends from a
distance were not numexous . But although the par i ty that dined together was small , the social meeting , over which J . Spark , Esq . presided , was pleasant and improving . Whilst expressing their general wishes for the extension of civil and religious liberty , 11 . 1 11 JT . 1 . .
as well as -other -blessings-to their brethren and fellow-creatures , the members present bade a public fare-Well to the Rev . D . " Hughes of YebVil , who is about to .. seek the shores of America , and cordially hoped that he would find there prosperity and happiness for himself and his family . •* E . Whitfj j em ) , Ilminslerj April ? , $ , 1832 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/15/
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