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maintenance of these powers in their proper state of strength and activity . It is , however , greatly to be lamented , that their present funds will scarcely enable the Trustees to pay the stipulated ( I
do not say adequate ) salaries , to the two gentlemen who are already so busily employed ; and that there is no present hope of their being able to add a third tutor . This can only arise from the want of proper information being more extensively dispersed among the friends of religion , liberty , and science .
Two methods have been . proposed for raising an adequate annual income ; personal subscription , and congregational collections . Both have their advantages . The former is more likely to be preferred by the more opulent members of our societies , who are not unwilling to give the institution the sanction
of their names , and to take an active part in the promotion of its interests : the latter might perhaps have more lasting and beneficial effects . They would also afford to ministers an opportunity of directing the attention particularly of their younger hearers , to the great principles of Christian liberty ] and would afford the less opulent a means of contributing such smaller sums
as are suited to their respective circumstances . Neither of these methods , however , has been generally adopted . In surveying the list of annual subscribers annexed to the last year ' s report , I find that Manchester and its neighbourhood furnishes 92 guineas , Liverpool 2 i , Yorkshire 36 , London only Q Miscellaneous Subscriptions 15 , ( in all amounting to
1871 . ) but that the opulent towns of Nottingham , Leicester , Birmingham , Norwich , &c . and the whole of the South of England , furnish not a single guinea in this way . Congregational collections have been made at Liverpool , Leeds , ( Mill Hill ayid Call Lane , ) Newcastle , Norwich , Palgrave , York , Wakefield , Eland , Chesterfield , Stockport , Dean Row ,
Monton , and Lewis ; but they have in no year exceeded 1301 . If the . opulent Dissenters in the West of England are continuing their subscriptions , or exerting themselves in any way , with a view to the re-establishment of an institution among themselves at Exeter or elsewhere , such exertions have the best wishes of the present writer , who would be the last person to
suggest any thing which might tend to interfere with so laudable a purpose- But if they have no such intention , it is submitted to them how much their own interest is concerned in co-operating with their northern brethren , in maintaining the only institution where youth can be educated with the probability of their being fitted to supply , with reputation , those places which the excellent persons who now fill thcin ^ must in no Long time leave vacant .
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I 2 O Unitarian Academy at York
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/8/
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