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On thexvhole , the cause of Unitarianism is advancing in the West of Scotland , an . d there is a good prospect of its growing success * [ To be concluded in our next Number , ]
Proposals Jor building a Chapel in Gla&go-WyfHr conducting Public Worship an Unitarian Principl $ . * The characteristic features of th « Institution , to which the attention of the public is here solicited , will be these :
i . That every aid and encouragement will be given to Free Inquiry on religious subjects ; 1 . That prayer and adoration will be addressed , in the name of Jesus Christy soleljr to the One True , God .
3 . That repentance and reformation of manners , piety . to € * od , benevolence to man , and a strict abstinence from every sinful passion and indulgence will be enforced as the only means of obtaining happiness in this life and in that which is to come .
The supreme importance of these principles will , it is hoped , incline all who perceive their close connection with the welfare of individuals , and the general improvement of society , to support , according to their ability > a house of prayer ,
in which they may worship the Father in spirit and in truth ; in which pure an < J elevated devotion may spring from their knowledge and contemplation of tVik character of their Maker in all its
majesty and loveliness $ where they may meet with , kind and friendly assistance in tbe calm , dispassionate and unbiassed investigation of sacred truth ; and where they may be incited to do honour
to their Christian profession , and to accomplish the great ends of their being , by growing perpetually in conformity to the image ot their Saviour , and in fitness for the presence of their God ..
Tp accomplish this object , the following plan has been proposed : . I . The money for building the cbapel shall be raised by Subscriptions and by Donations .
J ? Wfi have great pleasure in laying this jp laij before our readers ; and gladly offer our work as the medium of communications * , and subscriptions , in furtherance of the object oi * fet Glasgow vmtajrian Church y Ed .
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V II . Every Subscriber shall receive annually 5 per cent , interest for his money ; but no Subscriber under £ 25 shall be eligible a * a manager , nor shall Subscribers under £ 5 be entitled to vote at elections .
III . Donations shall be the property of the Glasgow Unitarian Ghurch , 'and shall be applied to the building of the Chapel . IV . The management of all affairs relating to the Chapel shall be vested in a
Preses , a Treasurer , and five other Managers ; two of whom shall go out of office annually by rotation , and their places shall be supplied by a new election . Those going out may be re-elected .
V . There ' shall be a general meeting ; of the Subscribers annually , when the managers shall produce a statement of their receipts and disbursements , and report proceedings ; atTwhich meeting the election of managers shall take place . VI . All profits arising from the letting of the seats , &c . shall . be the property
of the church , whose object it shall be to pay back to the subscribers what they have borrowed , as soon as possible , so that the chapel may in the course of timebecome th < $ r property , unencumbered with debt ; but should the church ever be unable to pay the interest due , the managers shall be authorized to dispose
of the chapel so as to discharge the debt . VII . The right to the ground on which the chapel may be built , shall be taken in name of the managers for thie time being , and their successors in office , for behoof of the church ; and all other investitures of the funds . of the criurch
shall be taken in the same terms . VIII . Subscriptions may either be paid at the time of subscribing , or one fourth then , and the remaining threefourths by equal instalments , at the date of three ^ six . or nine months .
IX . Should any alteration be found necessary in these rules , the proposed alteration must be laid before a general mee . ing of the subscribers , and if sanctioned by a majority of two-thirds of the meeting , it shall be equally obligatory with the above .
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Unitariqnism in America * From one of the minister * of the Phi lad ^ lphia Unitarian Society , we have b £ cn recently favoured with accounts of the growth of Uniwrianijm in the United
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, Intelligence . — Proposals for an Unitarian Chapel in Glasgow . 55
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/55/
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