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CAMBRO-BRITISH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES . [ Conducted from page 238 . 3 JAMES OWEN . —When the prison-doors were opened by King James ' s indulgence , and the Dissenting captives set at liberty , he endeavoured to promote religion , in a more open manner , by diffusing the knowledge of it in the dark and obscure corners of Wales . He accordingly set up several lectures , and took uncommon pains to support them , and very often at his own charge . The monthly lecture he had set up at Ruthin he afterwards removed to Denbigh , where he met with sharp opposition . The Justices refused to record the place , when it was duly certified to them , in open contempt of
the Act which required them to do it , and then presented them for a conventicle ; but the Judges at the next assizes severelyreprimanded them for this refusal , and obliged them to do it . At the first lecture , he and his hearers were very rudely interrupted and ill-treated in the midst of the most solemn part of
the service , and afterward indicted and fined upon the Conventicle Act ; but this being an irregular procedure , they were discharged before the next quarter-sessions . Mr . O . being advised to prosecute those who had so injuriously treated him , declined it , saying , " I pray God to forgive them / 5 He was afterwards frequently interrupted there and ill-used- The rabble , set to work by their superiors , would sometimes surround the house , break the windows , throw in stones among the people , and once kept beating a drum all the time under the window : but the lecture was not given up : preacher and people , convinced that their cause was good , still persevered and gained ground
Their opposers were numerous and powerful ; but in a little time all of them dropt off , and a settled meeting has been kept up in that town ever since . The Dissenting congregation at Denbigh is at this time , I think , numerous and respectable . In regard to his ill-treatment there , Mr , O * observed , that " hatred of goodness does often precipitate evil men to acts of injustice . To be godly / ' said he , " is to expose ourselves to the common enmity of mankind /'
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^ Biographical Sketches * 391
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During the ensuing winter , he visited his friends in Philadelphia , and my situation was materially altered , by a nearer connexion with the Doctor ' s family in the approaching summer , the detail of which , with other circumstances , I shall defer to another letter , and am , * , Dear Sir , your ' s , Melbourn , near Derby 9 « 7 m *> Jul /\ 9 , 1806 . Wm . Bakewell .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/5/
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