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narlf seventy , ) sat down to a plain dinner at which W . B . Kennaway , Esq . Was called to the chair . The interval between dinner and the evening service was very short ; but the few select toasts which were given afforded opportunity to several gentlemen to , address the meeting . " The associations and individuals , whose exertions have
checked the expiring struggles of religious intolerance , " having been given from the chair , the health of the Rev . Thomas Rees was proposed , as having had a share in promoting the opposition to Lord Sidmopth ' s BUI . On this , Mr . Rees , at the request of a friend , gave a historical account of the body of Deputies for Protecting the Civil Rights of the Three Denominations of Protestant
Dissenters j and while he admitted the claims of the meeting at the London Tavern , to the gratitude of the dissenters at large , and to a full reimbursement of their expenses , he stated adequate reasons for the opinion , that the Deputies
have good claims upon what may be termed tlie regular dissenters , for their co-operation and support . —When " the York College , increase to its funds , and to its students , " was given , Mr . Kentish expressed the great satisfaction which he felt at the state of that seminary , and
briefly mentioned the grounds of his sat isfa tion . —The health of the Rev . John Rowe and the other acting- members at Bristol , having , been proposed , Mr . ftowe , in a very impressive manner , led the thoughts of the company to the
earlier stages of the society , and paid a just and affecting tribute to the memory of that eminent and excellent man , to whom the Society , and the cause which it has in view , were , and indeed still are , so highly indebted , — the Rev . Timothy Kenrkk * .
In the evening , the Rev . J . Kenrick conducted the devotional service ; and the Rev . T . Hees obliged his friends by repeating , in an abridged form , the anijnated discourse which he had delivered , in the preceding week , at Portsmouth , before the Southern Unitarian Society , from % Tim . i . 8 ; iri which he took a view of the ( t afflictions" which the Gospel has undergone , referring , in an
* For an Account of the Institution of the Western Unitarian Society , see the Monthly Repository , vol . in . p . 61
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especial way to the leading corruptions which are still widely prevalent of the simplicity that is in Christ , and urged our zealous efforts to remove them in spite of misrepresentation and obloquy . In the course cf the day , fifteen members were added to the Society , makingin all , ( notwithstanding several losses by death , &c . ) above two hundred , so as
to fall below the London Unitarian Society by twenty only . And it is a fact , which shows the great utility of our Annual Meetings , that at the four meetings , from 1808 to 1811 , both inclusive , more than ninety members have joined the society .
At the meeting for business , reference was made to a statement in the Monthly Repository , ( p . 320 , of the present volume , ) complaining of a " want of newpublications in the Annual List . " The complaint appearsto proceed partly upon an error as to the fact ; but principally upon an incorrect view of the object of
the Society , which js not tp assist in furnishing the private libraries of the members , but to supply them with books calculated to promote the cause of Christian truth and practice , for their own distribution among those whom they may judge most likely to be benefited by them . It must , however , be the wish
of the " conductor 3 of the Western Unitarian Society , " to extend their catalogue , by the introduction of any book which they consider as suitable to the object ; and there is reason to believe that they are very ready to attend to the specific suggestions of any member on the subject , and especially to the regular recommendation of any book . The Society has either alone or in
conjunction with other Unitarian Societies , given encouragement to the printing or reprinting of several books , which without such encouragement would not now have been accessible to the public . And this is one of the most important ends
answered by these associations ; among others , they furnish an opportunity t > those of Unitarian sentiments , openly to avow their sentiments , and form amonF them , a bond of union ; and they are indisputably the cause of a much more extensive and effectual circulation oi
Unitarian tracts , than could have been brought about in any other way . Our Annual Meetings not only aid the growth of the Society , but they serve to animate the zeal of the former members
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Intelligence . — Western Unitarian Society . 443
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/59/
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