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fcOtTTHEIt ^ UNITARIAN SOCIET Y-
The annual meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society , took place at Ditchling , according to appointment on the 13 th July . The services of the day Were well attended by persons from Linit jield , I ^ etuc ' Sy Brighton ^ and other places adjacent .
The Rev . Mr . Rees began the service "with an introductory prayer , and then Tead Acts xvii . from the improved version . The Rev . Mr . Parker , of JLewe ? , pronounced the general prayer ; and the Rev . Mr . Scott delivered a most excellent discourse on the new creation , from ' Ephes , ii . jo . He made all his quotations from the New Testament , in
the improved version . In the evening , the Kev . Mr . Jeffery , of Billingshurst , began the service with prayer , and Mr . Rees , preached from John xviii . 37 . — Thirty-four persons dined together . The discourse delivered by Mr . Scott in the morning , on the interesting subject of the < 4 New Creation by Jesus Christ , " will be printed for the benefit
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BIRMINGHAM UNITARIAN TRACT SOCIETY ,
On Tuesday , July 19 th , 1808 , the annual meeting of the Unitarian Tract Society , establi > hed in Birmingham , for Warwickshire and the neighbouring counties , was holden at Dudley . The Rev . John Williams of
Halifax , read the scriptures and conducted the devotional service . The Rev . John Kentish , of Birmingham , delivered an interesting discourse , which he was earnestly requested to print , on the simplicity of the Christian doc-
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MISSIONAKY SOCIETY .
The Fourteenth General Meeting of this Society was held in I > ondon , May xi , X'Zy and 13 . The firbt pub ic religious service was held on , Wednesday morning , the nth at Surry Chapel , when Dr . Campbell , one of the ministers © f the Tolbooth Church , Edinburgh , preached from Rev . vii 10 . * ' The text was considered as the acclamation of the whole company of redeemed saints , Y / hen they shall be permitted to content
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of the Society . To enter into arninute detail of tne argument , and elucidation contained in it is therefore unnecessary . Eut the writer of this article , who was present at the delivery , cannot refrain from expressing his confidence that speedily after publication ^ its praise will be in all the Unitarian churches : that it
not only will be a most valuable addition to the sermons already published by the Southern Society , but will also be adopted by the Unitarian Societies throughout the country as a clear statement and able defence of the opinion that the new creation mentioned in
scripture relates not to the natural but to the moral world Messrs . John Kirfcpatrick and Fulla * gar , of the Isle of Wight , continue to fill the offices of treasurer and secretary to the Society ; by whom suSscriptions on account of it will be received , —and from them any information respecting it may be obtained .
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trine , from 1 Cor . 1 . az , 23 , 24 .: " For the Jews require a sign , and the Greeks seek after wisdom . But we preach Christ crucified , unto the Jews a stumbling block , and unto the Greeks foolishness : But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks , Christ the power of God , and the wisdom of God . " An addition of eighteen members was made to the Society .
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plate in the light of Meaven the work ot redemption , in its origin , progress , and consummation , divested of all the difficulties that once seemed attached to it . On the evening of the * ame day the se * cond sermon was preached at the Tabernacle , by Mr . Aden , of Exeter , from Isaiah xliii . 13 " In this discourse was descubed ; 1 , an important work which God designs to effect ; % y the opposition made to it ; and 3 , the certainty of its
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/48/
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