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tunity of making any return for the kindness , except in occasionally fixing my Attention to the subject , till my eyes became suffused and my heart warmed with the meditation .
About the year 1784 I was engaged with my brother as manufacturers , in a business which had commenced about three years , and immediately on the expiration of my apprenticeship . Our only capital was a borrowed one of £ 200 . We kept house for the sake of a superannuated father , a lame brother , and a sister whose health was too
delicate to allow her to gain her maintenance by floundering through the world . We had hitherto done pretty well , when in an unlucky hour , and for the sake of serving an elder brother ,
we engaged in a speculation , by which , injthe course of six months , we lost upwards of £ 4 dO . We applied to the channel whence our capital was procured , but could not obtain farther
assistance ; our necessities then drove us to look out elsewhere , and we applied to Mr , Russell for his advice . We had done some little business with him in his mercantile concerns ; he must have known my father ' s mis * fortunes and his fair reputation ; and we belonged to the same class of
Dissenters , though not attending the same place of worship y beyond these we were unacquain tecL We explained every circumstance , and shewed a deficiency in our affairs of from £ 100 to ££ 00 . After a willing investigation , he , without hesitation , thus decided :
" I see , ' * said he , " the state of the family , the capabilities of the trade , and I hope I see that integrity in your principles and conduct which will not suffer you to deceive me . If any other fflan suggests itself and which you may think preferable , you must adopt
it , and make the best terms you can with your friends and creditors ; but if you think that by close attention and economy , and by a persevering struggle you can retrieve yourselves with a loan of £% 00 , come to me as
your occasions may require , and you shall repay me as you can ; holding yourselves accountable to my scrutiny whenever I may require it . " We had the money 9 in about two years it
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was repaid , and the world never had reason to suspect that we had been insolvent , JAMES LUCKCOCK .
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Sir , Palgrave , May 4 , 1818 / . HA VING entertained the opinion that much benefit would accrue to the Unitarian cause , from the formation of associations upon the principle of Fellowship Funds , long before the idea of them was first given to the public , by means of the
Repository ; I have much pleasure in announcing the establishment of one at Palgrave Chapel yesterday afternoon . It is unnecessary to occupy yourpages with a detail of its rules , which are similar to those already announced : the objects to be embraced by it are , to afford assistance to such
congregations as may stand in need of it , in supporting public worship on Unitarian principles ; to contribute toward the education of young- men for the ministry ^ and to co-oper at e in any other measures that may be deemed expedient for the protection of religious liberty .
Perhaps I shall not be deemed intrusive , if I take this opportunity , Sir , of expressing ray hope , that the formation of these Funds will soon be followed by the establishment of con ^ gregational libraries and meetings for conference . Conference , I cousider as
being by far the best mode of conveying religious instruction . It is not every one who can follow a detailed piece of criticism when delivered in a sermon : or if this were possible , as the remarks would not be equally convincing to all , an opportunity is wanted , which is afforded bv
conference , for the perfectly unconvinced to start their objection , or for tTh , e not quite convinced to ask for some further explanation . I have sometimes thought , that it might do much gpod , by exciting public attention to this
mode of acquiring knowledge , were the subjects which have been thus discussed at Hackney Chapel to be published in your useful Miscellany . With these hints I beg to subscribe myself , JOHN FUIXAGAR .
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SSO Palgrave Chapel Fellowship Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/42/
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