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HULL, EAST YORK, AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.
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lippian gaoler , —* What must I do to be saved ?' Those who know the delightful spot , and the parties of whom 1 have written , need no description ; and those who do not , would fail to form anything like an adequate idea from any ~ accountJLao . ukLgiv-e _ . S . Lynn , July 19 , 1832 .
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138 UNITARIAN CJHEONICliE ,
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The Twentieth General Meeting was held at Hull , on Thursday , July 5 th . On the Tuesday evening previous , Mr . Meekv of Lincoln , preached from the text ' The true worshippers
shall worship the Father / On Wednesday evening , Mr . Huttony of Birmingham , preached from Phil . iii . 3 , ' We worship God in the spirit , and rejoice in Christ Jes _ us , and have no confidence in the flesh ; '— - and again . on the Thursday niorning frorn 1 Cor , i , 24 , ' Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God . ' All the
services were well attended . The Annual Meeting for business followed , , at which the Report was received , and some alterations in the rules of the Association were adopted . The members and friends of the Society dined together in the afternoon , to
the number of thirty-five ; John Holdsworth , Esq . in the Chair , and spent three hours after dinner | n friendly intercourse , and the expression of appropriate sentiments connected with the progress of religious inquiry , and religious liberty , and with the general improvement of the social , intellectual , and moral
condition of mankind . On the proposal of Mr . Meek , it was agreed that it behoved the friends of religious liberty and of popular education , to express to the houses of Parliament , their satisfaction in the plan lately adopted for the promotion of education in Ireland , in order to counterbalance any weight that may have attached \ o petitions of an opposite character :
and it was resolved that eve ^ y minister present should submit the subject to the immediate notice of his congregation . E . H .
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On the 24 th of May , at Horninglow , near 'Burtc ^ -upon ^ Tfelifrin ~ The fifty-second year of hjs age , the Bqv . Edward Higginson nearly twenty-one years minister of the Unitarian con * gregation at Derby . Eighteen months before his removal , he had experienced the first of a series of attacks of an
apoplectic character , which , succeeding each other at rapid intervals fVoin that time , had given a warning not to be mistaken either by himself or by those about him , that his end was near . With the cairn deliberation
with which he had been accustomed to anticipate future probabilities ^ and the promptness with which he had always acted upon the anticipation , "Wjiexr ^ tfee . ^ pXQ' ^^ kI ^^ yd ^ £ S ~ J ^ 9 & £ 3 £ ! sJ new duties or disclosed new events
for the course of life before hjm , — -he at once understood the character an , d tendency of his affliction , and acfed as if the admonition had freen audibly spoken to him , " ' Set thy house in order ; for thou shalt die and not live . *
If is only apprehension or anxiejty respectin g his illnes § was , lest jn its later stages he should fefi / fpunii outliving the exercise of his facujijes . His firm and intelligent mind trembled at this thought alojrje . JJut # e \ yas mercifully spared this experience , to him the object of apprehension , ; and which would Jjave been to $ ose ajtjput him a severer afBiction than to himself , had it befallen him . As it jyas , his ¦ faculties , were only so f $ p jirnpaired as to shpw tl ? at t ]?© ian ^ i pjf 4 eath ought to be welconaied pp bjUs ^ half , as his timely dejfeeiape j ^ om the fate he had sp ' earnestly deprecated .
His family could be ^ atis ^ d Jp leave tj ^ e public repord h ^ ef an < J . to memorialize hjs Ji ^ l ana chara ( cte ] r in private reqoll , ec |; ion alpne , ' , ^ B , ut | J > je
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Hull, East York, And North Lincolnshire Unitarian Association.
HULL , EAST YORK , AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1832, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1817/page/10/
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