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m England ; and that to controvert the claims of Unitarian Christianity is the work of a Trinitarian Missionary periodical within two years frera its -establishment ? May such work increase on the hands of its conductors , and make them the agents of a good they never contemplated , in the establishment of the pure gospel in
Hindoostan ! Your Secretary has received some interesting communications on the state of religion in the islands of the Indian Archipelago , from an intelligent Unitarian who has made nine
voyages thither , and who on one occasion , spent three years in the island of Borneo . [ Of these , use will be made in the next Vol . ] Although the establishment of Unitarian Missionaries
there is , we fear , out of the question for some time , yet much good may be occasionally effected by the efforts of persons similarly disposed with the worthy author of these remarks . We owe to him our ability to boast of at least one floating Unitarian Chapel , a . s in addition to other useful publications he has received from our stock
of tracts several forms of prayer , to assist in conducting scriptural worship on board his vessel . The speedy departure , for a journey of some months on the continent , of a gentleman whose services on the Subcommittee for Foreign Objects have been most valuable , has furnished a
very \ favourable opportunity for the distribution of the tract just mentioned , for the acquirement of information , and for the promotion , in various ways , of the purposes of this Society , as now extended , of which your Committee have eagerlv availed themselves .
Except as to preaching , and without expense to the Society , he wiil , in effect , be a missionary , and they gladly enlisted his talents , acquirements , zeal and perseverance in your cause , anticipating from them , m connexion with the peculiar advantages which he will possess , the most interesting results .
From aquarter entitled to the greatest attention and respect , your committee have received strong representation of the expediency of a Missionary tour in the North of Ireland . They immediatel y instituted inquiries , the result of which has been taost decisively favourable to the underfaking .
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They intreat the attention of their successors in office to the correspondence which has already passed on this subject ; the gentlemen to whom their views were first directed declined the task ; but it is expected that ia the
course of the summer the services of one who is well qualified for a Missionary in that direction will be available . [ Mr . Smethurst has been in the North of Ireland and his reception exceeded his expectations . Further particulars hereafter . ]
Your committee trust , that upon the whole , the affairs of the Society will not be thought to have languished in their hands . In the plans which have been formed , and , as far as circumstances would allow , acted upon , and in the prospects which are openning , they leave their successors in office a rich inheritance of usefulness .:
and they retire from the situation which your choice called them to fill , with the consciousness of having zealously exerted themselves for the promotion of your objects , and , in them , of the best interests of their fellowcreatures ; and with the satisfaction that their labour has not been
altogether in vain . May the blessing of Him whose name we seek to glorify by declaring the unity of his nature and the boundlessness of his love ^ rest on this , and similar Institutions , and render them subservient to the advance
of the time when all shall know him , and just notions of the Fatherly character of God shall inspire with devout and benevolent feelings every member of the common brotherhood of man .
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Oldbury Double Lecture . The Annual Meeting of Ministers , which bears the name of " The Double Lecture / ' took place at Oldbury , in Shropshire , on Tuesday , September 11 , ( the second Tuesday in September , *; 1821 . The Rev . James Yates , of Birmingham , conducted ^ Jthe devotional service . Two higrfty interesting discourses were delivered : the former by the Rev . Israel Worsley , of
? The meeting Is always held on the second Tuesday in September , and not on the Tuesday after the second Suuday , aa stated by a correspondent in the last number of the Monthly Repository , p . 693 .
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£ 40 Intelligence .- ~ Oldbury Double Lecture .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/44/
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