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    IStiltfi hail iia the last autumn taken a , missionary totir ibi ^ tigh tart of flie West of Scotlandy \ i * | jfing and preaching tp the bretiu # ii ill many places ; that there were at present twenty-two cor * fbponditig members of the asso * feitioii , and that intelligence had % en received iroiri sixteeii of them respecting the state and progress if TJnifarianisrii in their respective neighbourhoods . The report Djfent on to impress on ttie minds

    0 f the inetiabers of the association , f $ e ifiipoftancfe of having a perfiiarient rni ^ sionary in Scotland , it ^ iftg tftk t this might be accom . ^ BB ^ d even at present , if some | id could be procured from the

    Loliuoft Unitarian Fund , An account " of the state of the funds of flte society was then given , and ffib redbirt cohcftided by earnestly to

    exhorting the member ^ establish jpf their respective neighbourhoods , Iftehny Weekly Societies , in aid 6 ? t ^ iVnpdrtant objects of the ass ^ it ftldii .

    ^^ T&e follow intelligence re « - ip « cting the state of Urntarianism at th ^ undermentioned places is Wtlacted frbin the report of the | onQmittee . ^¦ JftT DSib 3 ee * u the state of the

    flS ^ Sty ii nearly the same as it f as la ^ t yean Upon the whole , pfrtir ^ er , it is increasing ; slowly it \ i tVue , but still it musrt be daid ^ be ib & flourishing condition . W < i kr& vciiry unanimous , ' ' " ¦ At THiicbuftry , there are a few

    ijnends , «* h 6 seem dispbstrd to Wplaort im m ^ asur ^ that may 5 f < | aSntfed by the association . I -It eaiti ^ aixh , " the prospects ^ tae society are encmi raging , W everriflft lecture * delive ^ fed

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    ytiblic mmA * Many whd ; ^ srf ^ oi feave an unfavourable opiirtoli « f the society ure rtow heard to speak of it with re ^ pfect , and indeed a great deal of that odiqpl , which was f ^ rifeferly attachfecTto the name of Unitarian is reitiov ^

    aiid we trust it is still daily diminishing . We attribute tBis wgi * come change partly to the passing of the bill in favour of UaitariansSj , partly to the society having alpi

    quired a more organised st $ tl ? f and partly to their having obtajne 4 lately a much more respectabla place of worship than tfiebrie they formerly occupied , r Fk # t& life

    now hardly ever less ihim - 4 $ & hundred hearers of an atteNioot ^ and often more than that number * Mr . Smith is forming a Sunday school for the instruction of tli «

    youthful part of the congregatic ^ , and any others who will fctfleml j in the principles of morality ^ nj religion , and he designs to detiv # f duringsome of the summerluonfHfe an evening lecture once a fortnig Ki ^ at Leith . " X

    At Jedburgh , and in the nei gh * bourhood , there are several fri ^ ddf to the cause , who rejoice in it * prosperi ty ^ and who are willi ^ and anxious to do every thing jft their power to promote it . At Melross , there is $ sntmll

    societ \ , the number of which n ^ f been lately reduced b y tmigmtio ^ and death . '* A ^ Fal kirk , 4 < there are some who make an open avowal of tfrglji attachment to the rational and

    bent ' voleht principles of Unit ^ rianism , but there are still mo ?* who embrace the principles , but do not confess it , for fear of beiiy put out of the synago ^ iie ^* At Carluke , ' * there arc abo \ rt efty , ^ 10 a ^ fe feWW f # «

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/65/