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and is in full activity to be extended to any ri 8 « n §• circumstances which may render necessary its assistance ; it has also in some instances been already thus applied . We have united ourselves to the
Association in London for the protection of the civil privileges of Unitarians , by au annual subscription of two guineas and a donation of five pounds Two petitions to the Legislature , for relief respecting the Marriage Ceremony , have been very numerously sig-ned and presented . Satisfied and happy
in ttie open profession of sentiments founded in reason , in agreement with the divine perfections , and which we consider as in equal agreement with divine revelation , we meet our brethren , on this occasion , with great cordiality and much pleasure ; recommending to their continued and most diligent attention , the cultivation and
practice of all those Christian virtues , whereby we may give the greatest weight and power to the sacred truths we are maintaining ; truths which we consider as spreading light around the understanding , and appealing to the warmest and best affections of the heart ; honourable to the divine government and conducive to the true
interest and happiness of mankind . The Reports having concluded with a statement of the Treasurer ' s accounts , a vote of thanks to Mr . Fox fot his " able , eloquent , animated and impressive discourse , " was passed with the most cordial unanimity . The business concluded with the tvvft
following Resolutions : Istj That this Meeting views with peculiar satisfaction the establishment of the Association for the Protection of the Civil Rights of Unitarian Dissenters , and , convinced of its important advantages , respectfully recommends to all the Districts in this connexion , the propriety of uniting themselves with that Institution as soon as
circumstances will allow . 2 nd , That the warmest thanks of this Meeting are due to the Committee , Treasurer and Secretary of that Association , for the able and judicious manner in which they
conducted the late application to Parliament for the exemption of Unitarians from the Marriage Service of the Church of England , and that Mr . Fox be requested to present the same at the next meeting of % he Committee .
The company now adjourned to the Wool-pack Inn , where about one hundred and thirty persons of both sexes , sat down to dinner . The afternoon was spent with great sociability ; several distinguished characters , both living and deceased , were called to remembrance ; among others grateful
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mention was made of Sir James Mac * kintosh and Mr , William Smith , for their late able exertions in Parliament in favour of Unitarian consistency . The mention of the Unitarian Fund drew forth from Mr . Fox a most
animated speech , replete with interesting remark and glowing imagery : we were particularly delighted with his well-earned and energetic encomium on Mr . Wright , with the enchanting colours in which our native county was described by him as harmonizing
with just and ennobling views of the Creator , and especially with the advantageous point of view iii which he represented the lowly walks of life as peculiarly adapted for the reception of the plain , salutary truths , and meek spirit of genuine Christianity . " Civil and religious liberty all the world
over gave rise to a warm expression of rational feeling ; while the systems of general education and the dissemination of the Scriptures were hailed as grand instruments by which an allbeneficent Providence is providing for the instruction , union and felicity of the whole human race . T P . Maidstone , July 15 , 1319 . ¦ ——^^^*—
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453 Intelligence . —Southern Unitttrian Society * j
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' ^^^^^^^^^^^^ H ^ W ^^^™*^^ Southern Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society was held at Letwea , in Sussex , on Wednesday , June 30 , 1819 * In the morning the Rev . John Evans , A . M . delivered an impressive
discourse from Mark i . 45 , on the folly and baseness of being ashamed of & public profession of religious opinions . He shewed that the general doctrines of Christianity , and especially those peculiarly held by Unitarians , such as the unity of the Godhead , the unU versality of divine love , and the
remedial notion of future punishment , were so far from being calculated to call forth shame and reproach , that they were in the highest degree honourable to God atid beneficial to man , and consequently , worthy of universal acceptance and avowal . At the
unanimous request of the Society , Mr . Evans consented to print the Sermon . Fifty persons afterwards dined together at the Star Tim , on the same frugal plan which the Society usually adopts , thus enabling both rich and poor to meet together without inconvenience In the course of the afternoon the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/52/
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