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ones . extremely , amused by a Christian chronological tree , shewing the opinions of parties which had branched out in the successive centuries , from the main root and from one another , and 1 thought that such a work well
executed would be instructive to the Christian world , and might tend to inspire them with the spirit of liberality * It is evident , that this vegetative principle is not exhausted : we still see parties rising out of one and another established class of Christian
professors , and , perhaps , this will be the case for ages to come . Amongst the multitude of isms which are found in this fertile field , I have accidentally met with one which belongs , I
suppose , to the genus of Unitarianism , but which the Unitarian body are not in general well acquainted with , some of our elders being desirous to keep it in the back ground .
I am , Sir , quite disposed to respect the man who dares , not only to think awry from the vulgar , but who also dares to publish his thoughts ; and I do highly esteem the philosophical
student who , on a bold and venturous wing , takes a flight where none have soared before , and where thp vulgar mass can « ee too light . Let him publish his travels and his discoveries for
the benefit of society at large , or let some one for him explain in a luminous way , the great truths he has to make known . The ism to which I allqde is Cappism . I hear that some gentlemen , high in office among us , are infected
with this ism , but there seems to be an unaccountable backwardness to let it appear * It surely would be doing justice to the cause of trtlth tp make known , in a distinct manner , what were the peculiar views of so judicious at id independent a character , as that
of the fate Mr » Cappe , of York , Perhaps others may entertain similar opinions , but be timid in expressing ttjeia ; as vre tave of late years discovered , bath in the Church and out of it , wany serious , thinking
persons who had imbibed Unitarian yiewa ., they scarcely knew from what source , yet feared to avow them * till accident ithi ^ w iu their way the know * ledge of the fact , that a large and re ? » pectat > Ie bod y of professors avowed and maintained similar views . Will one
of the admirers of Mr , Cappe , through the medium of the Repository , e £ plviin to us ] what is meant by Cappi 3 m ? I ask for public benefit , and am myself a priori , disposed to think well of M % P __ * .: '
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Sir , Norwich * Moy £ » 1818 , IT gives me great pleasure to be able to record another instance of the establishmen t of a Fellowship Fuud . On Sunday , April 12 , a meeting of the congregation , ass ^ moliftg in the Octagon Chapel , took placet to
consider of the propriety of instituting a society of the kind to which I h ^ vc alluded , when the proposition \ o $% with universal approbation , and there are already , I believe , upwards of one
hundred and fifty su bs ** i bers ; the rate of subscription is fixed very low , ( cme shilling per quarter , ) for the obvious purpose of including as many a ^ pps * sible , and of giving to every one , however humble his condition of * life , $ &
opportunity of doing something fiwr what he may deem the cause of pure religion . Here may the widow ' s mite be blended with the donatives <© f the rich , the offering of hinf who hath only one talent with that of him in
possession of ten . And I am happy to say , that several persons in the humbler ranks of life , not reckoned as subscribers to the chapel , generally , have , oh this occasion , voluntarily given their names .
In common with many of your correspondents , 1 am anxious to give my humble suffrage in favour of the plan of Fellowship Funds , and to urge its adoption in every congregation throughout the kingdom . If it do not become general * ope of its main
objects will be defeated 3 its excellence and utility being ia proportion tot the number of congregations it embrac es * Of any objections to the plan lam totally ignorant ; whilst its recommendations and advantages are maoy and obvious : aud when I consider
how simple and practicable * method it is of raising a amn of money adequate to alt our wants , and how unpleasant tfhd irksome the nsropl way of obtaining resources has beenr * do » ot see what excuse any of my brethren can plead for oat heartily recomnftcwJing it to their several cougregatioiii . Let them do thia—tet them state its
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Norwich Octagon Chapel Fellowship Fund . * 887
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/39/
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