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    effect the mingled emotions of pain and pleasure which had agitated his mind as he listened to the narratives Tie had heard . He recollected the period when in Yorkshire , the place of his long residence , persecution also raised her horrid front . Now persecution was there unknown : but

    as she re-appeared in other places , this Society , which would palsy her energies md restrain tier malignity , should continue to experience his recommendation and his aid . But that such assistance should be universal , and that here , as in the Bible Society , all denominations should

    cordially unite for the promotion < of the general benefit . The Rev . Mr . Gummer , a General Baptist minister , by whom that resolution was supported , regarded this institution as the bulwark and surrounding protecting wall to all those other Societies whose

    commencement , progress , and prosperity , produced such just and general delight , and thought that it should therefore be upheld by their concurrent strength . The Rev . Rowland Hilj , , with his usual vivacity and eloquence , proposed the fourth resolution . He congratulated the Christian world on the establishment

    of this Society . The liberal and comprehensive principles he approved and cherished . Lord SiDftfotTTH , by inducing its eittblishment , had unintentionally conferred a benefit at which posterity would ttyoice . He particularly acknowledged tit persevering assistance which he had received in big efforts to resist the

    reiterated attempts made by persuasion and by forcf , to induce him to submit to the asiftssHlent of Surry Chapel to the poor . Theft * attempts he had resisted , not on account of the pecuniary importance of these demands to his congregation , but

    because he would not permit the establishment of a precedent which less opulent congregations might deplore . The unaided labours of the Society to origiatfe and ultimately to procure the bill depending | n parliament , and thereby to remove for ever that source of vexation he

    could not but notice with applause : nor could he withhold from government his praises and his gratitude for the attention ^ ey had kindly manifested , and the disposition to afford lelief , from just complaints , which they had so repeatedly displayed . He afterwards announced , amidst * ne plaudits of the meeting-, that he was authorized by the ministers of the Calvin-!

    « Jic Methodists in North Wales to assure p * Society of an Annual contribution of hrxy Pounds because , although their *» nisterial labours were gratuitous , and fle congregations were poor , they could * ° * permit an institution so useful to Ian-P » wh , and therefore tendered all the aswtance xvhkh their »«* nty m ** v * wiuM Ptr * it the » t * «> pply .

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    Thomas Wnsotf , Esq . who seconded that resolution , also acknowledged with gratitude the effectual assistance which he had received , in procuring" the remission of ttie poors' rates on Padding ton Chapel , and expressed his delight that the judicious efforts of the Committee to procure the useful bill now depending would be probably attended with success .

    The Rev . Matthew Wilks considered the financial deficiency of the annual income of the Society as a disgrace , which all congregations sliould be anxious > to remove . If their ministers were unassailecl by opposition , sympathy for other

    ministers , missionaries , and itinerants , should prevent them from withholding the annual mite they were expected to supply . Such ill-judging parsimony would indicate a forgetfulness of the past , and an insensibility to the general rights and tlie general welfare which could , not exi& . He must therefore attribute the diminished

    supplies to inconsideration , forgetful oca * , and delay , which * a hint only must terminate and prevent . He concluded by reading an impressive letter which he had received from tlie Rev . John Dag-lay , pastor of a recently established and poor congregation in Warwickshire , remitting tbeir annual subscription , and expressing " th «

    trials they had undergone from the threats of a magistrate , and the reproaches of per . sons who envied their liberty and success ; but stating , that since their union to thi * Society , had been announced , the mastiff dog had ceased to bark , and the snarling curs had retired to the lap of Lady Prejudice to seek their former repose . "

    The Rev . Mr . Jackson stated that he had discovered with astonishment , during * his numerous journies , an apathy to this institution , which he had attempted to remove . To three objections he had been frequently compelled to attend . 1 . Tbut this institution had already effected so much , and so essentially extended the limits of toleration , that no objects now remained to demand exertions . To that

    objection the proceedings of the past year presented an irresistible reply . 2 . That the funds of the Society were too ample "to require addition . A mournful but decisive answer had beeu also this < 3 ay supplied to that remark . As it now appeared that the total annual income h ^ . d been inadequate to discbarge scarcely half of the unavoidable expense . And

    3 . That the poverty of congregations and their own necessities prevented them from remitting- even the small annual payment of two pounds . He admitted the inadequacy of compensation for their invaluable labours which many ministers were compelled to accept . But as he could suggest , that if nine persons in each congregation would subscribe only 4 > ne penny per week , the annual sum * f two pounds would

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    Intelligence . S * —Heport of the Protestant Society , 87

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/59/