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meats mey hav ^ f ventured to make with him , and as another decisive proof of the utility ,, of the ,---necessity of the Unitarian
Fund , and of the disposition of the Unitarians throughout the country to welcome und assist its efforts . Nothing more rm ds to he said than that the tour
which it relates was not under * , taken without pressing invitations from ministers and others in that part of the country . Abstract of Mr . WrighVs Journals / his Western Missionary Tour iC
I entered on my mission to the West under a deep impression of its importance , and with some anxiety lest it should not be executed to advantage , the ground
being to me quite new , and most of those I had to visit strangers ; but I thank God for enabling me to go through it with pleasure and with success .
" Reckoning from the time I left home to ray retucn to London ^ this mission employed me sixtyfour days : i . e . from the 25 th of March to the 28 th of May ; durinff which I travelled about nine
hundred miles , and preached fiftytwo times , besides engaging in many interesting conversations . Every where I have been received with much Christian " affection , my spirit has been much refreshed by the 'intercourse I have had with our Christian brethren in dif .
ferent places , and rny heart great . ly rejoiced with the progress truth and charity have already made ) and the prospect of their extending on every side , by the application of proper means , with growing and persevering zeal .
u In this tcAir I visited the following places . " 1 . Guilford . Here I called on an Unitarian fornily belonging to
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the congregation at Godalmin ^ ** 2 . Littleton . Here lives Mr Ellis ^ one of the ministers at Go ' dalming . " 3 Worplesdon . In this place there is a small Baptist congrega . tion , which has been preserved by the exertions of Mr . Ellis . \ preached to them once ,, and had
a good and attentive audience . " 4 , Godalming . Here I preach . ed twice to crowded audiences , In this place Mr . Ellis laboured many years with little success
at length he begins to see the fruit of his perseverance in the good work ; the congregation is now in a prosperous state ; Mr . J . Brent is united with Mr , Ellis in the pastorship . They are about to enlarge the meeting-ho use , and it is hoped when larger it will be filled . I learned that at Farnharn the congregation is very low and in danger of becoming extinct ^ I should have visited Farnham , but had no time to do it .
Midhurst . Here I found a steady Unitarian in the person of a native of Africa , who was stolen from thence when seven years of age , carried to the West Indies ^ there bought by a gentleman in whose service he still is and brought to England . This Negro bears an excellent
character . He spent the evening with me at my inn , and I was much pleased with his conversation . He informed me of a little Baptist congregation at Cocking , whose minister , a labouring man , has lately become an Unitarian ,
and preaches the Divine Unitj : also of a few Baptists at Rogate , who are Unitarians , and meet together to worship the one ana only God . I regretted that I had not time to visit these people ?
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St > 6 Intelligence : —Unitarian Pund Report , 1811 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 566, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/54/
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