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attended me half way to Glasgow , an < f I parted with them as a parent would with his affectionate children . This journey in Scotland , though attended with much fatigue , which was the more felt on account of occasional- indispositi on , was attended with high
satisfaction and pleasure ; to witness the progress of truth , and be i nstrumental in promoting it , is a source of pure and refined joy . I had the happiness of discovering fruits of my former labours and exertions ^ and to find that , when before in Scotland , I had not laboured in vain nor spent my strength for nought .
A missionary might be employed constantly in North Britain , with great advantage to the cause , and one is much wished for by many of our brethren ; but desirable as this is , I think , if ministers could
be placed at Dundee , Paisley and Carluke , and among" them travel as much as one missionary would if constantly employed in that work , the end would be better answered , and other desirable ends at the same time attained .
The latter part of this missionary journey vvas in the north-west of England , viz . Cumberland , Westmoreland ^ Lancashire and Cheshire . Being detained a month longer in Scotland than I had in-the outset expected , I had so much the less time to spend in the above counties . Of course it was not in my power to visit our friends
in many places in Lancashire and Cheshire : I was under the necessity of passing by a number of towns where I had preached before , and which it would have been highly gratifying to me to have visited again . The part of my journey which remains to be described , occupied thirtylive days , during which I preached at the following places :
1 . Great Salkeld . It was at the request of Mr . Nelson , a worthy old minister of a small Presbyterian congregation in this place , and another a few miles ofF , at Plumpton-street , communicated to me by Mr . Kay , I came to Great SalkeldL I was highly gratified with the conversation of this aged minister , who has long remained in a sequestered spot , cultivating the most excellent views of the moral character and
government of God . He lives on a small paternal inheritance , possessed by his family , for a number of generations . On a part of this estate stands the little meetinghouse , which was erected by one of his ancestors : and is one of the few places , in this northern district , which have not
passed from the Presbyterians into less liberal hands . I preached at Great Salkeld twice . The first time on a Friday evening . On my arrival Mr . Nelson requested me to preach the * same evening , aflfccl went himself into the village to inform the people . Considering the shortness of tire notice , and that many persons were
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busy among the hay , we had a better con - gregation than I expected . The second preaching was on the Sunday evening when we had a very g-ood congregation 2 . Plumpton-Street . I went with Mr Nelson to this pl ^ ce on the Sunday morning and preached to a small , but very attentive audience .
3 . Kendal . I preached six times in this town , three times in the Presbyterian , and three times in the Baptist place . The congregations were all good , some of them quite large ones . Had much pleasinoconversation with different parties of friends .
4 . Black ley . Preached to a respectable congregation , and at the request of the minister , administered the Lord ' s supper . « i > . &ob-lanem Preached to a large con . gregation . 6 : Oldhatn . I had the honour of being the first Unitarian -who preached in this
town , when in Lancashire before ; since which time a congregation has been formed , and kept up , by the labours of different ministers . It is hoped that before longthe Oldham congielation will have a meetinghouse . At present they meet in a large room , in which I preached to a very
crowded audience . 7 . Bury . Here I had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman ^ who challenged me , when before in Lancashire , to preach from Is * , ix . 6 . He was then a Calvinisi , now I found him a zealous Unitarian . 1 preached in a large room to about two hundred people .
8 . Cookey-moor . Here I preached in the large school-room , it being more convenient to light it than the ChapeL Toe evening was unfavourable , had a pretty good audience , and the pleasure of meeting several of our brethren in the ministry . 9 . Cross-street . A village in Cheshire . Preached here to a small respectable
audience . 10 . Warrington . Preached thie » times to respectable congregations . 11 . Hatton . la this village a gentle * man of the Warrington congregation has opened a large room in his manufactory , for religious sevvice on a Sunday evening I preached to about a hundred attentive hearers .
12 . Chowbent . Preached to a large congregation , for a week night . It was es mated at five hundred persons . 13 . Bclton . Preached to a re * pect » w < cougfregation . .. tnp 14 . Stand Had a respectable *¦*« £ ¦ tw
15 . Duckenfield . Here I preached < or the Saturday night , and the » u ; morning had large can ^ reg ^ io ^ persons of other denominations anu ^ 16 . Stockport . I preached tw this town , had respectable con £ reg » some » tranglers attended .
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& 5 S Intelligence . —Mr . Wrights Missionary Tour .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/58/
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