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DOMESTIC . Religious . Somersetshire and Dorsetshire Halfyearly dissociation of Ministers . On Tuesday , October 3 , was held at Ilminster , the Fifth Meeting of the Halfyearly Association of ministers and friends residing in part of Somersetshire and
Dorsetshire , who are united in the important principle , that God the Father is alone the object of worship . Dr . Southwood Smith , of Yeovil , and the Rev . Dr . Davies , of Taunton , conducted the devotional parts of the service , and the Rev . Mr . Lewis , of Dorchester , delivered an interesting and judicious discourse from 1 Cor . i . 13 . Ministers and friends
were present from Yeovil , Crewkerne , Dorchester , Bridport and Taunton . Several new members were added to the Society , and the friends had the satisfaction of perceiving that the congregation at Ilmiiister , so long destitute of a resident minister , has now formed a happy , and , it is hoped , permanent
connexion with the Rev . Mr . Bowen , late of Walsall , whose services are much approved , who has already succeeded in establishing a Fellowship Fund , and who is zealously and judiciously exerting himself to make an endowed Sunday School
belonging to the congregation , not only subservient to the religious education of the pupils themselves , but to the improvement of the young people generally , by ? causing them to assist in conducting the plan of instruction .
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Law Proceedings . [ From the Newspapers . ] COURT OF KING ' S BENCH , OCt . 23 ,. Sittings at Guildhall before Mr . Justice Best and a Special Jury . 1 * he Court was crowded at an early
hour this morning , in consequence of the expected trial of Mrs . Carlile for utteriug certain blasphemous publications . This trial , however , was preceded by that of Davison , who was indicted . for a similar offence .
The King * v . Davison . The indictment was opened by Mr . ^ Marriott , who said , that it was preferred against Thomas Davison , for uttering certain publications in contempt of the Holy Scriptures and the Christian religion .
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Mr . Gurnev stated the case for the prosecution . It had been commenced , he said , by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , who deemed it to be their duty to bring one of the most profane , impious and abominable libels against Christianity before a Jury , to decide whether or not such open attacks upon
their common faith , the source of their happiness here , and of their hopes hereafter , were any longer to be tolerated . For a long series of years this Society did not think it necessary to enforce the law upon this subject ; as long as these writings were disseminated with caution
and secresy , they did not consider that their situation , as the guardians of public morals , called for this description of interference . But of late , Infidelity had arrayed itself in so ostentatious a garb , had so openly displayed its banners , that it had become a question whether the law or the offender was to submit . The
defendant carried on business in Duke Street , West Smithneld , and , as if a sort of successor to that man who had been convicted there twelve months ago , took up the trade and occupation of a vender of these and similar publications . With two of these publications they were then concerned , namely , The Republican and The Deisfs Magazine . Of the
former of these , if he was to believe the title , the persc ^ i then convicted was the printer , and the defendant the publisher , and to Mr . Davison himself appertained the distinction of printing and publishing the latter . The Society sent persons to the shop of this defendant who procured copies of these publications , and they were now both included in one
indictment , of which the . defendant had no reason to complain , since he was saved some expense by this course of proceeding . The first of these publications to which he should call their attention , was The Republican , and though every page of the sixteen which it contained was rilled with either blasphemy to God , or libelling some of the most illustrious characters of
the country , he should not wade through its nit by contents , but bring at once before the consideration of the Jury that part of it which was charged in this indictment . —rrhe Learned Counsel here read an
extract from a letter addressed by a person who signed himself " Smith" to Carlile , treating of the lasting benefits that he had conferred upon society by his publications , and of Christianity , too , in language with which we shall not defile the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/56/
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