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and labour did lie also devote to the promotion of religious truth and knowledge in a more public way ! What life And spirit did he # ive to the stated meetings of ministers , as they had 'formerly been , but which wow , by his exertions , may be
considered as meetings of congregations f What a debt of gratitude does the cause of free religious investigation owe him for the establishment of the West Riding- Unitarian Book and Tract Society ! With what ease and cheerfulness will our
several societies be enabled to assist each other , and encourage rising institutions , when his proposal of Fellowship Funds shall hare been ' carried into general effect ! And what a general union and harmony may we expect in the Unitarian body , if his plan , for a more intimate
acquaintance with the state of each particular district and society by the body at large , should come to be successfully executed !* £ i These , however , are obligations which the cause of religious truth owes him , of which at present you , gentlemen , can be expected to hare only some general idea .
You will , at present , more readily enter into , and , I trust , will one day emulate his attachment to , and-exertions for , this his Alma Mater , You cannot , indeed , follow him in that honourable feeling , which prompted him to return to its funds , the assistance which he had received for his
education as a minister , when the implied condition of it had aot been fulfilled t but you can imitate him in his active zeal for its interests , in your personal attendance at its annual meetings , and , in time , in contributing your share in the deliberations for its management and improvement .
—Thus you will , by degrees , in some good proportion , fill up the void that is left among us ; and so will answer one good purpose at least , for which such calamitous events as this which we now deplore are permitted by the providence of God . The
premature removal , as it appears to us , of so much excellence from the midst of us , and that in the very beginning of public usefulness , is one of the difficulties which it belongs not to the present state fully to unravel ; it must be left to that state , for which it will be the interest of each of us
so to employ present opportunities as to qualify ourselves $ and in which , if we do so , tire may hope to see our friend in the enjoyment of that reward , w | iich will amply obviate every difficulty .-r-When the promise of Him , who * brought life and immortality to light , * and which is so well fitted to encourage ajjtift maintain our watchfulness , stall be fidMled , that c whether
-- . v . *• ¦ . : . ¦ ' * A Memoir on this subject will shortly solicit insertion in the pages of the Monthly liepotitory . . vol . xm . 3 o
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he come in the second watch , or come in the third watch , and find them so , blessed ate those servants * *• !
Western Unitarian Society * Tub meeting of the Western Unitarian Society was held ,, agreeably to public notice , at the Unitarian Chapel in lira inster , on Wednesday the 8 th instant . The morning service was introduced with prayer of
and the 2 eading the Scriptures , oy the Rev . Mr . Lewis , of Dorchester . The Rev Mr . Scott , of Portsmouth , delivered the general prayer , and the Rev . Dr . Smith , of Yeovil , who unites in himself the two professions of physician and dissenting minister , preached on 1 Cor . xiv . 20 : ic In
understanding be men . " This sermon was distinguished by profundity of tboug-ht , an admirable train of judicious reasoning , an accurate delineation of the powers and capacities of the human mind , and aa animating representation of the advantages to be derived from a good education , free
and unshackled inquiries into philosophical , moral and religious subjects ; and , as the consequence thereof , the extensive progress of knowledge , and of intellectual and pious attainments . He presented to his hearers a pleasing prospect of the enlightened , virtuous and happy state of
society , when the causes which are now in operation , especially the improved modes of instructing young persons lately adopted , produce their due effect ; and this led him into strains of glowing and impressive eloquence . The Unitarian , warmed with the sentiments of piety and benevolence , has
peculiar motives for exertions to contribute to the promotion of natural , moral and religions knowledge as tending to advance his system , which on account of Us reasonableness , plainness , simplicity and virtuous tendency is calculated to be , and he is confident will eventually be , the religion of the world . The writer of this article
however will not attempt to convey to hi readers an adequate idea of Dr . Smith ' s sermon . It is also needless , as it is hoped he will accede to the unanimous and earnest wish and request of the meeting- to publish it , and he may be assured thai this discourse will not detracf from the imputation of the author of " Illustrations of Ac
Divine Gove ***»« pjC V Afterth * ^ the sod * ty ; wa * transacted JtflLH tfttftfterstood tlkat some respectable person * of tfarik tarian principle ^ are prevented from joining the society , by objection * to » h « l <* hg % Qg * of , the preamble to the nates , it was proposed and seconded , that the subject sftoiilji | fct taken into consideration at tit *) next annual
X 1 « « meeting' . Thitor four names * ett added to th * list of * ub * cribr » . Their Biwfe * r ifcdted has been gradually increasing foi aobic
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InteUigenee . ^^ Western Unitarian Society . 465
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/57/
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