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jifio-ent , to beware how they deprive their hildren of such opportunities on the weekday even for the sake of their attendance at school . m It has afforded us much satisfaction to believe that the Christian practice of daily reading ; n families a portion of Holy
Scripture with a subsequent pause for retirement and reflection , is increasing- amongst us . We conceive that it is both the duty and die interest of those who believe in the fioctrines of the Gospel , and who possess the invaluable treasure of the sacred- Heeords , frequently to recur to them for insttiction and consolation . We are desirous that
this wholesome domestic regulation may he adopted every where . Heads of families , who have themselves experienced the benefit of religious instruction , will do well to consider whether , in this respect , they have not a duty to discharge to their servants and others of their household . Parents , looking * sincerely for help to Him of whom
these Scriptures testify , may not unfrequently , on such occasions , feel themselves enabled and engaged to open to the minds of tfieir interesting charge , the great truths of Christian duty and Christian redemption In considering * this suhject , our younger friends have beeri brought to our remembrance with warm * and tender solicitude .
We hope that many of you , dear youth , are no strangers to thrs practice , and to some we trust it has already been blessed . Hesitate not , ( we beseech all of this class , ) to allot a portion of each day to read and meditate upon the sacred volume in private : steadily direct your minds to Him who alone can open and apply the Scriptures to our spiritual benefit . In these seasons of
retirement , seek for ability to enter into a close examination of the state of your own hearts ; and as you may be enabled , secretly pray to the Almighty for preservation from the temptations with which you are encompassed . Your advancement in a life of ljumi-Kty , dedication and dependence upon Divine aid , is a subject of our roost tender
concern . That you might adorn our holy profession , by walking ; watchfully before fte Lord , and upholding our various testimonies , was the care of some of our dear " H of whose decease we have been at ( his time informed . Theii were concerned d
early life to evince their love to the Truth ; « iey served the Lord in uprightness and fcar in thejr generation , and , in their dosing moments , were permitted to feel an »« mble trust that , through the mediation ° * our Redeemer , they should become heirs \? kingdom that shall never have an end . ket their exam pie encourage you to offer * " your natural powers , and every intellec-| U * Lattl " nment > t 0 the service of the same ^ j and patiently to persevere in a course r unremitting obedience to the Divine Will . ow . dear friends , of every age and ot * 7 class , we bid you affectionately fare-
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well in the Lord Jesus . Let us ever bear in mind , whether we attempt , under the influence of Christian love , to maintain our testimonies to the spiritual and peaceable kingdom of the Lamb , whether we attempt to ^ promote the present and future welfare of our fellow-members and fellow-men • let us ever remember , that if we obey the Divine commandments , we shall do all to
the £ lory of God ; we shall always acknowledge that it is of his mercy , if we ever become partakers of the unspeakable privilege of the true disciples of Him who " died for all , that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves , but unto him who died for them , and rose again . ' *
Signed in and on behalf of the Meeting , by William Dillwobth Ckevtdscw , Clerk to the Meeting this Year
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• Intelligence . —Chapel Exemption Bill . * 45 5
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Chapel Exemption Bill . House of Commons , June 1 st . On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Hones resolred into a Committee upon the Chapel Exemption 4 &ill .
Mr . WrottesJey expressed his intention to move an amendment—that in all chapels or meeting-houses hereafter erected , the exemption from poor ' s rate $ proposed by this bill , should be granted only upon the condition of having a certain number of free seats , proportioned to the size of the chapel or meeting-house .
General Thornton deprecated the levelling principle of this bill , which tended , in his judgment , to injure the Constitution by interfering with the consequence of the Church establishment . It was also objectionable as it proposed to exempt Dissenting meeting-houses from
the payment of poor ' s-rate , and thus increase the quantity of that rate upon the Protestant parishioners . He therefore moved an amendment—To exempt meeting-houses , and to grant the proposed exemption to such chapels only as were of the Established Church .
This amendment was opposed by Mr . H . Martini and Mr . Serjeant Onslow , on the ground that it was entirely hostile tr > the principle of the bill , and the tolerant object which that bill had in view . Mr . Protheroe supported the bill , as it would remove a very galling distinction now subsisting between two classes of the
community . The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended the introduction of the hill , as relieving * a number of meritorious individuals ; from vexation , by no means infringing * upon any parochial privileges . * At the same time he did not wish to be considered as giving any other weight to the measure
* 2 Cor . v . 15 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/55/
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