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the Reports , and to insert the substance of them in the Monthly Repository * ft was also determined , that the Committee should be at liberty to ' niake known , through the same medium ' , such particulars of their proceedings as-they should judge interesting to the subscribers at large .. Agreeably to these regulation s -we are enabled to give , in the present number ,- Extracts from the-Fifth Report ^ comprising the most mqferial parts of it : and in our next , we- hope to be favoured with some account of Jtfr . Wright ' s mission in Scptland % Edit on
It was to be expected , that as the object and plan of the Fund became better kcown , it would . meet with more general support . The year that is now past has realized this expectation : more names have been added to the list of subscribers , and a larger , sum raised in subscriptions than in any preceding year , since the first institution of the Fund .
This the Committee cannot help ascribing to the conviction of the utility of the society and of the prudence of its measures , produced in the minds of the Unitar ian public , by the published proceedings of the Committee and by the character and exertions of the missionaries . racter and exertions 01 tne missionaries .
The missionaries residing in Wales have not been inactive during the last year . Mr . Benjamin Philips has taken two journies of considerable extent ^ and reports " that he was very well attended at all the p laces he visited , that the p ^> - ple are more and more desirous ofchearing Uratarianism , and that the number of AntinTrinitarians is increasing . "
To the . number of the Welsh missionaries has been added by the Committee , on the recommendation * - of the Rev . T . Recs and others , . Mr . © , dtiver , minister of Gellioncn , Glamorganshire , an able , zealous and judicious Unitarian preacher . He submitted to the Committee , in September , the plan of two
journies , one in the counties of Glamoro-an and Brecknock , to the extent of 116 miles , * which will occupy 17 day ? , the other in the courities of Glamorgan a ^ id Carmarthen , to the extent of 70 miles 3 which will occupy 10 days . These fee was encouraged to undertake ; which he has accordingly done , and with sufficient -success to animate him to future
iabodrs- " He found every where-a dis' position to hear the truch ; , aud . reports that there are frequent secessions in the Welsh dissenting churches , on account of . Unitarian princi p les , and that buildings are proposed to be erected for the worship of the One Ood- . > The following is an extract from a letter of Mr . Lyons ' s to the secretary dated Chester , Feb . 34 , X 809 . — - " 1 have lately discovered an Unitarian Baptist
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minister , a Mr . Astbury , who has . onlyjust emerged from the gloomy ^ dungeon of Calvinism . He was formerly a Methodist local preacher , and has been for some years past the minister of a small congregation at Kinsley , a little village about twe ^ s ^ miles from Chester . His conversioanp ^ XJnitarianism was partly occasioned oy conversation with a Mr
Jones , of Namptwich , and partly by reading some of Mr . Wright ' s publications ; but he is much better acquainted with his bible than with controversy , and from his simplicity , piety and zeal
I thmk there is reason to hope that he will be very useful in the good cause . He is a labouring man , who never pes-Messed the means of much improvement , but he appears to have a strong mind : he has rrever received more than 10 or
I 2 i . < a year for preaching . "When 1 last saw him , he told me that he had been upon a visit tx ^ some of his Baptist friend ? in North Wales ; but that his change ol sentiments had given them great offence . However , since that time , a man out ol
that neighbourhood called upon me , to have some conversation upon doctrinal subjects , and it appears that Mr . A . ' s conversation has fairly put him into-the way of enquiry . He has given up all that was Trinitarian in his creed , and 1
think it will not be long before the few remaining absurdities whichhenow holds will share the same fate . I . gave him several of the Tracts which you sent me , a $ d such others as 1 thought would be useful to him , and he seemed highly delighted with the thought of commarilcktH&f ^ ils-treasure to his neig hbours
and Brethren at honae-., . 1 have also circulated , in Mr . A . ' 6 'Neig hbourhood , a cargo of the same materials- ; and I hope to be able , in a short time , to make out , by means of thesp gopd Jriex \ ds , a litt-tf circuit of village-preaching for myseli . During the last year Mr . Wright has been in labours abundant . The
following is a summary of his jRiissionar ) jourmes .-T-i 8 o 8 . June . A journey into Yorkshire " , to Thorne , &c . from home 13 days , travelled 320 miles , pre acitfa seven- times , —July . A Journey uuo
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4 l > 4 Intelligence . — Fifth Report of the Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/50/
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