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description , which are extended to all classes of ministers ; but in many coilnties there are no such resources . If we-admit all
parties of Dissenters to our society , I am convinced it would be very greatly to our loss , and . we certainly are now of sufficient . strength to ( support an institution of this kind ourselves . I would have it
established under the patronage of the Unitarian Fund , and the business of it to be transacted in Lbndon , once a year , at the time of the meeting of that Fund . In pro - cessof ~ time , it would set the widows of Unitarian ministers
completely above the apprehension of want , and remove from the minds of ministers themselyes all that distress which is brought by the fe ^ r of the afflictive dispensations of providence in their families * I have been led to the
consideration of such an establishment by the recent loss of a brother ininister , who has left a widow without any other support than what she can gather from the benevolence of friendly minds . It is to
me a most painful consideration , that a lady well-educated , who has passed a long life in comfort and plenty , perhaps in affluence and elegance , under circumstances favourable to the
cultivation of the finer feelings , and of the best powers of the mind , should , in a moment , be deprived of every means of indulgence and
of support . And though I kn o ^ there are funds in London , in the north , and in other parts from which it may be * bpj > ed that assistance will be obtained for * such
persons , yet these are in some degree uncertain , and it would be creditable to the Unitarians to open a source of comfort amongst themselves , tm which our minis
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ters' families may look up with confidence , and from , which they may demand as a right what will preserve them from wanfc I pre . sume that they would not be ex . eluded from the benefit of other
institutions , because , during the life-time of their departed head , they had purchased this . K Persons better acquainted with these kinds of institutions might propose a better scheme tfcan 1 can , but I will mention some out .
lines , in the hope that a plan will be matured and brought forward at the next meeting of the- Unitarian Fund .
Every minister to subscribe a pound per annum . Friends who are willing to assist the benevo . lent design to add whatever they please .
A committee and treasurer to be appointed to receive the sub . scriptibns and the applications . When a minister dies , who has been a subscriber to the fund
twelve months before his death , his widow or orphan children to have a right to drat / ir , the one for life , the others till they are arrived at the age of twenty . one ,
such a sum every year as the year ' s resources will allow of , which sum will vajry according . q the number of subscriptions and of claimants , and be regulated by the committee .
No family to receive any benefit from this association except its parent bad been a subscriber to it * A certain sum to be determined on , beyond which no person shall receive from the funds , and , the
savings out of the annual receipts , if any ' there be , to go towards forming a permanent stock , the interest 0 $ , which may at any time be disposed of . It has often wounded my feel-
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80 Society for Belief of Widow * and Orphans *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/16/
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