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-sions , and . when every individual amongst them wotild consider it as a black fast to be prevented from attending the Fund anniversary .
Our other Laborers $ and may every anniversary witness the increase of their number and the progress of their work .
Mr . Bennett here said that , though he was not named and though his circuit as a missionary , was less extensive than those ot the gentlemen who had lately risen , he felt himself constrained to thank the company and to assure them that he had the same zeal as
his brethren for the propagation of Unitarianism , which he considered the same as Christianity . He mentioned the case of a clergyman * who rinding his church
deserted , went about amongst his parishioners to enquire into the reason : some assigned one and some another , but some said that they could not attend the Hvorsbip of the church because one of the
creeds contained the doctrine of three Gods , whereas the scriptures taught the doctrine of hut one . At a ' vestry meeting the clergyman introduced the subject and promised his parishioners that if they'approved of it , he would omit the reading of the objectionable creed of St . Atbanasius .
The speakepfound that Unitari - amsm coold be understood and approved by the poor . He had been expressly opposed in Sussex t > y a Caivinistic mission ther ^
otat instead ot losing had gained ground . There were instances Jn * vhich the same people had heard Trinitarian preachers and also him preaching the diviae unity , and tad concluded that his story was the best . He believed the Unitarian doctrine was considerably
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on the increase , and that the only thing wanted was more -laborers , for the people were panting to hear the truth .
Before the next sentiment was proposed , the Chairman" said that it was probably known that since the last anniversary an attack
had been made on the honour of the Secretary , and indeed of the Society , by a reverend gentleman , who had been answered and sil - enced by a series of Letters , pub . lished under the sanction of the Committee ; he would therefore give .
Mtty every Mis-statement of , Facts , relating to our causey lead to the Defeat of Bigotry and
Intolerance . The reference to Mr . GisbUrne , of Soham , in this Sentiment , called him up : he said that , as long as he had life and health , he was determined to proceed in
the glorious work of promoting the emancipation of the human mind and the progress of rational Christianity . The work of Clarkson was glorious , and his conduct in relation to the deliverance of
the Africans from slavery would be remembered to his honour by generations yet unborn , for by this means great numbers were raised into the state of human beings . But what was that
compared with the work of freeing the human race frorrf every thing opposed to their improvement , their perfection and their everlasting happiness ! By the direction of the Committee he was restrained from
going into villages and other places to preach the glorious gospel , where there were ho licensed houses , lest he should ihqiir thfe severities of J lje penSI sfetiiteSt whjch ^ efe still in ^ Ibixe ^ itiST
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Intelligence—Unitarian Fund : 36 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/43/
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