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Jtudsdell wa&-tninister here jn A . D . J 7 p 7 > aod cohtiiifued so till 1750 , Tfhen it is supposed he resigned and retirejj ; he died in the ieighbdurhood ^ A pri IS 9 1754 .- By the register of christenings in his time * and from some other
circumstances , it appears that the congregation niust have been very numerous , and highly respectable . Some important legacies were left by different individuals belonging to the
congregation , for charitable purposes , and for the maintenance of a Preslyterian or Independent minister in that place . By this cautious wording , it seems that the donors were aware of
the change of constitution which the Presbyterian congregations in England were undergoing , and provided against being misunderstood . Mr . Jeremiah Gill succeeded , in
1750 , and remained pastor until his death , which happened in , 1796 . This gentleman was one of the contributors to the Theological Repository , edited by Dr . Priestley . ( See Mdn . Repos . XILflOi . )
- Mr . Jacob Brettel , who had been for some time a fellow-labourer with Mr * Gill , succeeded him as pastor of the congregation , and continued in that office fourteen years . He iiied March 19 > 1810 , aged 48 years , and is buried by the side of his predecessor , in the church-yard of Gainsborough ; as was also Mr . Rudsdell . Over eacli
of these ministers , whose remains are separated by only a few yards of ground , a handsome , but plain monument is erected . Thus it appears , that for considerably longer than a century , this congregation had but three ministers .
Mr . N . T , Heineken was elected the successor of Mr . Brettel , and was pastor from 1810 to Midsummer , 1817 , at which time he removed , to take the charge of a congregation at Bradford , in Yorkshire , not without the warmest esteem of those among whom he had laboured with much acceptance and usefulness for near seven years .
The' choice of the congregation next fell upon your present Correspondent , i R . LITTLE . P-kS ^ Am' anecdote respecting Mr .
A . Rudadell , the first of my predo cessora whose name * is recorded , aiay be . found io the . interesting Life of Mr * Win- iHutton , of BjimiitgbamV
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And it ixray Jbe : wortK mentioning , that ja grandson of his is at this day the senior member of bur congregation .
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Sir , Ctapham , May 10 , 1818 . DOUBT not but taost of ybur I readers have perused with singular pleasure , the letter from a native Unitarian Christian at Madras , lately edited by Mr . Belsham . ( See Chtfstiaii
Reformer , IV . pp . 1—• 10 . ) It is , indeed , a just occasion for joy and thanksgiving ; and we are also obliged to the editor for his interesting remarks upon it . But , I must confess , I felt a damp on my pleasure , wheii I found that a person of so much influence
was not about to second , but to discourage the petition of the Indian Unitarians , for a European teacher ; and as 1 feel deeply interested in" the subject , I beg leave to propose a few arguments in favour of our
accedingto that petition . Mr . Belsham observes , that " it is not within the purview of the society to send out Missionaries ; and , that jfbr his own part , he did not see thai they could be of any use" He thinks that Roberts , the writer of the letter , and a few
younger assistants whom he might select , would make better preachers than Europeans . Now as to the Unitariah Society , the sending Missionaries m evidently not onie of its functions ; but the iniitility of Missionaries is not so manifest . There is
no doubt , that native teachers have their bftii advantages ; and if the question were as to the relative magnitude 6 f those advantages , in comparison with those of Europeans , it might not be easy to decide . But the question is , whether European
Missionaries might not greatly promote and assist the endeavours of the natives ? Now , * I think , a few considerations may convince us ' that they
might , and Would , I will argue , first , from the attention and respectability which a Edropean teacher , especially a scholar and a gentleman , would procure for tile cause . As * the Master said . •* A
prophet has A nc > bonotir in his own country ^ i % tlative teacher of a foreign religion labotii ^ un ^ er alfihe odium of an apostate from Ws own : a tercibte t ^ j ^ fc ^ to eticpt | fiter ; but ftefe WM ^ h ih ^^ ei gner is fVce . AH
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/25/
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