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cap , excited some curiosity and his discourse being full of good sense , and remarkably suited to the circumstances of his case and ag * e , excited great attention .
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Union of the Seceders in Irelan d * ( From the Netory Telegraph . ) Wk are happy to learn that the division which has so long existed in that respectable religious body , the Seceders of Ireland , is now at length terminated , and the distinctive epithets of Burgher and Antiburgher ^
in this country , are now no more . At a meeting of the two Synods , in Cookstown , the coalescence was 1 inaily settled ; and after the dissolution of the respective Synods , they constituted themselves into one body , under the name of the " Presbyterian Synod of Ireland , distinguished by the name of Seceders /*
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Fellowship Funds . These useful institutions are becoming more numerous and effective . Our limits will not allow us to state at large the proceedings of any of them , but we shall
always be glad to report concisely their establishment and progress . There are now lying before us the annual reports of two of them , viz . those of Exeter and Birmingham .
Exeter . The annual meeting of the Exeter Fund Fellowship Society was held , Sunday Evening , August 16 , the Rev . James Manning , President , in the Chair . After a short devotional service , the Rev . W . Hincks read the Report , which was highly gratifying . The number of members is 185 . The income of the year has been 45 / . 2 s . It is recommended in the
Report that the business of the Society be transacted , not by a Committee , but by quarterly general meetings , agreeably to the suggestion of the late Dr . Thomson , in pp . 301 , , of our present volume : the design of the proposed alteration is to
promote true Christian fellowship . A wish is expressed for intercourse with neighbouring Fellowship Funds . The number of collectors was enlarged from 12 to 18 ; among whom we arc pleased to observe 10 ladies . The meeting concluded with singing a hymn .
Birmingham . The annual meeting * of the New Meeting-Christian Fellowship Fund , was held July 5 ; the number of members is 236 . The sum of 54 £ . 14 s . was subscribed last year . An admirable report was read from the Committee , which is given entire in the Christian Reformer of the present month ,
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pp . 426—428 . The following passage is a deserved and eloquent tribute of gratitude and respect to the memory of l ) r . John Thomson , to whom these Funds owe their existeuce ;
a Your Committee , and , doubtless , many of yourselves , have often reflected with gratitude and admiration upon the piety and zeal of a gentleman eminently gifted in intellectual as well as moral endowments , who first recommended the institution of Fellowship Funds among * Unitarians , and in con formity with whose
suggestions our Association professes to be framed . It has pleased Divine Providence to remove him , in the prime oF \\ fey fr om this transitory and imperfect state . That most awful event will not fail to suggest many solemn lessons . To each of us it gives this warning , * Arise and be doing j * for none of us can have a more reasonable
prospect of a lengthened life than oar late able and active friend . We know however that , ' ere death put a sudden stop to his useful and honourable labours , his attachment to the cause of truth and goodness had been abundantly blest by the rapid
and almost simultaneous formation of many Societies formed upon the plan which be had pointed out . Through their united operation , the benefits of his generous and enlightened piety will long continue to be felt . By him the root was planted , and already , when scarcely two years have elapsed , the
firm and flourishing- trunk has sent forth its branches from sea to sea : many in all quarters of our island meet to hold sweet converse together beneath its pleasant shade ; and it presents , to the eye of faith , the certain and ennobling prospect of being rich in everlasting fruit . What , brethren ,
could afford a more animating call upon every one of us to avail ourselves , before it is too late , of the means which in our several stations we all enjoy of aiding the progress of Christian truth and practice , and thus contributing lo promote the glory of God and the salvation of men ?"
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Unitarian Congregation , A Inwiek . W " e trust we shall be excused for calling the attention of our readers , and especially sucli of them as have the management of the Fellowship Funds , to the case of this congregation , stated iu our last Number , p . 530 , with so powerful a recommendation as that of the Rev . W . Turner , of Newcastle . Iu addition to that gentleman , are desired to name Mr . David Eaton , Bookseller , 187 High Holborn , as a receiver of subscriptions , on account of the Alnwick Chapel .
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5 g 6 Intelligence . — Exeter & Birmingham Fellowship Funds . — Alnwick Chape
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/60/
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