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poor in matters of religion , who bad understandings as well as the ricb . and were not generally
behind them in independence of character . It was not enough , he thought , for Unitarians to avtivv their opinions from the pulpit , or even to circulate tracts in their
defence . ;— -these measures though good and important were not sufficient ; they must be followed up by attempts to bring the mass of rnankind-to listen to Unitarian instruction . For himself he was suprrzed and grieved that all those that thought with us as Unitarians did not act with us in the
Unitarian tund ; this he imputed to misconception of our plans , which time would gradually remove * ( Mr . Grundy appeared much affected with the marked approbation of the meeting . )
Mr . Trend proposed that the company should request the preacher to give us his sermon in print , that we who were present might again enjoy the pleasure experienced in hearing it and that ihose that were absent mi ^ ht
be enabled to partake of our pleasure . Thismotion was warmly secondedbyftlR . Ebeneze ^ Johnston , and received the unanimous and cordial assent of the meeting .
We understood hovrever r that Mr . Grundy declined pledging himself to the publication , as the sermon was the summary of some courses of lectures ,, which he intended to deliver and which he flight-possibly give to the public as a whale .
The speedy enlargement of ic The Half-way House between Infidelity and Fanaticism . The Rev . JR . Wright- the Jirst
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Unitarian Missionary on British Ground ** Here Mr . Wright rose and said that , he must ever deem it an honour to receive the thanks of so numerous and respectable a meeting . But however gratifying
this was to his feelings , he must take the liberty to state that he should be unworthy of it if he looked to it alone ^ if he were not stimulated by higher motives and ambitious of a nobler reward .
While he cheerfully acknowledged obligations which he could not express to the Unitarian Fund lie was sure he should be pardoned
for saying that he had been a missionary before there was a Fund to . assist him , and that he trusted he should have continued a
missionary if the Fund had never been instituted . He meant only to shield himself from the imputation of seeking by his labours mere human applause . He and his brethren considered themselves as
in the service of Gody to whose approbation they looked . He was happy to announce from , the further experience of a year , more actively employed in the cause of the Fund than any pre ~
ceding onq that the state of the country was highly favorable to the accomplishment of the wnshes of the meeting . Wherever he hdd gone he had found respectable and enlightened friends of truth , and had met with , the most cordial
reception , and experienced the heartiest co-operation from his brethren in the ministry and from Unitarians in general . i *
* Erroneously given in the Newta * papers , «* The first Unitarian JfttfU&jty&S in the ^ ritish ^ mplrc / 1
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Intelligence—Unitarian Fund . 361
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* QL * vi . 3 a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/41/
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