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the Institution , held on Sunday and Monday , May 12 th and 13 th , in the Unitarian Church , Glasgow . Delegates were present from Edinburgh , Paisley ; Dundee , Greenock , Blackford , l > aley , Port-Glasgow , & : c . On Sunday , the devotional part of the morning service was conducted
by Mr . YatES j and Mr . Torrens , of York , delivered an excellent Discourse , on the Tendency of the Unitarian Doctrine to promote Love to God and Man , from the text , 2 Corinthians , chap . v . ver . 20 . In the afternoon , Mr . Yates delivered his farewell Sermon , from the words ,
Philippians , chap . ii . verses 14 , 15 , and It ) , a Do all things without murmurings and disputings , that ye may he blameless ana harmless , the son s of God without rebuke , in the
midst of a crooked arid perverse nation , among whom ye shine as lights in the world , holding forth the word of life j that I may rejoice in the day of Christ , that I nave not run in vain , neither laboured in vain /* In the evening , Mr , Smith , Minister of the Unitarian Church , Edinburgh , preached the Annual Serrrion in aid of the
Institution ; the subject , the Tendency of the Unitarian Doctrine to promote Benevolence , from John , chap . xiii . ver . 35 . The congregations throughout the day were very numerous and respectable . Between
the morning and afternoon worship , the friends from the country , and many of those in Glasgow , both male and female , to the number of seventy , partook of some refreshment ; and , between the afternoon and evening worship , about sixty persons , of both sexes , drank tea together . On Monday , the Society met in
the Church at 12 o ' clock , when , after joining in prayer , Mr . Auld , of Leith , was elected President o £ the Meeting . ' The Report of the Committee for t } ie j > ast year was then read by Mr . George HarUi ^ , the Secretary . It stated , that two editions of Mr . Ya ^ es / s Sermon , on the Duty and
Manner 6 f deciding the more important I ^ eligious Controversies , preached at the last'"Anniversary , had been printed ; that Messrs . Gaskell , llhssEht ,, sitid " Harris , had , in the ruurse tif ' the year , volupteefed their Servlcjek as Missionaries xb the Institution ; and had ptrea&hfcd , wfth great sneceasia # Gtthfeafi ; 'Renfrew ; Pafrtic ,
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Rutherglen , and Greenock ; that llr . SyMe had undertaken a mission last summer , and preached at Hamilton , Lanark , Carnwarth , Mel rose , 8 cc . ; that the Society have had in their hands , since the last anniversarv ,
3248 Tracts , of various kinds , nearly 20 OO of which they have sold or distributed ; and that ten corresponding members had this year been added to the Institution , making altogether forty-two places in Scotland in which Unitarians are at present known to reside . Letters were then read * from
the corresponding members of the Society , most of which were very satisfactory and encouraging , particularly those from Greeuock , Blackford , and Dundee ; and gave an additional stimulus to the friends of ( he
Institution to proceed , with vigour , in the good work they had begun . The following Resolutions were severally proposed > and unanimously adopted :
" That the cordial thanks of this Meeting- be presented to Mr . George Harris , for the distinguished zeal , ability > and perseverance , with which he has continued to discharge the office of Secretary during the past year ; also to Mr . Potter , and the members of the Committee , for their co-operation in promoting the objects of the Association .
" That it is the opinion of this Society , that the attention of the Association should be particularly directed towards Dundee , during the ensuing" year ; that the Committee be requested ' to use every exertioa in their power to send them supplies as often as possible ; arid that the Society
there be requested to institute a Penny Weekly Society , in aid of the Association , or of the promotion of Unitarianism in any other way they may deem proper . * ' That it likewise be recommended to the Committee to supply Jilackford with preaching as often as possible .
" That this Meeting express their most cordial thanks , congratulations , and good wishes , to Mr . George Harris for his exertions m preaching at Greenock , as the Missionary of this Society ; and to the regular attendants on his services in that
place , who have exposed themselves in the cause of pure and midefiled religion , to the ^ rcat discouragements and obstacles attending the first introduction of unpopular truth . be
" That the thinks of this Society given to the I ^ ondon Unitarian Fund for their Donation of Ten Guineas to Mr . Syme , inVder to enable him to continue his services tb the Paisley Chujpctu
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354 Intelligence *—Proceedings of the Scottish Unitarian Association .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/46/
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