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THE GENERAL BAPTIST -ASSEMBLY.
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At a moment of success and rejoicing , it was extremely gratifying to hear the Rev . Lawrence Holden , who has completed the sixtieth year of his ministry at Tenterden , contrast the present times with the past .
In the course of the day Mr . Yates made-some _ excellent- _ ohserxatiojas _ jon the great principles of dissent , the inculcation of which , he thought , was too much neglected at our Association meetings . Let the principles of free inquiry be maintained , and the conquests of truth will follow .
After a pleasant day , the friends separated about eight o ' clock in the evening . The speakers were , Messrs . Mace , Holden , Yates , Dobell , Brent , Saint , Mardon , G . Buckland , Gilbert , and Talbot . E . T . T .
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tures . Mr . Mardon gave out the hymns ; Mr . Duplock , of Billings * hurst , prayed ; and Mr . John Harwell , of Dover and Canterbury , preached from Rev . iii . 2 . —^ Be watchful , and strengthen the things which remain , that are ready to die . ' The discourse gave general satisfaction ; and the substance of it will appear ( at the request of the Assembly ) in the pages of the General Baptist Advocate .
After the service ; the business was resumed by the secretary . reading the report of the committee ; after which , various resolutions were proposed for the consideration of the meeting . The attendance at the business was larger than usual ; and the proceedings were regarded with considerable interest . One resolution was to alter , for the future , the ^ rr ^ geix ^ FQflSi proceedings for the assembly day . The dinner is to be at two o ' clock ,
and the business will be resumed at an evening meeting , at six o'clock . Mr ; Moorej of Godalmin T concluded the proceedings of the morning with prayer . The dinner was held at the White Hart , Bishopsgate Street ; and the company were far more numerous than last year . Mr . Goodacre , of
Nottingham , was in the chair , and contributed much , by his able corir duct , to the pleasure of the afternoon . Various statements were given ; and the meeting was addressed by Messrs . Saint , Means r---Miaxteny Chapipkn , Mardon , Pound , Evans , Osjfen , Moore , Smallfield , Murcb , Green , and Briggs .
The company broke up about nine o ' clock , pleaped with a day in which religious and" social enjoyment had fe e 0 " ! Pl ®?! l [ n . g !? iL . ? S d . ' w ? H h gfe e good hope of reviving prosperiiy among a body of Christians " wortfiy of respect for their love of , and adherence tp scriptural truth .
J . C , M . P . S . During the interval between the business and the dinner , a meeting was held of the representatives and other" members of churches , in the
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134 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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The General Assembly of the general Baptist Churches was held at the Meeting-house in Worship Street , London , on Whit Tuesday , the 11 th of June . Several friends met ( according to custom ) to breakfast , and
the business commenced a little after nine , by Mr . Mardon , the pastor of the Worship Street Church , being called to the chair . After prayer had been offered up by the chairman , the letters from the various churches in conriexiorj with , the A § s § inbly were read ; and were , on the whole , of a
cheering character . At eleven o ' clock the public service . pmmenced . JVTr . Chapman , of Deptford , ( who had lately resigned his situation as secretary to the Assembly * , from a change of opittjon on the question of baptism , ) offered the introductory prayer , and read the
scrip-* The" Assembly at one time included many churches in , various parts of the country , but many years since a secession took place of those churches which retained the Trinitarian doctrine , The present number of churches in the connexion , ia between twenty arid thirty , jmostly in . the counties of Kent and Sussex . ""
The General Baptist -Assembly.
THE GENERAL BAPTIST -ASSEMBLY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1832, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1817/page/6/
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