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Falkirk . Leaving the west of Scotland , MJ \ W . proceeded to this place , Which he once before visited > during his stay at Glasgow : of Falkirk he says , " Here things have not gone on well ,
owing , T conceive , to various causes ; but chiefly to want 6 F mutual forbearance , and more enlarged views of Christian liberty ; there are * however , some sensible Unitarians in the place , 1 preached to them twice ; and had conference and conversation with them . It has been agreed , that some of the brethren from Glasgow and Paisley , shall visit and preach among them occasionally ; I hope * this will be done , and that it will revive the cause at Falkirk . "
Mr . W . next proceeded to Blackford where he found some Universali- > ts , and had an agreeable interview with them , but no opportunity of preaching . Crief . Here Mr . W . preached in the weavers ' -hall , had a good audience , and a conference with a few of them afterwards .
Perth . Here a place could not be got for preaching , the town-hall , glovers ' - hall , and grammar-school , being all preoccupied rhat evening . Dundee . Here Mr . W . met with a very cordial and friendly reception from IVIr . Millar and the little Unitarian
society . He says , " ] VIy spirit was refreshed among the Unitarian brethren at Dundee : I found them intelligent , well-informed , and truly affectionate . I preached four sermons among them , and we had full and very attentive audiences . "
Couper in Fife . Here Mr . W . found one Unitarian , and preached to a small congregation in weavers ' -hall Ed i n bun g h . Here JVlr . W . met with a very favourable reception He says , € C The frierds at Edinburgh and Leith , received me in the most aifectionate
manner , ' anci showed me every mark of respect . They had endeavoured , but in vain , to procure a larger place for me to preach in , than that in which they usualiy meet I delivered ei ht sermons in their little meeting-house , which was crowded with respectable hearers ; it was
t > upp > sed on the last Sunday I was there , that , co ; i „ < ;< s 'Towded into the place and the adjoining passage , and that as many went away who came t . the door and found % impossible to get in : it w < s conjectured , that could a' suitable j > lace- have been procured , we might have had near a . thousand hearers . 1 he e
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are some steady , zealous ,, ^ trjul y ]^ ral Unitarians at ir ^ uiburg ^ . ^ Leith . ** ' ¦ ' . Dalkeith . Here ; Mr . W . preached one evening , was pretty well attended and had he hact time to have gone again * he concludes from what was said to hitn afterwards , there would have' been a numerous congregation .
A day or two before Mr . W . left Edinburgh , a letter was received there , requesting he would go to Peebles ; but then his plan of returning was fixed , and appointments made in Yorkshire , which there was not time to alter , which rendered it impracticable for him to comply with the above invitation .
The supjects Mr . W . most frequentl y preached on in Scotland , were , i . The Unity of God and Mediation of Jesus Christ . a . The Example of Christ . 3 . The Gift of Eternal Life . 4 . The
Resurrection . 5 . God's raising up Christ and sending him to bless Mankind . 6 . The Sonship of Jesus Christ . 7 . The Messiahship of Jesus . 8 . Original Sip . 9 . The Ddath of Christ . 10 The Atonement . 11 . The Doctrine of
Reconciliation . 12 ,. The Divine Paternky . 13 . The Government of God . 14 , Future Punishment . 15 . The Love of God . 16 The Christian ' s 'Walk . 17 . Christ ' s Dwelling in Christians . 18 . Christian Liberty and Brotherhood . 19 . The importance of Truth , and how it is to be Discovered and Promoted . ao . The Universal Restoration . *
Mr . W . concludes his journal with saying-, " The fifty days I spent in Scotland , I shall ever reflect on with peculiar satisfaction ; and as they have been the most laborious , so they have been the most pleasurable , and 1 trust , as to their effects , will be the most happy and useful days I have lived . I esteem it the
highest honor , that God has called me in his providence- to participate in a work so glorious in its nature , and happy in its consequences , as the dissemination of his despised truth , which has the moral perfection and happiness of mjnkind for its object . Let us ail rejoice that the
days cf darkness and ' superstition are parsing awayj and the . period hastening on , when the heavenly system of Christianity shall prevail in its native simpjicity and untarnished glory /* - " The Scotch people are certainly more crious and more in earnest , in religious matte's -than the English ; they have their prejudices ; there is no doubt ,
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516 I ? it € lligence . —Mr . Wright ' s Journey to Scotland ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/42/
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