On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    any of the brethren who inclined to do it , should deliver public exhortations in turn , before the

    pu # lic * discourse by the minister : tbe adoption of this plan helped to prepare the brethren to carry on the public meetings after the cf&&th of their pastor .

    After the death of Mr . Purves , tfie society continued to meet reg ^ flarly , though they had no minister , several of the members praying and delivering exhortations alternately ; four of them were appointed as persons proper to deliver exhortations . The

    service was conducted as follows : the clerk began with a short pTayer , then read and sung part of a psalm , then followed a prayer by one of the brethren , next portions of the Old and New

    Testament were read , and part of a psalm sung , then prayer and a short discourse by one of the four

    appointed to deliver exhortations , tfien prayer and another short discourse by another of the four , then the meeting closed with prayer , singing , and a

    benediction . After being some time without a pastor , it was resolved that one of the brethren should administer the Lord's supper .

    - * - * InJfebruary I 797 t it was agreed , after mature deliberation , that a president should be elected in the sBfciety every three months whose business should be to superintend

    theik * affairs as a society , and deiiVet two discourses every Lord ' s ^ n i he yeatf l 799 t after much deliberation , it was resolved that t ^ b efcfe& sfc > uid be cfaosen to < m&u&ikp * pvmc woiShia , & * % pii ^ c inJructibti , ^ p #

    Untitled Article

    discipline of the society ; and that the elders should continue , in office for six months , when they should either be re-elected , of

    others chosen in their stead . During this year a correspondence commenced between this society and Mr . Vidler , the minister of the Unitarian chapel in Parliament

    Court , Bishopsgate Street , London which led to the intercourse which has since taken place between this church and the London Unitarian Fund committee and its missionaries .

    The society , though labouring under great disadvantages from the time of Mr . Purves' death , in 1795 , having no regular minister , nor any means of obtaining assistance from the ministers of other

    congregations , kept up regular meetings , and , in the midst of a variety of changes and great discouragements , endeavoured to edify themselves , and continued to

    bear a practical testimony to what they believed * to be the truth of God , until they were visited by Unitarian missionaries from Eng * land , till which time they were denominated Universalists , the

    doctrine of the universal restoration being their most distinguish , ing sentiments : as to the Trinity they continued to maintain the Arian hypothesis . The first mis . stonary who visited them was

    Mr . Lyons , in the year 180 & but being able to stop ' but *> rie dav * but little couldbe effected ' ^ cially as a heavy rafn preTeh t ^ ji many persons frofti bearing' him . In lBOfc ' thiy were visited " by Mr . Wri |^ who preached ipany discotfriw' among 1 $ em , aft , Lyons revisited 'them in " lUBL * nd much ^ instructed and eie i item 4 h i * convention , i ^

    Untitled Article

    History of the Unitarian Church , Edinburg h * 651

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/7/