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Society to the amount of-2 S 3 L ( Mr . Hornby then read the Treasurer ' s Report , which will be published , as usual , by the Association . ) ' Sir , —I feel . that I should be ill discharging my duty if I suffered this Meeting to separate with the idea that this balance of 283 / . was a surplus wherewith the Committee knew not
what to do . On the contrary , the Committee , for a very considerable portion of the past year , were in painful doubt whether that adverse balance which I had to report at the last Anniversary would be increased or diminished ; and it certainly would not have been liquidated , even if reduced , but for the liberal donations of our
friends towards that truly beneficial object , new to this institution , which they were most anxious should not only be established , but the success of which should also be insured . It will easily be understood that I am now
alluding to the Home Mission of this Society , which was last year agreed to for the purpose of affording religious instruction to the poor , the ignorant , and the degraded of this vast metropolis . It is , no doubt , honourable to us to endeavour to
check and counteract erroneous theological opinions ; but , in my humble judgment , that is only a secondary object to that of teaching men the two great moral lessons of their duty towards God , and their duty towards their fellow-beings ; and , indeed , we have the authority of Christ himself
for saying , that these are the two most important principles of the Christian religion . Our balance oi account , therefore , has been turned , by means of the donations made to this specific object ; and not one farthing of the money having been applied tQ that
object when these accounts were made up , I trust I shall be excused , when I most earnestly call on you for your aid and influence in behalf of this Association . Let me remind you that the objects which we have in view are various and as important as various , And believing , as I do , that ,
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account . I hold in rny hand a brief statement of the p lan and objects of tliiFAs ^ Mia ^ rfopr ^^ aTri-almost-afraid to trust myself to state the various objects it has in view : but I know not how better to satisfy you that we
were each of these objects made the sole aim of a separate and distinct society , you would think it to be your duty to support them all to the best of your power , I trust that you will not permit the union of these several objects in one society to suffer on that
need your best assistance , than by mentioning a few of the modes in which the Committee dispose of the means which you intrust to their care . I find herein stated , ( and to the truth of the statement I can bear witness ,
as one of the officers of the feociety , ) that " a considerable portion of the funds of the Association is expended in different ways in the support of Unitarian worship : "—that " the Cqm ^ mittee conduct the publication or republication ( both for sale and distribution ) of standard works on
Unitarian Theology , in such forms , and at such prices , as render them generally accessible ;"—~ that " donations , varying in amount , according to the circumstances of the case , are made , both of books and tracts , to ministers and missionaries , to congregational and vestry libraries , and to
individuals who may have opportunities for promoting their circulation where they are likely to be read with advantage ;"—that "• the legal department of the Association embraces whatever conduces to the , security and extension of the civil rights of Unitarians ;" - —that " local persecutions are checked or prevented ; and trusts
and endowments are often preserved by timely advice from being perverted or lost ; - "<—that *• ' an extensive and interesting foreign correspondence is maintained by the Association ; friendly communications are exchanged with the Unitarian churches abroad ; an $ during the past year three admirable tracts were prepared , adapted to the peculiar modes of thought ; of $ hq
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1815/page/2/
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