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Society the intention of recommending their case to the notice of the Fellowship Funds .
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Ramsgate . A Society of Unitarian Christians 1 ms lately been formed in this place . They ---liav-e-iitUeEta--in « t--m---a room hired for the purpose of religious worship , and service has been usually
conducted gratuitously by members of the Society . The Committee of the Association have occasionally obtained for them supplies from London , and defrayed their expenses . The Ministers who have visited the
Society have been uniformly gratified with the zeal and piety they have witnessed . The Society proposes to purchase the premises in which they have met ( which they are able to do )* and to put in complete repair at a cost of 400 / . A liberal member of the Society advances 100 / . A gentleman , who has taken warm interest in their
case , 150 / . ; and the Association 25 / . This enables them to purchase the building , and they only need aid for the repairs .
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Dundee . The Rev . W . Smith , an able and zealous Minister , has been exciting much attention to the truth of Unitarian Christianity during the year and a half he has resided at Dundee . His congregation consists almost entirely
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of people dependent on their bodily labour , and has lately received several additions amongst them . His people with effort raise 65 / . per annum for him . The Committee of the Association , in consequence of the high tarms
in which Mr . Robert Millar , of Dundee , speaks of Mr . ~ Smith ' s . _ zeaL ~ and labours in Dundee and the neighbourhood have granted 10 / ., and a donation of Tracts to the same amount , for his use and circulation . They have regretted their inability to do more , and warmly recommend the case .
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Malton . —Rev . P . Corcoran . The Committee have been in frequent correspondence with Mr . Corcoran . He is laboriously intent upon the faithful discharge of his duties as a Steward of Divine Truth , —walking many miles on Sunday , and other days , to preach in the villages of
Yorkshire , —amongst others , Barton , Emerby , Slingsby , Pickering , and Welburne ;—has encountered many difficulties in keeping open rooms for Unitarian worship , the expense of which he has occasionally takea upon himself ; and has formed Societies for the circulation of Tracts , with which
the Committee have supplied him . His slender means have lately been reduced by the suit now pending in Chancery respecting Lady Hewley ' s Trust , which has caused the cessation of an annual grant of 20 / . to him . The Committee , feeling the value of Mr . Corcoran ' s labours , last year made up his loss ; and beg to say , that they consider him an indefatigable and highly valuable Missionary of the uncorrupted Gospel .
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The Congregation at Evesham applied some time ago for assistance to the Committee , on which occasion they granted a sum of 10 / . The Rev . T . Davis , their Minister , informs us his congregation have been obliged to incur heavy expenses by the necessary repairs of the Chapel , and in building a School-room for Sunday and day-Scholars . The congregation consists
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Sunderland . A Chapel has lately been erected on a plan of defraying the expense , partly by 10 / . shares , and partly by donations . The Rev . J . Wright , formerly of Glasgow , a respectable and zealous Minister , conducts a morning and an evening service , the latter of
which is attended by a very large congregation . But the Chapel is loaded with a heavy debt ; and unless relief be speedily afforded , there is danger lest the past efforts in this populous town should be lost . At present the services of the Minister are nearly or entirely gratuitous .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1832, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1809/page/11/
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