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fers , are seduced into the unchristian habit of regarding each other with feelings wholly uvcbnsistent with brotherly kindness and charity ; and to legislate upon those sound and enlightened principles of freedom which can alone secure to any community peace and harmouy , and prosperity and honourable fame . " And your petitioners shall ever pray .
The Chairman said , that having paid their respects t 6 the Sovereign as loyal men , and to the cause of civil and religious liberty as good subjects of a free state , he would next call their attentiou to the particular object of the day ; and in so doing would give them , for the next toast , " The British and Foreign Unitarian Association . *' The toast was drunk with loud cheers .
The Treasurer , John Christie , Esq , said , that in connexion with the toast which they had just drunk , he would say a few words relative to the funds of the Association . The present was the first anniversary of this institution , which united in itself all the former Unitarian
Societies , and by which union it was expected that more good might be done than by keeping them separate . With re 3 pect to their finances , they had received various sums from the Unitarian Fund aud Civil Right Association , and a valuable stock of books from the Unitatiau Book
Society ; so that , at present , their funds and property were in a most promising condition ; and he had no doubt that he should be able to announce , in the course of the evening , that the funds had derived ^ a still further augmentation from the bounty of those gentlemen who were present .
The Chairman begged to propose the health of his friend on his right hand , the Rev . John Kenrick , with many thanks to him for the excellent discourse which he had given them that morning . The Rev . John Kenrick beggedjeave to return his most sincere thanks tor the kind and flattering manner in which they had drunk his health . He could truly say , that no one could be better
convinced than he was himself of his own deficiency in many material points necessary to grace the cause which he had undertaken to advocate ; but he nevertheless . held it to be a part of a Christian ' s duty , however humble his talent , to comply with the demand made upon him , lest he should bring on himself the imputation of being a slothful servant in
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the Vineyavdy like that one who , because he had but one talent , * wou-l& uofc trouble himself to lay it out to his Blaster ' s advantage . Under this conviction , he had undertaken the task imposed upon him , though he felt that it had been imperfectly executed in his hands , and to their kindness it was to be ascribed
that so favourable an opiuion of his services had been formed : but though he felt his deficiency in this , he would yield to none present in the firmness of his attachment to , or in his strong persuasion of the final triumph of , Unitarian
principles . In the distant situation in which his avocations placed him , it was only in his power to cooperate remotely ; but he could assure the Meeting , that whenever it was within his compass to aid the cause , they might rely on his most zealous support .
The Chairman said , that the next toast which he had to propose , was an old standard with the Society : " The memory of our departed worthies . " Drunk in silence . Mi * . Wood then begged to propose the health of his friend on the left , a younger , but not less zealous advocate of the
Unitarian cause : he proposed , " The health of Mr . Tagart , aud thanks to him for his excellent discourse of yesterday evening . " The Rev . Edward Tagart said , that he had been unexpectedly called upon to offer the best services in his power , but as he was unaware that such a demand
would be made upon him , he had been wholly unprepared to meet it in such a manner as to do it that justice which he could have wished . And on the present occasion , though his experience had made him somewhat better acquainted with the pulpit than with a seat so near the Chairman , yet , he should not be doing justice to himself , were he to Jet
slip the present opportunity of telling the meeting how entirely devoted he was to the Unitarian cause . He could not , however , but lament , that his being called upon arose from the absence of so many older ministers than himself ; in consequence of which , the choice had fallen on one so incompetent to support it . He would have been glad to have seen more of their brethren from distant
parts rallying round them in the support of that standard , near which the staff of Unitarian ism was to be found ; but though some , were deserters , he was happy to find that there were many who held fast to the faith ; and with respect to the absence of the tothera , he was in-¦ ' i . ¦ i ¦ l : l . I . , 1 . I . 1 I I t I
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540 Intelligence . —British and Foreign Unitdfiian A ^ somtitton
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/68/
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