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When the business of the Society was declared to have been concluded by a vote of thanks to the Chairman , the question proposed for discussion at the last quarterly meeting was taken into consideration \ J . James , Gelli-Onnen , in the chair . The
question was , What are the best regulations for the government of the Christian Church ? The principal speakers were , Mr * B . Philips , St . Clears , Mr . D . Davies , Neath , and Mr . W . Williams , Llangendeyrn . To
give even an outline of the discussion would , perhaps , be at present premature ; as the question is to be taken into consideration at every quarterly meeting , till it will have gone through the whole circle in which it is to
move . The next quarterly meeting was appointed to be held at Pant-teg ( near Newcastle ) , Carmarthenshire , in the next Michaelmas week ; and J . James , of Gelli-Onnen , was nominated to preach on the occasion . July 16 , 181 9 * J . JAMES .
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and believing that God , even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ / is the only true God 9 the only proper object of religious , worship , and . the sole ortginal source of gospel blessings , Resolved unanimously ,
1 . That a Society be formed , having for its primary object , to aid in promoting the knowledge and dissemination of these great truths , and especially in the establishment or encouragement of Christian worship agreeably to them , —hy such means , more
particularly , as are not embraced by the present Congregational Fund , * which , though of great utility and importance , is applicable only to the relief of indigent ministers or their widows , or to the assistance of young
men designed for the ministry , in pur * cuing their studies . 2 * That in reference to the objects in view , and as a mark of respect to the memory of that eminently excel * lent individual , ( the late Dr .
Thomson , ) who first publicly proposed the formation of such societies , and suggested the appellation , this Society be denominated the Bristol Unitarian Fellowship Fun d *
Most of the subsequent Resolutions are of a local nature , but we copy the sixth as what may suggest a useful addition to the usual purposes of such societies .
6 . That a meeting of the members of the Fellowshi p Fund , shall be held in the Lecture-room , on the second Wednesday in every month , at seven o ' clock , ( of which meeting , notice shall be given during divine service on the preceding Sunday , ) to
determine on cases which may be submitted to the Society , and to receive communications respecting the progress of Unitarian sentiments ; and it shall be regarded as among the objects of these monthly meetings , ( under such regulations as may be found
expedient , ) to consider difficulties which may have occurred to any of the members , respecting the principles of Unitarianisni , to promote the practical influence of those principles , and to cherish among us a spirit of Christian union . — At the monthly meetings , in the absence of the President ,
* This Fund is principally raised by annual contributions , dt a collection made after a sermon connected with the object .
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Intelligence—Fellowship Funds * 455
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Fellowship Funds . Bristol Unitarian Fellowship Fund . —We have received from Bristol a copy of the objects and rules of this Fund , which was established near the close of February last , after a discourse on " the Christian , Union of a Christian Church . " We extract the
following particulars . At the congregational meeting , held for the purpose , the Rev . John Rowe in the Chair , it was unanimously agreed as follows : 1 . It is required by Christian duty , that we promote , as far as lies in our power , what we believe to be 4 t the truth as it is in Jesus . "
2 . The advantages of union , to promote the great purposes of Christian benevolence , are extensive and important : it affords means of accomplishing them , to which individual exertions must be inadequate ; it tends to excite zeal , and to give it a
prudent and efficacious direction ; and , while it contributes to strengthen the hands , and to encourage the hearts ,, of those whose immediate duty it is to labour in holy things , it connects together , by the ' bonds of mutual cooperation in a great and good cause , * U wl ^ o feel a cordial interest in its succ ess * Agreeably to these general views ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/55/
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