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INTELLIGENCE.
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Western Unitarian Society . On Wednesday , July 10 , the Annual Meeting of the M ^ estern Unitarian Society was held at Crediton . The Rev . S . C . Fripp had been expected to preach upon the occasion ; but , as he found himself unable to attend , his appointment devolved on the Rev . Dr . Carpenter . The service was introduced by the Rev . G . Kenrick , and the Rev . W . Hincks gave the intermediate prayer . Dr . Carpenter ' s
text was Ephes . i . 7 . The discourse , as mi g ht have been expected from the preacher , was an impressive illustration of an important subject . The business of the Meeting was next discussed ; and
$ he members and friends of the Society then assembled at the inn , where more than sixty dined together . Jn the course of the afternoon much was said , that was heard with deep pleasure , and will not soon be forgotten . Nor did it diminish the interest of the occasion , that the
Society had held its first Meeting at Crediton ; and that , after a very long interval of time , many who had witnessed it in that infant state , were present to be gratified by its augmented importance . In the evening , the Rev . B . Mardon , of Glasgow , took the devotional service ; and the Rev . John Kenrick preached from
Psalm ii . 1 , 2 . It was a masterly and substantial discourse , a happy unison of the beautiful and the useful . After the evening service , the assembly dispersed , and there appeared but one general feeling of satisfaction with all that had taken place in the course of the day . J . J .
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Southern Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society was held at Newport , Isle of Wight , on Wednesday , July 24 , 1822 . Mr . Bennett , of Poole , com - menced the service by reading the Scriptures ; Mr . Scott , of Portsmouth , offered Die prayer before the sermon ; and Mr . J . B . Bristowe , of Ringwood , preached from 2 Cor . ii . 17 : " For we are not as
many which corrupt the word of God . " The preacher enumerated the texts of Scripture which are most usually adduced iu support of the Calvinistic scheme , and © hewed them to be either mistranslations , or that they by no means necessarily bear the sense which Calvinists put on them . He then made several quotations from the works of the reputed orthodox ,
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noticing particularly a sermon which has been lately printed at Ringwoap * j contrasting the statements . contained in these works with the Scriptures , he sjievved them to be totally irreconcileable with each other—while it plainly appeared , that from whatever other vices Calvinism might preserve its votaries , it by i iO
means secured them from a disposition to heap unmerited calumny and reproach on their opponents . The preacher concluded with a forcible exhortation to his Unitarian brethren so to conduct themselves as to prove that the invective with which they are so frequently assailed , is as unmerited as it is most undoubtedly unchristian .
After the service the annual business of the Society was transacted , when thanks were unanimously voted to the preacher for his very able and eloquent discourse ; and it being considered , that , from Portsmouth being more in the centre of the district over which the Society extends , as well asTrom the very
flourishing state of Unitarianism in that neighbourhood , it would be the most desirable place at which to hold the Quarterly Meetings of the Society , it was resolved , that they should be held there in future , instead of at Newport ; and Mr . D . B . Price , of Portsmouth , was requested to accept the offices of Treasurer and Secretary for the year ensuing .
The members and friends of the Society afterwards sat down to an economical though comfortable dinner , at the Bugle Inn . The reporter trusts he shall be excused for mentioning that it is a rule with this Society , that the dinner shall be ordered with the strictest regard to economy , and that there shall be no general reckoning after the removal of
the cloth , every person present being at liberty to call for any species of beverage he thinks proper . The rich and the poor are thus enabled to meet together on terms both agreeable and convenient to each , and that Christian fellowship and co-operation is secured , which it is so desirable should prevail among persons who have the same important objects in view .
In the evening , Mr . Fullagar , of Chi-Chester , preached from Isa . xxxv . 8 . The preacher pointed out the inconsistency of those who reject the doctrine of Transubstantiation on account of its absurdity , though supported by the very words of Scripture , while they retain other doctrines equally absurd , which , even by their own confession , rest on inference
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/60/
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