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Mount ' s Bay . Here we had an assembly of about five hundred people on the sea side . It was a delightful morning , the scenery * , including land and sea , was beautiful and grand the congregation sat on the grass , the scattered rocks , and the saad . I
preached to them on the parable of the prodigal son . Never did I see a congregation more deeply affected than this , while I was insisting * oi * the free mercy of God , as the Father of his sinful creatures . This scene
brought to ~ my recollection how the word of life was first preached , by our great Master , and the fishermen of Galilee , on the « ca side , or in any place where the people were disposed to listen to the glad tidings . 9 . JSlousehole *
Another fishing village , on the western side of Mount ' s Bay . A man had met us from this place at the former village , conducted us hither , guided us to a proper spot oh the shore for holding a meeting * , and went round and informed the inhabitants . About
two hundred and fifty persoBs assembled , and listened very attentively to a discourse on the love of God . The majority of the hearers at this and the preceding place , were fishermen .
10 . St . Ives . This is a populous towa , and gives its name to a spacious bay on the north side of Cornwall . Here the people were assembled ob the sand , near the sea , and I preached to about one thousand persons . Though it rained during the service , none of the congregation left the spot , but others continued
coming , and the whole were very attentive . A sailor , of whom I had no previous knowledge , held an umbrella over me . After the ser-vice , two gentlemen came to us at our inn , and offered a , large boat-house , for the use of any Unitarian Missionary : who may visit that part of Cornwall , at any future period : they also agreed to receive books to distribute .
11 . St . Earth . Passing through this small town from St . Ives , back to Falmoulh , two friends walked round and informed the inhabitants that a meeting would be held immediately , a good company came together ,, I preached to them in the open air , and had a very attentive hearing .
12 . St . Day , Is situated in the principal mining district . Heue I preached in the middle of the day , neai the market-place , to a pretty large and attentive audience .
13 , Redrnth , A populous town in the midst of the pr incipaLmining district . This was the centre of what is called the late revival among the Methodist * , which appears , from what I heard , to have been a scene of great extravagance and absurdity . In this town I
man met me , and said , " I bless God that iMpreacher of your description is come to this par " | of the country .
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preached twice , in the public street . The first congregation was estimated at nva hundred , the second at one thousand persons . 14 . Camborne .
A small market-town is the same district Here I preached by the side of the marketplace , to about two hundred people who were brought together by two friends calling at their houses to inform their .-of the meeting .
15 . Tuckingmili . A . village in . the same district . Here I preached to about a hundred people wha were assembled in the street . 16 . Pool , Another Village in the same district . Heie I preached to about three hundred persons ^ who were assembled at the front of the principal Inn .
Some persons followed us from town to town , from village to village , to hear th « different discourses preached in the four or five last mentioned places . 17 . St . Agnes . A small market-town , on the north side of the country , surrounded by mines . Here I preached in the market-place to about one thousand people . 18 . Chase-Water .
A village in a mining district . I preached to about one hundred people , in a public road . 19 . Truro . A large and well built town . Here I preached twice at the High Cross . The first congregation was estimated at more than one thousand , the second at one thousand five hundred or one thousand six
hundred persons . The Rvst evening after the public service we had some conversation and debate with Calvinists and others . It was agreed to renew the debate , at the time I had appointed to * visit and preach at Truro again ; but after the second preaching * the
Calvinists decli ned-coming ' forward ; though one of them told the people I was ten times worse than the devil . The second evening I preached in this town , after the public service , I had an interesting conversation and debate with a sensible Jew . We had
also conversation with several other persons . The UuitariBn cause is not without its friends in Truro . During our journey in Cornwall , my rcllow-traveler and myself , were much engaged in conversation with various persons , when not employed in regular and public services : sometimes with persons as we
walked by the way , sometimes with those we visited at their houses , and occasionally with persons where we happened to cailon the road . In one way or the other our time was fully occupied , and the great objects which called us so far westward left * us little leisure or interval of repose , till we bad the pain of bidding faireweH ' to our Cornish Friends . * [ To be concluded in our next . ]
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7 * 0 Intdliancc Wright and Cooper ' s MitsioTUfry Tattr in Cornwall
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/56/
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