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I grant that in watering-places , to attract the attention of the higher ranks ought to be made a principal object ; but though we may have hearers , we can never have a congregation unless we lay the foundation deep in the middle and lower classes . Nor are the visitors the only persons whose religious welfare is to be
provided for in such a place . There is a very numerous class of persons drawn together by the hope of living by the visitors , many of whom are often unconnected with any religious body . Unitariauism is of great value to the rich , as it gives that true balance to the mind , for want of which we see them continually falling into
scepticism , or a grotesque , preposterous mixture of fanaticism and dissipation . But whose heart doe 3 not bleed to see the common people , to whom the pure gospel was first preached , and who heard it gladly , given up as a prey to such sects as the Ranters in England ,
and the New-light men in America ? I have little doubt that a society might be gathered , and a chapel in time built at Scarborough , if such methods as the diffusion of tracts , the preaching of missionaries , meetings for religious couversation , and the teaching a Sunday-school , were adopted in the first
instance . The subscriptions are not , I apprehend , yet paid , because there is no near prospect of raising the whole sum . As a small contributor , I beg to suggest that the money be paid and applied to some such purposes as those above specified . And
if your correspondent J . W . be a frequenter of Scarborough , he cannot be more advantageously employed in behalf of the cause , than by directing his attention to the subject . The names were received by Arthur Shore , Esq ., of
Scarborough , May I be allowed to add , without egotism , that it is an additional subject of concern to me in the resignation of my office at Hull , in consequence of a weak state of health , ^ hat I cannot take any part in so useful a measure . GEORGE KENRICK .
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your last Number , p . 334 , I beg leave to state for his informatioH , that in the case to which he alludes , it appears to me he has inferred too much in supposing that the Trustees had given a guarantee to the Minister for the
amount of his , income : or such guarantee , if given , might not have been in writing , and , therefore , under the statute of Frauds , could not have been admissible evidence in a court of law .
I have not been able to tefei * to , tlic report of the case alluded to , but there must , I am convinced , be some error in it , as indeed very few newspaper reports of decisions can be relied on : but in the absence of evidence to the
contrary , we must conclude that the Minister had no guarantee in writing for the payment of his income ; for there can be no doubt whatever , that persons , whether Trustees or not ,
giving such guarantee , would be compellable by law to its due performance : and indeed the common honesty q £ every one must be shocked were it otherwise .
Trustees , as such , have certainly a right to pay every other outgoing before the Minister , who must be satisfied with what remains , as they are not accountable for any more
money than comes to their hands ; but if they overstep their official character of Trustees , and become guarantees , they will be bound , to the due performance of their engagement .
Hoping , however , that an appeal to the law will never become necessary in the generally harmonious atid amicable arrangements of Unitarian Societies , I am , O . P . H .
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Sir , HAVING just seen your review of " Truth needs no Apology /* ( p . 363 , ) I cannot help thanking you for your high compliment in designating me " a stiff Nonconformist . "
However intended , I really feel such an appellation the greatest honour you could have conferred , in this supple age ; nor do I wonder that my < tf tone" should appear of the boldest kind : it is not the character of Truth timidly to whisper forth its dictates . But I am surprised ( with many of your
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Bristol , *™> July 9 , 1821 . n reply to your correspondent ' * A I dissenting Minister / ' inserted iu
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/29/
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