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frrtrnicated t 6 the Cbtiiiriitte ' e other information of a more cheering nature . In a letter , dated Feb * 5 , 18 H ^ he savs : —
*< Two or three months since , a circurnstance occurred which gave me pleasure . A person whom I had observed in the chapel at both the services , came tome into the vestry at the conclusion of that pf the afternoon , thanked
me for my discourses , expressed his satisfaction in having for the first time attended worship in an Unitarian chapel , and informed me he came from Dewsfairy * , a . town about five miles from WakefielcL where an attention to the
Unitarian doctrine had been excited . He gave me the following account * About twenty-two years ae ; o , there was 3 dispute relating to the settling of a ftlethpdist chapej at Dewsbury- The trustees were not willing that k should be settled on what was called the
Conference plan , or given up wholly . to the direction of Mr . Wesley and his associate ^ Tne preachers ' were ordered by Mir . Weslejr to qtiit the chapel , aid a subscription was immediately raised by which another was built near to it . Mr .
John At Jay ,, a preacher in the Methodist connection of great respectability , had promised the people tbaH' if the Methodist preachers quitted the chapel ar was threatened , he would come and be their minister . He did so , and preached for several years , to a large c 6 n 3 Sregati 6 n > ar ^ fetf sott of MethbdisW . Being constantly in quest of scriptural truth , he found in the book-case of a
friend at WJiItehavkn , where he was on a vfsitj Dr . J # Taylor ' s Key and Cornmctita ^^ bn the Roman * . He / read ir with gie at ^ attention and imbibed the senti inentt , being those that were Suited to his state of rnir > d , but whfch he never had seen before expressed so well . He rdftirned home .
1 * &e ^ khb wittj * o » c * observed some d ] 0 E * in the style of his ' preaching ^ The number of his auditors rather decllhcd . He continued to preach agre& > «« $ }* to life imfefoyed kHotvlc < l ^ , but not' Cflntrownially ) t ^ ink % ^ Wst to opp ?** ^ rrdr 6 y estublishing truth . New auditors attended on him ; so that the cdftgrtgatioh was numerous , When , jilibut thrfify ^ a ^^^ oWiiiMto " fck ^ at the- *^ W j 4 eiityseT « tfKe ^ aihfeil ^ hi * publ ^ acrvicca . Tlio new coedcc tiom « f Mftho 4 i « te ace now ia MMiettiftn
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6 ^ hecHapef . ^ Sftme ^ dfMr . Afe ^ - tiniate frien 4 s entered fully- £ L ? opinions They procured ma ^ u : rwn books , or those that hold up 7 a £ i ardigion , and became more and morel lightened . They professed their vfe 3 and haye met with most vehement m position . About half a year a ? o **>« raged by Mr Atlay , th ' ^ t ^ Z mg for worship on the Lord ' s day in the house of one of their' nuthber aiM have a respectable number of attendan ts
They conduct the . worship byprayW expounding , &c . They aie at p / cscit Brians , with respect to their notion of the person of Christ . They \ v 6 utd be glad to see one of our missionaries ; d would some persons also at Huddciv field . "
The Committee forwarded a parcel of Unitarian tracts to Dews , bury , by the hands of Mr . Severn , who , in a letter of tlie date of April 22 , J 811 . further says \ r-
' I have sent a parcel of books to Dm * 1 u < ryy made up of some of tiiosi tbatm last sent here , and of oth ^ riVfiltflM in my possession prcvioiisil y * ' They ah ! very acceptable to v the pcfopje ihtte , 1
and I hope will be useful . I tyc [ lately received a letter from one of their leaders , giving ; mean acdotitft dFthtf situatioti ^ The y ^ 5 p tip their reYtjjjfarf meetings , and go pn steadily > though ' in the face of great opposition frq ^ avowed enemies , " and of discouraficffi ^
frbm lukewafnV friends . I h ^ Ufiglj ^ as fat a ^ I could do , that MitlVm shall visit them either in g # ing * 0 cnr *> turning from Scotland . I am dcwfll ; to say that he would have a wclc 6 mc ^ receptibhV In the taatiie of otff © f $ W b ^ thre ^ n , I thirik * you- aiitf W < M mittee for the books . ' * . . ;
From Various commtiwationj it appears that in several plart * f ' the kingdom there bas been wito the last year a spirit . pf reliffOW J «inquiry excited . This hrt ^ ecfli particularly the case a * Lynn Norfolk * and at tf&nwtU ^ LincvlnsMrt , f rom whit * I" * place an apflkettiou i » before tn Cornmhte ^ signed byive perso ^ ; for asiistancfe in opting * P ^ for the mronhipt . Vf One ^^ . Sobn after A la » f A ^ T ^^
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6 ^ 4 I * ttellige 7 ice . —Uriitari&ii Fund Report ' , lgn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/48/
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