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    of the United States from the burden of a National Church-Establishment ; but he describes with candour the American Church-of-England clergy : " The Episcopalian clergy in this country have an enjoyment seldom known in

    England , that is , being * chosen by the people , and supported according to their respective merits ; and it is my duty to add , that Episcopalians , as well as the ministers of most other sects , are in general ' labourers worthy of their hire , ' virtuous

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    • " ¦ Ml DOMESTIC . Religious . Unitarian Quarterly Meeting of Ministers in South Wales . On the 30 th of September last the Unitarian Quarterly Meeting of Ministers was

    held at Pant-y-defaid , Cardiganshire , whereat J . James , of Gelli-Onnen , preached from Rev . vii . 14 ; Mr . John Evans , of Carmarthen , preached the preceding * evening at Capel-y-Groes , from Gol . i . 15 ; and also Mr . Thomas Evans , of Aberdare , Glamorganshire , from Eph . vi . 13 .

    The Quarterly Meeting- is intended for the open and public discussion of subjects connected with the Christian religion , as well as for preaching 1 : " and believing- that religious conversation and debates , when properly conducted , are calculated , in an eminent degree , to promote inquiry after truth , and consequently to discover it ; to propagate the truths which may have

    been discovered , and advance the best interests of man ; many of those who were zealous supporters of the meetings , always regretted , that two , three , or four long- sermons should leave so little time for public conference , even if the patience of the congregation were inexhaustible , and theirattention not to be wearied . The

    advocates of one sermon only at one time were not displeased to observe at Pant-ydefaid , on the 30 / h , at a very fnU meeting-, a very large majority voting " , with uplifted bands , for their proposed alteration , in order that more time might be devoted to the subsequent discussion . The

    sercommenced at ten o clock , and immediately after it was concluded , Mr . J . I nomas , minister of the place , was unanimously voted to the chair , and the conference beg-un by the introduction of the

    subject which had been partly discussed at the summer meeting at Llandyfaen , and is to be considered at each meeting ' till it shall have been discussed in every meeting-house in the circle , viz . What are the best Rules to be observed in the Chris-

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    in their conduct , exemplary in their de . portment , exhibiting Christianity in their every-day conduct and intercourse with mankind , and enjoying * the esteem of their congregations . There are none of those divines in the busy hive of America , which you know by the name of dignified clerou partaking- of the largest revenues , and doing the least possible service —conduct which one would think must make their heart shudder at the thought of a judg ment day !"—Pp . 7 , 8 .

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    tian Church ? Though the debate was prolonged till between three and four o * clock , the meeting-house was almost full to the last , and very few , comparatively speaking , left the place till the Chairman quitted the chair r and all seemed to be

    very attentive throughout . The next meet « ing * to be held at Merthyr , December 30 , Mr . J . Da vies , Capel-y-Groes , to preach . J . JAMES . October 15 , 1819 .

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    764 Intelligence . — Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Christian Associaiicn

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    ¦ WW The Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Christian Association . A ' General Meeting- of the Unitarian Christians of Lancashire and Cheshire , held in the Unitarian Chapel , Reuslia * Street , on Tuesday , October 19 tl > , }* l > Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., in the Clmir , it *» unanimously resolved to establish a o . - neral Association of the Unitarian enn tians of- Lancashire and Cheshire , an the following p reamble and rules v > adopted .

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    Liverpool Unitarian Fellowship Fund Society . At a Meeting of the Committee of the Liverpool Unitarian Fellowship Fund So . ciety , held in the vestry of the Unitarian Chapel , Renshaw Street , on Sunday , November 14 , 1819 , it was unanimously resolved ,

    " That feeling a deep and lively interest in the cause of Unitarian ism at Madras , we have witnessed , with g-reat pleasure , the resolutions of the Fellowship Funds of Loughborough and Mount Sorrel , of Exeter and Sheffield : and are ready and

    wil" 1 lingto co-operate with them and tiie other Fellowship Fund Societies already established in tjhe kingdom , for the purpose of carrying * into etiect the important objects suggested in the second letter of William Roberts to the Unitarian Society . GEORGE HARRIS , Secretary .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 764, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/48/