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Intelligence **—Removal * amongst Unitarian Ministers * % l > \
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t ^ noti ng the gopd cause , which have sjimfff wtut fim m df ' thik-J ^ ar , \ ve Jbegari by supscnptiotts of a pe iVixy a vfteelt ' i & form a ftihd . to be
kept distinct from the gin ^ f funds of the society , ana stgp . 1 te 3 aV occasions nia ^ A }? & l ^ ^ rV ? oFttte ; general intercuts Of Up'itairia ' i ^ i ^ m . The usual number of attendants at oiir chapel dyes , not much exceed a hundred : arid tve have already about seventy subscribers to our Penny Fund . We
should rejoice greatly to see our example followed with eoual zeal and unanimity , by all the Unitarian congregations in the kingdom ; as , by this easy and simple method , an annual sum might be raised , which , tdsether with the Unitarian Fund
alre ^ y foriued , and occasional donations froti ) able and-willing friends to the Cause , would be fully adequate to our increasing wants . Peiievihg the Unitarian doctrine to be the truth , and that in proportion to its spread , the world will enjoy more" of the blessings of genuine
Chrktianity , all true Unitarians must be pleased witfi the late frequent calls \ ip 6 h their tibeiality , for the erection of new chapels and other assistances to neWly formed Unitarian societies . JSiit as for the most part , the applifcaiibns upon these occasions , are rii ^ ae to the opulent alon-e , and as rhany \ others , tp whom the donation of ^ large Sum at once might be
inconvenient , would probably be glad to corttribute iheir mite , the aubscriptiori 6 f a ^ penn ^ y a vveek seems to be an easy and practicable method of givfin ^ to ^ 11 an opportuni ty of shewing their interest in the cause , and assisting with considerable efficacy in its support . If this scheme could only # fFe . e . t oqe half of what is stated as possible by ypux Correspondent , Dr . Thomson , in Vol . XI . p . ^ 79 >
that Ts ; if onjy fifty thousand subscribers cbukl be obtained , raising u ^ i ^ ards of ten thousand pounds per amrnat ) , hpw much sitbstaiitial servic ^ to the caus ^ owght be effected by this ^ in ' a mariner the most easy , and by gtv $ keri ! ipfi Jl vfi eax / h individual almost impeltcfeptibre , ? of
TiFis the fht ^ rj t Fan the society at Swansea / £ 6 a ^ jply wfcat they raise by tMi 1 c ' sc % crne ; in the first j ^ lace , to th ^ J ^ rdttiotibW dF 0 nkatianisfh in our own . irnmeclTaler neighh " oi ^ r ^ bo * d , by the 'distribution / of tracts , and by
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Removals amongst Unitarian Ministers *
Air . Abram Bennett , who has been many years pastor of the General Baptist congregation at Ditchling , Sussex , and some years evening lecturer at" the Unitarian Chapel , Bri g hton , has been unanimously chosen minister of the numerous and respectable congregation at Poole , Dorsetshire . lie has accepted the invitation , and removed to Poole at Midsummer . By his
removal there will be two vacancies , and it is to be hoped that both Ditchling and Brighton will be supplied ^ acn with a minister : the latter place affords a fine opening for anygentleman wh 6 s £ circumstances will allow of his making an experiment as to raising a congregation competent to the support ttf a minister , and who may be atuacted by the situation . ••«
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other means : but always to keep a reserve in hand > to'be re ^ dy to ansyver any cafls Cor the assistance of others . And we would recommend to , the attention of Unitarians in general ^ if this scheme should be generally adopted , that some farther pLau should likewise be devised for coij-, centraling its force and uniting ^ he
whole body in its application . Might it not be practicable to have a register somevvhere kept of all the Unitarian congregations , and the number of subscribers they severally furnish ? In this case , when assistance is wanted , application should be made to the keeper of the register , who might easily calculate the proportion which each congregation should contribute towards raising , the sum required . He would ascertain , for instance , that supposing the sum wanted to be £ \ 0609 and the number of subscribers fifty thousand , the share
to be demanded from a congregation having a hundred subscribers would be jC 2 < . The gentlemen who manage the Unitarian Fund might perhaps be induced to undertake the care of the register ; and the communications might be made , to save trouble and expence , through the medium of the . Monthly Repository . Thus a machine might be erected ,
of very simple construction , of very moderate cost , and of vast and increasing power : and -would the wholei body of Unitarians co-operate to set it in motion , we might in a short time see wonderful effects produced . R . AWBREY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/59/
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