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dispensably necessary as a qualification for happiness , are indebted for salvation , not to the *« merits of Christ , " a phrase no where to be found in scripture , nor to any other merits , but solely to the free mercy or favour of Almighty God . This
service , as well as the preceding , was well attended . Christian unanimity , charity and cheerfulness pervaded the whole of this happy day , and the friends of pure , uncorrupted , scriptural Christianity may congratulate themselves upon the encrcasing success of their labours *
The following evening , Jude 18 , at a lecture , the Rev . Samuel Fawcett , of Yeovil , conducted the devotional part of the service , and the Rev- Robert Aspland addressed , a considerable auditory from that par * of Paul ' s speech before Felix , which is found Acts xxiv 15 , 16 " And have hope towards God , that there
shall be a resurrection of the dead , both of the just and unjust ; and herein do I exercise myself , to have always a conscience void of offence toward God , and toward men . " In meetings like these , attended from proper motives , and conducted in a truly liberal and candid spirit , the social nature of Christianity
is exemplified , the power of religious principles invigorated , the bond of affection between all sincere enquirers after truth , rendered more firm , and that " refreshment from the presence of the Lord * experienced , which is the solace and joy of the deyout soul . May these " fruits of the spirit" be multiplied in our churches , and more and more acted upon in the lives of individual professors ! !
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Sovthern Unitarian Society . The Anniversary Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Societ y , took place at Chichester , on the first of July . The morning amd evening , services were well attended j ; the-, former was opened by the R $ v . J . W . Morris , after
which , the Rev . W . Hughes delivered an . excellent discourse from John : i . x 99 from which words he , took occasion to * besft * that the ascription pf the titles and attribute * of Deity to Christ , formed , jip grounds for the beHqf that hq was a Divine Being , As 'the sermon iwity p * obattly&e printed * Jt is . mot hcr ^ necc ^ asy to enlarge upondts design . , In thecyejj iag > thefBn .. RwScotf bcg ^ Or the > scryico , 4 * & * h * Jtafc RJ Wr % h ^ prt * chtt ^ f « om
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Matthew xix . 17 , on the goodness % t God . It having been reported to the Society , that the Unitarian cause , at Brighton , was apparently flourishing , and that a
place had receBtly been purchased by its patrons , in which to perform public worship ; it was agreed that the next general meeting of the society should be hold en at that place , when the Rev . J . W « Fox is expected to preach .
The members of the Society were gratified in finding that whilst from the changes incident to human affairs , some names were obliged to be erased from the list of subscribers , new members
were obtained to fill the vacant places . A present of books was voted to the Unitarian Fund , and to the Welch Unitarian Society . After dinner the following toasts , among others , were drank : — Joseph Lancaster , whom the Chairman
described as an able coadjutor in the ca \ ise of truth , —as the more knowlegc is diffused , the more must truth prevail . The York Academy was proposed by W . Cooke , Esq . as a seminary which had produced many able and enlightened defenders of true Christianity .
The Secretary , adverting to a custom which formerly prevailed in the Society , of drinking , in silence , the memory of Dr . Priestley , suggested the propriety of classing with ijt the names . of liakejield and Lindsey . He considered these three men were nearly equal in talent : equally ready to brave the storms of adversity ,
iri defence of what they deemed tht truth , and of having equally contributed to the support and spread of the Unitarian , cause . And in rising to return thanks , w ^ ien his heal th was drank , he took occasion to press upon the company the necessity of adding exertions to wishes * for , the furtherance f > f the object
for which the Society had then met : and particularly insisted on the useful tendency of the Monthly Re pository . He characterised this publication as the only work devoted to the Unitarian ^ docttincfasLthe only : one open to . free enquiry , and of course not only worthy of 8 t ^ ppore > but ^ that , it would bo \ U tiidfrtinouff ; to theV . iricnds ^ of civil anH rdigioUn 1 libextyn ifitaroete Jiot
exwipvatysi * pp < totea >«* aniliconclude * giving ! a * ^ Xom ^ Th ^ MnUkl y Mepontory an&iftuijr itn « cceiv © daiirJr support from AUm&mMfo ^ jgg& TMy ^ Jafl 36-firoJ » vCfwian « 4 uaa ^^ h 3 itt * $ ' **
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460 Intelligence . —Southern Unitarian Society . ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/58/
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