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6 f peace . He first entered upon a refutation of the prevailing objections to religious controversy ; showing that * in almost every instance , they were grounded on the abuse of the thing , or proceeded from a disposition to unreasonable inactivity . He then brought forward arguments
fe r—i tf-sh 0 win g ~ -th at-C hr-i stian—controversy was perfectly amiable and benevolent in itself ; urging that it was necessary , in order to withstand the objections to the Christian reli- * gion ; to remove the corruptions of ignorance , servility , and superstition from Christian , worship ; and , even among more enlightened Christians * to establish more rational views of
the nature of the Scriptures themselves , and the doctrines they contain . He maintained , that . to every one who believed he might make it serviceable to these ends , Christian controversy became a positive duty . He ~ advised , therefore , that all our
associations , ministers , congregations , and every individual Unitarian , should do whatever they could , in their respective spheres , to reinforce the work with tenfold energy ; and that they should encourage our periodical literature to take a still more commanding stand in the struggle for moral and religious reform . And he concluded with
applying the subject to the present limes ; showing that , now that the people had begun to feel and enforce their supreme right in civil government , ChrisStian controversy was more than ever necessary , to free Christ ' s religion from all enfeebling mixtures , and to cherish a yet far more elevated moral tone among the people .
After service there was a more than usually interesting meeting for transacting the business of the Society : — Mr , Alexander , of Yarmouth , in the chair . The Committee ' s Report stated , among a variety of other information , that during ths past year , courses of Controversial Lectures had been delivered at Yar-
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mouth , piss , and the Octagon , Norwich ; and that , at the New Unitarian Chapel , Norwich , a course of lectures had been delivered to the young people of the congregation on Hebrew poetry . At Yarmouth and Diss , the congregations were rather
on the increase . The young people -ofahe ^ NewJInitarianJCongxegation , _ Norwich , had presented the Chapel with a handsome Bible on the preceding New Year ' s Day . At the Octagon , an apparatus had been
erected for lighting the place with gas , which had been done with an elegance in character with the building , At Ditchingham , a room had been opened for public worship by the Rev . William J . Bakeweli .
Another was on the point of being Opened at . Mendleshani . And , at Brain field and Yoxford , there were encouraging signs of a growing interest in Unitarianism . And , in the book department , the report was
equally gratifying ; the Society having put into circulation , since the last-anniversary , more than six hundred copies of works ; Before the meeting closed , it was resolved , — " That this Association feel bound
to offer their thanks to his Majesty's Ministers for the plan of education they have adopted for the Irish people , and to express a hope that those Ministers will not suffer that plan to be defeated by a factious and bigoted opposition . "
An economical dinner was provided at the inn , where the friends again assembled , to the number of about forty ; on which occasion , Mr . Gaze , of Norwich , was requested to take the chair . When the cloth was drawn , the number was considerably increased . And a pleasant social in *
tcrest was kept up for several hours ; during which they were addressed on many subjects of local and general interest by their esteemed Chairman , and Messrs . Alexander , Elam Crisp , John Withers Dow son , John Esdail , Henry Havvkes , Henry Martineau , Jerom Murch , Henry Squire ,
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 167
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/23/
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