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UNITARIAN FUND .
We sit down v / ith intx pressible pleasure to describe the anniversary of this Institution , hoiden according to custom , on the Wednesday in Whitsun-week , May 24 th . We wish that we could convey an adequate idea of the meeting to our readers I It will we believe be long , very long- remembered , and serve * as long as it is remembered , as a stimulus to the zeai of many * whether connected or unconnected with , the Fund . Former
jneetings had been in the highest degree pleasant and encouraging , but this surpassed them all ! Though now mere reporters of the proceedings of the day , we must be indulged if we be seized with some of that enthusiasm which we honestly confess transported us with joy whilst engaged in them . The Society assembled , agreeably to advertisement at Mr . Vidler ' s chapel , Parliament Court , at 11 o ' clock ia the
forenoon-. Religious service wus opened by the Rev . James Lyons , late of Huli , now of Chester , who Fead the scriptures and prayed . The sermon to the Society was then preached by the Rev . Thomas Rees , minister of Newington Green . The Rev . Sampsofi Kingsford , of Canterbury , concluded in prayer . The congregation was respectable , and the ^ collection at the doors satisfactorv .
Mr . Rees ' s test was very appropriate ; Philip i . 37 , a 8 . Stand fast in one spirit , iwth one tnbid , sirzvrngr together for the jaitti of H > e gfispcl ? &nd in nothing tcrrijie d by your adversaries . The discourse was animated but correct , manly biu liberal , plain but impressive .
On proceeding to business after service , Mr , Wm . Frend was called to the chair . The secretary , Mr . Aspland , r « ad , in the hearing of as many of the congregation as chose to stay , the Fifth Report of th ? Committee , which took up nearly an hour in reading . It appeared ™ give great satisfaction . If there was *< $ s of novelty in it than in some pre-«« <* mg Reports fckere wag enough to
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gratify the best feelings of the subscribers . The finances of the Society were described to be in a very flourishing state . A particular detail was given of Mr . Wright ' s labours , and it adminis * tered the liveliest pleasure to the Society to le . arn that this gentleman was engaged to take , within a few -weeks , a missionary
tour of three months in Scotland , The case of J \ £ r . Gisburnz + t& Soham ^ excited particular attention ;—he had beqn persecuted and prosecuted at law by a Calvinistic faction and brought off triumphantly by the exertions of the committee . —— The Report was unanimously adopted ; and it being stated by the secretary that the printing of the Reports
was expensive , aifd that when printed , they could not be conveyed but " with great trouble and after a lapse of time , to the country subscribers , it was unanimously resolved , that the substance of it should be published in the Monthly Repository , under the direction of the Committee , who also should be requested to insert in the same work , with permission of the Editor , such accounts ot
the Fund and such extracts from the Journals of the missionaries , a ^ they , from time to time , should deem expe ~ dicnt * The greater part of the subscribers are readers of the Monthly Repvsitcry 9 and by this means a lively interest will be kept up > as to the measures oi the society , throughout the year . To all the well-wishers to the Fund it must
be pleasing to know especially that they will not have to wait a year for information concerning Mr . Wright ' s intended journey , but will havo the particulars laid before them almost as soon as they are reported to the Committee .-r—The
proceedings of the committee in the case of Mr . Gisburne were afterwards fully discussed , and it was re&o ' ved , on the motion of Mr . Run > that the subscribers fully approve of them , and that the legal expences incurred in JWr . Gtsbtemf * defence be recommended to be defrayed
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund . % Q&
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are informed that copies may be ordered of the J ^ ev . J . Marsom , an , High Holborn , who has undertaken to superintend the subscription . ^ The . members of the Assembly , with many cf their friends , dined together ' to the number of nearly fifty 3 at the iLondon Taveru . At . this meeting some conversation took place on the best means of supporting the General Baptitt
Education Society , under the Rev . John Evans , of Islington ; the only seminary for ministers in this denomination , and indeed the only liberal academical institution in and about the metropolis . It was generally agreed we believe , that every friend of the Society , should endeavour to procure new subscribers to it against the next Assembly . Q *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/53/
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