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a . highly respectable and popular preacher to deliver the Sermon . Dr . Toulmirf s SermonbeforetheSociety , is sellingat Mr . Johnson's , St . Paul ' s Church Yard , for the benefit of the Fund : the Report may be had gratis on application to the Treasurer or Secretary , or any of
the Committee . Since the Report was dra \ vn up , the Committee have received satisfactory and pleasing accounts from the gentlemen who are prcalling in various parts of the country under their direction . Several names
liave been also added to the list of subscribers . UNITARIAN BOOK SOCIETYThe Anniversary of this Sociefy was liolden on Thursday the 23 d inst . at the London Coffee House , L \ idgate Hill . The business was transacted before dinner . A pleasing Report was read from the New Testament
Comfnittce , by which it appears that the subscriptions have exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the friends of the design—that it will be put to press without delay—and that two editions , ene small , one large , will be printed , on which account further aid will he
necessary . An addition was made to the preamble of the Rules , with a view to open the door to some Unitarians , who have considered the expression , now amended , as a bar to their entering the Society . The Preamble declares that Jesus Christ i > not Gcd ' s Vicegerent : to the word Vicegerent are to be added the words in the government OF THE WORLD . The Secretary stated that the Soc i ety was in a more flourishing condition than it had been in since its establishment . About 50 gentlemen sate down to dinner . W . £ mith , Psq . late
member of Parliament for Norwich , was in the Chair . The greatest harmony and cordiality prevailed in the company , and the day was unexceptionably pleasant . The toasts we ; c few and select ; they were reat ' y prefaced by the chairman , and cal ' ed up various
gentlemen to address t . h- - con ) puny . Mr . Smith left the chair at 8 o ' clock , when it was taken by Mr . Rutt . Before nine o ' clock the company had departed . GENERAL BAPTISTS' ASSEMBLY-- —This annual meeting will be holcten on the Tvesday i » Whitsvn-week , the
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19 th of May , at the Meeting-honse in Worshi p Street . The business will beejn at 7 o ' clock in the morning : public service at eleven : the Rev . R . Snelgrove of Lewes to preacli , and in failure of him , the Rev . A . Bennett ,
of Dichling . The circular letter is expected from the pen of the Rev . R . Wri ght , of Wisbeaph : the subject" The exercise of Reason in matters of Reli gion . " The "brethren and friends will dine together at 4 o ' clock , after the business of the Assembly is over .
MISSIONARY MEETING—The annual meeting of the Missionary Society will be holden in London , on Wednesday , the 13 th of May , and the two following days , when Sermons adapted to the occasion will be preached at' the usual places of worship . The Rev , Messrs . Newton , of Witham , J ack , of Manchester , and Grifnn , of Portsea , are among- the preachers .
WIDOWS' FUND . —The annual Sermon for this Institution for relieving tlie necessitous widows cf Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations , was preached in the meeting-house iu the Old Jewry , by the Rev . W . Jay , of Bath , on
Thursday , the 16 th inst . The subscribers and friends to the Charity , afterwards dined together at the New London Tavern , Cheapside . The collection after Sermon , and the subscription at the dinner , amounted , we are habpy to state , to more than Four Hundred Pounds .
YORK ACADEMY , —Considerable efforts are making by the friends of this excellent institution to obtain for it the patronage of the Unitarian public , and not we learn without success . A Sermon and a public collection in behalf of it , were lately had at Mun-.-fkld , Nottingham , and the same aid has been rendered it in other places .
The papers in our Magazine on the subject , have excited enquiry and not a little interest , with regard to- _ tht 2 Acadcmv , and the tc Accidental I ) isroT .. Tcr , " whose I'lumiiy f ; ave rise to the disou-si-: > n , bus ' -ait the Editor ( A the Monthly Repository an oiler in his real name , of an annual subscription to it of Five CJuiikms .
POLITICO-RKHCl'JUS . ' Mr . FOX . — It will be recollected that a pamphlet appeared toon after the death of this ever-to-be-lamented
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2 IS Religious Intelligence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/50/
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