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Mr * Fuliuyars Plan of supporting smalt Congregations . * og +
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Iff yoiir Christian Reformer ^ which well answers its title , you are giv-$ 9 a tfatalogfue of a Cheap and Useful library . A more valuable paper cannot be conceived . I wish some of tour correspondents would undertake a similar article , on a larger scale , for
the Monthly Repository . What I irant is a specification of such English books as are proper for a serviceable library , in the departments of theology and general literature , to occupy the shelves of one who , though engaged in trade , has yet some time md taste for reading , and who
desires above all things to tram up his family in habits of reading and thinking . It may be proper to add that the catalogue here requested should k considered as drawn up for the use of such as are able and willing to jparea few pounds for the improve-Bteut of their minds . AN ENGLISH SCHOLAR .
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Newport , Isle of Wight , May 4 , 1815 . Sir , A LTHOUGH I do not pretend to A , commanding talents , nor am I
? am enough to imagine that my dicta we to be received as the oracles of fruth and wisdom themselves ; yet f confess I did expect that my letter to you , which appeared a short time « ace in the Repository , [ ix . 627 , 628- ]
relative to a fund for the support of ' Unitarian congregations , would have either met with approbation , or been jjmmadverted an ua impracticable . That the plan is attended with beneficial effects , the cause of our brcforen the Methodists fully , in my opinion at least , demonstrates . But if ttere are valid reasons against Unita-Kana adopting it , I should be glad if a of your correspondents would P ° int them out .
It appears to me that much good j ^ gbt be don e to the cause , with lit-« e expose , were Unitarians ( in those J *?^ where they cannot support a waster ) to hire a room , conduct the
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worship nm < mg theu&eelves generally , and have any of the neighboring ministers to preach * tt iafcervaK as it might be con v ^ nient for them to lea ve their own congregations The expense atteuding this plaa would be » the hire of the room , and the
traveling expenses of the ministers ; both of which I would propose to defray from a fund to be raised by general subscription in the different Unitarian congregations throughout the kingdom . Few ministers would , I imagine , refuse their time and
exertion in this way , if they are secure of their expenses being paid , which they have a just right to expect . And by hiring a room , which may be fitted up with moveable forms and benches , several persons might have an opportunity in a very economical manner
of hearing Unitarian doctrines . And should the experiment not succeed in any place where a trial is made to raise an interest , the pecuniary loss would be-far less than where chapels have been either purchased or erected . It is also desirable and politic in the
first establishment of an interest , not to require much pecuniary sacrifice from the new converts ; for until a person is somewhat grounded and settled in the faith , it is most probable that application milde to him for pecuniary assistance will send hinfc back to his old connexion : in which
case we not only lose the support of his purse , but also of his countenance , which is a material thing \ for there are many persons who are in a sort of" straight betwixt two ' opinions , and who in this state of uncertainty will decide on worshiping where th ^ re are some few to keep them in
countenance . Requesting an early insertion of these hints , I am , Yours , &c .
JOHN FUJLLAGAR . P . S . Since writing the above I have seen in the last Repository ( p . 2 , 61 . ) an account of a meeting at Manchester , where one of the speakers is reported to have said facetiously , we wan-t not " Unitarian heads , but Unitarians lusgs and Unitarian legs . "
Now I have little doubt of our having Unitarian lungs and legs , if by raising a fund , we secure the owners of the lungs and legs those comforts which will tend to preserve both the one and the other .
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gy bringing the stofcter into discus * ^ jp yoa may tia n the atten t ion of lu Win- Smith 4 * Ireland , the only Li * ef the British dominions where C % i earn further applause by fiee u * iMtariaiis fixm cWi \ penalties . * HIBERN 1 CUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/33/
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