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missionaries . The mission at Calcutta , for instance , had cost the Society a great deal of money ; and it did not appear that any thing was done , or was even likely to be done .
The Chairman said , he was sure his worthy friend would see that he was out of order . He was quite convinced that he had , with them , but one object at heart , the good of the Society ; but he must remind him , that it was not usual , and must be exceedingly inconvenient , to allow discussions at such meetings , when there was no question before the Chair .
Mr . Young insisted that he was perfectly in order . He was , he believed , one of the oldest subscribers present ; and it was not to be presumed that he should be called upon to vote approval of a Report , the tenth part of which he could not carry in his head , and great part of which , as he even understood it , he entirely disapproved of .
The Rev , Mr . Mardon begged to say a few words iu explanation . The mission at Calcutta , to which the worthy gentleman appeared to direct his chief opposition , was not supported by the funds of the Society , but by separate funds , raised for that express purpose , and of which the Committee were only the medium of transmission . He trusted , that through the means of these supplies , the primitive truths of Christianity would rise on the ruins of Heathenism in the East
Indies . Mr . Young was not aware of that fact , and it proved the propriety of his inquiries ; had he known it , some of them , at least , would have been spared . He was yet convinced , that he was justified in putting these questions , and that , indeed , it was a wholesome practice . On this
occasion he should not , however , press them any further , but content himself with saying , that he should have been better pleased had the Society confined their operations , at least for the present , to home , where there was abundance of room , and Where the " fields were white already to harvest . "
Mr . Surridge said , he was delighted at the prospect of the connexions which were likely to take place in the East . His very heart thrilled with rapture at the thought of the glorious promise being realised . The motion that the Report be received and printed , was then put and carried . The Rev . Dr . Rues moved the following resolution :- — - " That this Meeting lament that cir-
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cumstances unavoidably occurred to post , pone their application to Parliament for relief from the operation of the Marriage Law , to so late a period of the session . That the thanks of the Meet , ing ; be given to Mr * W . Smith , for bringing the matter forward again , and that he be earnestly requested to endeavour to get the Bill passed through its stages
in the House of Commons as early as possible , so as at least to obtain the benefit of a debate in the House of Lords ; and that the Committee be instructed , in the event of the failure of the Bill in the present session , to take active measures for a renewal of the application at the commencement of the ensuing session of Parliament ; and that the above resolution be immediately communicated by the Secretary to Mr . W . Smith . "
He expressed his deep regret at the present state of the law , and trusted that the voice of the Meeting would give a new stimulus to their parliamentary advocates . The motion was put and carried unanimously *
The Rev . Mr . As plan d rose and said , that before moving the resolution which he held in his hand , he thought it right to intimate to the Meeting that a petition lay for signature in the vestry , having reference to one part of the abominable system of conscience-worrying . The question as to the Test and Corporation Laws , he observed , pressed peculiarly
on their attention at the present moment . They learned from the Report that it had been postponed , according U 3 a resolution passed by the United Committee , against the avowed opinions of Lord John Russell and Mr . John Smith . At the passiug of that resolution , he had the honour to be in the minority . And on that occasion he could not help
expressing his regret , that he entirely differed in opinion with the majority of his brethren and associates . He thought the step they had taken was one calculated to injure their interests ; it was a step backwards ; and more had been lost by it than could be regained ii * many successive years . He conceived that the question could not be forwarded unless
the Dissenters were firm , united , and resolute , and determined not to take instructions from Members of Parliament , but to exercise their undoubted privilege of giving them . They ( the Dissenters ) who were the aggrieved parties , should tell the Government that their grievances were the heavier because they had been patiently endured bo long ; and because to tflhem were superadded the stings of
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Intelligence . —British and Foreign Unitarian Association . 535
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/63/
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