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inore thafiua year , of more than ioool . ! A s ubscription has been also raised , ampngst other individuals , of nearly aool towards the mission . J 3 y this generous support , a chapel , called Bethelchapel , has been erected , where , on'the
Lord ' s day , 400 or 500 slaves , besides a considerable number of whites and people of colour , attend ; Of the negroes , & 4 bave , been baptized ; 150 " are ^ iraestly seeking the salvation of thejr souls ; " and $ po xan say the whole of Dr . Watts ' s First Catechism by heart ,
&c . The good effects of J ^ Lr . Wray ? s mission are said to he . &fl |^ y'P 4 -th , e immediate sphere of his HRf |§* There is also , it is added , a vis !|| plSajige f < Jr the better , in the manners , of the negroes who hear the gospel . " Mr . Post , earnestly wishing « to !
obtain a suitable person , as a teacher in a colonial school , of which he is an acting trustee , applied to the directors , who sent out , as soon as possible , Mr . Davies , one of the . missionary students , who , beside the tuition of youth , -will assfet Mr . Wray , and preach , if gtonitted . in various other places . Mr ^ fdam has also been sent over wjth the same uiew . Two young ladies ha ^ ge also gone oufl under patronage of the society , as wives
to Mr . Davies and Mr . Wray . c < The good work of ^ pd in IJem etara , " tfye directors subjoin , " has met with some opposition , and fears have been entertained lest the missionaries should be silenceji ; The Lord has , however , raised up friends arnong persons in ; j > ow $ r inr the colony /; and application has « also ljeen made to the British
govern-< m $ titfor protection /' The MISSIS TO THE JEWS , isuppqrted for , several years p ^ st , has been atten 4 ed with " great dirncoiti ^ s an d painful disappointments . ** JMr . T ^ y ,
the convert and preacher , has ,, in discontent , relinquished his connection with vthe society , " and associated himself wfth another body , f { 9 fcssing . to have the j « Wf ( thjeain -view . <« ** This dereliction of their agent , " hpwevcr , did not appear to t ^ e directors to discharge them from ihcirduty . They have , therefore , en-
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gaged the services of other ministers to continue the Lecture to the-Je ^ wrs ^ in ^ Alpiiiery-street Chapel , on ^ bc 0 Lord * % days ; and have instituted a meeting of . ' - prayer , on behalf of the children of I ^ -s
rael , to be held at the same place 00 Friday eyenifigs . They recommend , the volume of Essays , written at their request by the JRjev . Mr . Ewing , of Glasgow , and several small tracts which they have printed . . "
Mr . Asa , " a learned Jew from Berlin , * another convert , has been fpr about a year and a half under the patronage pf the society . He ha , s been soxne , months under Mr . Bpgue ; and is applying * himself to the study of medicine in the JLpndon Hospitals . His intention is to
return to his family at- Koningsberff , to perfect himself in his profession . . An-accpunt is also given of two Jewish converts on the comment , whom , a foreign correspondent recommends to the society as missionaries . The directors , ^ however , will probably , after their late , and perhaps dear-bought , experierJCCj taKe them upwith caution .
The Missionary Seminary * , Wfter Mr . Bogue , of Gpsport , was thinneiJ , || ie last year , by nine of the students Being drafted off for foreign parts . At present there , are only five students ; but the number is likely to be soon enlarged . Thus have . we , with considerable
labour , corned jpto ou ^ r pages the substance of the Jlepg | rt v ^| this active society . Our opinion of calvinistic missions is well known ; we conceive that , as far as they succeed , t ) iey lead Jews into a worse error than that of not believing in the JVlessiah , ^ d that they confirm Heathens in them most corrupt superstitions ; thei
and sof ^ r we deprecate r su ccess , and cannot sincerely sympathize with their well-meaning conductors in their disappointments an 4 regrets : t ? ut we do fc ) rvcntly rejoice in them asthe means , updcr providence , of exciting religioMs enquiry , of circulating the scriptures , and of diffusing useful education amo ^ g the abjectpoor .
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^ XX ^ ACTS FROM ^ 3 E | E . FI ^^ H AJUT ^ IJ jA . L UE 3 fpif £ OF THE COM * aiiraEEOJB TH £ : UNITAKIAN jeUtfl ) , JRRAD TO THJGi SOqiEXY , MAY ® 4 , X * qn account of the A ^ nuatWt ^ ting of the Unitarian Fund , p . J 199 . $£ the pjre-«^ tyoliun ^ we cxpl ^ uicd that it Vas agreed to 4 ifcoatinuc the pubiicaftf 6 ja > f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/49/
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