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« - . ; . / , fc-r' . ' . t / nitarian Society Anniversary . ( Concluded from p . 253 ) f Mr . Smith followed up his speech , which was received with niTfch applause , with the senti . raent whiqh is never forgotten and never * received with indifference at these meetings ' , namely , Civil
Qiid Religious Liberty throughout ijjg tVorld . A tribute of respect y ^ s ' ^ paid to The Memory of the Departed Worthies , Priestley , Jaindsey y and others . The Sister Societies were next named from
the chair , and were succeeded by th § Two other Sisters , Pe % ce and Tryth * Mr ' Uinckley , the Treal surer ; and Mr . Joyce , the Secre *
taryi ) also received the complu inoats of the meeting . Mr . Joyce said , in addressing tbe ^ company , that he was not a youngs servant of the Society ; he ltf * d dop € his best for years to promote its interests ; but he was abundantly repaid by what he now saw , and was ; thankful to
Divine Providence for the difference between the spirit of these times , aud of those wkn' the Society was institute ^ . It gave hiip peculiar pleasure to observe so many young person * in the company . The Society had that day received aii accession at twenty , new flames ,
a larger number Jhau had been obtained in piny one year from the rise of the institution * He hud not . iQ bgast <> £ the , funds of the Society ; \ he state of theip called foi ztal ^ n < l , ( exertion ; but thejr s ^ q k . ^ f bpok § w . a , ^ large anci va lu ^ , ^^| iaylioug ^ . jh ? X w <*? not (^ ch , 14 incmey , they , j ^ re " rich in Good IVorks "
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The New Members alluded to by Mr . Joyce were then given by the Chairman ; and afterwards , Mr . Christie , and Success to the Unitarian Fund , Mr . Christie thanked the
itieeting for this token of their approbation of the Society , of which he had the honour to be treasurer . The two Societies were , he o bserved , of use to each other , —in their final object they were the same , and they had common friends ; he perceived many of the subscribers to the Fund about
him . —Mr . £ . then explained the nature of the institution on behalf of which he stood up , and advertd to the good \ Vhich it had done in Scotland and elsewhere . Its operations shewed that the poor can
receive Unitarianisrn ; for they have received it with g ^ atftUde ,. — The speaker next alluded to !^ tr . Lyons , one of the Missionaries of the Fund , who was in the tooth , and concluded with saving , that
the finances of the Society were in a respectable state , but perhaps not equal to its anticipated wants . Mr . Smith , gave effect to Mr . Christie ' s recommendation , by proposing the health of Mr . Lyonst
aim the other Gentlemen who hate so laudably engaged in the service 0 / the Unitarian Fund . ... Mr . Lyons in returning thanks ascribed to the establishment of
the Unitarian Fund the opportunities of , usefuJness he had enjoyed since a change of principles had comipelled him to resigu his charge
amongst the r . epu ^ ed ortjiiorfox . He noticedi the avidity with which the Scotch people had received
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/48/
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