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vonshire , during the last summer , by Mr ; Smethurst of JMoreton-Hanapstead . Additional interest was given to the abstract of Mr . Snielhurst ' s journal , by information extracted from letters just received from Mr . Wright ^ who was , at the time of the meeting , actively employed in the same district . Ii appeared that the successive
visits of the missionaries had excited an increasing attention to religious subjects , and disposition for inquiry , and that the prospects were such as to render Cornwall especially deserving * of the attention of those to whom the interests of the Society may in future be entrusted . 4 . The
Report then stated the separate cases in which grants of money had been made for the introduction or support of Unitarian worship , and the progress of the cause in those congregations which have been raised or cherished by the Unitarian Fund . Under this head some interesting information was communicated relative to the
congregations at Colchester , Woolwich , Lutton , Reading * , lluddersfield , &c . The Committee also informed the Society , that in consequence of the increased expense of travelling * to Mr . Wright , from his not being * able to take such long * journeys on foot as formerly 3 and also of his being deprived of some additions to his income by the relinquishment of the character of
a stated , minister , m order to devote himself wholly to the service of the Unitarian Fund , they had voted an addition to his salary , and at the same time suggested the expediency of his residing , when not engaged in missionary journeys , in or near London , that he might assist in the introduction of Unitarian preaching * into the villages about the metropolis , and in di-1
rectingthe operations of ' such persons as should be found properly qualified to act as local preachers . This resolution met with the cordial concurrence of the meeting . Allusion was made in the Report to some instances in which the Fund , without deviating from the pursuit of its main
objects , has incidentally been very useful to the Unitarian cause . Great numbers of valuable tracts are every year distributed , under circumstances most favourable to their being * read with advantage . By the exertions of its Committee , in conjunction with several subscribers to the Fund , who solicited their co-operation . the
Association for Protecting the Civil Rights of Unitarians was formed , an account of whose proceedings will be found in our present Number [ pp . 377—386 ] . Benefactions , of £ 50 . each , were acknowled g ^ from the Rev . Charles Toogood , of sherborne ; from Joseph Lid dell , h *< l ' , of . Moore-Park ; and from E . Johnson , Btq ., the Rev . W . Johnston , and the
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Rev . T . Jervis , as executors of tjhe late Swan Downer , Esq .: a Vote of thanks to those gentlemen was unanimously passed , and they were elected honorary members of the Society / In consequence of these very liberal donations , the balance in the Treasurer ' s
hands is not yet annihilated , although it has been found necessary , for the two or three past years , to apply a part of it to the current expenditure . The veyy usefulness of the Society , by extending- the sphere rff its operations , increasing * the number of small congregations partly depending upon
its assistance , and creating * opportunities for further diffusion of its principles , imposes the necessity for augmented exertion for its support . Some aid , though but little , has been derived from Fellowship Funds and congregational collections , and the annual contribution of the itev . T .
Broadbenfs congregation at Warrington , is especially entitled to notice and thanks : to these sources , in connexion with individual subscriptions , it is hoped the Unitarian Fund may look with confidence for the * n eans of future and wider usefulness
The Rev . Rnssel Scott , of Portsmouth , was announced as preacher at the next anniversary . r The following gentlemen w ^ re chosen into office for the ensuing year : J . CHRISTIE , Esq . Treasurer . W . J . FOX , Secretary . Committee . Rev . R . ASPLANEL Mr . D . EATON , Mr . S . HART , Mr . T . HORNBY , Mr . E . JOHNSTON , Jan . Mr . G . SMALLFIELD , Mr . JE . TAYLOR .
Auditors . Mr . B . TAYLOR , Mr . B . KENNEDY . Collector * Mr . W . J . TITFORD , 4 % Coleman Street ,
To whom it is requested that those ministers and gentlemen in the country who have consented to receive subscriptions for the Fund , will forward the sums col * lected . by them . As a corrected list of subscribers will speedily be printed , it is desirable at the same time that any changes of abode , new subscriptions , &C » , should be particularly noticed . v
In the afternoon about three hundred members and friends of the Society dined together at the London Tavern , W . Frend ^ B « q . in tbe CJhair , TT ^ re were not ro many ministers from the country as usual .
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lnteUtgmce »~ Vnitariari Fund Anniversary . $ &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/51/
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