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nf the same time , we had * £ o <> d congre-^ Tbts is a district in which much may be done . The friends have begim a library , and if a few books cotrld be sent then * from London / especially a Set of the Unitarian Tracts , it woiqM greatly encourage them and do much gf « od .
II . - District , the northern capital and other places south of the * Forth . Though in tliis district Unitarians are not so numerous as in some other parts of the North , its situation and relation to other parts of the country entitle it to every attention .
1 . Edinburgh . I visited this city twice and spent twenty days in it . Preached ninfy fnnes . The cqngTegatioiis were always rtspectabley sometinies pretty large . Had much pleasing- intercourse with the friends : Was gratified in observing * the progress "the cause has made during- the last three years . The Society is certainly in a much better state than it was when I visited
Scotland before . Mr . Smith ' s labours appear to have done much good , Unitarianism is viewed with more respect , and the prejudices against , it are gradually giving friy-. ' " No p lace in Scotland can be of more importance to the Unitarian cause than
Edinburgh . It prosperity there must , in some degree , affect its progress in many other places . In this light the subject is viewed by our friends in that ancient metropolis . Mr . Smith ' s Lord ' s-day evening lectures on doctrinal subjects , which are usually adrertised , are w ell attended .
2 . Leitk . Here I preached twice to attentive audiences . Mr . Smith is anxious to preaph occasional lectures at Leith , and it is hoped his friends will provide him a room for the purpose . 3 . Falkirk . I visited . this town three
times ; preached five discourses there , the last three of which , delivered in the assembly-room , were well attended . My friends at Falkirk ; wished me to preach a sermon ^ ith a view to a collection among them for the charity-school in that town ; of this they gave public notice ; bat some persons ^ t the drummer through the town on the Saturday to inform the inhabitants that the
managers of the school could not in honour 01 conscience accept of any money collected on the occasion : and sent an advertisement to the same purpose to tbe Edinburgh ktar , which was inserted in the form of a Paragraph , to which Mr . Smith , of Edin-Wi&h replied in the next number of the s paper . v "• District . Parts of the country * " ?* */ the Forth .
111 this district I broke up some new % J *? usA and my success was beyond all
ex-*• J > unferhiline . This is a populous j ^ factimng town . I found several Uni - iaj *> and others who have begun to ex-
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amine the doctrine . I preached in th « open air to about five hundred people , who were very ' attentive . Mr . G . Harris had once preached here in a room , otherwise the ground was new . It is thought could there be frequent preaching at Dunfefm - line , an Unit&rian congregation might soon be formed .
2 . Tuleycultrie . A manufacturing \\\_ lage , at the foot of the Auchel-hills . I preached in the open air to a small assembly . Some persons from Alloa attended . 3 . Dumb lane . Here I knew no person , had no introduction , preached in the open
air to about two hundred persons . I scattered the seed on new ground , about which I could get no previous information , where probably Unitariauism had not before been heard of , obtained a patient hearing , and left my work with my God .
4 . Blackford . A village in Perthshire . In this place there are several Unitarians . I had preached here once before , and am , I believe , the only Unitarian minister that ever visited it . I found my old friends had made considerable progress since , t visited them before 5 then they were Universalists , now they are confirmed Unitarians . Had much conversation with them .
Preached in the open air to a very attentive audience . 5 . Crief . Preached in a public hall . In the midst of my discourse about one-r third of my audience rose up and ; departed ;
the rest remained attentive . 6 . JPertk . Was disappointed of a place till it was too late to have a regular service . A few people came , to whom I delivered an address , containing an outline of our religious sentiments .
7 . Dundee . Here I preached eight times . Had always respectable , sometinies large congregations , who were all deeply attentive . A number of strange rs caine to hear , and several of them continued their
attendance so long as I stayed . Though this congregation has first and last met with so many disasters and discouragements , it is still in a respectable and comfortable state . Has recently received some increase by new converts .
8 . Forfar . Here I preached once ; but never met a congregation so inattentive and disorderly . In the midst of the discourse about half my aiuUe ' nce rose and went away , after saying aloud they would have no more of it . 9 . Aberdeen . My success in tbis city amply compensated for previous
disappointments , and atlorded me the highest pleasure . I had previously received the names of several persons at Grandkolm ^ where there are manufactories , a little below the city , who had become Unitarians by reading " . I found them pious , intellig-ent , and warm-hearted in the cause , as I did some others who reside in Aberdeen . They had procured the Gardeners' Hall
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Intelliffenc& *~ Mr . Wright ' s Missionary Tour * 255
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/55/
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