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preaching * a list of passages which 'had been handed to * ne in the pulpit . These exp lanations were given to the whole congregation . No where have I met with people more intelligent , more attentive , more pious , more candid , or more affectionate than at Paisley . Port-Glasgow . There is one gentleman , a drug £ i 9 t , in this town , who is
lately become a zealous Unitarian . Here Mr . W . preach ed 3 to an attentive audience , in the Free-masons' Hall , and spent the evening afterwards in conversation with a small party . The next morning he had conversation with a few persons-who are not Unitarians . Greenock . There are several
Unitarians in this town ; Mr . W . visited them , and preached to an attentive congregation in OardenerVhall ; afrer which he had conference -with a few friends . ' Kh . malcoj , m . Here Mr . W . preached to a small assembly in the middle of the day , not having an evening to spare for the purpose , and held a short conference with them afterwards , on the Trinity and original sin .
Kilburchan . Here 3 VTr . W . found $ ome Unitarians , who have remained inactive for want of-circumstances occurring to stimulate their zeal , and call forth their exertions . A hall was procured for him to preach in , which was supposed to contain 150 people : it was crowded in less than 10 minutes , and it was supposed 50 persons stood in the passage leading to it After the preaching there was some conference . At
Dali ^ y . this place , Mr . W found several well-informed Unitarians ; and , as no place could he procured , he Jpreached in the open air to about 300 people , who vrere all very attentive . Kilwining . In this town also Mr . W . found some firm Unitarians , and preached in the evening in a hall t ^ o an attentive audience ; after which lie had some conference with a few persphs .
Besides the public exercises abovenoticed , Mr . W . was much engaged in co nversations with persons of different r * : Ii&ious parties , as well as with those who are irv whole or part . Unitarians . I he folinwincr nnswnovs frnm Ti / tr . The following from Mr
passages . W . * s journal , contain general remarks on the stare of the Unitarian cause in the west of Scotland . He says , " Never was I more incessantly , nor ™ oie delightfully employed thanTin the west of Scotland ; rbe Jicttfs are there already ivbite to the harvest . Several times ,
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when by myself ,. I could hdt reiErain from shefdHinsr tears of joy at the s 6 eh , es I witnessed , and x the glorious , prospect which opens before usT Could I do Ju § t tice to the subject , sotrie readers might suspect me of having painted in r . 00 strong colours . *' " With pleasure T traced the happy effects , and . important fruits of my worthy friend , A 4 r . Lyons ' s Ieiboiirs , as a missionary , especially at Glasgow and Paisley . The progress the friends in > those places have made , in a short time , is certainly great . " v \ ct If I ever saw Christianity in its native simplicity , and original beauty , I have found it ainone ; the people at Gla ^ sgLow and Paisley . Nevei have I found a people who understand Christian iibency , better , who are more tenacious of it , and who act upon its true principle more completely than the friend * in thbse places . Their
churches are temples of liberty , where the proscribed df all parties may find an asylum , and think , speak , and act for themselves , without restraint . At the same time , they unite with their liberality a deep sense of tjhe importance of truth ,, and an ardent zeal in its defence . They are also as simple in all their plants , and as friendly and affectionate as any Christians 1 ever met with . There are
numerous oj > ening's ~ in the country around them for occasional preaching , conference , &c . Could a suitable person be found , who would go down to , reside in Scotland , to s £ end half his Sundays iti Glasgow ,-as a public lecturer , leaving the ciders of the church to manage its
internal affairs , and to spend ihe oth ^ r half of his Sundays in Paisley , Dundee , and Kdinburgh , forming circuits for week-night preaching , say three * or four nights in the week , in different places throughout the year , I believe the scheme would be practicable , and pioduce most important effects . "
" Already a Book Society is established at Glasgow , and the Unitarian Fund Society , for Scotland may be considered as now fully established in that tawp , which I hope will produce and keep up a correspondence a . mon £ the p ' uitarians in different parts of the North . I had the honour of preachi pg ^ he first annual sermon for this Fund , which was
punicrously attended ^ ^ e-had , on the evening of th <; tame day , a fellowship uieeting of the two churches at Glasgow a « id PJii ^ ley , arid other friends , which wa' £ attended by about 150 persons , who may be all deemed steady friends to the cause , " Y
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I ? iteIligence .- ~~ 'Mr . VPrigh&s Journeyfin Scotland . 515
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VOL . IV . 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/41/
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