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Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . On Tuesday , April 1 st , the Half-Yearly Meeting of the Sorrier set and Dorset tJnitarian Association was held at Bridgwater . The religious services , morning and evening , were performed by the Rev . S . Fawcett , D . Hughes and G . B . Wawne .
It was resolved that the next Meeting should be held at Crewkerne , on which occasion the Society hare reason to hope for the advantage of Mr . Fawcett ' s services as their preacher . The plan adopted last year for the circulation of cheap tracts has met with general approbation , and the Committee have resolved to
distribute this year Mr . Wright ' s Essay on Repentance , ( one of the * Christian Tracts , " ) and , if possible , to procure the publication , in a separate form , of a part of Mr . Aspland ' s Plea for Unitarian Dissenters , viz . that part in which the principles of Upltarianism are admirably exhibited botji in contrast with the Articles of the Church of England , and in the words' of $ cripture . G . B . W .
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$ 46 Intelligence . —Southern Unitarian Ttmt andFund * Societies .
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Southern Unitarian Tract and Fund Societies . The Southern Unitarian Tract and Southern Unitarian Fund Societies , held their Annual Meetings at Portsmouth , on the 2 d of April . The Rev . William
Stevens , late of Newport , preached in the morning before the Tract Society , at the General Baptist Chapel , from Luke iii . 5 , 6 . He took a review of the obstacles which Unitarian sentiments have to encounter , and of those favourable circumstances which indicate their ultimate
success . The preacher observed , that it might on . superficial consideration be expected that doctrines so benign , rational and scriptural need only be announced , to meet with general acceptance ; but when we look at the nature and antiquity of prevalent errors , the firm hold they have taken on men's minds ,
and the dependence of one false dogma on others , so that the inquirer shrinks with horror from the consequences which may follow from removing any part of the fabric , we shall have more cause for gratulation than disappointment . Pride , in tere . ' 81 , ; the ; influence . of national
establishments , and tfce mistaken and calumnious reports of Unitarianism given by its adversaries * wwe « pointed out as other powerful pbstacle ^ V ^ d ^ r the last-mentione < J head , Mr . ^ observed , "¦ , " Tjiqre is U { O subj ^ t upon which there is a mor ^ ex ^ vag ^ Vt in ^ underatan ^» g As %% frwpp * fFvm : W $ Mi $ n ^^ J ^ f ^ fflmfii fe resounded from &t $ r % ] £ p > tf ; tV ^ m *
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On Monday , a public dinner of the members and friends of the congregation was held in the Cloth Hall . Dr . PMlipps ( in riohseqbetice of the illness of the Rev . George Harris ) kindly presided , and Mr .
Joseph Best , of Rose Hill , was the Viee-President . Two hundred and thirtyseven persons , male and female , sat down to dinner ; which number was increased to nearly four hundred after dinner by the admission of other members of the
society . Various sentiments were given , which drew forth animated speeches from Dr . Philipps , Messrs . Makin , Brandreth , F . B . Wright , Revs . Joseph Marriott and T . Madge , and Messrs . H . Clarke , F . Boardman , W . Duffield , Berry , and P . Smith , Jan . The congregation were congratulated on the success which has attended the efforts of the minister
and members during the year , in which period they have established Sunday-Schools , a Benevolent Society for the Sick and Poor of the Congregation , a Library , and a Class Meeting for Religious Conference ; and have paid off more than £ 500 of the debt on the
Meeting House . On the health of the Rev . George Harris being given , the following Resolution was proposed , and carried by acclamation : — Resolved , That the warmest thanks of this Meeting be given to the Rev . George Harris , for his valuable and unwearied services both in this town and
the county at large ; we beg to assure him of our sympathy in his present affliction , and of our fervent wishes for his speedy restoration to healtji , and to the exercise of his ministerial functions in the temple of our God and Father . "
In the eveuing there was another religious service in the Meeting-House . The Rev . Robert Cree , of Preston , engaged in prayer , and the Rev . T . Madge , from John i . 4 § , gave an unanswerable reply to the common and prevailing objections to the Unitarian Christian doctrine . The
religious services were all well attended , and the collection towards the liquidation of the debt on the Meeting-House amounted to £ 55 . 1 7 * . lQd . On Tuesday the Sunday Scholars , educated by the congregation , to the number of one hundred and sixteen , dined together in the Cloth Hall ; they were
attended by their teachers and others , and nearly two hundred persons sat down to the tables ; the Rev . R . Cree in the Chair . Various addresses were made by Rev . R . Cree , and Messrs . D . Shaw , Brandreth , E . Seddon , R . Scowcroft and E . Makin ; and the afternoon was spent in a truly edifying and rational manner . S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/54/
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