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NORTH-EASTERN UNITARTAN JCIimSI!IAN,ASSO0UXi]ON.
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kingdom , and the increase of knowledge , liberty , virtue , and religion throughout the world . And our fervent supplications shall not fail to ascend to the throne of
the Divine Grace , —that after an extended and happy reign , your majesty may he exalted by the mercy of God , and through the mediation of our Redeemer , to a crown of glory , unfading and everlasting .
His Majesty ' s gracious Reply . Gentlemen ,- —I return you my thanks for this dutiful address . The sentiments which you have expressed on the outrage lately offered to me , are such as I should have expected from your known loyalty . And I rely with confidence on your attachment to my person and government , and on your steady support of our invaluable constitution .
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE , 137
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After the morning service on Thursday , and the business of the Association had been settled , the friends , male and female , nearly seventy in number , assembled at an economical dinner , provided at the Bull , in the 'adjoining , parish of Long JSuitoji , < m w ^^^
was called to the chair . In the course of the afternoon , the chairman introduced , with highly appropriate remarks , many very excellent sentiments , which called forth addresses from Messrs . Wright , Walker , Sel by , Stanger , and Meek ; the last-named gentleman , at considerable
length , and with great force of argument , defended the right of private judgment ; and our venerable friend , Mr . Wright , seemed as if in the vigour of youth , in his prospective view with regard to Unitarian Christianity
Education in Ireland having been one of the subjects introduced , a petition to both houses of parliament was drawn up in favour of the ministerial plan , signed by most present , and forwarded for presentation .
Friends were present from Lincoln , Boston , Wisbeach , Lynn , and other places , most of whom afterwards drank tea and supped together at the Inn ; and we have every reason to hope , that riot only a most pleasurable , but also a profitable day was enjoyed by each individual .
With this , in most places , must have ended an account of a yearly meeting ; but the delightful situation , and gentlemanly hospitality of our kind friend Mr . Hursthouse , of Tydd , added another day of gratification to all who chose to partake of it . At his house , and that of Mr . C . Garland ' s ,
the greater part of the friends dined aucldfanlrtea on the Friday ; " and to render the meeting as useful as possible , a service , previously made public , was in the evening conducted in a barn prepared for the purpose , at which , after the introductory part by Mr . Meek , —Mr . Beard delivered a very suitable address to a large congregation , from the words of the Phi-
North-Eastern Unitartan Jciimsi!Ian,Asso0uxi]On.
NORTH-EASTERN UNITARTAN JCIimSI ! IAN , ASSO 0 UXi ] ON .
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The annual meeting of the North-Eastern Unitarian Christian Association was held on Wednesday and Thursday the 27 th and 28 th of June , in the Chapel at Lutton , in Lincolnshire .
On the Wednesday evening , after the reading of scripture and prayer by Mr . Selby , of Lynn , Mr . Beard , of Salford , delivered an address , descriptive of the nature of genuine worship , from the woirds 'My Son , give me thine heart /
On the following morning , the service was introduced b y Mr . Meek , of Lincoln , and an animated and " excellent discourse delivered by Mr . Beard . Public service was commenced on
the evening of trie same'day , by Mr . R . Wright , of Kirkstead , and a truly argumentative lecture was delivered by Mr . Meek , on the subject of , * Who are the true worshippers , ' from the worxls of our Lord , in John iv . 23
The congregation in each instance , though not very numerous , was both attentive and respectable .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1832, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1817/page/9/
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