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    property in i&e chapel could alone be liable to a levy , and instead of adorning the chapel with gay and glittering chanda&ers * tfliey were satisfied with iron candlesticks ^ serviceable though unsplendid . They removed ornaments needless

    for simplicity , and purity and spirituality of worship , and they then said , " When the tax-gatherers come for the distress , open wide the doors—Take what property they can find—H « re defy their power . " ( fiheers . ) Acquainted with such facts , he could not feel cheered even by the

    society of beauty and intellect that surrounded him , n © r by the sympathy which he had excited . ( Applause . ) He could not cease to sorrow for the young minister depending upon his professional exertions for support , exposed to perpetual harassment , and to deductions that

    brought want to his abode . { Applause . He indeed regretted , that by Dissenters themselves the evil was not sufficiently deplored . During the past year the Committee especially hesitated to apply to parliament from the indifference indicated by their friends . Did they all suffer , and were they all oppressed , that

    indifference would soon disappear . They would no longer seem to say , " Let the gall'd jade wince , our withers are anwrung ; " but would resolve firmly , unitedly , though respectfully , to make another application to Parliament , and in spite of any high church prejudices , might then obtain that relief they were well entitled to expect . { Cheers . } ( To be continued . ]

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    We have been importune ^ , to furahsh some further report of the proceedings at the dinner , but we lament that we are unfurnished with the means of doing thi ^ satisfactorily . To make up for the deficiency , we subjoin by request an account that appeared An the Examiner

    newspaper of May 28 th . It is necessary to premise that for this , account none of the gentlemen * named in it are answerable , it being inserted without their privity * We had thought of striking out certain complimentary phrases , but as it is a public document , we prefer , on further consideration , inserting it entire .

    This Society , which was established about 14 years since , was proposed merely as an experiment to ascertain whether the simple doctrines of primitive Christianity , which represent the Almighty as endowed with all the endearing attributes of paternity , and as exercising those

    attributes in promoting the felicity of ail his creatures , are not as well calculated to engage the attention of the poor as that of the higher orders ; and whether the true character of God , as represented in the New Testament , if made known to the people by means of popular preaching , would not have the effect of banishing all moroseness from the Christian

    religion , and of inducing its votaries to exchange the gloom and horrors of superstition , for the sweet serenity of pious confidence and hope . The experiment is said to have completely answered , inasmuch as it has proved to demonstration that the unadulterated doctrines of

    Christianity are highly acceptable to the poor , whenever they are presented to them in . their native simplicity ; and that since the the year 1806 , the society has been constantly increasing in its respectability and in the number of its members . On

    looking into the printed rules , we perceive that" the Society is denominated The Unitarian Fund , for promoting Unitarianism by means of popular preaching ; and that the money raised by the Society shall be applied—First , to enable poor Unitarian congregations to carry on religious

    worship ;—* Secan drf > to reimburse the travelling and 6 ther expenses of teachers who may contribute their labours to the preaching of the ¦ - gospel on Unitarian principles ; atad thirdly , to relieve tt * % ! Christian Ministers who , by embraemg Unitari&nism , subject themselves to

    poverty or personal inconveni ^^ V ^ Ib the absence of WilUam Stnith ^ Esc } ., M . P . for Norwich , who had consented to preside at this meeting bi * was prevented by a heceasary Mtferitlbn to his PttfEaiaetitttry ditties , utifife r > . & # * 0 Robert Aspland , of Hackney , was called to the

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    Intelli gence . ~ -Unitarian Rind . 369

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    Unitarian Fund . In addition to our account of the Anniversary , p , 321 , we have to report the names of the officers for the year ensuing :

    Treasurer— 4 OHN CHRISTIE , Es

    The Secretary authori ^ s us say that the substance of the Report arid the Journal ^ of Mtf Wright ititt be Inserted m the future Number * Of The Chffeti&H ^ etornter . ¦ " ¦ • .: , ¦ < -v < rf n

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/45/