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    commend theprinciples of Unitariariisin . "While your Committee rejoice in the continuance of all these methods , contemplated by your Society for the promotion of the " truth , as it is in Jesus , " they would beg leave , at the present time , to call the attention of the members to the

    advantage-of- ~ apportioning-a ~ consider ^ able part of the amount of their subscriptions to the nomination of the smaller tracts of the catalogue for gratuitous distribu tion among their

    neighbours . A difficulty has sometimes been felt in finding suitable opportunities for the distribution of such tracts . Your Committee , in compliance with the wishes of some members of the Southern Unitarian

    Fund Society , at the last Annual Meeting at Portsmouth , beg leave to suggest that a portion of such nominations might be distributed at the doors of the chapels , at such times as the Missionary of that Society makes his periodical visits to the different congregations in the

    district . Any member who felt disposed to make use of his subscription for this purpose , by placing his tracts at the disposal of the Missionary , or other suitable persons , might thus be assured of their being distributed with a probability of their producing- the most desirable results . The members of the Southern

    Unitarian Society , in particular , who are connected with the Newport congregation , have also an opportunity afforded them of distributing tracts at the close of the monthly meetings , held in the chapel , on the first

    Tuesday in the month , for the perusal of tracts and the communication of religious intelligence . A considerable number of useful tracts have thus been dispersed , and , it is hoped , much advantage may attend a continuance of the same plan .

    In the Catalogue of the Society , this year , will be found a portion of the tracts published by the " American Unitarian Association , " which are admirably adapted to promote

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    the purposes of this Society , and may be regarded as the most valua ^ ble addition that has been made to its list for many years . It is sincerely believed that , by the wide circulation of these tracts , in addition to those which are of " pxire English growth , " the knowledge of our ^ seiitiments-will ~ be ~ greatiy ~ mereased-r ~ and the progress of Divine Truth much advanced . The service which

    English Unitarians rendered the cause , in awakening the attention of America to the long-neglected but genuine doctrines of the Gospel , by the writings of Lindsey and Priestley , will thus be amply repaid by the assistance English Unitarianism may receive from the delightful productions of her Channing , Tuckerman , and Ware .

    There is one book in the Catalogue of your Society which your Committee would beg leave particularly to recommend for distribution . At a time when so much unmerited

    obloquy has been thrown upon Unitarians by persons connected with , the British and Foreign Bible Society , when some of its more bigoted members have seceded from it , rather than associate with Unitarians in the circulation of the Scriptures , and when even those who advocate cooperation with them affect no concealment of an illiberal and hostile

    feeling toward them , defending a union with them solely on the ground of expediency , it may become a master of importance to Unitarians , and especially to such of them as deem it advisable to have no connexion with that Society , to make such Societies as yours ' * established for promoting the genuine knowledge of

    the Scriptures , and the practice of virtue , by the distribution of books , " in some measure supply the want of a Unitarian Bible Society . This , your Society may now do to a greater extent than formerly , as its Catalogue contains , in addition to the " Improved Version / ' so well known and highly appreciated , " Pal-

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    UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . ' 165

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/21/