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2 . To render this Association available to the ends proposed , it is expedient to raise a fund by subscription , applicable to such purposes as may be determined on at the general meetings , when the amount shall be reported . 3 . An annual subscriber of not less fhan
four shilling ' s , paid in advance in the month of January in each year , or of not less than one penny per week , shall be a member of this Association during payment . Benefactions will be thankfully received
4 . At the annual meeting-, a committee and receivers of subscriptions shall be chosen 5 A sum not exceeding one half the receipts of the society during each year , shall be expended in the printing- or
purchase for distribution , of such tracts on piactieal and controversial subjects , not exceeding four shillings in price , as shall be approved by the committee or by the society at their annual meetings . The remaining sums shall be expended in such ways as shall be approved by tlie animal
meetings . 6 . Each subscriber shall be entitled to a yearly nomination of tracts , amounting in value to one half of his subscription . 7 . The committee for the ensuing year shall consist of six persons residing in Hull . All the ministers included in the
Association , and one person out of each of the congregations shall also belong * to the committee : > and to sanction the appropriation of any money not voted at the general meetings , their consent must be procured by correspondence . The committee to be renewed every year , but all its members to be capable of re-election .
8 . The committee shall meet during the first vteek in each calendar month , and five of them shall have power to act . Any three of them may call an extraordinary meeting when they judge it necessary . At their first meeting they shall elect a treasurer and secretary from their body . 9 . The office of the committee shall be
to determine what tracts shall be admitted into the society ' s catalogue , and the prices of each , to apportion to each subscriber his quota of tracts , to carry on a correspondence with such societies , or individuals , as they think proper , for promoting the objects of the Association , tu examine and pass the treasurer ' s accounts at each monthly meeting , to arrange the business of the annual meetings , ( at which it is hoped they vvill be present , ) and to make a report of the finances and general prospects of * the society 10 . The minutes of all committee meeting's , shall be read at the next annual meeting , and their acts shall be subject to the revision of the annual meetings . XI . No law once pasted # hall bm altered .
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except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at a general meeting . About fifty persons partook of a plain dinner at an inn , and the afternoon was spent in pleasing social intercourse and discussion . In the evening Mr . Little , of Gainsborough , preached on Philipp . i . 27 , 28 :
u That ye starrti fast in one spirit with one mind , striving * together for the faith of the gospel 5 and in nothing terrified by your adversaries . " In a very pleasing style , and with much close reasoning , tbe Author pointed out the chief grounds of Dissent
from the Church of England , shewing the incompatibility of exclusive political establishments of religion with the spiritual nature of Christ ' s kingdom , the plausible ground of objection they afford to unbelievers , and the unscriptural doctrines and illiberal sentiments contained in the
articles of the church established by law in this country . A considerable sensation has been excited in the religious public in the town of Hull by these services , nothing of the kind having ever taken place here before . They were all attended by several hundred persons , of other denominations , who listened with profound attention to the
discourses of the several preachers . The committee met the following day , when Mr . Thomas Watson , of Hull , was ap * pointed treasurer , and Mr . Ken rick , secretary for the year ensuing * . The next meeting of the Association is intended to be held at Thorne , on the last Thursday in March , and Mr . Piper is to be requested to preach . O . K .
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Liverpool Fellowship Fund . On Monday the * 3 d November , 1818 , a general meeting of the Unitarian Christians of Liverpool , was held in Paradisestreet Chapel , when the Rev . John Yatete being called to the Chair , it was unani * inously resolved to establish an Unitarian
Fellowship Fund Society . The Rev . John Yates was requested to accept the office of President , and the Rev . Georg'e Harris , that of Secretary to the society . A committee of eighteen were appointed t » conduct the a flairs of the society , nine from Rensliaw-street , and nine from Paradisestreet congregation . The objects of the
society are , to afford occasional contributions to congregations who stand in need of assistance , for building and repairing chapels—to administer relief to ihfiyju ' ministerg- ~ to aid in the education of young men for the ministry—and , generall y * promote the cause of Unitarian Cliristianify \ Applicatio n * for assistance kp b& made to the Secnefcary . .
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fg 4 Intelligence *—Liverpool Fellowship Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/56/
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