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    accomplishment . ** On Thursday morning , the society assembled at Haberdashers Hall , for the dispatch of its annual business , when the Report of the Directors was read , and Mr . Bogue delivered a suitable address to the Society , on the progress of their affairs . In the evening , at Tottenham Court Chapel , the service began nearly an hour before

    the time appointed , ( as was the case elsewhere in several instances , ^ th e place being . fulL The sermon was preached by the Rev . Robert Winter , from John xvii . 20 , 21 , on Christian union . The spacious parish church of St . Bride ' s , Fleet Street , was filled on Friday morning to hear a sermon from the Rev . John Martyn Longmire , L . L .. B . Rector

    of Hargrave , near Kimbolton , from Daniel xii . 3 ; the subject " turning many to righteousness . " In the evening the ministers and members of churches partook of the Lord ' s Supper at Sion Chapel . This large place was inconveniently crowded with communicants . Above fifty ministers officiated in the ceremony . The following public collections shew that there is no decline of

    zeal , on the part of the Society : £ . s . d . Surry Chapel a 81 4 o Tabernacle 124 6 o Tottenham Court Chapel * 17 a 5 o St . Bride ' s Church 153 10 6 Sion Chapel ( after the Communion ) ' 15 a 12 . o S 83 17 6

    To this sum there has since been adjJed 61 . 12 s . 9 d . The collections in various congregations in town and country , and the subscriptions of individuals are large beyond all example . If the money expended by this Society , since its

    institution , were compared with the objects it has effected , we fear its best friends would have to acknowledge mismanagement and wasfte . But we are decidedly friends to missionary undertakings * and are disposed to allow bodies of men time to gain wisdom by experience . The

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    supporters of the Missionary Society are , in the first place , that large mass of Christians , called Methodists ( Cafvinistic , ) who are floating between the Church and the Dissenters ; in the se- * cond place , those of the Independents * among the Disseniers , who are transported , by their zeal for evangelical

    religion or their eagerness for popularity , beyond a regard to church discipline , a dislike to the . Common Prayer Book , and a fear of lay-preajchers * ; and in the third place , by those undutiful sons o £ the church , ( not numerous , ) who , for . the sake of a great object , promoting Calvinistic doctrine * do not refuse to

    unite with the church ' s worst enemies . Our readers are aware that the Wesleyan Methodists , the Particular Baptists , the Moravians , and the Evangelical Clergy have missions of their own . TheRxroRT of the Directors re-y cords no signal triumphs ; the society has stiii need of patience *

    In Otahei r e , some progress has been made in teaching the natives the arts of civilized life ; but the missionaries seem to have made no converts . In a dispatch published in the Evangelical Magazine , subsequent to the missionary meeting , the unsuccessful labourers in

    the South Sea islands suffer their opinion of the real cause of their disappointment to escape them : * ' if , " say they , u th ^ Lord were pleased to pour out his spirit on the people , the work would spread in a very rapid manner ! * They tell their / employers that they have been surprised to see the readiness with which the

    Otahenans give thejr assent to tne doctrines of human depravity , the wrathfulness of God against sinners , the necessity of the atonement , and the immortality of the soul ; while *« they universally refuse their assent to the doctrine of the resurrectipn . * ' Now , to us this is not at all surprising . The barbarous , semi-pagan system or Calvinism naturally adapts itself to -the gross prejudice ' s of heathen savages , from whom it was first bor- * rowed ; but real Christianity , founded upon the doctrine of the resurrection , which Calvinism overlooks or makes of none effect , though it constitutes the

    * The greater part of the Independents or Congregation a lists in London fcr § , we believe , if not disaffected $ 0 , &t least not cordial with the Missionary Sooietijr yhe names of Palmer , Clayton , Humphries , Beck , &c , seldom , if Styer ^ occur in the missionary accpunts . Mr . Robert Winter indeed has jarone £ roni the Prtsby - Br ians to join the Society ; bu $ he i # regarded , it is said * \ p .. the light of 4 con vert .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/49/