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4 V ' - ' several Unitarian societies were acknowledged by the committee . 44 With ihese and various purchases , " the Report proceeded , 4 < your Secretary , on the behalf of the committee , has this year put some thousands of tracts into
circulation . Wherever your * mi s * siortaries have gone , there has been a growing demand for tracts ; and though the society was not instituted principally for their distribution , and though the expence of them forms a considerable item
in the annual account , yet to send out missionaries without them would be to send them not equipped for their undertaking . " We have copied this part of the Report , in order to suggest to such of dur readers as have it in their
power , the expediency of assisting the Unitarian Fund by the donation of tracts . Some of them have the lead in the Tract-Societies , and might probably obtain the gift of copies of such articles of their stock as are most numerous .
Others have possibly small pamphlets of their own publication , which they would wish to put into gratuitouscirculation . And some few may , perhaps , be willing to spare sets of the Unitarian Tracts ( which are in particular request ) , and volumes on the Unitarian
Controversy for congregational and district-Libraries . Any benefactions of this kind , transmitted to the Secretary , will be most acceptable , and shall be publicly acknowledged in this work .
•"•• In more than one painful instance during the year , " the Report goes on , " your Committee have bad the pleasing , duty of acting upon tfcpt par ( . of t ) ie plan oi the Unitarian Fund , which relates t # ministers oppressed by poverty . "
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The services of the recei vers of subscriptions throughout the country were adverted to with grateful acknowledgments by the Committee , and a hope was expressed that they would continue their
efforts to interest the many respectable Unitarian congregations , in England , on behalf of the Fund . Particular mention was made of the liberality of some individuals and congregations in Cheshire and Lancashire .
It was stated by the Committee that they had received in transfer the title-deeds of two places of worship , to be used for Unitarian worship , or the proceeds of them in rent or sale , to goto the general Fund , and that they had placed these deeds in the hands of a
legal adviser : also , that several intimations had been made to them officially of the intention of friends to bequeath property to the Society : and that on both these accounts they recommended that a certain number of trustees
should be appointed by the General Meetings in whom property by donation or bequest might be vested for the use of the Unitarian Fund . The ^ Students of the Unitarian Academy were represented as entitled to the thanks of the Society ?
on account of their services , as preachers ^ during the last year . ' We give the following concluding paragraphs of the Report * without abridgment , <• Vour Committee would
be in tbeir own view negligent of the interests wfricb have been * committed to their hands , if they < M not take up the suggestion of the ; { gst . Comnpute ? recommending that some plan be formed for the establishment of an Unitarian Sunday
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I ¦ 646 ntelligence . — Unitarian Fund Anniversary .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/58/
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