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This , I hope , will be considered as satisfactory . The principle is the same as that adopted in the Widows ' Fund and the Society of Deputies , in both of which it is sufficiently notorious , that the claims of Unitarians are always considered equally with others . The Committee of the new
Institution consists in part of Unitarians , which is , I conceive , a sufficient pledge of the manner in which the Society means to carry into effect its professed design , namely , that of embracing" all the Denominations of Dissenters in the arms of Christian benevolence .
I sincerely wish that no misapprehensions or unfounded jealousies , on any side , may throw a damp upon a design likely to be so useful . A CONSTANT READER .
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the interest there suffered materiall y by the conduct of the last incumbent ; amiable and respected in his youthful days , and for some years revered by his people , but subsequently deserted
by them , in consequence of his contracting very unpleasant habits . The major part of them , I understand , resolved upon uniting themselves to the episcopalian congregation of that town . A considerable endowment
was enjoyed by Mr , up to the period of his death . It amounted , if I mistake not , to 60 / . per annum . 1 am not prepared to say into wht > se hands it has fallen , nor whether it be recoverable : I rather think a trustee is living .
Of the Presbyterian chapels at Stafford and Stone , I can report more decidedly ; as , during the last nineteen years of his life , my uncle , the late Rev . Henry Procter , was pastor of the small congregations that assembled in them . Small , indeed , were
the congregations , when he assumed the pastoral charge ; and as they were composed , principally at least , of aged persons , ( some of them married , but without families , and others in a state of celibacy , ) the melancholy office devolved upon him of interring the
remains of friend after friend , in quick succession : and , by the rapid march that the infirmities of age made upon himself , he was prevented from making any great exertions to revive the cause . Since the death of my uncle , who departed this life in his 76 th year , no
stated minister has been appointed . During the consultations of the small remnant of his flock , in what manner they should act , 1 occasionally preached to them ; but the most active trustee
died , and the chapel has been since shut up . That at Stone , I have been recently informed , is occupied as a charity day-school , by the Independents of the town , who pay rent for the use of it . A venerable member
of that little flock , died some months ago , and has left a son , with a numerous family . About two acres of land , and some money at interest , belong to that chapel .
The endowments , in land and money , attaching to the chapel at Stafford , amount , at a moderate calculation , to upwards of 30 / . per annum . To this chapel there is a burial ground . One trustee . I rather think , survives , with
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Prescot , Sir , Octobers , 1818 . YOU are often congratulated upon the gratifying success of the Unitarian cause , and its manifest extension in the United Kingdom ; and you have had latterly the reiterated pleasure of
reporting intelligence of the erection of new chapels . —Will you pardon me , if , like Jeremiah among the prophets of old , I rise up among my rejoicing brethren , to condole with you , Sir , and them , on the melancholy fact , that many of the chapels in which our ancestors worshiped , and in some of which our revered relatives have
officiated , are either totally deserted , and in a state of alarming dilapidation , or have fallen into the hands of strangers t beg leave , Mr . Editor , to call your attention to three cases of the former nature , that I humbly conceive are deserving of notice ; and which , I
apprehend , might , by a little exertion and expense , be rescued from their present degraded and useless condition , and restored to their pristine dignity and usefulness : they are the Presbyterian chapels at Stafford , Stone and Newcastle-under-Line . It is a
lamentable fact , that for some years , though commodious and endowed chapels , they have been either totally or partially disused , as religious edifices *
Respecting that at Newcastle-under-Line , I am not able to report so cojrrectly and explicitly as I could wish to do . I have been informed , that
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68 8 Cases of Stafford , Stone and Newcastle-under-Line , Presbyterian Chapels .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 688, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/24/
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