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    wilder great obligations , for the able and dignified manner in which , he presided at their festival . Almost all the sentiments and names , announced from the chair , were prefaced by remarks , tending to make them welcome to the meeting , and the spirit and harmony of the company were kept up to the last . We shall notice only the Toasts which led to the speeches , with which , in the manner before slated , we have been favoured * " The Rev . E . Butcher . "

    Mr . Butcher began by saying , that he was almost equally afraid that he should not be able to make himself heard by so nuinTous an assembly ; or to express , to his own satisfaction , the gratitude he felt at the very handsome terms in which his services had been

    mentioned by the Chairman , or the candour and attention with which they had been listened to by many whom he was then addressing : —he said- that if his

    feeble efforts should prove successful in promoting what the worthy Chairman had justly and emphatically styled " vital religion / ' he should indeed det-m

    himself honoured and happy . He congratulated the company upon

    the gradual extension * of what appeared to them to be Just and scriptural views of the Divine Being , the sole object of religious worship , and of the paternal , wise , and beneficent nature of his

    government . He rejoiced that his station in life was one whicli led him to the investigation of religious truth for himself , and to the diffusion of it amongst bis fellow tra-11 vellers through this preparatory state . He reminded them that it ^ as a luost interesting and noble

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    cause in which they were engaged 9 that if they pursued it in a steady and honourable manner , it must , by the divine blessing , be ultimately successful . He besought them not to injure this good cause , by any unworthy and immoral conduct ; and concluded a speech , which was heard throughout with profound attention , and repeated marks of applause , in words to this effect : 4 t Finally , Mr .

    Chairman and Gentlemen , may your whole behaviour both in public and private iife do honour to your religious profession , whether you belong to the comparatively higher or lower classes of society : whether you are engaged in any of the useful and honourable arts

    which contribute so essentially to the comfort of mankind , or are treading the sometimes intricate , and sometimes luminous paths of science ; whether your progress hitherto has been more or less sue *

    cessful , may you still be pressing towards perfection : may prosperity of the best sort be your portion : may you reach the nobility of virtue , the peace of a pure conscience , and the favour of heaven . "

    * ' The Rev . J . Joyce , and Prosperity to the Unitarian Book Societies . '' Mr . Joyce briefly related the history of the establishment of the Book Society . He stated that of the 30 members who first

    associated to frame the institution ( now upwards of 20 years ago ) 10 were still living , of whom he was one . 1 he Society had distributed books of the value of ^ 5000 . He , as Secretary , of the Society , invited persons in want of Tracts , to make

    known their wants ; and he concluded , with expressing his hop *

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    Intelligence *—Unitarian Fund . 46 * 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/45/