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RELIGIOUS, LITERARY, AND POLITICO. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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Religious, Literary, And Politico. Religious Intelligence.
RELIGIOUS , LITERARY , AND POLITICO . RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE .
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RELIGIOUS . UNITARIAN BOOK SOCIETY . — The annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday , April 10 th . A sermon ( the first delivered before the society )
was preached in the morning at Es > exstreet Chapel by the Rev . Thomas Belsham , which , at the earnest request of many who heard it , will be speedily submitted to the public . Nearly fifty persons sat down afterwards to dinner at the
New London Tavern . Several new and respectable names were added to the list of subscribers . * A general satisfaction was expressed at the plan , then fivst acted upon by the society , of having a sermon on the day of the annual meeting . The society has now existed upwards of 15 years , and has disbursed in books the sura of 3000 I .
WIDOWS' FUND—The anniversary © f this excellent institution , for the relief of the widows of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the three denominations , was held on Thursday , 17 th inst . The Rev . Mr . Toller , of Kettering , preached
the sermon to the society , in the meetinghouse , Old Jewry ; subject—The Widovu of Nain . He was pressingly solicited to publish it . About eighty subscribers and friends to the institution dined together at the New London Tavern . New
subsvriptxons to the amount of 130 I . were collected at the dinner . UNITARIAN FUND . — -The half yearly general meeting of this Society will be held on Thursday , May 29 , at six o ' clock in the evening , at the New London Tavern , Cheapside , where , it is hoped , all the subscribers and friends to the institution will attend .
GENERAL , BAPTISTS' ASSEMBLY . —The annual assembly of the General Baptists will be held , as u ual , on Whit-Tuesday , May 27 . The sermon \? vill be preached by the Rev . Mr . Moon , of ^ Peptford . Religious service to begin at 11 o ' clock in the forenoon .
We understand that a Deputation from the Dissenting Ministers has waited on Mr Windham , to express their hopes that in his new army bill , as far as it relates to the armed inhabitants t he will not insist on Sunday-Drilling . This expression of their wishes was very courteously receive < L ' *
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Tfce anniversary of the London 7 fcf ? jrsionary Society "will be field in Londt * n oil Wednesday , May 14 , and the two fol-5 lowing days . The . ministers already engaged to preach on that occa ion are , tBes Rey . Mr . Bradley , of Manchester ; the Rev ! Mr . Charles , of BaU ; and the Rey ^ Mr . Bogue , of Gosport , whose discourse is intended as an address to Chri tiansiri
behalf of the Jews . A minister of the establishment is also to preach . The Asiatic Society and the College of Fort William have " united in granting an
annual stipend of 45 oi . to the Protestant Missionaries in Ben gal , toward defraying the expense of publishing the original text of the most antient Shan crit writings , and particularly of the Vedas , with an English translation .
* The Rev . Dr . Claudius Buchanan , Vice Provost of the College of Fort "William * is about to proceed to Cochin , on the coast of Malabar , for the purpose of examining the antient Jewish MSS preserved in the fynatrogue of the J ews , at that place . The MSS . are representecl to be of a very high antiquity , being supposed to contain that portion of the £ criptures which was written before the first
dispersion of the Jews . A collatidn of them , with the European copies , has been long desired by the learned . Another object of Dr . Buchanan's mission -will be , to inquire into the state of the native Christian churches in the provinces of Travancore and Malabar ; particularly of the thirty-five congregations denominated by the Roman Catholics the schismatic
churches . These Christians Refuse communion with the Romish church , and adhere to the simple ritual of an earlyage . They are noticed in history as early as tbe fourth century , and are supposed
to have emigrated from Syria and Chaldea . At this day the Syro-Chaldaic Ian * guage is used * in their churches , and their liturgy is composed in that language and character . Agreeably to instructions received from the ecclesiastical authorities
at home , a report is to be made on the constitution and doctrine of these churches , with a -view to ascertain how far it may be the duty of-the English church to recognize , the Christians of Malabar , now that they have become subjects of the British empire . The churches have
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/52/
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