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aesr over vice in every form . We w j ] l go on with growing stiength ; thetrause in which we are engaged
wll be universal ; to serve it shall be , our labour by d $ , y and pur study at night ; our last effort shall be to promote it , our last breath exerted in its favour ; we will die
praying for its success . '' To tbis iiiterestmg ^ and animated sketch of Mr ; W ' s labours , the Committee can add nothing
but an expression of their grati - tude to him for his eminently useful services ^ and to the varieus individuals and congregations who lent him their counsel and assistance .
The Committee have already discussed &nd determined on another mission to Cornwall this summer , and have applied to Mr . Gisburne , of Soham , to undertake tie missionary tour . From the West the Committee
have received several com m uni ,. cations corroborating Mr . W ' statements , and expressive of the highest sense and estimation of his services ; and amongst others one from Bridport , transmitting to the Fund the sum of 45 / . from
the Unitarian congregation under the pastoral caTe of the Rev . T . Howe , as a testimony of the acceptableness of the labours of our missionary , and as an acknowled gment to the Society for deputing him on this mission /
it remains only to state , that there are various places even in the W € St where Mr . Wrights visite Were requested which he
could not bring into his late r ° ute 5 these it is hoped he ^ y baVe gone * over before anotker aiMaivergary . Indeed , the ^^ mitfee confidently indulge lhe h © p */ Id ^ ite expressed , that
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all our congregations fnay ere long be favoured by his visits ; one of the good effects of which will be the drawing of the Unitari
an brethren into closer connection and more intimate correspondence , and eftabling them to unite their strength for . the common cauic .
It has been already stated that Mr . Wright is about to proceed to Scotland and Mr . Lyons to Wales ; the Committee have pleasure in adding that they have liot engaged the services of these gentlemen ,
without regard to their congregations . At their request , Mr . W * will take Chester in his way to Scotland ) in order to spend four Sundays with Mr . Lyons ' $ congregation ; and Mr . Bennett will proceed in a few weeks into
Cambridgeshire , in order , principally to minister to the congregation at Wisbeach ) which has such claims upon the respect and gratitude of the society , for acquiescing in Mr , Wright ' s appointment as a per ~ petual missionary .
Amidst many pleasing and encouraging facts , the meeting will not be surprised at the introduction of one of a contrary nature . With pain the Committee have to report that the congregation at Hull *
under Mr . Robert Blake , is broke a * up and dispersed , through the alleged misconduct of indivic | iuils . Diligent inquiry has been made into the circumstances of the case , in which the committee have beeit ; :
much assisted by the advice of the Rev . W . Severn , to whom rth ^ Unitarian Fund is un 4 « i ? .+ ^ J ? y great obligations ; and it kitfcs boen judged expedient to withdraw ffioin : Mr . Bfahty fbr the present atH ^ s ^ the countenance" of tKe Spcietx ^^^ Mr . Stverii has , bow #£ r , cdftu "
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund Report , 1811 . 623
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/47/
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