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tamde Wtl& ' Commtttee , The * voted 2 t > l . ft is but justice to an individual to state , that the raising of a congregation at Oldham , and the providing of the means of building a hew chapel , are chieHy owing to the fcealous but wise and prude at exertions of Mr . B . Gobdier , late a student in the Unitarian . Academy .
Another new chapel has also engaged the attention of the Committee—that ftt 'T'korne in Yorkshire . The Unitarian doctrine was introduced into this town and neighbourhood about ten years as ^ o , by your missionary , Mr . Wright , and has been taught by him in repeated journeys described in preceding years , Amidst some
discouragements the cause of Truth has continued to prosper , until it has been found necessary that the worshippers of the One God , the Father , should have a capacious building in which to assemble . The chapU is to be finished by the end of this month . The plan appears to be commendably economical . It is calculated that the coat will be O 5 Ol . of which 1201 . have
beet * subscribed in the lnrmediate neighbourhood . The Committee gave 201 . to this case . Many private subscriptions have since been received . In the judgment of Several judicious correspondents , Thome is im important station ; and Mr . Wright has Impressed upon the Committee , that ft would form a proper centre for the labours of a missionary .
The only remaining case of this kind which the Committee think of sufficient Importance to report , is that of the Unitarian Baptists at York , whose early history ha * been so well made known by Mr . David Eaton , in his " Narrative . " This people , consisting of persons iii humble life , bad laboured under great inconvenience
from the narrowness , obscurity and tinj ^ teasant situation of the room in which the y had been wont to assemble . At length , a ^ commodious chapel , formerly occupied by another denomination of Christians , bescame vacant ; and with the advice of judileious friends they ventured to purchase H at the price of 3001 . though of / this sum
they could raise amongst themselves no « nore th # a 60 l . The case was strongly recommended to the Committee by the respectable name of Mr . Wellbeloved , of fYork : and they voted to it tlte Bum of 201 . hoping from the representation * made to
4 tt £ m , tlgat the wboU debt may be speedily . liquidated . In no instance would the Cont-Jtdttee wttitfttn Any congregation in tbe contracting of a burdensome * debt . ; - A former Report ajfcrised the preparation *© f fc Trust 0 «© d . under which places of
« 3 » r *? up ifMgtit be itfeW by the Fond *< trot 4 te Owimim ^ bavefbundthis to dtt&cult , tend ill softie cases which thuy t rhave duly eoosidd ^ tfeertajtpeftged such great klangeY
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6 f expensive law' proceediii ^ s , that th have been able as yet to take nogtep * * I wards the- accomplishment of thig object . nor are they certain that it would U U » the interest of the Society to hold tha species of cumbersome and uncertain pro . perty .
The names of Trustees are upon the books of the Fund for talcing care of an ? monies that may be bequeathed to the So . ciety ; and the Committee have reason to expect that in the course of time their means will be recruited and enlarged b ? tlm kind of liberality .
in looking back to tbe receipts of the last year , the Committee see many instances of individual and some of congregational zeal which - they gladly acknowledge ; but they cannot help recommending strongly to congregations in general , to adopt some plan of contribution , by which the resources and consequently the exertions of tbe Society may be increased .
The Committee find a perpetually growing demand for Tracts , of which they have distributed naany hundreds in the course of the last year ; in which they have beea assisted by the Unitarian Society and the Christian Tract Society and other Book Societies | though the cost of Tracts will still be found a considerable item in the year ' s expenditure .
The Committee have great pleasure in announcing Mr . Fox , of Chichester , as tbe next year ' s preacher , In concluding their Report , the Committee have' only -to exjwness their wish that the Society ittay Continue to proceed npon the principled by which it has been hitherto guided , uniting zeal for troth vith
prudence in exertion , and boldness in the great catrse with dehcacy towards indwrduafe ; and their prayer that the God no& Father of oor iiord Jesus Christ may owd and prosper the labours oi the Society , and make it an effectual instrument of promoting the purity of evangelical truth , . the improvement of the human miod » ** d the glory of tbe I > i * ine character add name
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Vnitavimt Academy * The Annual Meeting of the Governors of this Institution wan held hi the ChapW , Parliament * Court ; Artillery Loo «» Wednesday , June 6 th , 1816 , afta «« Meeting of the Subtfcribera to tbe U « n * fian Ftind , William Cooke , E « qw « ™* Isle of Wight , in the Chair , Wb «» " * fonowirjg Heport was read and tfkft ^' Tlie Committee of the ^ " ^ Academy report with much P ^ " oi tlii » ^ cnerailMeeting the proceeding * the lii ^ titdtion through the pa »« T * r : Tfte to ** stutifeiits who have been in ^ rn demy fhroughowti the presHit •* hwc continued % o prosecute tlirir •»
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* 4 $ k Itfelfigene& .- ^ tfnt iarian ^ Aeadeiiiy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/58/
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