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one of the ministers shall be requested to take the Chair alternately . The lowest subscription is five shillings per annum , to be collected quarterly or annually at the option of the subscribers . And it may be regarded as one among many indications of the zeal and liberality of the Lenin ' s M * ead Congregation , that the annual subscriptions do not fall far short of one hundred pounds . The cases to be submitted to the monthly meetings , are first considered by a committee , consisting of the ministers and seven members
anntrilly chosen from the congregation . The Rev . John liovve was elected President , G . JH . Ames , Esq ., Treasurer , and J . B . Estlin , Esq ., Secretary . At the close of the proceedings it was unanimously resolved , ** That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to the Rev . John Rov \ e , for his able and judicious conduct in the Chair , and for his important services in the cau !> e of "Christian truth . '
Loughboronyli and Mowitsorrel Fellowship Fund . At a meeting of the Committee of the Fellowship Fund belonging to tfce uniter ! Unitarian congregations of JLoni * hborough and MounLsorrel , ( established April 4 , 1819 , ) held at L , oughboronoh f July \\ f the case of the native Unitarians of Madras was 4 ^ ken into consideration . * It was proposed that one of the first uses to which we apply our funds , be to give a helping hand to the infant church in that country , and that the same laudable object be recommended to the other Fellowship Funds throughout England . It is also the opinion of the Committee ,-that if the different Funds of the Unitarian Church would join in this Christian undertaking , and some spirited person could be found to conduct it , we might not only speedily , but easily fuJfil the earnest wishes of the Madras Unitarians , by sending a missionary to those parts of the globe . WE PARKINSON . July 20 , 1819-
———f—,. ? See an interesting" memorial of Roberts , a native Unitarian Christian of Madras , inserted in the Christian Reformer -for January , 1818 , p . L
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456 Intelligence *—Religious * — -Miscellaneous .
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Removals among Unitarian Minister's . The Rev . John Gaskell , A . M ., late of Thorne , has accepted an invitation from the Unitarian congregation at Dukinfield , and has entered upon his engagements as their minister . Mr . Gaskell is succeeded at Thorne by the Rev . Wm . Worsley , A . B . late of Manchester College , York .
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Miscellaneous . A cur jo us suit has been instituted in the Court of Arches by Dr . Wilson , Rector of St * Mary ' s , Aldermary , in the city of London * " as to the right of the parson or vicar of the parochial church to take the chair at vestry meetings * virtrite offic'ii" Argument has been heard on both sides , and Sir John Nicholl is to pronounce judgment the beginning of next term .
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The Marquis of Hastings lately addressed a letter from India to the Directors of the Belfast Academical , Institution , in which he avows his attachment to that liberal institution . The whole letter is in the best Irish feeling . " Restrictions and exclusions , " ( says the Marquis , referring to the catholic plan of the Academy , ) * ' are as inconsistent whh the policy as with the benevolence of such an establishment . You justly leave the faith of the individual between him and his God ; seeking only to open tlie mind ' to those moral convictions , which , whatsoever be the religious creed , make man safe for his fellow . "
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The JRej / al Martyr is yearly losing his importance , if not his place , as a Saint in the English Calendar . In a bill for facilitating business in the Court of Kings Bench , brought into the House of Commons by Mr . Denman , with the sanction of the Judges , it is proposed , though , according to tUe mover , as a matter " of small importance , " that the Court shall sit on the 30 th of January . The service for this day in the Book of Common Prayer will , we suppose , remain to the end of time , or until the Church shall ha ^ e to boast of some new Mart yr .
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Thk ingenuity of the English people is great . Horses are now made by the coach and wheelwrights , and a shrewd tradesman advertizes a Patent
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/56/
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