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Plan of supporting small Con * gregation s * Newport , Isle of Wight ,
Sir , While a cause is in its infancy , it will be allowed * it requires every attention and support that its patrons can afford . This , I conceive , is the case with Unitarian .
ism at present . It is not an in . fant cause , in one sense ; since it may be pronounced to have been coeval with the apostles ; but it may be styled an infant cause , when we consider how little it has
been attended to , at least in this country , till of late years ; during which the attention of the Christian world has been attracted towards it by many venerable and energetic writers . Their labours have fenced it with a bulwark of
adamant , against which the missile weapons or blustering cannon of misnamed orthodoxy will be sent , and roar in vain . Still , however , it requires support : and it is desirable that its friends ,
however small the particular detachfoent may be , should be able to shew themselves , by having some public place in which to meet for Religious worship , and instruction . But tne detached
re are many parties of Unitarians , too small , or too poor to support a minister , or * ven to purchase or build a room wherein to meet to edify one ano-• w : and unless these psrsons are supportedby their more opulent
toethrien , they become , as it were , foblicly lost to the . cause : and not only is their testimony to the ftutfc lost P but ; they are lost as a ^ l ?^ 9 ^ t / for . other * , which is j > nta ^ tet of rto small consequence . ** then , from such considerations
ls th ^ se it becomes desirable to
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draw into public notice these small bodies of Unitarians , the simple question for solution is , how can this best be done ? Even
liberal persons are sometimes tired with repeated personal applica * tions for charity ; and are too apt to excuse themselves from giving , by the trite conscience-calming exclamation , " there are so many of these wants , it is impossible to relieve them ail . " And it is not
by any means a pleasant thing ta have to apply to people again and again for money . To obviate these evils , Mr . Editor , I beg to offer an idea to the Unitarian public through the pages of the
Repository ; whether it would not be a good plan for Unitarian congre * gations , universally throughout the kingdom , to adopt the apostolic recommendations of having weekly
collections at their respective cha * pels . This plan the apostle suggested for the relief of the poor * as appears by his second letter to the Corinthian convert * : and if a
fund was thus easily raised for one purpose , why should it not b& so raised for another ?—I should recommend this measure to be adopted generally in all the Unitarian congregations : by dojng this , I think a $ um might easily be raised sufficient for the effecu
ing of many beneficial purposes ; The poorer members tnighj . sub * scribe their pence ; the more op i ^ J lent in proportion ; as copsciet ^ e , the liberality of their natures , of their zeal in the cause might duW
tate . The sums thus raised every week might be placed in the bands of a committee or two joint trea * surers—and from these congrega * - tional funds , relief might be from time to time afforded as occasion might require ? These weekly a < p .
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Plan of supporting small Congregations * 6 % f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/39/
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