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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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lection was made for the building fund . The last hymn was sung to Cambridge , and Mr . E . concluded the service with the prayer and benediction . " Mr . Vaughan performed the whole of the afternoon service : the tunes , Derby , 104 th . and New Court .
" In the evening the place was excessively crowded ; there were about 800 persons within , and 100 or aoo who could not get in . Mr . E , performed the first part of the service , and Mr . Taylor preached from Matt . xxi . 13 , JMy house shall he called the house of prayer ; the tunes , Bedford , St Anns , Falmouth . "
Mr , Eddowes ' s was a high-toned Unitarian Sermon and is to be published . " The three collections amounted to 20 5 dollars , and 46 Cts . which was far more than was expected . ^
The friends write in high spirits . The building cost ( it is estimated ) about 'l * , ooo dollars , exclusive of the ground , for which , in the year 1818 , are to be
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The Bible Society now occupies so much of the public attention , that every thing relative to it becomes of importance , and particularly to the members of the re * Jigious world . This Society , it is well known , is formed on the idea
of uniting Christians in one body , for the promotion of religious truth , and this by means of circulating the Bible without note or comment . We have frequently observed } that it does not follow its own rule , inasmuch as it circulates '
King James ' s , or the vulgar English Bible , in which are many annotations ; and , as the fnnds of the Society are large , and it contains many learned persons , there is scarcely an excuse for its not acti / ig up to its avowed design , and publishing a correct translation without annotation ; so
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paid 7500 dollars . The Society sub * , scribed among themselves , in the first instance , nearly 6000 dollars j a large sum , however , remains , as a debt on the new place . Our American brethren venture therefore to make an appeal to the liberality of their fellow Christians in Great Britain z and Mr . Joseph
Priestley requests us to name the following gentlemen , as , amongst others , receivers of benefactions , how small soever , on behalf of the American Unitarian Church , the erection of which ( to use the language of Mr . Priestley ) cannot fail to have an important effect
in a country , where the errors of the understanding are alone to be overcome , and where all sects are , in the eye of the law , on an equal footing : — The Rev . J . Yates , Liverpool — — " T W . Hawkes , Manchester — — . Jervis , Leeds
— — J . Kentish , Birmingham — — J . P . Estlin , D . I > . Bristol _ — T # Belsham , London — — It . Aspland , Hackney
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that it may be a standard book for all parties of Christians to refer to , without offe-nce to any * We had no doubt , when we first made this remark , that the reasonableness of
H would be forced on its members by subsequent proceedings . But we have a singular circumstance to mention before we resume this point . To the parent society are attached several auxiliary societies , and at a meetingof one of them ,
a clergyman was called to the chair of the committee , which was met to arrange the business of the day , and previously to entering upon it he read a letter stating that one of the vice-presidents was accustomed to distribute Unitarian tracts with
his Bibles , who being called upon in this manner , allowed ' the fact , and also that he was a Unitarian . Upon this the clergyman repre-
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45 L Intelligence . —Unitarian Church at Philadelphia .
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/66/
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