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Minister * should allow time for conver saiton on the state of religion * and the progress of knowled g e and truth in their respective districts , if they wish to em-
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WESTERN UN 1 TAR 1 AK
SOCIETYThe Annual Meeting of the Western Unitarian Society , was htld at Plymouth , od Wednesday , August the 15 th . The devotional service in the morning was cor ? due tod by the Rev . Dr .
Carpenter , and the R-ev » John Rowe delivered a very impressive and important discourse , from John xx . 31 . These are written that ye might believe , that Jesus is the Christ * the Son of God , and 1
that believing , ye might have life through his name . ** The leading objects of thc ^ preacher were , to shew that the appellation " Son of God , " has no reference to the nature of our Lord , but is founded upon , and implies the grand fundamental truth , that the Father
sanctified him and sent him into the world , ( see John x « 36 . ) and to point out various important conclusions respecting faith and practice , which follow as direct consequences from the apostolic creed included in the text . The
discourse abounded in forcible appeals to the judgment and affections of the hearers ; and while it was well calculated to strengthen their belief m the simple truths of the gospel , it eminently tended to aid the practical efficacy of them :
On proceeding to the usual business of the society , the former members had die gratification of witnessing an unprecedented accession to their body , thirtyfour gentlemen , chiefly of Plymouth and its neighbourhood , being proposed and admitted members 1
' as . ne society expressed their warm approbation' of Mr . Rowc ' s discourse , and unanimously and earnestly solicited the publication of it . Mr . R . however- declined giving a decided reply to their request , acd did hot appear disposed to comply 'with it . The Society resolved to hold their next Annual Meeting in Exeter , and
the secretary was instructed to write on the subject to the ministers of George ' s Meeting , in that dry . The Rev . J . Kentish was appointed to preach ; or , in case of his failure , the Rev . John JCenrick , the son of that eminent and excellent man , who was the cfcief
founder , and ( till Providence saw fit to remove him from * fiek | of great useful ness ) the mo * active supporter of the Society .
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About sixty ^ entlcme * , chiefly members of the Society , afterwards dined together . On the healtji of the preacher being given , Mr . Rowe rose , and , m an eloquent and interesting speech , con * gratulated the company on the rapidly increasing spread ot tJnitariamsm , in Plymouth , as well as in other parts of
Britain , and on the encouraging prospects of our own Society ; he took occasion to recal to their minds the remembrance of those great men , who had sown the seeds and laboured $ 0 successfully to cultivate them , and into "whose labours we have entered , particularly mentioning Dr . Priestley , Mr . Lindsey , and Mr .
Kchrick ; ajad having referred to the mysterious dispensation , by which the last of these was taken away , when in the vigour of life and in the midst of the most important labours , he expressed his high satisfaction , that there is one rising up to Jill his place , and do honour to his
father ' s memory , that though Elijah had left us , his mantle had fallen upon an Elisha . It is very gratifying to those of us who hare for some time been labourers in a work , in which oar hearts are engaged , that so many respectable and promising yopng men , have , within these few years , directed their attention
to the ministry . They will , we trust , see the jiausc of truth making great and continual progress ; and we j ? ray that it may be their happiness more and more to witness the influence of the truth as it is in Jesus , in making those who embrace it , worthy of him who gave himself for us , to deliver us from all
iniquity . In the evening , the Rjev . W * Evstns , of Tavistoek , conducted the devotional service ; and the Rev . J . Kenrick ddUvered an excellent and interesting discourse from GaL UL zj , " For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ *
have put on Christ , describing the effects produced on the first Christians , by faith in Christ , and pointing out what effects it will produce in the present day , wherever it is sincerely and heartily Embraced . Mr . K . i * about to undertake the duties of the classical (!• P&tment id the academical institutiea at York ; * od in that situation , and i »
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46 * 4- , . Intelligence . — Western Unitarian Society ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/40/
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