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    Should any of your readers have met with any other authority for this story , or any remarks upon it , they will , I dare say , send them for your insertion . HISTORICUS .

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    a printed copy . These lecture * wen * principally confined to an explanation and vindication of those views of the gospel , which are maintained by the worshiper of the one God , even the Father alone ; and by way of exciting

    more interest and attention amongst those who frequented them , I constantly , at the close of the service , made known the subject proposed for the following lecture , and I had reason to be assured that , on several

    occasions , some attended again from a desire to hear the subject given notice of , discussed ; and , I believe , I may with truth add , that a few went away less confident of the truth of their former opinions , and with their prejudices against our principles remofred

    -I purpose , should my life and health be preserved , and no more able person can be obtained , to undertake the evening lectures again the ensuing winter , to commence at Michaelmas 5 if , therefore , any of our ministerial friends should feel disposed to assist

    me by the loan of some manuscript sermons , written in long hand * they will be most thankfully received , and shall be carefully returned to them * I beg to add , that 1 shall be glad to receive them as soon as convenient , in order that I may arrange and

    circulate a list of the subjects prior to their commencement . I also beg to state , that I have , for some time past , at the request of the society , administered the Lord ' s Supper at stated peri ods , from the Form of D r . Priestley for Unitarian societies : I name this *

    should any of your readers , who may be similarly engaged with myself , entertain any scruples at doing it , " to shew them a very humble precedent for aiding in overcoming their objections thereto , as it is certainly moat desirable that it should be done in

    every congregation , however small . Had I not already exceeded the length I at first proposed these observations should extend , 1 should feel disposed to add some remarks on the

    most excellent plan of your Correspondent , W . Whitfield , [ p . 305 , ] for a list of the Unitarian places of worship , which could not but be useful and interesting to every sincere friend to our good cause . M . L . YEATES .

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    556 Request of Manuscript Sermons .

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    WasJifield , near Tiverton , Sir , June 6 , 1818 . HAVE been much gratified by I observing " , in the last Number of your excellent Work , [ p . 304 , ] a suggestion by your Correspondent , who styles himself " A Friend to the most Critical Examination , and most free Discussion of the Doctrines of

    Christianity . ** I sincerely hope , that the judicious advice he has given will meet the approbation , and obtain the contribution of many of our ministerial friends towards those small societies who are unable to support a regular minister .

    Having , for the last fourteen months , undertaken the conducting of the services in the Unitarian Chapel at Tiverton , opened in Apvill 817 > [ XIL S 09 , ] and being engaged in an agricultural occupation , which necessarily requires a very considerable part of

    my time and attention during the week ; I have , therefore , had but little leisure to transcribe many sermons , and have consequently been obliged chiefly to read from a printed copy . The observation your Correspondent states , as being ' * too often made , "

    namely , " we may as well stay at home and read a printed sermon , as go to hear one read in public , ' * has struck me very forcibly , from my having more than once heard , that similar remarks have been made by persons who have occasionally

    attended the public worship at our chapel . 1 , however , shall name a still stronger motive for wishing a plan of the kind to be accomplished . During the last winter half-year , I regularly delivered a Lord ' s day evening leclure , in addition to the two services of the

    day , and on these occasions , ( with the exception , 1 believe , of three evenings , when I was unable to do so , ) I read Written manuscripts , compiled and transcribed by myself , and I invariably perceived , that I could command more attention from my headers , and deliver them more both to their satisfaction as well as my own , than from

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/20/