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The report mentioned to his honour , that he had for many years past received 10 L per annum Ies $ for , his divinity than for his lay students ; besides allowing the former gratuitous access to his- library , for which the parents of the latter paid two guineas at their entrance .
On Mr . Gilchrist ' s ability for training up acceptable ministers of the gospel , it ivould be premature to make any observations ; but should it hereafter be found that the Committee have made a judicious choice of a Tutor to v . the Academy , the writer will perhaps be allowed to say , —this institution is deserving the attention
and support of the Unitarians at large , as being the only one in the South of England -in wjiich , without a creed being subscribed * their views of Christian truth will be inculcated on the minds of divinity students * When the business of the Assembly
was finished , the ministers , representatives of the churches , and several friends not in connexion with the General Baptist denomination , retired to the White , Hart , Bishopsgate Street , and sat down to-. dinner , in number about sixty . The preacher , as is usual on this occasion , was in the chair .
and , after the cloth was removed , gave several toasts . In the course ; of the evening the company were addressed by different gentlemen , among whom the chsurman , in his prefaces to the
sentiments he proposed , was necessarily conspicuous . Mr . Marten , of Dover , in alluding to the Committee , observed , that hitherto they had not done much calculated to effect any
particular change in the state of the cause at large ; but he was aware that they had been prevented from doing what they might have thought adr visable , in consequence of not having funds at their disposal . He , however , hoped , that they would hereafter be
furnished with the means of adopting such measures as they might consider expedient , when Fellowship Funds , established in all the churches , as recommended in the Committee ' s Report and sanctioned by the Assembly that day , should be in a state of effective
operation . The evening was spent in uninterrupted harmony , and the company broke up at an eady hour . E- IX > voi . xiv . S e
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Association . 377
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Unitarian Association . The ; Annual General Meeting of the Unitarian Association was held at the London Tavern ,. Bishopsg ate , 911 Thursday , the Sjd of June , ** fc a » e o ' clock , _ ? ... . . ¦ . . / ,. ¦ , ' " . '¦ " , ,. ;¦ . v Thomas Hardy , Esq was called to the Chair . -. "' The Secretary read the following Report of the Committee : ^ " Although , by the resolution * k the meeting in which this Association originated , the members of the present Committee continue in office till
the General Meeting of 1820 , they conceive it be their duty to give an account in the mean time to the members of the Association , of the matters . which have occupied their consideration during the short interval which has elapsed since their appointment .
" The objects to which the Committee of this Association can be called upon to direct their attention , must of course be very uncertain' in their occurrence . The cases in which they may have to afford their assistance
and support to resist aggression , will ( it is to be hoped ) seldom occur , and the propriety of endeavours to enlarge the limits of religious freedom must depend , for the most part , on the contingency of opportunities favourable to exertion .
" The only matter of public interest , in which the committee have hitherto felt themselves called upon by tlje general wish to interfere , is the present state of the Marriage LW , as it more peculiarly affects Unitarian Dissenters ; and they have thought th «? present a fit time for the agitation of the question .
"On investigating the subjecVthey have found that the grievance complained of , is one comparatively of very modern origin ;—that prior to the Marriage Act , which was passed pnly sixty-six years ago , all Dissenters were legally entitled to the celebration of marriage as a ceremony * in the
manner most consonant to their parr ticular opinions , so as the legalrequv sites of a contract binding on the parties were preserved ;— th ^ t they have , therefore , now only to ask for a restoration of the rights which h « ave been sfuspended by , tl * e op ^ atioa of aa act which , it is evident , vva » ney ^ r intended to infringe on reHgious t \~
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/33/
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