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    system distracted in sortie degree the feeling of regard / Calvinism utterl y confounded the whole thing , or if not that , it vclicl worse , for whatever of lo \' e it conferred upon Christ , it

    necessarily stole from the Father . Two of the persons of the triune Godhead , the Father and Son , were erer placed irt opposite scales , and as the one rose t h ** other inevitably fell . It was in

    contemplating a , being who in every respect was made like unto his brethren , who was tempted as those brethren are , yet without sin , who was familiar with the saine emotions of the heart , felt a similar influence from the objects of life , was as alive to

    scenes of pleasure , and as sensible to those of su fieri n ? T . yet , throughout the whole , was perfectly pure , resigned , and firm , that we could both understand and feel the principle of affection that was due to the Saviour of men > beholding him " a man of

    sorrows and acquainted with grief , " yet ** made perfect through suffering /! we contemplate a definite and engaging object of regard—we understand ttie nature of the sacrifice , what it must have cost , and how to valu £ it , and prompt do we find ourselves ready to confess with an ajjostle , greater love hath no ¦ wan than this , that a man

    -ldy clown his life for his friends . There was another idea most happily adverted to b y the preacher in connexion with his subject , pot in-* teed as a matter of certain belief , bnt

    of pleasing protjability , viz . that the blessed Jesus might be still present , ihough invisible , with his churches * and might be at that time a witness to their expressions of regard , and their earnest wish to thew their love

    agreeably to the test he had prescribed , by keeping his commandments . The very mention of the circumstance seemed at once to warm the heart , to spread a more than common sanctity over the place , to impart to the countenance of the speaker , and of many t > thers , that animated irradiation which intimates an almost actual

    vision of the reVered personage the mind was coli tern plating . These and similar thoughts were brought forward upon the subject , and rendered the whole discourse a most interesting service . We have to regret that we do not recollect ' the * words of the preacher , arid therefore can only very } Mp $ rfeetW' coa ^ ey tlzose sentiments ,

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    which , being beautifully rlcfched , anj solemnly and earne ' stlv ^ delivered , very deeply affected the audience . At the close of the service , the business of the Trad Society lately established in the West Riding of Yorkshire came to be considered , and " the Rev . T . Jervis , of Leeds , being called

    to the chair , the Secretary to the Society ( the Rev . H . Turner , of Bradford ) proceeded to read the first Annual Report ( and stated the following particulars ) which gave a very encoura ging account of the progress of this Society , during the short period that had elapsed since it was first instituted . It was stated that at the last annual

    meeting of the association , &cc . held at Leeds , June 8 thy \ 81 b r it had been resolved to institute a Society for the Distribution of Religious Tracts , in the congregations of the West Riding , and that at a subsequent meeting attlland

    in September , ( See M . Repos . Sept . 1815 } ' the Rules of the Society had been agreed upon , and ordered to he printed : since that time printed copies of the Rules and Catalogues had been Widely circulated , and that local Tract Societies nad been formed ih the

    following places ; York , Leeds , Wakefield , Bradford , Halifax , Inland , and Lidgate . The Secretarfes appointed in those places had communicated with the Secretary tp tjie Tract Society , uruler whose c $ xe -the Depository of Tracts was placed , and had reported the number or \ subscribers ,, and the amount of donations , and the-.

    following is an abstract of the affairs of the Tract Society . The rate of subscription was fixed at a penny a week , or 4 s . 4 d . a year-: the number of subscribers reported from the different local societies 330 : the total amount of donations jg 26 . 5 s , B ^ the tplaJ number of the Tracts sold from the

    Depository 1243 . Most encouraging accounts nad been . received from various quarters , of the acceptablenerfs « the institution , and of the good whicft it had done , and was likely to do . " has been regarded as an acceptable

    opportunity of supplying a deficienc y which had been long felt in our Societies , of the means of obtaining a more general and exact idea of the ground * and principles of rational tUeol (> ftf '

    And from the variety of useful < vo »* of a strictly practical nature , which affords the opportunity of procuring ! will doubtless be the rneau * , * *

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    4 # 2 IiUclligenee . — 'Yorkshire Tract Society .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/50/