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    tendance at the house of God , by vpurjpus powerful considerations . TBe congregation was respectable , a number of ministers and friends

    froip different parts of the country attended . After the service forty * nine persons dined together , among "whom were nearly twenty ministers . We understand the cause is indebted for this place of worship in a town where one of tke kind

    had not before existed , to the liberality of one respectable family R . W .

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    Manchester Presbyterian Quari * terly Meeting . At the last Quarterly Meeting of ministers denominated Presbt / m terian in Manchester and the vi * cinity , held at Stockport , the devotional services were conducted

    by the Rev « D « Jones , and fbe Rev . Win . Harrison preached from Acts v « 29 « A respectable ^ though not numerous , party dined and passed the afternoon together in &n agreeable and edifying manner . Thfc number was rather fewer than

    usual , because the meeting took place s 6 Soon after the opening a ( & new Unitarian Chapel at AU tringbam , in the same neighbourhood , wjiich was numerously

    attended . The writer of this may b £ permitted so far to go 6 ut of his \ va ? y £$ to state , that the services at . Altringharii , &nd the so * cial intercourse afte * dinner ^ wil l not soon be f 6 fgotten *

    Two brethren from Oldharti attended the Ineetiflfg at Stticfcportj tvho represented thfc state of Unitdrianism in Oldham in a very favourable light , though it has been introclbced the ; e but very lately- ^ - Avi more than two or three Ve ^ n .

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    They have a regular ^ service every Sufiij&yl pQ ^ foTiiiic generally iy bi ^ e of th ^ r own number , and oc . casionally by a neighbouring mi . nister . The congregation consists of more than twenty heads of families * and of individual attend *

    ants , on an average , from sixty to seventy- Their immediate object in attending the meeting was to solicit the aid of the ministers , members of the Quarterly Meeting , to preach for them occasionally , and likewise to express a hope that

    some , assistance and encourage . ment might be given them to an undertaking above their own means ( for they are not rich ) , but to which they look forward with great desire—the building of a

    chapel . In both these objects they were * at least , partly successful . Many ministers promised their as . sistance ; and ih regard to" thelat . ter object , the following resolution wits unanimously toassed : 6

    < Tfcat , tlfe cai& of the Unitariafts at Oldham having been considered , the ministers , members of thfe Quarterly Meeting , and others , be recommended by this meeting to apply to the members

    of their congregations , either from the pulpit ^ or b y personal applU c % tioh , or both , as may be deemed moit eligible , in order to raise a sutii of inofiey for ilie erection of an Vnitariati thkpel in Oldhato . " Th ^ Rev . W m . tjfarrison , Man ,

    ehe ^ tei-, kindly Undertook \ o be treasurer' of rhoiiies received for the purpose expressed in theaboye resolution ; ana it may be prqper to add , that tontributioHS will be thankfully received frorii any qpar . ier . iri aid of our Unitarian brelV ren ut Oldhana . Oct . IB , 1814 . W . 5-

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    720 Intelligence . — Manchester Presbyterian Quarterly Meetin **

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/60/