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Somerset and Dorset Unitariany dissociation . Tijk Half-Yearly Meeting of this Association vvas held at Yeovil , on Tuesday , October 1 . The Rev . Wm . Wilson , ' oi Crewkherne , preached in the morning , from Philipp . \ . 27 ; and the Rev . G- B . Wavvne , of Bridport , in the evening , on the Character of thv Bereans , At the
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» ' ' .. ' . j % i > . . Meeting held af ^ er the meriting service * thirty new members were addled tp the Society . This accession ha # bieen made for the express purpose of rendering the
funds adequate tp the distribution of cheap Unitarian tracts among the less in fanned members of congregations connected with the Association , and . likewise among the members of reputed orthodox churches . With a view to the
accomplishment of this design , it was resolved M " that the Subscribers resident in Bridport , together with the Secretary , be constituted a Committee , and empowered to appropriate the surplus funds in the purchase of Tracts , of which an allotment
shall be made annually to each subscriber , for general distribution . " " -The Unkarlian ' s . Appeal , " and the f Answer to the Question , * Why do you go tp the Unitarian Chapel ?> M have been selected by the Committee .
The next Meeting will be held at Bridgewater , on Tuesday in Easter Week , 1823 . The Rev , Mr , Hughes , of yeovil , is appointed to preach , G . B . WAWNJE , Secretary .
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Eleventh Annual meeting of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty .
( Continued from p . 5 £ 3 . ) * This class of complaints- ( continued Mr . Wilks ) included a series of evils which would create an unchristian indignation in his mind , if . anallayed by pity or contempt . At Barn&taple , a poor tailor employed by the parish was , only for
his Methodism , deprived of that employ . At Chart , in Kent , where the nephew of the Archbishop of Canterbury was the Rector , poor persons were mulcted in their allowances from the parish , because they sent their children to other than the National Schools ; and when a widow ,
chary of her independence , and in principle * a Dissenter , would send her infant daughter to a dame school , and pay her weekly threepence for her learning—the sum > of threepence was deducted from her parish pay , because , forsooth , if for the education of her chiW she could make
such payment , thwt sum could not be needful to s up ply < her' wants !* In another place , a clerical magistrate refused to order relief to a sickly , suffering female , because a Dissenting meeting-house was the sad place where the visitings of her disease , had been most alarming , though she had tottered there slow and trembling ^
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IX ) M ^ STICRJEXJIOIOUS , * Sheffield Meeting of Minister ** AoRiiteABfcv to the notice which was given thrbngtr ^ tfie inedkim of the last
Repository * ( pp ; 579 , 580 , ) a Meeting of Minister reading in the neighbourhood of Sheffield W&s frettf in the ^ Tnitariajii Chapel ift ftrtfc Vtywti , on the 26 th of Septembe r * Or . P&Hlpps was the preacher ; having been ^ tiartiimouslv requested at i
the Mee ^ l » fr « June , to officiate on this occasion ; ttft ^ r' « ubj ect was taken from Philipp . ii . 15 , 16 * The discourse was intended to unite the ** Cducio ad Populum with the " Concio-ad Clerurn . ' *
It does not become the writer of this article to s&yinbre , than that the preacher received the thauks , most cordially expressed , both of his brethren in the ministry and of the congregation * The ministers and the congregation ( in a considerable number ) dined together after the service , and the day was spent in a
manner which was adapted to promote the mutual harmony and improvement both of niidisxers and people . The Rev . Mr . Hawkes , of Lincoln , and the Rev . Mr . Williams , of Mansfield , were present on the occasion ; together with Oifley Shore , Esq ., an enlightened and zealous friend of truth , and 6 f civil and religious
liberty ; The plan for village preaching , alluded to in the last Repository , was again brought forward and discussed ; and will probably be carried into effect in a short time . A regular religious service will be established at Dro * nfield 9 in Derbyshire , as soon as a suitable room can be
provided , and the neighbouring ministers have engaged to conduct it . The proposal for a Lord ' s-Day Evening Lecture at Sheffield , to be carried on in the same way , which was made at the Meeting in June last , has been confirmed by a congregational assembly , and will commence on the tirst Sabbath in the month .
N . P . Sheffield , Oct . 12 , 1822 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/59/
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