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    i « esday ,, i Jafce the 26 J& . Mr . O . Kenrick pt&pcfrt fd ©» L tb $ pccaeicw ^| iro » i tbe coneluding clause of Luke « ii :. -22 a . * ' Tosthe poor , tW ; Gospels a preached * ' * shewing ttot UQitarianisin is that Gospel , and' that it is infinitely better suited to the capacities and wants of the industrious classes , than the tenets to which it is opposed . Such were the combined excellencies of

    tins discourse , both as it respects its composition and its delivery , that they can be . estimated only by its being heard from the lips of the preacher . The writer jmist be content with expressing his cordial sympathy in its benevolent design ; may it have proved efficacious in promoting in the auditory , whose attention it so

    powerfully arrested , and particularly in that numerous and respectable class to whom it more immediately related , those convictions and those salutary impressions * for which it was so eminently calculated . That it has produced such effects in no ordinary degree , there is 6 very reason to conclude .

    After the service , the Report of the Committee was read , including the journal of Mr . Harding , who has in the course of the last year been engaged by the Unitarians of these parts , in the capacity

    of their Missionary . Some extracts from his journal have already appeared in the Ckristiau Reformer , and have been adopted in the Report of the Unitarian Fund . The engagements of Mr . Harding from the commencement of his labours in

    October last , have been various ^ and his success in the several objects has been , all tilings considered , highly satisfactory and encouraging . His applications , being supported by the Resolutions of the Committee ef the Association , have proved effectual in uniting the exertions of almost all t ) iir churches ; which , with the friendly of

    ^ im generous assistance the Unitarian F » nd Committee , in concurrence With that of the Unitarian Baptists in London , $ iaB enabled him to enter upon the under--fcaKing . He has been employed on the Sabbaths in conducting the services of several of our churches which have no

    • stated- 'ministers ; and much of the intervening time has been employed in announcing - 'Unfearianism where it was previously little known , hi Queenborough and Hastings he has introduced Unitarian preaching in the first instance , and has excited a considerable degree of public attention . In Sheerness he has been the

    leading instrument of re-uniting the " little flock" into a regular society , and of making a permanent accession to their number . Having at his suggestion formed a Fellowship Fund , they lire now carryingi 0 * 1 ' their services . arid conducting a Sunday-school by their own exertions . In the course of a little more than five

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    mouths , when _ bis report closed Mr . Harding had , tra ^ flled . « 733 miles , and preached 74 times . A vote pf thanks was passed & > the Committee of tf * £ Unitarian Fund for the liberal granj , of £ 20 , and for their frien ^ y aid in , Awarding the undertaking by the occasional , labours of Mr , Wnght , Thanks were aJso voted

    to the Unitarian Baptist Committee , and to those chuiches and individuals who , though not previously members of the institution , have generously co-operated with them in carrying this object into effect . The Society resolved on using their utmost exertions toward continuing Mr . Harding in his present " useful and animated career of missionary preaching . "

    The business of the day having closed , the Society now retired to partake of a common repast . The afternoon was spent with much harmony and friendly intercourse . Some appropriate sentiments were given , which called forth addresses from

    Mr . Holden , Mr Kenrick , Mr . Harding , and several other friends . Among others , the memory of that good man and liberal supporter of benevolent institutions , Mr . Sampson Kiugsford , was not forgotten , which gave occasion to some excellent remarks from his intimate friend and

    coadjutor , Mr . Benjamin Marten . Mr . Paine , who a few years since wrote two excellent JLetters to a Clergyman in Defence of Unitarianism , which obtained a rapid circulation , addressed the Meeting on occasion of his having again been engaged in a similar contest with one of that order . His sound refutation of the

    general charge tbax his principles were erroneous , had received no other notice from his clerical opponent , than that of the almost immediate return of his Letter . Such methods of shutting out the approaches of liglit are but too congenial wi ^ h the principles of an establishment , which attempts to say to advancing knowledge , Hitherto shalt thou come , but n <> further . T . P . June 30 , 1822 .

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    Eastern Unitarian Society . Tiir opening of the New Chapel erected by the Unitarian congregation at Dims took place on Wednesday , evening the 26 th June . The building is delightfully situated iu a . field adjoining the town , which ^ overlooks a large piece of water ,

    and ia constructed in eveny way inost tastefully ., and 'judiciously * . ; . ^ There is > notiiingjaboulsiit ah&myaor ekttavagaot , bvt all is substantial and i convenient . « I * is calculated tax - iseatu about * * 30 ft " hearers . The congregation at Visa is riot a iiujnerous one , and the erection of such a

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    446 InteUig&nee . < ^ Ke&t unlJStA 8 * ex Unitarian . * Chrisiian Association * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/54/