On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
of poor people ; but they Lave raised , chiefly through the liberality of one individual , about 3001 . towards these objects , besides supporting a Yestry Library . ;
Untitled Article
44 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE ,
Untitled Article
Other cases have frequently been brought into public Tioticepsuch-as Northampton and Devonport , to whose statements in the * Monthly Bepository' the Committee would respectfully refer ; as they feel they have been unable to give them that liberal assistance which , beyond doubt , they deserve . '
Untitled Article
In reference to the Malton case , mentioned in the above circular , we have great pleasure in inserting the following extracts from a report of Mr . Corcoran ' s proceedings as a Missionary . The report was addressed by him to the Committee in September last .
Malton , 16 th September , 1831 . To the Sub-Committee for the Missio ? iary department of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , Gentlemen , —My rule has been to preach wherever and whenever I could obtain a hearing with any hope of success ; and , thank God , my efforts Lave not been without effect . That
zeal which wastes its efforts , encompassing sea and land to make one proselyte , which estimates ' the saving of one soul from hell' as the price of the labour of months , as * interest secured in heaven' on the outlay of much capital on earth , is , in my opinion , an imprudent zeal . The instruction of the blessed Jesus is more rational , and , where the missionary's
means are limited , most profitable . Our Lord seems to me to say , Visit every town and village within your district ; and , when you visit , make it your chief concern to ascertain who i ? i it is worthy ; and , if none be worthy , lose not your lime upon it ; depart from it and be useful where you can ; a future time and more favourable opportunity may come , when the ob&tinate may be . more docile , the
Untitled Article
proud more humble , and those who wear the yoke of spiritual tyranny , more free . ' My concern for theWelburne station , ( which is one of great interest , ) you will perceive by reference to my first letter , arose from the circumstance , that under the rule laid down -at ~ eoHege ^ fe- ^ ermi < -wow-e-6 w ^ € ^ & year ' s students to preach , ' it could only have the services of Mr . Heaviside
last year . However , by a subsequent arrangement , Messrs . Maurice and Baker , in their fourth year , were permitted , once in six weeks , to supply ; and , by the kind assistance of Messrs . Fox and Hands , of York , the supply at Welburne became so satisfactory , that , subsequent to January last , I discontinued my Thursday evening ' s
attendance there ; but I have been there several times since the present vacation commenced , so that on Sundays they ^ have been thrown on their own resources but twice as yet . At Pickering , the circumstances of the place , the great prejudices existing , and its distance ( nine miles ) from Malton ,
operated much against me . My attendance has been seldom , chiefly owing to expense j the cost of a room and the travelling charge backwards and forwards average thirteen shillings each time , which is nearly as much as the like expense from York to Welburne , and could not , with prudence , be often incurred under the sum you placed at my disposal .
At Thornton marshes , a considerable town near Pickering , I have , gratuitously , a room that accommodates 300 hearers when filled ; the distance is eight miles , and this place has had as much of my attention as I could possibly give it : the people are intelligent and very attentive , The Barton ,
and Slingsby stations are very encouraging . E ? ncrby , as it is pronounced , butAmotherbyaait ' spelled , is within three miles oi Malton ; and the friends there usually come to Malton , that I may devote the time , they at first received to other stations . Malton being a market town , 1 see my friends from the country . every
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1832, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1809/page/12/
-