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rous hindrances and obstructions we have to contend with , we are not discouraged . We are convinced that though our progress ,
which we all hope is the progress of truth , may be slow , yet it is sure . Much , very much good has been already t ffected by this society . An unbounded field of usefulness is , however , before us ,
inviting our labours , stimulating our efforts , encouraging and animating our hopesj by the fairest promises and most rational prospects of ultimate success . Mr . C . concluded by felicitating the chairman on the happy earnest
which such a large and respectable meeting afforded of the society ' s labours being seconded , and its object supported by xhe company , wherever their individual influence and ability' might extend .
Rev . W . Vidler , and success 16 his Labours at Reading and Chatham . *' Mr . Vicjler pleaded guilty to ihe charge of having preached the doctrine of the Carpenter ' s Son , in a carpenter's shop , and
urged , in the language of an old divine , that convenience for the time being was consecration ^ He then dwelt at some length upon
the state of things at the two phices above mentioned , enforcing it upon the company that nothing was wanting to the success of Unitarianism but the
exertions of Unitarians . 44 Rutt and our good wishes to the Unitarian Academy . " Mr . Rutt rose , and said , — g I am not insensible , Sir , of the honour you have done ipe , by connecting ray name with tfye Unitatran Atkdetny , though I am conscious that there are persons
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present , whose namesstiould flatter have been mentioned ort this pe . casion , for the services they have rendered to that institution . This should have been the case , Sir , had the chair beten Otherwise
occupied , or if liny friend , the Treasurer , * had not been such a . plural , ist in concerns of public utility , as to have his name necessarily introduced , to-day , in another connection .
I believe , Sir , most of us are acquainted with the origin and objects of this Academy , which grew out of the success of * he Unitarian Fund- The projectors of ifc highly and justly valued
theTseTvices which had fcen a # might be rendered to i > ur £ ati&ev by the zeal and piety of Christian * teachers , who had received only > ma English education . But they thought it desirable to giVe youfrgttielklsome
knowledge of the learned languages , as a useful ^ rathe * ; than an ornamental accomplishment , to assist them in understanding and explaining th £ scriptufesy though they should never Teath those intellectual attainments at which
scholars have often arrived , and which , I tnist , willahvays distinguish many in exur communion . I had hoped ,. ' Sir ; that the Unitarian Fund had now survived all
the prejudices which it encountered' at firtft , eve » among , some Unitarians . But I am sorry to find myself mtst&ken . In a periodical publication ^ , whi ch ^ I-ttust , is familiar to us nil * the Fvmd is
censured , by an anonymous writer , especially as it proposes to act by such means as the Unitarian Academy may supply .. . Thd writer to whom I r ^ fciy aiifk who is me quite unknown , appears to hav ^ fop gotten that the Unitarian Fund ww
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4 % 4 * Intelligence . — Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/50/
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