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quired to address the institutions that have been formed in the c < mdtry for their relief . It has been to this effect , after a sufficiently formal and humiliating
ings to iee tke manner in which respectable widows have been re-4 » __ A ^» « m — .
address , —¦ * * You r petitioner i & left by her late husband without any itteans of support other than ( here the whole of * her little pro - perty is to be specified ) and cannot subsist without the aid of
your charity r Sec . " It becomes us to consider and respect the feelings of every creature ? of God . The feelings of some of them are keener than
those of others , and where shall we find them more tender than in the widows of ministers , who have been , admitted into v the best society of-our towns , and been
companions at the tables of the most wealthy ? And yet they are to approach In this humiliating manner the companions and brethren of their late husbands * I will
mention it with pleasure , that there is a society of gentlemen in the north who are honoured with dispensing the bounty of a noble lady , and ' who have a proper sense of the dignity of those characters
which they find it their duty to assist , and do not require these wounding confessions . I feel so much independence of mind that I should be extremely hurt to
tlrinlc that my widow or family Would be obliged to use the humiliating language I have myself employed ^ in order to obtain the accessary aid for A clergyman ' s * idow in distress :
\ My desire , therefore is , to aswt in the forming of a < und , out « wfwch niy widow and children , rein . m
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if it please God to make it necessary for them , may draw as their right ; to the distributors of which they shall only have need to state my death in order to receiye their due share of the annual disbursements . Such widows should not be required to state their situation and resources at all , "but , when they apply , their claim should be admitted without
any demur . If they do not need the assistance of the society , it may be presumed they will not apply for it . And there is so large a proportion of the Unitarian ministers who have , either on their own side , or on the side ^ f their wives , an independent fortune , that , I flatter myself , the prpvision would be ample for those who have not such means : for I doubt not fc that amongst us , as it actually is in the Church of
England , many ministers , who have no prospect of ever requiring to be reimbursed , will become subscribers in aid of their less
fortunate brethren . Allow me to request a consideration of this proposal of you , Sir , particularly , and the other gentlemen unitad with you in activity and zeal to serve the cause
of simple , unadulterated truth ; to whom we are all ready to acknowledge ourselves materially obliged . Individually , I acknowledge that obligation and am Your obedient servant A Northern Unitarian Minister .
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Reply to an uv EvangelicmI * Letter . Sir , The following reply to a letter , which was recentl y addressed to a JJnitarian minister , is sent to you
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* * * ¦*/¦ . . . „ Rtpty to an € C Evangelical" Letter . £ i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/17/
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