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exertion , by exertions equally active , and we must learn to unite in defence of our rights and our principles . Individual efforts may do much , but those efforts concentrated , organized , regulated and combined , will do much more . From a conviction , of the
necessity of united exertion , tiave arisen , 1 . Our parent Book Society , with its numerous children in the West , South , North and East , 2 . Our Unitarian Fund ; , and now S . Our Unitarian Association * for the Protection of our
Civil Rights . All these have a claim upon us for support , and through the establishment of Fellowship Funds thgy may all be easily arid powerfully assisted . » We see , with great satisfaction , the continual increase of these Funds , and we trust the time is not
far distant when they will become universal amongst us . No congregation is too small or too poor to establish and keep up a Fellowship I * und , and when once established , their permanence and their success is certain .
We wiJi only add , that the value and importance of correct religious opinions , and the comfort and happiness enjoyed by such as possess them , are * amply sufficient to justify and encourage every honest exertion for their propagation . We have duties
to perform to God and our own consciences , which are quite above and beyond the influence arising from the opinion of the world . With unprejudiced and earnest attention to the attainment of scriptural views of God and his government * with a sitacere
and anxious desire to form right conclusions oa the great concerns of religion , boldly to avow the opinions to which our inquiries may conduct Hb , and to worship out Creator according to the dictates of <* ur consciences , are rights which we ought to value .
* i } d which we should be culpable not to exercise . And if , in the discharge of what we regard a « a duty , We do associate together , to endeavour , in some degree * to stem the tide of calumny , to expose bigotry , to
inform the ignorant , to reprove the scorner , and to hold up the simple , puteand native gospel , who will have any ground to censure ufe ? Let us be animated tq f > ttr « evei \ inc <* in this good work . Let us anticipate tbte
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time when " a little one shall become a thousand , and a small one a strong nation : " when " we shall lift up our
eyes round about , ' and ail shall gather themselves together and come to us : " when " the nations gathered together * and the people assembled , shall hear and testify—This is the truth . "
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38 * Intelligence . —Frotesttmt Soeietg i Mr * Wilks f Speech
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Protestant Society . ( Concluded from p . 336 , ) Mr . Wilks continued : — -The attention of the Committee to Parliamentary Pro * ceeditigs affecting- Dissenters , also should not be overlooked . The Nevv' Church
Bill would require practical attention : as long' as the present provisions were retained the evil would be limited . Now no church could be erected at the parochial charge , without parochial consent : —now no emolument , but from pew-rents , could be obtained ; but alterations would
be attempted . Mr . Moore a clergyman at Birmingham , bad published a letter to Lord Liverpool , entreating' that rates might be imposed on the parishes when new churches are built , to ensure to the
minister of every church and cb&pel a salary of from £ 300 . to £ 600 , per annum . u Obsta priacipits" was * therefore ^ the maxim he would recommend ; and only by the most unslumbering * vigilance could they be secure . ( Applause . ) A bill had been introduced into
Parliament , entitled The Parish Clerks * Mill . 1 * his bill was privately brought forward , and had actually been read a first and second time , and referred to a Committee , and yet being- masked by a specious title , the contents were unknown , although it would have taken upwards of £ 10 , 000
atsmiaMy out of the pockets of the inhabitants of the metropolis , and imposed upon Dissenting * ministers duties as unprecedented and intolerable , as they were novel and absurd . By the efforts of the officers of the Society , the evil was discoveredthe design exposed—Dissenting- ministers cautioned and aroused . ——They met at
their Library , appointed a Committee , and its rejection had been obtained . ( Vhterz . ) Another bill , now before Parliament , required to be regarded with a still more scrutinizing eye . It is entitled ^ A BiU to prevent the Misapplication of Poor Rates . " What title could be more spe * cious or captivating- ? Can that bill benefit Dissenters ? Is it not a bill similar in
effect to that execrated measure , which , ih the reigia of Queen Anne , sought to deprive the Protestant Dissenters of their parental and dtrateist rights , in giving irtftfrirctfafi tb their otvn children > fh i * KB mil enfe&te tto < tfffi <*) t % Iff £ Arisfies 4 > *****
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/44/
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