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at Selby , Yorkshire , -was received into connexion with the Assembly , and that of York will , in all probability , be united with it next year . Since the last annual meeting several of the churches hare established Sundayschools "with success ; while those
which existed previously were represented as being in a flourishing condition . The letter from the church at Cranbrook , Kent , stated that , "Agreeably to the recommendation of the
last Assembly , they had established a Sunday-school , and though it is not more than eight months from its commencement , yet more than 220 children have been admitted . The school
was opened upon the liberal plan of admitting the children of parents of every denomination ; and hitherto teachers have been procured out of the different societies , who undertake to conduct the children orderly to their respective places of worship . "
The Committee , appointed by the Assembly , two years since , recommended in their Report to this Assembly , the adoption of more vigorous measures for the revival of the General Baptist cause . Among other measures was that of raising a fund to
defray the expenses of a more extended distribution of tracts tending to the promotion of morals in general , and the dissemination of their peculiar tenets in particular—of local preaching wherever there appeared a prospect of
usefulness—and of lending pecuniary aid to poor or newly-formed societies , A resolution was passed by the Assembly , in approbation of the recom-r mendation ; it will , therefore , be submitted to the consideration of all the
churches in the Assembly ' s Proceeds ings A . fter the business was finished , the ministers , representatives and their friends ( about sixty in number ) retired to the White Hart Inn , Bishopsgate Street , to dinner . —Several
sentiments wore given from the chair , which called forth very animated'and appropriate speeches . The following were the principal : " The worthy Preacher '— " Religious Liberty complete and universal "— " The Old General Baptist Cause "— " The Union of all Christians "— " Mr . Rees and the Christian Tract Society , " &c . The ministers and their friends se « - pirated at an earl y fyour .
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Report of the Committee of the Southern Unitarian Fund , read at tha . First General Meeting of the Subscribers , at Portsmouth , April 17 , 18 J 6 . The age in which we live is honourably distinguished by the formation of numerous associations for
benevolent purposes . The friends of religion and humanity by combining their efforts , have multiplied their usefulness . Relief has been administered to the bodily wants and infirmities of man ; education has been provided for the ignorant , and knowledge placed
within the reach of the inquiring . Nor have endeavours been wanting to bring back theological opinions to the simplicity of the New Testament . In many districts societies have been instituted for promoting the knowledge of the scriptures and the practice of virtue by the distribution of books . The London Unitarian Fund has
forwarded the same object by the encouragement of missionary preaching . Still it was felt by the friends of genuine Christianity in this neighbourhood , that something more was desirable . Missionaries have paid us but rare and transient visits . Our
tracts have too often lain dormant in the libraries of subscribers . In some places small congregations have been formed which needed the countenance and assistance of their brethren . In others a disposition to hear Unitarian preaching existed , which it was
impossible for individual ministers to gratify , however desirous , on account of the attendant expense , and the want of co-operation . In the desire to remedy or alleviate these evils this
Society originated ; and your Committee have the gratification of announcing , that , in the short period which has elapsed since the commencement of its labours in September last , they have all been attended to with
encouraging success / In one instance pecuniary assistance has been afforded to a necessitous congregation , towards the maintenance of public worship . A number of useful works , with
which we were liberally furnished hy the Southern Unitarian Society , has been distributed in such a way as was deemed most likely to secure their perusal . By the union of preaching with the dissemination of tracts , there is reason to Relieve that the impression
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352 " Intelligence . —^ -Southern Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/44/
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