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    important addition might be made to our funds . The other great object contemplated by the Committee , was the

    appointment and support of a permanent agent . This has now become almost indispensable . The operations of the Association are so ~ ] p ^ lit ~ aT ^ whole time and the unintermitted

    attention and care of a superintendent . Your Committee conceive that the officer in question should be a man of the highest intellectual and moral qualifications , one that would command respect everywhere by his talents and worth , and unite sound judgment and discretion with an earnest and fervid zeal in the cause

    of truth and righteousness . Such a man they believe would do great good . He might visit occasionally all parts of our Zion , ' ' confirming the churches , and strengthening the things which remain and thjit are ready to die . ' His personal character and talents might do much for the advancement of Christian truth and

    holiness . In many places , especially in the more remote and retired districts , the mere presence of such a man , the authorized agent of this Association , his very countenance and voice would be hailed as a cheering and blessed thing . We trust that ere long the funds of the Association will be so increased as to

    enable your Committee to command the services of whatever man among us is the best qualified for the office , and to pay him a salary equal to that paid in any of our churches . We want the very best man that can be found , and in order to obtain him , we must have the means to support him .

    During the past year , several of the auxiliaries of this Association have held public meetings to excite one another to new efforts in the promotion of pure and undefiled religion , Meetings of this kind have been held at Hingham , Cambridge , Panvers , providence , mi Werces *

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    tef . The auxiliaries in the two last places have resolved to hold semiannual meetings , and the Providence Auxiliary has printed the Report presented at its last meeting . Your Committed regard thesepufclic meet * ings of auxiliaries as very useful ,

    particularly in county towns and -ot ^ eiMa ¥ ge ^ plaees ^ JlIh-fi | Lj ^ £ MJto ^ excite and keep alive an interest in the object ; and it has been found by experience , that without something of the kind , there is great

    danger that auxiliaries will languish and die . These meetings will have a tendency to encourage the friends of religious freedom and pure Christianity to be faithful to themselves , and to the good cause , and to make them feel that it is a cause well worth

    any sacrifice which they may niake . We trust that , as year after year comes round , we shall find theke meetings multiplying through the common wealth and through the country , and that they will form one of the most emmlnt ^ neans ^ f awakening , a greater interest in the objects of the Association . At all such

    meetings it is respectfully suggested that a collection be taken to replenish the treasury of the parent institution . It was observed in the beginning of this Report , that the past year had been a season of great religious excitement . It is believed that this

    is true of the country generally ; it has certainly been the case through * ou ¦ fc ¦ Ne \^¦ EHgl ltt »^;^¦' 7 M ea 3 tlre s--pf- a novel and extraordinary character have been resorted to , which seem to have been regarded by the people in many parts of the commonwealth ,

    ( to use the language of Dr . Chauncey , ) as ' things of a bad and dangerous tendency ; ' and ... in . several parishes they have manifested their disapprobation by dismissing their ministers , aijd inviting among them the teachers of Unitarian

    Christianity . In illustration of the state of feeling that prevails in many parts of the country , we give the following extract ; $ ? a letter totally

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    0 , 58 TJNfTABIAN CHRONICLE . f .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/18/