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Chester Unitarian Tract Society , " and an earnest appeal to the members of the Association present , and to the public , to contribute their assistance in forming a fund , which appeared indispensable to the utility and respectability of the Association . The Rev . J . J . Tayler then moved , "That the ministers throughout the two counties of Lancashire and Cheshire be
requested to contribute to the formation of a fund , to be at the disposal of this Meetiug , by congregational collections , by grants of Fellowship Funds , or by any means deemed by each minister most desirable . " G . W . Wood , Esq ., urged the excellence
of the principle of association , and the necessity of having a fund at the disposal of the present meeting to enable it to carry its benevolent designs into effect . He spoke of the benefits of association from very recent experience of its powerful effects . He had listened to the various
reports which were read at the late Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , with the greatest pleasure , and had imbibed from hearing them an increased desire to promote similar plans in his own neighbourhood . The motion was then agreed to . The Rev . W . Hincks moved , " That all ministers connected with congregations in the two counties be considered
members , ex officio , of the committee of the Provincial Meeting for the ensuing year ; and that the names of certain lay gentlemen , specified in the motion , be added : " which being passed by the meeting , The Rev . J . Gaskell moved , " That the committee hold their meetings four times in the year : first , at the Cross St . Chapel
Rooms , Manchester , on the first Thursday in October : second , at Salfotd , at the anniversary of the opening of the Green-Gate Chapel : third , on Good Friday , at the Annual Meeting of the Missionary Society , wherever it may be held : fourth , on the morning of the next anniversary of the Provincial Meeting , in the vestry of the Paradise Street Chapel , Liverpool . "
The business relating to the Association being concluded , the Chairman proceeded to give some interesting toasts , which called forth speeches from several gentlemen . The Memory of the late venerable Mr . Yates was given , and received with respectful interest . The health of the Rev . W . Hincks was given , and happiness wished him in his new and arduous situation as successor to the Rev . W . Turner , Jun ., in Manchester College , York .
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After thanking the Meeting for the kinduess with which they had received the toast , Mr . H . said he could not sit down without rendering his tribute to the talent which Mr . Turner had displayed in the performance of professional duties so arduous and so various . And
he could not but feel considerable anxiety under the prospect of succeeding to a situation which was perhaps more difficult than any other in any seminary , and which had been filled by Mr . Turner with so much talent and success . He proposed the health of the Rev . Wm . Turner , Jun . The Rev . W . Turner , of Newcastle , returned thanks for the honour done to-his
son . The venerable gentleman in the course of his speech mentioned the pleasure he felt in being at that Meeting * especially as it was held in that town , from which he had been abseut 40 years , and with which so many interesting associations were connected in his mind , as having been the original seat of the Academy which now flourished at York ; but though its tutors had been so eminent while the
Academy flourished at Warnngton , he thought he might affirm that the tutors who now adorn the institution were entitled to as high praise . In the course of the afternoon the Chairman gave the health of the Rev ; Mr . Fotheringham , of Boston , U . S . and our American Brethren in the
Ministry . —Mr . F . assured the Meeting that the cordial feeling which they expressed towards hi « brethren in America was mutual . He was proud to be a native of a country in which the expression of religious opinion was as free as air , and where the profession of religious faith was biassed by no political establishment . He begged to return thanks for himself and his brethren in America for
the kind feeling which the Meeting manifested towards them ; and while he as * - sured the Meeting that it was reciprocal , he proposed as a toast , " The friendly feeling which exists between the Ministers in America and England , and may it last for ever . * ' , ; >
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm . The Chairman gave the health * of a very near relative of a staunch friend to civil and religious liberty * ow his left hand , ( Ottiwell Wood > Esq ., ) which' < he prefaced by reading an extract ftftim k letter which he had received 'ftortl'Mm when at Geneva , whence he'had *' r ^* cently returned to England . The ' ex - tract contained an interesting account of a Ministers' Meeting in Geneva ^ at which the writer was present . The Chairman
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764 Intelligence . — Lancashire and Cheshire Promnclut Meeting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 764, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/52/
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