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    best days of my life . At eight in the morning we met at the public baths , where I baptized several persons , and delivered an address

    on the occasion . In the forenoon , Mr . Yates preached an excellent Pirnon preparatory to the Lord ' s Supper being administered in the afternoon ; at the close of it the

    Lord ' s table was declared free . In the afternoon , I preached the Annual Sermon for the Scotch Unitarian Fund , which was numerously attended . Then again the declaration of the freedom of

    the Lord ' s Table was publicly made . Then the Lord ' s Supper was administered . By the request of Mr . Yates , I presided at it . We had about 150 who united in

    it , and I suppose about 250 spectators , who stayed after the public ^ service ^ o witness our proceedings . This was a great triumph of Christian Hberali ^ l ove r bigotry

    and narrow plans of discipline ; we rejoiced greatly in seeing it effected . In the evening , we had a fellowship meeting , which was numerously attended , ami conducted with much zeal and

    Christian affection . This meeting was attended by friends from different parts of the country . 2 . Pollickshaws * Here I preached once , in the town tall , to a small congregation . '

    I will give a more particular account , in order , of one week spent in this county , as a specimen erf the ^ manner in which my time w , as spent in the West of Scotland . The Fund Committee at Glasgow

    had deputed one of the brethren , who was excellently suited to the purpose , to go a circuit with me at their expence . We set out ^ on the Monday , had conversation , on religious topi c * , with several per *

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    sons in the course of the day , and arrived about 4 o ' clock in the afternoon at the new to \ i of Wishaw * 3 Wishaw * Hcr ^ preached on the Monday evening , in a stone quarry , to about three hundred

    persons , who were very attentive ; a large party fallowed us to oxvt inn , for books , which we distributed among them . We knew no person in this town prior to our arrival . Several spent the evening with us . We found them duite

    dissatisfied with the popular system ; consequently they had ceased a regular attendance on public worsliip . They were open to conviction and athirst for information , which they received with evident joy . We advised them to form a

    small library for their mutual benefit , and to meet with each other for reading , conversation , &c . We gave them some books to begin their library . An intercourse is opened between them and some of

    the brethren at Glasgow . On the Tuesday morning we proceeded to 4 . Carlvke . Here I preached in the evening to ' about 500 people , who were remarkably attentive . A chamber window was

    taken out at the inn , and I stood in the opening this made and addressed the congregation who were in the street . After the preaching , about 40 persons spent a long evening with us in the free discussion df religious doctrines . In Carlukt ^ there are a number of

    well-informed and zealous Unitarians , and if they had not the pure And simple gospel in the parish Kirk , there wotild be a congregation of Uni fa . rian Dissenters in this place . No where have I found so small a viU

    lage as Car I tike that contains so many well-inforined ' and j ' udiciotis Christian : this is in no small * de ~

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    52 Intelligence *—Mr . JVrighfs Missionary Tour in Scotland .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/52/