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and for myself , to return you and the company , our most cordial thanks for the honour you have done us , in drinking our
healths . The Committee , Sir , is an important instrument in the execution of the great plans of this Society , and I take it for granted , that , in drinking our healths , you do not intend it as a
barren compliment , but sis a tes ~ timony of your approbation of our conduct . If your committee have , in any instances erred , or disappointed your expectation , it must be placed to the account of their infirmity;—for more active zeal ,
more energy , punctuality and good intention , could not be employed in your service * and the app earance , this day , of so large and respectable a company proves , sa ^ - tisfaetonly ; that they have not laboured in vain . —If gentlemen
would c ^ rry along with them , into their respective connections and districts * all over the country wh * re they dwell , a portion of the zeal , now so conspicuously
exhibited , and exert their influence in their various circles , by explaining the object , and stating the great success and utility of this institution , your Committee , Sir , would have , upon our returning
anniversaries , to present before you a report still more gratifying and more worthy of your attention . This Society , to its honour be it spoken , has , for its particular object , the instruction and benefit of
the poor ; they are the great mass of the people , to benefit them is greatly to promote general happiness . I rejoice , sincerely , in this object of our institution ; lef us endeavour to lessen their sorrows ^ and increase their consolations , by communicating rational , religious
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instruction . As for the rich i rf they do not want the inclination * they have abundantly the means
of taking care of themselves . " 64 Rev . T . Rees , and the Cause of Unitarianism in Wales , ** Mr . Rees expressed himself honoured by having his name connected with his native country < mext to the interest he felt in the
general diffusion of religious truth s was his concern that it should be established in the land that had given him birth . He could not reflect without pleasure , on the progress which it had already made there . Within his own recollection , there was but one avowed Unitarian minister in South Wales ; while at present the number was considerable , and congregations of Unitarian Christians were dispersed over almost every district of that part of the Principality . To avoid all suspicion of exaggeration he would , however ,
state , that though several of them were large , others consisted o £ only a few members ; but the smallest of them were of importance , as stations in their several neighbourhoods , where the mis * sionaries of the Fund , and other
ministers , found convenient openings for the advantageous application of their labours . He was inclined to ascribe much of the progress of the Unitarian cause in South Wales , to the formation o £
its Book Society , an institution to the origin of which he could not advert , without some painful recollections , but the success and utility of which afforded him much
gratification . — Mr . Rees , after briefly noticing the progress of the Wesleyan Methodists in South Wales , and comparing it with that of Unitarifci > i&iiK concluded by
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4 ^ 6 Ifite ltigencc . — tJniiarian Fun d *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/52/
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