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British and Foreign Unitarian Asso oiation . The Second Anniversary of this Society was held on Wednesday and Thursday , the 6 th and 7 th of June . The meeting for transacting the annual business \^ as held at the Uni tarian Chapel , South Place , Finsbury , on Wednesday morning : John Christie , Esq ., in the Chair .
The Chairman observed , that it became his duty , as Treasurer of the Society , to read the statement of their funds , which , he was happy to say , were in a flourishing condition . - He then enumerated the various items of receipt and expenditure , from which it appeared , that during the last year the former had amounted to the sum of 1138 / . 18 * . ; to which was to be added the balance of
329 / . As . 9 d . in the hands of the Treasurer at the last Anniversary , which , with the exceptitrti of 359 / . 14 * . lid . yet remaining in his hands , had been expended in effecting the diffusion of Unitarian principles in this and other countries .
The Rev . R . Aspland , the Secretary , read the Report of the proceedings of the Committee during the past year . It commenced by stating , that the result of their exertions for the spread of true and liberal Christianity , was on the whole satisfactory , and that their labours had not altogether been in vain . The Report was divided into four parts : 1 st .
The Home Department ; 2 d . Civil Rights ; 3 d . The Book Department ; 4 th . Foreign Department . Upon the first , it stated , that the principles of Unitarianism were making slow but promising progress in various parts of the United Kingdom . A mission had been planted in the Potteries of Staffordshire , among a deuse population , under the ministry of Mr . Clarke , and from his reports there was every prospect of the most gratifying
success . In Kent and Sussex , another gentleman , in the service of the Association , was employed , but hitherto with little apparent success . In Suffolk , their cause wore a more promising aspect ; their missionary had been most indefatigable , and great good was confidently anticipated from his labours . He , like all his brethren , had been much persecuted by various sects of Christians , Method is ta , Presbyterians , Baptists , Ran-
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ters , and Churchmen : all of whom * however , he had challenged to argu * ment ; but all of whom had declined . At one place the 'clergyman gave fcotice of his intention to preach twelve lectured ou the orthodox doctrines of Christianity ; and he immediately announced
that he would preach from the same texts in rotation , and subsequently six sermons on the non-eternity of future punishment . The Report then enumerated some other places in Gloucestershire and Yorkshire , and concluded . the first part with copious extracts of correspondence with an Unitarian minister in the north
of Ireland . The Report then proceeded to detail the exertions ; of the Committee for the attainment and preservation of their civil rights . It stated that , owing to the lamentable illness of their firm and steady friend ( Lord Liverpool ) , it became a matter of serious consideration
whether the present session was a fit and proper period for them again to press their peculiar claims upon the attention of the Legislature ; but after the calmest deliberation they could give to , the sub * ject , they were decidedly of opinion that it was , and they had consequently gat their Bill ( the Unitarian Marriage Bill ) introduced into Parliament . They be >
lieved that they had little opposition to apprehend to the principle of the Bill , although much to the mode in which * the relief they sought should be granted . Anxious , therefore , to meet the views , opinions , and prejudices of all parties , they had solicited an interview with Lord
Liverpool , for the purpose of taking his advice ou that important measure , which interview he readily granted ; but which his lamented illness prevented taking place . They had , thereforeyintroduced the present Bill in a different form to that in which it had heretofore been presented . It contained a short form of words to be
used on the marriage of Unitarians in the Established Church or vestry , before the clergyman , and at his option ; and upon the payment of his usual fee , the marriage was to be registered and conr sidered legal . Thia Bill had made some wayJn its progress throug h , the Commons , and the Committee were in hopes that it would this session get far enough advanced in the Upper House for them to learn , if not the positive , of which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/61/
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