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in defraying the travelling expenses of Unitarian Missionaries in Scotland . " The . Rev . Henry Clarke , in compliance with the request of , the Committee , during a visit of ten
weeks , preached at Carluke , Lanark , Paisley , and Tillicoultry ; and also open e d--U-nitapian -Worship .-at-Kilmar ~ __ nock . The friends in those places having expressed their , warm and unanimous approval of mV services , and their cordial wishes that "he
^ rnight be induced to settle amongst them , and having accompanied that wish with promises of 50 / . towards his salary , the Committee , conceiving that -25 L additional could be realized from the Society ' s , funds , from the number of person ' s at that ' .
period subscribers to the Association , and in-the hope , that the British and Foreign Unitarian Association-, ¦ as weli ' as several Fellowship Funds in England" , " would aid , them in so important a measure , transmitted an unanimous invitation to Mr . Clarke
to undertake , the '" office of missionary to the Society , pledging the Association for one year to the salary oflOOZ ., at , the same time ^ expressing ' their conviction , that the sum offered was'inadequate to the labour , to Mr .
Clarke ' s deserts , - and assuredly to their wishes . . Happy-were . therCpmmittee , that ,- notwithstanding " the * smallness of the salary , Mr . Clarke accepted the invitation , and entered , oh the arduous' office on the second
Sunday pf March . They congratu- . late their friends and -brethren , that his valuable services halve been secured ; they regard h ^^^§| jsion as most importa ^ fe ^^ S ^ mlfi'ests of their cause . Five months have
scarcely elapsed , and . part of ^ that period Mr . Clarke . was incapacitated by an accident from pursuing his public duty , and consequently any threat results cannot reasonably be expected to have yet followed from his labours at the various stations .
As far as the experiment has been tried , it has fully realized the anticipations of the Committee . A hear-
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ing has heen obtained in many quarters — the good seed has been sown—and many a mind and heart , they doubt not , will in due season manifest its life-giving and soul-sustaining fruit . The Missionary ' s Report will . be read in the course of the 4 } mc&ejiijngsJL . , _____^^_ _____ .
* Several calls have been made on the Committee , to carry into effect 1 the "fourth object of the Association , 44 to support public worship , by assisting individuals to form- them' . selves into societies for the worship of the One living arid true God , the Father , in the name of the' Lord Jesus Christ , " in the case of
Kilmarnock , they are rejoiced to say , it has been ' accomplished . Following up the visit of Mr . Clarke , the Secretary preached , to a very large audience on a week-night in February , and had' much conversation with the friends , on the prospect of forming a Unitarian congregation in that town : At their request he .
drew up a few rules constituting ' tKe society , wjbich were adopted ; - Several ^ families and in'dividijals hav £ united , ancl regular meetings ha ^ re since beenlield , the missionary preaching there occasionally . These efforts have ,, as might be expected , excited the zeal and * intolerance of the ad-.. vocates of the established and
common- theology ; and if denunciation and misrepresentation could put down Christian Unitarianism , they would be successful . They have had the effect of frightening many from the exercise of that right in which Protestants once gloried , and taunted their Catholic opponents for not pos- "
sessing—the right of free inquiry ¦—the . exercise of individual interpretation of Scripture . But this surrender of conscience to earthly dictation and cjiurch imposition can only be temporary . The mind cannot always be held in trammels ; and if the waters of bigotry be troubled , the people will eventually be healed . ' Extr > e-t from the Report of thq Missionary , and from the letters of
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186 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/10/
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