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parishioners wept no tears but those of joy . The aggregation at Beverley had not been before assailed , ft was a small corporate town , where local antipathies atid mere personal dislikes exercise illiberal and ungracious power . There , they had rashly distrained the property of an
individual trustee—but , mindful of the place where he first plucked the flowers of spring , and gazed on the blue sky , the Ilev . George Collison had manfully resolved to resist every extorsire and illegal act , and with a noble spirit had declared that he would rather " beg from door to door ** than allow those measures
to prevail . PaddingWn Chapel was erect « f * d at the sole charge of Mr . Wilson . It is one aniong many noble monuments of Christian bounty . Those monuments were dearer to him than the lofty column
and the classic arch ; than all the temples that , though in ruins , grace the Acropolis of Athens , or the hills of Rome . In those Pagan temples , the founders had memorials more durable than brass .
"Their grateful , though superstitious , country gave them spontaneous ackn 6 wledgments and blessings . To their praise immortal bards sang their lyric strains and elegiac verse . We , strangely niggard , repay kindness with taxation—and so would freeze up the genial ardour of devout munificence ! Thus , though Mr .
Wilson expended six thousand pounds in the building of that chapel , he is required to pay church rates and parochial claims for his own house of mercy , —though he tiever received interest , principal or rent ; and asks and has no recompence but the i > liss-producing consciousness of a desire for the glory of God , and the happiness of man ! ( To be continued . )
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Communications have been received from Messrs . Mardon ; W . Evans ; and N . Jones ; also from G . P . H . ; F . K . ; Brevis ; M . ( for Obituary ) ; and T . F . 15 . Various articles of Intelligence are unavoidably postponed . During the present cessation of public business , we hope to bring up our report of proceedings in Parliament and in the Courts of Law , as far as they relate to questions of religious liberty or general humanity . We trust also that we shall be able to resume our account of Foreign Theological Literature , and to pursue other improvements in the Monthly Repository , which liave been hindered by circumstances over which we had no controul .
The proffered " Essay on Sacrifices , " by the late Rev . H . Turner , will be thankfully accepted . The " Inquiry respecting the Rev . C . Wellbeloved ' s Bible , " by A S ubscriber , should be addressed to the Author himself , who will , we are sure , give the writer th 6 information that he seeks concerning the progress of that work . Mr . Procter is requested to apply to the Publishers through fiis bookseller for the Music-Sheet omitted in his number for June ; and the same advice is given to any other Subscriber whose number may have been delivered without it .
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The Rev . Dr . E ^ ans , of Islington , has on the eve of publication the ifftifr " edition of his Golden Centenary , or One Hundred Testimonies in behalf of Candour , Peace and Unanimity , by Divines of the Church of England , of the Kirk of Scotland , and aniong the Protestant Dissenters ; with One Hundred concentrated Sketches of Biography .
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We are authorized to announce that the Rev . W . Hincks , of Exeter , has been chosen pastor of the Unitarian Congregation , Renshaw Street , Liverpool , in the room of the Rev . G . Harris , removed to the New Meeting , Bolton , and that he has signified his acceptance of the appointment . —^^ fc——
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On Sunday morning , August 25 , the Rev . S . W . Browne , Minister of the Chapel in Monkwell Street , preached a Sermon , as had be £ n previously announced in the public papers , on the occasion of the late suicide in high life . We are
desired to state that the Sermon was not , as has been represented in the Courier , " to the memory , " but simply on the awful death , of the late Marquis of Londonderry . We are allow ed to add , that * ' some details" of this discourse will be prepared for our next number .
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The Rev . J . S . Hyndman , formerly a student in Dr . Wardlaw ' s Theological Academy , is now supplying the congregation at Call-Lane Chapel , Leeds .
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The Rev . David Rees , M . D ., who . during his studies at Glasgow , was an occasional preacher in the West of Scotland , has settled with the Society at Merthyr Tydfil , Glamorganshire .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/64/
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