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BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.
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the best spirit towards those who differ from us , because they have been free from the taint of unkindness , contemptousness , and uncharitableness , towards any of our fellow-Christians , and have exhibited an union of Christian zeal and charity alike honourable " to the head and the lieaft of their
author . 1 is also a gratifying circumstance that the lectures have throughout attracted very numerous and attentive congregations ; and I entertain not the slightest doubt of the impression on the minds of the candid and liberal of all parties being highly in favour of Mr . Bakewe . li's controversial skill
and Christian candour . He has proved himself to be ( to use the language of the Apostle ) a workman that needs not to be ashamed , rightly dividing the word of truth . ' I propose that the thanks of this congregation be given to the Rev . W . J . Bakewell for his voluntary and va * luable labours in our service . '
During the delivery of this short address , so much in unison with the feelings of the congregation , their approbation of the speaker ' s sentiments was repeatedly , and unequivocally manifested ; and it is scarcely necessary to add , that the vote of thanks was unanimously adopted . Norwich , March 5 , 1832 .
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On Tuesday , March 15 , the house of Messrs . Tibnam , Ditchingham , 13 ungay , Norfolk , was opened for the public worship of the one true God , when the Rev . W . J . Bakewell delivered a discourse on preaching Christ , to a very attentive audience of about seventy persons . This is the first
attempt to establish the cause of Uriitarianism at Bungay . Messrs . Tibnam , in thus coming forward in the face of prejudice and calumny to bear witness to their conviction of the truth and importance of Unitarian Christianity , have set a praiseworthy example , meriting the serious consideration of some of their more opulent brethren of the same faith—men who hesitate not to join in
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worship , in their opinion unscriptural and irrational , and support an establishment which they believe to be most injurious to the cause of Christian truth and liberty . Mr . E . Tibnam was lately a local preacher amongst the Methodists . His secession and avowal of -Unitapianism have-made a
great sensation . He is now engaged in delivering a course of Lectures at Bramfield , in . conjunction with Mr . Crisp , in whose house public worship is regularly conducted . Bramfield is only twelve miles from Bungay , so that these zealous preachers of the gospel , who are burdensome to none , but whose hands minister to their
necessities , ' intend to have public worship in their own dwellings every Lord ' s day . Bungay seems to present a fair field for the dissemination of the pure seed of Christian truth ; and with the countenance and assistance of the ministers and other Unitarians in the district , it will probably grow up and flourish .
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4 % UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
British And Foreign Unitarian Association.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION .
The Committee have resolved to issue an occasional circular to the Fellowship Funds , stating the merits of such cases as have been submitted
to their investigation , and received their approval , but to which other claims upon the funds of that Institution prevent their rendering adequate aid , or , perhaps , any aid . The first list , which has just been issued , is here inserted : — * York College . —Missionary Society . The students of Manchester
College , York , in their fourth and fifth year , have been employed very usefully to themselves and their hearers in conducting Unitarian worship in Welburne , and other villages in the neighbourhood of York . To defray
their expenses the Committee of the Association have in former years granted them a donation of 201 . Application lias been made for a similar grant for the present year . In stating their inability to comply with this desire , they expressed to the College
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1832, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1809/page/10/
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