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Intelligence . —Unitarian Electing at Mansfield . 44-5
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T ^ ALES was holden on Thursday the sjth of June last at the Wesleyan meet-5 ng-houser near Pont-Ned th-Van ghan 7 Glamorganshire . The service of the day was intioductd by Mr . DaTid Davis of Neath , with prayer , and reading and expounding Peter ' s sermon on the day of Pentecost . Mr . John James of Cardiganshire delivered an excellent discourse on
the bes-t means of propagating relrgiows troths , from the 3 . 0 ! of jude- Mr . David Oliver of Gellionnen preached on the unpurchased mercy of God , from- JLuke yii . 42 . And Mr . Benjamin Philips of St . Clears on the doctrine . ^ taught by Jesus Christ , from J ohn iii . % . 2 fie concourse of people , on the occaion was gTeat—the meeting-house could not contain much more than one half of them . After the public worship was concluded a large party dined together , at the expense of a few well-wishers to the cause in the neighbourhood . s
The business of the Society was transacted in the meeting-house ; among other resolutions , it was re olved that the Rev . Thomas Martran , of Blaenewrach , be requested to- select hymns and psalms in Welch , adapted for the use of Theo-TJnitarian worshippers . That the next annual meeting of the society be held on the first Thursday _ after the 21 st of June , 1808 , at Gellionnen , and that the Rev . Tho ^ . Da vies , of Coed-y-Cymmer , and Mr . Jenkin Rees , of Merthyr , be appointed to preach , and , in ense of ' the failure of the latter , the Rev B . Philips . The names of a few new subscribers were added ro the YiA ; 2 nd a donation from Mr . BeLharn was thankfull y received .
The books voted for distribution to the Welch Theo-Unitarian Society , by the Southern Unitarian Society , will be a most acceptable present as the . e are many subscribers and non-sul > cribers , in the principality , who cannot read Welch , who will peruse them with avidity . If our fund had been strong enough , a certain sum should have been anumll y appropriated to the purtha e of Unitarian Tracts in the English language . D . DA VIES . Neuthy Aug . tthy 1807 . The Unitarian Ministers of NOTTIN GUAM SHI RE , Dl . K RYS 11 IK E , 1 1 NCOLNSH 1 K E , and the S ) UI HERN Hart of Yorkshire , held their An-
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nual Meeting at Mansjielb , on the 24 th of June . Dr . W aiwi . lt , of ft otherham , prayet ! and read the scriptnies ; and Or . Philipps , of Sheffield , delivered , in a striking " , energetic , and impressivemanner , a very excellent sermon , from the viiith chapter of JLukt ^ v . 28 th , "Take heed , theFeibre , how ye hear , * " iri which the va . ious classes of hearers , the uncandid , the prejudiced , ( "he
hypercritical , the captious , the conceited , the ' capricious , &c . were delineated by the hand of a master , and admonished with " a dignity and iirmness , ¦ worth )'' the imitation of his brethren in the ministry . The number of -mini .-ters pre ent - ^ as fourteen , exclusive of a c ergyraan of the established church , and the Caivhiistic minister of Alfreton . r \ he congreg-acion ' was inuch larger than on any former occasicfn .
The thank ? vf the- Association were unanimously voted to the two gent ! enter > who perfomted v in so 2 tbie a manner , the duties of ihe morning . tt way agreed , at the earnest reque .-t of tbe ^ Rev . Israel Wors ' ey , of Lincoln , ~ to » meet in that city nest year . The Rev . H . Piper , of Nart > n is appointed to preach in the morning ; and the Rev . J , Grundy % of Nottingham , in the evening .
The Ministers , am ? nine lay gentlemen dined in great harmony together . At the Annual Meeting ia . st year at Chtr&teifield , the Rev J . Bull , had . in his sermon before the A ' saciatiou , recommended the formation of a society , < c for the promotion of pure and tiiidcfileri Christianity , and the practice of \ irtue by the disiribu-tion of books ; * similar to these already established in other parts of the nation . The plan was warmly espou ed by Dr . V'hilipps aud Mr . Piper but adjourned till the present meeting ; when , on tin ; motion ot Dr . Warwick ^ it was again taken into censideration , and after -eriou- ; discussion the following resolutions were
agreed to . Resolved , 1 st . That h is the opinion of this meeting , that it would be highly advantageous to * he cause of rational religion and genuine morality , to establish a society for the purpose of distributing religious and © ther useful books , to be called " 1 he Northern UnitAriaqi Society /*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/49/
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