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though small , as now fitted up , it is capable of considerable enlargement , with little additional expense , should it ever prove necessary . Owing" particularly to a fine levied on the property , which is leasehold , and to seme other outgoing's which perhaps could not at first have been foreseen , the whole expense will exceed the first estimate , and amount to £ 550 . Towards this it appears that somewhat short of £ 400 have been raised . —When the subscription seems to
have closed , a list of subscribers will be printed , and annexed to the Repository ; a « d some detail would have previously been given , but for the necessity already noticed in the Repository of discontinuing the insertion of such lists .
The writer of this notice has already had occasion earnestly to recommend the case of this little church 5 and he feels highly gratified with the assistance which has been given them ; and it will be a cause of cordial satisfaction , if by these additional statements , he can induce the opulent among the Unitarians , and other
Fellowship Funds , to relieve them of the sum which yet remains to be raised . He thinks that , surrounded by opponents , exposed to every effort of bigotry and prejudice , and at a distance from all whose aid might strengthen them in their profession , they well deserve such assistance and countenance for their own sakes , But
considered as the only congregation in Cornwall who are united together for the great objects of Unitarian worship , and as a central situation of essential consequence , for the diffusion of Christian truth , in that very important district , this case has peculiar claims upon the liberality of our brethren .
The writer maybe permitted-to subjoin the brief testimonial of on £ whose intimate knowledge of flie circumstances , and extensive acquaintance with the Unitarian body , as well as his constant personal labours in the cause , entitle it to great attention and respect , our excellent
missionary , Mr . Wright : " I have no hesitation in saying , that no case has been brought before the Friends of Unitartanismy nor I apprehend is likely to be brought before them , more deserving- of their notice and aid than that of the Unitarian chinch at Falmouth" L . C
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in connexion with the late Joseph Cooke . Mr . Wright , the Unitarian Missionary performed the devotional services , and preached an excellent sermon from Isaiah xxxf . 8 : " And a high way shall be there , and a way , and it shall be called the way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it 5 but it shall he for those : the wayfaring men , though fools , shall not err therein . " From which wards he shewed that the Unitarian ' s way ( whatever its enemies may say of it ) is a high way—the King ' s high way , well marked out and so plainly described , that all that he believes of it
and says about it , he can express in Scripture language , without addition or comment 5 that the enemies of this way , however much they may boast of their own , cannot , after all , give a description of it , without using many words and phrases
not only which are not scriptural but which are anti-scriptural ^ that the Unitarian ' s way is acknowledged to be right , as far as it goes , by its very opposers—they say there is one God , and but one ; that he is good , and freely bestows his favours ; and that Jesus Christ is a man : the Unitarian
says the same . It is true they also say that this one God subsists in three persons ; that his favour is bought and paid for , and that Jesus Christ is God as well as man . The Unitarian travels in the most agreeable manner with his opponent while the Scriptures throw light on their way , but where that ceases to direct , he stops . His
opponent rambles on without either light or guide into all the mazes of error , and then censures and condemns j . ]^ Unitarian because he will not follow . One great and principal excellency of Ihis way is , there is nothing * in it mysterious , it is a
way level with the meanest capacity : and a way , which , while it dispays the free , unpurchased grace of God , leads to the greatest purity of life ; it is the way of holiness \ the unclean shall not pass over it . Such the preacher described the Unitarian ' s way to be .
The congregation consisted of six or seven hundred persons , some of whom came from Padibam , Burnley , Newehurch , Todmorden , Oldham , and other distant places , and all seemed heartily to join in dedicating- the place to God . The chapel is a very good , neat , little building , thirteen yards square without , lias a gallery that will seat rather more than two hundred
persons : a Sunday school is taught in the bottom , which is not yet pewed . It is estimated to cost not less than £ 750 . besides being subject to a ground-rent of near 4 J 10 . a-year , even if the trustees should dispose of as much land as would be a site for a good house . There has been subscribed rather better than £ 200 . principally by those who attend the place m
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j $% Intelligence *—New Unitarian Chapel at Rochdale .
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New Unitarian Chapel at Hochdale * . On Sunday the 2 d of August , 1818 , a new Unitarian Chapel was opened in Rochdale , erected by the Unitarians , * formerly 1 1 i , -r- . — > , . , | ¦ " , , ¦ - ¦ ! ¦ -,,, , __ , * For a more particular account of these Unitarians , see Ash worth ' s Ten Letter to a Friend . [ Reviewed pp . 270—272 . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 782, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/54/
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