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near becoming minister of Jewry Street Chapel , and nad purchased the organ , which was built for the little Minories Church . " The names of the actual ministers of this Chapel , from the period of its becoming such to that of this publication , are William Aldridgc , Richard JPovah 9 and John JBalL
Mr . Aldridge was one of Lady Huntingdon ' s students . He left her connexion and became Ui 1776 stated minister at Jewry Street , where he continued till his < leath in 1797 . He published a funeral sermon on the death of
his patroness , the Countess of Huntingdon , and * ' The Doctrine of the Trinity stated , proved , and defended . " He -was occasionally assisted by * ' a Mr . Bryan , " also a . student at Trevecca , who obtained holy orders from Erasmus , a Greek Bishop , who visited L ondon in the year 1703 , and ordained several persons that could not procure ordination from the English Bishops . Mr . Bryan became minister of a congregation , at . Sheffield , but " was afflicted for : many years , at intervals , with an unhappy dejection of spirits , which bordered upon derangement . " Mr . Povah was introduced to the ministry by means of Lady Huntingdon .: after his settlement at Jewry Street , he conformed to the Church of England and endeavoured to put the chapel under the jurisdiction of the
Bishop of London j this being resisted by thej trustees , led to the resignation © f his charge . He then became curate and lecturer of St . James ' s , X ) uke sI Place - y aad has ^ since , we believe , been harassed b y proceedings against him in the spiritual court on tfie ground of his being heretical in his notions of baptism .
Mr . John Ball was " designed for the v / ater t" and " spent a part of his yo > ith upon the river Thames , " hut , diverted from his original calling , entered Dr . Aldington ' s Academy , at Mile End , anil after various
ministerial engagements settled at Jewry Street ^ . wnere the History leaves him . " Iri / gQ 7 , Mr . Ball took up the cudyxels ixx defettce of the Rev . Rowland Will , \ r \ a - pjamphlet in answer to *^' iV »? i | " | A . ^ nonitory Epistle . " ( See M . | $ qpds . ' II . £ 37- ) This pamphlet is sai ^ d pY Mr . WUson to have beep Vritfcet y l * iu . au ill temper . " The importance of the former part *> f this article in the ^ History , must ~ ptead our apology for devoting to it » o
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many of our pages . Our notices of the remaining historical and biographical articles will . be more brief ; we anticipate less and less occasion for animadversions on the historian .
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Art . Ill , —A Solemn Review of the Custom of War ; shelving that War is the Effect of popular Delusion with a ProDosal lor a Remedy . 8 vo ! Ep . 16 . [ Price 3 d . or 2 s . 6 d . per ) ozen . l Souter , Paternoster Row
' I THIS is the first number of the A Tracts of the Society for preventing War . We hail the rise of such a Sot ciety , and insert with pleasure the three first Resolutions of the persons composing it , explanatory of its object : — " London Coffee House , "March 20 , 181 6 . * ' At a meeting o £ friends to the principle of this Society , Sir Richard Philli ps having been invited to take the chair , the following Resolutions were passed t—
" I . That a Society be now formed whose object it shall be to circulate knowledge among all nations , on subjects of public morality , on the folJy , inutility and wickedness of war , and on the obligations of governments not to appeal to the sword on slight
occasions , on Questions of equivocal policy , or for the gratification of pride , revenge or ambition . " 2 . That to guard the proposed Society against misrepresentations / it is deemed proper to declare that its purpose is of a nature purely moral ; that it addresses itself to no particular party , either religious or political ; and that it will on no occasion mix itself
with questions of temporary and local politics . ** 3 . That some approved tract , tending to promote the objecta of this Society , » hall be published every three months . The only name as yet published in connexion with the Society is that 0 / the Chairman , who offers to give
information concerning the Institution to such as may apply to hint for it . The same information may be obtained of the publisher of this tract , who w alao appointed general publisher to the
Society-We trust , however , that morecrocient means will be ^ adopted to make the Society known , and to secure the patronage of ^ p moral and Christiw
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S 46 Review . —Society for preventing TFaf * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/38/
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