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      fche Minister returned to the altar and completed the ceremony . This case was thus considered remarkable by the performance of the ceremony in two distinct parts . The parties expressed their deep sense of the forbearance and kind consideration of the officiating Minister . The Protest delivered on the occasion varies from former ones , inasmuch as it is designed to be a vindication of the conduct of this body in protesting , and also a declaration of their religious opi * nions .

      Copv op the Protest . " Protest against the Marriage Ceremony , and Exposition of the Reasons for presenting the same . " The undersigued being Protestant Dissenters and Members of the Church of God , commonly known as Freethinking Christians , hereby avow and set forth , - that they are at this time desirous of entering together into the state 6 £

      marriage . " That they regard the right to enter into such state both as a natural and civil right , and the duty so to enter therein as one of religious obligation . " That , in the present circumstances of

      society , they should hold it sinful in themselves , and pregnant with mischief to the community , to enter into such state without a legal sanction thereto , ' which sanction it hath ever been regarded as a first duty of Legislation to afford , and that with facility to all concerned .

      •* That , in order to obtain such sanction , it has , since the passing of the Marriage Act in the 26 th of George II . become obligatory upon Dissenters to appear in a Church of the Established Religion , and then and there to submit to a certain religious rite or ceremony administered by a Priest of the Establishment .

      " That , as disciples of Jesus , they have ? conscientious scruples against all outward rites and ceremonies in religion , and more especially against that which is by law established for the solemnization of Marriage .

      " That , to guard against any implied approval on their part of such rite and ceremony—to purge their consciences from all supposed assent to whatever therein contained is contrary to GodV holy word- —to avoid the sinfulness 6 T dissimulation iit religion—to stand aic- £

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      ' . Dissenters' Marriages . Mary-La-Bonne New Church . —Feb . 4 , were married by Dr . Sprey , Rector of Mary-la-Bonne , Mr . G . Humphries , of Oxford Street , and Miss Sarah Leggatt Temple , Of Bays water . The parties being Members of the sect of Dissenters rfalled Free-Thinking Christians , were attended by the Elder , Deacons , and

      Others of the body , ' and presented a Protest against the established ceremony . The Minister having received the written protest , proceeded' with the ceremony . Upon the bridegroom being required to repeat the words , " In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost , " he paused , and then solemnly

      protested against the recognition of the Trinity ; upon which the Minister closed the book , and proceeded to the Vestry , refusing to complete the marriage . After considerable discussion there , relative to the views and motives of the parties hi protesting verbally , as well as in . writing ,

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      British and Foreign Unitarian Association . , The Anniversary of this Society will be held this year , conformably to the rules , on the Wednesday and Thursday in Whitsun Week , at the Unitarian Chapel , South Place , Finsbury . The Meeting for

      business will be held on Wednesday forenoon , and on the evening of the same day , a Sermon will be preached by the Kev . J , Small , one of the Ministers of York Chapel , St James ' s Square ; and on Thursday Morning a Sermon will be preached by the Rev . John Kenrick , of York .

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      Marriage Bill . The Committee of the Unitarian Association having been deprived of the opportunity of conferring with the Earl of Liverpool , by the affliction which has visited him , have determined on requesting Mr , Smith to bring in the bill originally submitted to the Legislature . The plan of

      this bill , our readers will recollect , was that of continuing the celebration of Marriage at the Church , the service used Ijeing confined to the mere contract . which forms part of the present form . It is well known that many Members of the House of Lords prefer this plan , and at all events it will serve to revive the discussion in a form different from that which has been twice rejected .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/67/