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concluded the . extract by giving * ^ e restoration to health of the writer , the Rev . S . Wood . Ottiwell Wood , Esq , returned thanks for his ^ 011 , whom , he said , nothing hut ill health would have detained from so interesting a meeting as the present .
The health of Mr . Adam , and the cause of Unitarianism in Calcutta , was not forgotten . Nor did the Meeting forget to express their good wishes for the welfare and success of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association . At five o ' clock the Meeting broke up ,
voting their thanks to Mr . Wallace for the ability with which he had conducted the duties of the chair . Many of the ministers adjourned to Mr . Broad bent ' s house at Latchford to partake of tea , which was provided for them with the usual hospitality .
In conclusion , allow me , Mr . Editor , to inform the Unitarian public in Lancashire and Cheshire , that I have already received pledges of support in aid of the General Fund from some congregations , and subscriptions from individuals , since the Meeting , and in consequence of the explanation of the plans of the Society which were then made ; and that I shall be happy to receive and transfer to the Treasurer similar assistance towards that object in behalf of the Provincial Meeting . , EDWARD HAWKES , Secretary . Regent Road , Manchester .
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Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association . The Fifteenth Anniversary of this Association was held in the city of Canterbury on Wednesday , the 4 th July , at the Unitarian General Baptist Chapel , Blackfriars . The Rev . H . Green , of Knutsford , introduced the religious services by reading the Scriptures and
prayer ; after which the Rev . R A&pland , of Hackney , delivered an eloquent , instructive aud argumentative discourse from 1 Cor . iv . 13 , " Being defamed , we entreat . " . The preacher particularized the various kinds of defamation to which Unitarians , like the primitive Christians , are subject ; he afterwards enlarged
upon the fundamental doctrines of the Unitarian faith , and described those minor principles upon which Unitarians differ ; and concluded by a manly , charitable , and deeply impressive appeal in favour of the truth of Unitarianism , exhibiting its consistency , nay identity , with Scripture , Virtue and Human Hap-
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pimss . It is earnestly hoped that the preacher will consent to the publication of the discourse . At the close of the service , the business of the Association was transacted . * Thanks were unanimously passed to the Marquis of Lansdowne and the other members of the two Houses of
Parliament , for their unremitting attention to the wishes of the Dissenters in the late application for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts . Upwards of ninety friends to the objects of the Association afterwards dined at the King ' s Head Inn ; John Brent , Esq ., in the Chair . In the course of the afternoon
various subjects were introduced , and much interesting information afforded by the different speakers : Revds . R . Aspland , L . Hoklen , B . Mardon , G . C . Pound , J . Fan-in , R . Ashdowne , J . Martin , and Messrs . E . P . Fordham , J . Green , John Brent , Jun ., &c . The
company having testified their sense of obligation to their worthy Chairman for the able and efficient manner in which lie contributed to the enjoyment of the meeting , separated highly gratified with the proceedings of the day . G .
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Settlement Service at Maidstone . The proposed religious service on occasion of the settlement of the Rev . B . Mardon , with the congregation assembling in Earl Street , Maidstone , took place on the 6 th of July . It was an occasion of great interest ; the several
parts of the service were well calculated to answer beneficial and pious purposes , and the whole was so guarded from the possibility of savouring of or promoting superstition , that few could have attended without having their previous dislike to such services at least softened .
Divine worship commenced soon after eleven o ' clock , with a hymn , read by the Rev . T . F . Thomas , of Chatham . The Rev . Lawrence Holden , of Tenterden , ? The Report included some interesting particulars respecting the early propagation of the Unitarian doctrine in the Weald of Kent , so long back as the
year 1700 ; also the recent delivery of six doctrinal lectures at Hoadcorn under the direction of the Committee ; and the establishment of a depository ( or the sale of Unitarian publications at Maidstone , from which considerable good has already arisen , and more may rqasouably be expected .
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Intelligence .-r + KeM and Sussex Association . 765
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 765, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/53/
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