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cause in Lincolnshire , where a few years back it was either unknown , or regarded with horror , is in a promising and encouraging state . ^ 'Tlhorne and its neighbourhood in Yorksii ire . Here things are going on well . Though our friends have no person among
them capable of preaching , they continue to meet together , in Thome and a neighbouring village , for the worship of the one-and only God , and to edify one another by reading and conversation .
When a missionary visits them he has many hearers , who are always very attentive , both in Thome and three neighbouring villages where he has opportunity of preaching . It is but a little more than five
years since the attempt was first inad £ to introduce rational and liberal views of Christianity in these parts : and now there is good reason to think , could a meetinghouse be erected * and a suitable
nnmster found to occupy it , who would also preach much iri the villages , a good Unitarian congregation might be established ; but this is not practicable at present ; still 1 hope it will at a future time be accomplished .
* ' Since our last anniversary I have visited and preached among our Unitarian Bap'ist friends in York ) and also visited and preach - ed to a congregation they have collected a few miles from York . I was received and treated by them with much candour and
affection . They have a deep sense of th « importance of truth , and are zealous in its cause . I think they increase in libeiality ; and liberality associated with zeal for truth , cannot fail to produce important effects . Zeal for / truth
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without liberality will generate bigptry , and liberality with out zeal for truth will produce idtfjff
erence . "Though my wprth y friend , Mr . Kirby , has for several years had the greatest discouragement , as a minister , in his situation in Nor . folk , from which he has lately removed to another in which he
is likely to be much more useful , his labours in the former seem not to have been altogether in rain ; some effects have been produced which there is reason to hope will be permanent ; but the good seeds he has sown must in future
be watered chiefly by Unitarian missionaries . Under the greatest discouragements , it ought to be remembered , that no good effort , well-directed , can be ultimately lost .
The remarks I have made in this paper relate chiefly to what I shall regard in future as my winter circuit , in which I have hitherto laboured with pleasure , and with as much success as
could reasonably have been expected ; and in which , if God be pleased to continue my life and strength , I hope still to labour with increasing pleasure , and to see effects produced far surpassing what have yet appeared . The cause in which we are engaged
and our labours to promote it , are as yet every where in their infancy : what has been already done ought to be regarded as but the commencement of a great work , which calls for every possible
exertion , find the earnest of wnat will be effected by increasing eiforts and persevering labours . Enough has been done to prove , that Unitarianism is capable ©* becoming , as in the first » gP $ i ¦
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564 Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund Report , 1811 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/52/
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