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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUfiJilC AFFAIRS; OR, jCJic Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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of nn assembly room at Sohatn , « mgi has had a considerable auditory ; several persons of respectability have attended his preaching , who have but lately entered the course of inquiry . 7 'he place now used is inconveniently small , and is besides held by a precarious tenure ; &Ir . G . and his friends therefore think of obtaining ., a new building for Unitarian worship . The Committee are well persuaded that it is consonant ' to the object of the Fund to patronize this object ; but it may be allowed them to observe , that the degree of assistance which the society shall render to this promising cause , will be in some measure deter- ' mined by the resolution of the subsciibers , as to the expences of the law-proceedings . ?
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To the above account of the Unitarian congregation at Soham , it may be proper to add , that it being resolved , at the general meeting , that the expetKes of Mr . Gisburne ' s defence shouid be
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* A most awful scene of destruction has been presented * since our last . A ldvgc (< town on fire in almost every quarter . " The fire was occasioned by a most tremendous cannonading , and showers of rockets from several posts , at a small distance from the town . The distress of the inhabitants cannot \> e conceived , but by those > vho "were eyewitnesses of it . Ye mothers who have
children at the breast , ye fathers who have reared a youth to the hopes ofttifen-Jy perfection , ye may feeli for the widows and orphans that this fire has made [ Driven from their houses by the fallingof the roofs and \ valls , death seized them hi the streets : * his winded mesy encers
Hew to their prey in every direction . The noise of the cannon , the era : h of houses , the bursting of bombs , the screams of the- women and children , st uck horror in every breast for two nights and a day . At last a solemn pau * e ensued , interrupted only Ixy sobs ,, and sighs , and groans : here a nuthcr
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defrayed by voluntary subscription , the committee for the present year have voted' the sum of 40 L towards the erection of the new meeting-house ; subscri ptions have bec ^ n already obtained , in behalf of Mr . Gisburne sufficient to , cover the expences at Cambridge , with a . balance in favour of the place of worshi p . T ? he
structure is begun and will be finished in a few weekg . As a considerable sum is yet wanting to make up the estimated amount of the cost of the building , it is confidently hoped that the opulent and liberal-minded . friends of
Uiiitarianism , in various places , wiU step . forward in ; behal || &f the poor but interesting people at Soham . It is particularly recommended to ministers to exert them- ? selves in this cause . Subscriptions will be received by the Rev . John Gisburne , Sojiam ; and by John Christie , e&q . Mark 1-ane , treasurer , and the ; Rev . Robert Aspland , Hackney , secretary , to the Unitarian Fup 4-
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was binding : up the mangkd limbs of tlfe child that had just learned to form the accents of pieasuie ,, now turned into tho . se of unutterable woe ; there a father was digging- out of the ruins'his half-expiring son ; the husband was searching . for his bride , and the old man ,-stupified with horror , was contemplating the wreck of all his family . Such Were the calamities occasioned by this tremendous fire , by the great impYovemeiits that have-been made in our days ,
in the awful work of destruction . Such are the scenes ^ produced by war ; such were the sights presented , according to our poet ' s noble imagination , to our first parent , by the archangel , -when the fatal consequences of $ in were pointed out to hurt .
Xiamentabl < r-state of the human race JVet cannot it always remain so > and ., in spijte of the infidelity of the present day , we look forward with confidence to thx ? time when reason shall have it $ due iu * i fluence > viih { naajund , and bendwg u }® $
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Monthly Retrospect Of Pufijilc Affairs; Or, Jcjic Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUfiJilC AFFAIRS ; OR , jCJic Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/54/
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