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be thereby provided , and eightpence remain to pay the postage of the remittance . He hoped that the apology of poverty would disappear , add that subscriptions would be cheerfully , generally , and permanently supplied . The Rev . William Seaton detailed the
dreadful outrages which he had witnessed and suffered at Andover , and offered his tribute of praise to the Committee , for the promptitude and decision of their ad vice and support . Notwithstanding- popular tumults and magisterial opposition , he had thereby been enabled to persevere . To the circumstances stated in the narrative of the
Committee , he added , that the owner of the place of worship at Abbotts Ann , being a smith , their opponents had introduced another smith into the villag-e to obtain his trade ., and thereby to compel his departure . But those efforts had failed . The plain poor man was neither to be terrified nor bribed \ and for himself , although he had l > een the subject of such repeated persecutions , he should not count even his life dear in such
a cause . The Rev . J . Burder , Mr . Parry , and Mr . Hunt , gave their testimony to the useful results from the existence of this Society in Gloucestershire , in Wales , in Sussex and in . Hampshire ; and enumerated the cases in which bishops , deans and magistrates , taught by its past exertions , had
referred to its influence and resources , and reluctantly abstained from evils and complied with demands , which they appeared otherwise disposed to i 12 flict and unwilling to bestow . Mr . Hunt also assured the Society that to the county association of which he was Secretary , his convictions should be carefully , and he hoped successfully expressed .
Sanctioned by such statements and by such remarks , the resolutions were adopted , not only with unanimity , but with enthusiasm . Additional conviction of the importance of the Society , inspired those who were previously convinced . Those ministers whose zeal had become languid , felt their languor disappear ^ The spirits of the ancient Nonconformists and Christian
confessors seemed to have revived . Their hatred to oppression , their love of liberty , their desire to remove all illegal and degrading obstacles to the evangelization of the country and of the world , reanimating the persons present at the meeting , must not only attract to this Society their personal attachment , but will impel that active exertion of their ministerial and local
influence in its behalf , by which its continuance and increasing prosperity must be certainly insured . That the indulgence of such sentiments may not be prevented by want of information ,, we only additionally state , that two pounds are the amount of the annual cahi tributiorts expected from each congrega-
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tion in England , and one pound fro&j every congregation in Wales ; that such subscriptions become due at Lad y-Day and that tliey and the arrears may be transmitted by friends or by the post to the Treasurer , Robert Steven , Esq . U pper Thames-Street , London ^ or to either of the Secretaries , Thomas Pelxatt , Esq
Ironmongers -Hall , and John Wilks , Esq . Finsbury-Place , London 5 to the latter of whom applications may be addressed . And that any country ministers or their friends will always be received with pleasure at the meetings of the Committee , which occur on the last Tuesday in every month , at the N " ew London Taverny Cheapside .
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S 88 Intelligence . —General Association of the Scotch Unitarians .
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General Association of the Unitarians of Scotland . C \ N Sunday and Monday , May 14 th and / T 15 thy was held at the Unitarian Chapel , Edinburgh , the Third Annual Meeting of the General Association of the Unitarians of Scotland . Delegates were present from Glasgow , Paisley , Carluke , Dundee , Crieff . Dunfernoline , &c .
On Sunday , the devotional part of the morning servivice was conducted by Mi * . George Harris , and a sermon was preacned by the Rev . James Synae , the Missionary of tlie Society ; the subject , the Goodness of God . In the afternoon , a discourse was delivered by the Rev . T . S . Smith , the Minister of the Chapel , on * tlie conduct of the primitive Christians 3 and in the
evening , the Annual Sermon was delivered by the Rev . James Yates , of Glasgow , on the Duty and Manner of Deciding tlie more Important Religious Controversies , from the passage 1 st Kings , xviii . 21 , " And Elijah came unto all the people , and saidj * How long halt ye hetween two opinions ? If the Lord he God , follow him ; but if Baal , then follow him . ' " On the merits of this Discourse it is needless to
dwell , as , in compliance with' the unanimous request of the Society , it is already hefore the the public . In the morning and afternoon , the congregations were very numerous , and in the evening ? tne Chapel was completely crowded . On Monday , the memhers of the Association met in the Chapel to transact the business of the institution . After joining
in singing and prayer , Richard Davenport , Esq . was unanimously elected President of the Meeting , and the Report of the Committee for the past year was read by the Secretary . The Committee commence * their report , by relating the proceedings ft the last Annual Meeting , and expresse d the joy they experienced on again W »* j * ing in their country , that zealous and indefatigable labourer in the cause « j f P Christianity , the Rev . Richard Wfig * - The report next adverted to the » PP 011 ! * inent of the Rev . James Syttie to be *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/60/
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