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at York at that time , was recom- mended to them upon trial , and Mr . Wellbeloved , at the request of the society , re-opened the chapel on the 19 th of August , with a very appropriate sermon ^ in the morning , from
Philip , ii . 2 : " Fulfil ye my joy , that ye be like-minded , having the same love , being of one accord , of one mind . " In the afternoon , he preached from Luke iv . 18 : " The spirit of the Lord is upon me , because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to 7
the poor / &c . On the next Sunday , August 26 , Mr . Howson preached , and the society engaged him to preach for them one year , at a salary of £ 60 . At'the termination of the year he left Lincoln , and on the 28 th of October ,
1805 , about two months after Mr . Howson ' s departure , Mr . Israel Worsley , through the recommendation of Mr . Belsham , preached twice , and the society meeting in the evening of the same day , gave him an unanimous invitation to become their
minister . Mr . Worsley was not prepared to reside with them immediately , but came with his wife and family on the first of January , 1806 , Mr , Wright , the Unitarian Missionary , having preached the Sunday before , three times . f
In the course of Mr . Worsley s first year of residence at Lincoln , he was informed that a stated minister had a claim upon the Kirkstead estate , then and now in the possession of Richard Ellison , Esq ., to the amount of £ 6 . annually , which had never been demanded since the death of Mr .
Dunkley , of Kirkstead , in 1789- Mr . Worsley therefore claimed it , and it was afterwards granted annually without demur . To an active mind like Mr . Worsley ' s it was natural to inquire into the source of this annual Allowance from Kirkstead , and this inquiry gradually led to the important discovery that Mr . Ellison was un-
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justl ( y holding in his own hands a very pretty estate of more than a hundred acres , which was left by the family of
the Disneys , of whom Mr . Ellison purchased the whole of Kirkstead , for the support of the Dissenting cause in that village . See some interesting particulars on this subject , Mon . Repos . VIII . 81
Mr . Worsley laid the foundation of a chapel library by a present of nineteen volumes , which were gradually increased by presents from others , and annual subscriptions , partly during his time , and partly since his departure , to more than one hundred and thirty volumes .
On the morning of April 11 th , 1813 , Mr . Worsley , in consequence of his acceptance of an invitation from the Unitarian Society in Plymouth , preached his farewell sermon , and in the afternoon , Mr . Haw kes preached his first sermon as his successor . In
August the same year a Sunday school was instituted , which has averaged , from that time to the present , from seventy to eighty scholars . These are taught gratuitously , partly by the young people of the congregation , anil partly by teachers who were formerly scholars . Since the institution of the
Sunday school , a Sunday school library has been established , which now consists of more than & hundred volumes . Near the close of the year 1817 , a Fellowship Fund and Religious Tract Society were commenced , and also a meeting on the Wednesday evening at the Vestry , commencing
with a short prayer , then a portion of some work , connected with the Unitarian Views , is read , and every one present is at liberty to make any remarks he may think proper : a short prayer concludes the exercise . All these are kept up with growing spirit , and will , it is hoped , lead to beneficial effects . S , and H .
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S 16 History of the Presbyterian Congregation in Lincoln .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/4/
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