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Warwickshire Unitarian Tract Society * —The members of the Unitarian Tract Society , established in Birmingham , for Warwickshire and the neighbouring counties , held tKeir Annual Meeting , at Kidderm iuster , on Wednesday , June 21 st . In
the morning' the devotional service was conducted , and the scriptures were read by Mr . Little , of Birmingham . The Rev . Charles Berry , of Leicester , preached from the 3 d verse of the Epistle of Jude . " That ye should earnestly contend ^ for the faith which was once delivered to the saints ''
The sermon , which was distinguished throughout by a most pleasing * spirit of piety and candour , contained an able defence of the scriptural doctrine , that there is hut one God , the Father . The ar&uments employed by the preacher , in themselves far from common-place , were ex-1
hibited in so strikinga light , and were so admirably guarded as to make a deep impression upon his hearers . Mr . Berry was urged to lay the sermon before the public . It is heped that his reluctance to do this , will at length yield to the earnest wishes of his friends . A discourse has seldom
been delivered , on a similar occasion , that appeared more likely to subserve the inteiests of Christian truth and virtue . At the conclusion of the service , Mr . Richard Watson being- called to the chair , the minutes of the last general meeting , and of the subsequent committee meeting's , were read by the Secretary . After the usual
business had been transacted , and a resolution formed which promises to ensure a regular supply of interesting tracts , upwards of fifty members and friends of the Society dined together . In the course of the afternoon , several gentlemen addressed the meeting-: viz . The Charman , Dr . Toulmin , Mr . Berry , Mr . Turner , of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Mr . Little , Mr . Fry , Mr . Kentish , and Mr . Biansby . Dr . Toulnrin spoke at considerable length , entering into a detail of the origin and progress of the different Unitarian Book Societies in the kingdom . He bore what may now be regarded as a dying testimony to the truth and imp
ortauce of those doctrines , under the influence of which his great character was formed , and of which he was , through a long series of years , the advocate and the ornament . With a fervour of devotion and a glow of countenance , not readily to be forgotten , he expressed his gratitude to Providence that he was led , at a very early period of
his life , to see the evidence for the doctrines of the strict unity and unrivalled supremacy of God , and the subordination and dependence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . " I thank my God , " said he , u this day , that he gave me resolution , at the beginning of my ministry , to avow my helief of these doctrines—a belief which the continued inquiries of fifty-four years have served only to confirm . "
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In the evening , Mr . Bransby conducted the devotional service ; and the Rev . Wil liana Turner , of Newcastle-upon-T yne < Je ~ livered a very serious and impressive dis ] course , on tne grounds of the love which Jesus bore to good men , from Mark iii 35 I * Whoso shall do the will of God , the same is my brother , and sister , and mother /' Twenty-five names were added io ihe list of members . J . H . B
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2 * 28 Ii % telligence *~ Wurwick 3 kire Unitarian Tratt Society .
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Grenock Unitarian Ckapel . Sir , Greenock , 16 th Aug > 181 & . By desire of the Committee of the Greenock and Port-Glasgow Unitarian Fund , h
I beg" leave to lay before you , and throug the Repository , before the Unitarians 0 South Britain , a short account of the origin and progress of our infant institution , and to request your and their aid in support 0
the objects connected with it . In consequence of the resolutions of »* last meeting « f the Scotch Ijjntarian Association to send out missionaries , George Harris , their Secretary , wa * a * j t pointed by the Committee to p reach Greenock on Sunday the 16 th Juty ^' By means of advertisements and tne ** tions of a few friends , the attention ot w public was somewhat excited , and nea 300 persons , being about as many as place of meeting would seat , were pres
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On Tuesday , 25 th July , a meeting was held at Portsmouth , in consequence of the resolutions passed at Salisbury , by the members of the Southern Unitarian Society , ( see M . R . p . 445 ) which was
attended by the Rev . B . Treleaven , Rev . J . Brent , Rev . B . Travers , Rev . W . J . Fox , T . Cooke , Esq . W . Cooke , Esq . J-. Carter ! Esq . J . Florance , Esq . J . Fullagar , Esq . and several other gentlemen from different congregations in the Southern district ; when it was resolved that a new Society
should he formed , under the denomination of the Southern Unitarian Fund Society j that its objects should he to enable poor Unitarian congregations to carry 01 . Religious Worship , and to reimburse tbr traveling * and other expenses of Preachers who may contribute their labours to the preaching of the gospel on Unitarian principles , within the Southern district : that a
committee should meet once every two months , at Portsmouth , to conduct the business of the Society ; and that the Re ? . W . J . Fox should fill the offices of Secretary and Treasurer for the ensuing year . Other resolutions were passed for the regulation of the Society , and the furtherance
of its objects , and several donations aou subscriptions were received . There wai service in the evening , at the Baptist Meeting House , when an interesting and impressive discourse was delivered by the Rev . B . Treteaven , of Dorchester , from John iv . 24 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/64/
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