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    which each was calculated to produce has been rendered more deep and lasting . On the 28 th of September a lecture was opened at the school-roonx of Mr . Stockman , Bishop Street , Portsea , by the Rev . W . J . Fox , which has been

    regularly continued , once a fortnight , and attended always by respectable , and on several occasions by very numerous congregations . Public notice was given for the following evening of a similar lecture at

    Gosport , where a room had been engaged for that purpose . Our intention was , however , frustrated . Bigotry had taken the alarm , and the person in whose house the meeting was to have been held had been so

    intimidated by the denuricia-ion of both temporal and spiritual evils , that it was judged expedient to desist . A second attempt , shortly after , was equally unsuccessful . It is just and

    gratifying to record , that the measures adopted to prevent our assembling by some professing Calvinists were , by respectable persons of that denomination , indignantly disclaimed- At lensrth the Old Poor-house was

    obtained , and on the 10 th [ November Unitarian Christianity was first preached in Gosport , to an attentive and overflowing auditory , by the Rev . W . J . Fox , from Numbers , x . 29 , " Come thou with us and we will do thee good . " Our subsequent efforts have been attended with considerable

    success . A room has been permanently engaged at Mr . Stubbington ' s , corner of Betnister ' s-lane ; where seveTal families , forming , it is hoped , the germ of a regular congregation ,

    assemble every Lord ' s day for the worship of the only God . For the continued and regular support of these lectures , the Society is indebted to the services of Messrs .

    Brent , Fox , Fulla ^ ar , Lyons , Read , Saint , Trav / ers , and Treleaven , who have cheerfully contributed their labours towards the great objects for which we are united . The ministers in connexion with the

    Society have also engaged to preach alternately , on the first Tuesday in every month , at Fareham . * nis measure has been adopted in conform ity with the earnest wishes of tae Unitarians in that place , atid is expected to prove very useful in pro-

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    moting their comfort , establishment and increase . The attention of your Committee has been much engaged by the situation o £ the congregation at Southampton , collected by the exertions of Mr . Travers , who has unfortunately been

    compelled by illness to relinquish his station . The chapel has been kept open on Sundays by Messrs . Fullagar , Saint and Read , and there is reason to expect that permanent arrangements will eoon be made for the support of Unitarian worship in that town .

    The amount of stibscriptions actually received during the past year has been 25 / . 5 s . Gd ., of donations , 38 / , 18 s . ( 5 d . The expenditure , of which the different items have been sanctioned by the Committee , and are submitted to your inspection , is 53 l . 6 s . Qd . leaving a balance of 10 / . 12 s . 2 d . in the hands of the treasurer .

    It would have been easy for the Committee to extend its operations , had the funds of the Society permitted . Ljinited however as thev were , much has been done . Our brethren have

    been cheered by encouragement and assistance , and the pure word of life has been dispensed to numbers of wiUing hearers , to whom , but for this Society , it would only have been offered with the adulteration of human

    inventions . We rejoice that we have not laboured in vain , while we still look anxiously at the wide field of usefulness which remains to be cultivated . Aiming only at the divine glory and the good of man , we hope for the continued and increased support of our brethren , and the blessing of the God and Father of our Lord

    Jesus Christ . May the Southern Fund be an humble instrument , in the hands of Providence , of accelerating the time , announced by inspired prophecy , when there shall be One JLord and his name One . in all the earth !

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    Proceedings of the Scottish Unitarian Association . Sheffield , June 10 , 18 l 6 . My Dear Sir , I am desired , by the Committee of the Scottish Unitarian Christian Association , to transmit to you the following account of the Proceedings at the Fourth Anniversary of

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    Intelligence . — Proceedings of the Scottish Unitarian Association . 353

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/45/