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smile upon your little society , may it be the nursing mother to the \ vh 6 le kingdom to bring it back to 4 he long lost truth , the worship
of only him . ' May every spiritual , find every temporal blessing" fitting in the eye of infinite benevolence , be your portion , is the hearty prayer of , * Sir , ic Your most obedntl
* Humble Servant , " THO . FYSHE PALMER . tc Mr . Christie , Merchant , Montrose , Angus Sijire , Scotland . " Mr . Palmer and I exchanged letters together while I remained in London , and afterwards when
I returned to Montrose , till towards the end of November , when with a manly resolution he bade farewell to the University and the church of England together , and took his passage from London in a Scotch vessel bound for
Aberdeen , where he arrived safely in a course of tempestuous weather , and proceeded from that place to Montrose , which he reached December 4 th , 1783 , and I had the pleasure of first seeing and embracing him , Mr . Palmer was active and
zealous in propagating the Unitarian doctrine in Scotland , both by preaching and the distribution of pamphlets . He was my colleague &t Montrose till about May or June 1785 , when he went to see
his friends in England , and on his return to Scotland in autumn that year , he settled in Dundee , a populous town and much larger than Montrose , where by his zeal and
assiduity he soon raised an Unitarian congregation . He visited Montrose occasionally , and other places , and was chiefly instrumental , in connection with myself and others , in forming the Unitarian societies of Edinburgh , Glasgow ,
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Arbroath , Forfar , and Newburg , He once made an excursion intc * England , and preached powerfully at Newcastle and other places . In 1702 , he settled for a time in
Edinburgh , where his preaching at first had a surprising effect , and excited the attention both of lawyers and physicians % but un ., happily about this time the political societies that were formed iti
Scotland in consequence of the French Revolution , diverted the attention of many from religion , and excited mutual rancour and hatred ; and in the end brought about a mournful reverse in the
affairs of my unfortunate friend . Mr . Palmer ' s conduct however was steady and upright , and he fell the innocent victim of a « P ? tf 3 f » » Jfr "Jj ? Sjfc W \ f *\ 7 SI DCi *\ ^' " and *******
judge-See , ' The Trial of the Rev . T . F . Palmer ^ before the Circuit Court of Justiciary , held at Perth , on the 12 th arid 13 th September , 1793 , on an Indictment for Seditious Practices . With an
Appendix , containing various Pieces , also Mr . Palmer ' s Defence , which he intended to have Delivered , had he not employed Counsel . With a Preface by W . Skirving . Edinburgh , 1793 / Mr . Palmer ' s sermons were
generally learned and well composed ; he was the author of seve . ral ingenious and original Essays in the 5 th and 6 th volumes of the Theological Repository , under the signature of Anglo Scotus . While at Edinburgh he published a
pamphlet entitled , ' An Attempt to Refute a Sermon by H . D . Inglis , on the Godhead of Jesus Christ ,
arid to restore the long lost truth of the first commandment , by T . Fyshe Palmer , Membei of the Unitarian Congregation at Dundee /
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136 Account of Mr . William Christie . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/8/
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