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number of boys and girls * The chapel has a library , containing about 200 volumes of useful and instructive books ; and a juvenile library , composed of tracts , sermons , and useful little works under three shillings a book , limited to this price that it may not interfere with the
other library , supported by the younger part of the congregations by subscription of a penny a-week . Twice every month during the summer , and three times iu the winter , conferences are held in the chapel on Sunday evenings , which are well attended ; any one at liberty to
propose a subject . These conferences have great tendency to improve the minds and increase the knowledge of the young , who take great interest in supporting them . There are also a Fellowship Fund , and a Sunday-School , which has been
established about two years , supported by penny a-week subscriptions , conducted by the younger part of the congregation ; they have been obliged to limit the number of children to 120 , not having accommodation for more . The number of the congregation is about 250 *
HENRY MACE . On presenting a Silver Cup to the Rev Lawrence Hol < fen > with the following inscription : From the Congregation of Unitarian Christians
at Tenterden , to the Rev . Lawrence Holden , who completed the fiftieth year of his Ministry , June 30 th , 1822 . Presented a « a small Tribute of
Respect and Gratitude for Fifty Years * . exertion in the cause of Christianity , and in promoting the best interest and happiness of Man . Mr . Mace ' s Address .
As the Elders of this Society , we are now called upon , Sir , to address you . I siucerely wish that some person better qualined , and more used to public speaking , had been selected for this most pleasing and most gratifying task ; but , Sir , I trust you will not attribute the deficiency of words to want of sincerity of heart .
1 cannot address you , Sir , better than in that beautiful parable of our Lord and Saviour you ** entered the vineyard early , and have borne the heat and burden Of the day . "
You , Sir , have been our fathers' friend , are our friend , and the friend of our children ;; but if you have in the long period of your services seen oue generation pass away , jbo have you seen another ( as
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this Cup witnesseth ) rise up to bless you and . to thank you . It was the wish of many to make this small token of respect more valuable ; but I am sure , if I know you , ( which I
think I do from , the long acquaintance I have had of you , ) you will be better pleased with this Cup than if it had been any thing more bulky and more partially given , when 1 tell you how it was formed .
It , Sir , was utterly out of onr power to make any thing like a compensation for such a long period of usefulness , nor was it ever thought of , aud had such a thing been attempted , it must have been
the gift of the few , and not the many ; but now , Sir , you see iu this Cup , the hearts of all * the rich and the poor , the young aud the old ; far 1 know not one present who has not nearly an equal share in it .
But I will decline making any further observations , as my brother possibly may have a few words to address to you , and have only to observe ,, that as silver and gold are purified from the dross , so may this Clip be emblematical of the pure doctrine you have delivered to us iu thi& place for fifty years .
Mr . Munn * s Address . Rev . Sir , It is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that I address myself to you at this time , at the request of this Christian Congregation , to present to you a small token of oar esteem and affectionate regard , for your long , laborious and indefatigable exertions iu the cause of rational Christianity .
I beg leave to refer to some of the most prominent effects they have produced among u $ . It is now mauy years since you , Sir , recommended the establishment of a Charity-School for the instruction of the
children of the poor , to enable them to read the Holy Scriptures : iu this wish we have most cordially united , and I hope there are many who now hear me whose hearts bear a grateful remembrance of this invaluable blessing bestowed upon them .
Allow me to notice with what zeal i \ nd energy you exerted yourself in the Bible Society , that the poor might possess this book of life , which is able to make them wise unto salvation , and our delight has been to give all the support we could to this great ai » d glorious cause
Through your benevolent assistance this Society has established a valuable library , which has the best tendency to improve th ^ minds aud morals pf soc iety . And it is through your benevolent exertions that a desire has been instilled
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710 Intelligence . — Testimony of Respect to the Red . Lawrence Holden .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/54/
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