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    into the hearts of the vDiin ^ er me mbers of this Society to establish a Sunday-School , to enable all the children of the poor to read the Holy Scriptures , to guide them through life , to support them in death , and to lead them to everlasting mansions of happiness beyond the grave .

    Having mentioned but few amongst the numerous benefits we have derived from your invaluable ministry among us , we sincerely hope it will please our hea ~ venJy Father to bless you with many years of health and strength to continue your ever-active and useful exertions .

    Happy , Rev . Sir , am I to state to you , this Cup is procured by the mutual wishes and mutual exertions of the whole of this Society , whose feelings of affectionate attachment are but feebly shewn in

    offering for your acceptance this " 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 . If oldens Reply . I confess , my fellow-christians , that L want words to express my obligations to you for all your acts of kindness ; for the attention you have always been ready to pay me iu my public services , and

    particularly for this testimony of your respect and affection ; for , next to the favour and approbation of Almighty God , and the testimony of my own mind , I have ever set the highest value on the esteem and a / feet ion of this congregation .

    All the returns I cad make are the warmest good wishes for your earthly prosperity ; or that , so far as a Being of i n finite wisdom and goodness shall know it to be consistent with your highest and best interests and everlasting happiness ,

    j r our cup of earthly good may now ovor ; but above all , that you may be pre-eminent in all Christian knowledge , and more especially in all those Christian virtues which add the highest worth to the human character , and are your appointed qualifications for the happiness of an endless being .

    Upon your reminding me of the various plans of usefulness which have taken place in this Society , I can only wish that I had done more , and this more effectually , in promoting the good of others , and the sacred interests of religion in the world .

    But particularly a& to the Sunday-School , I wouFd pay a just tribute to the youajg of this Society , with whom it originated , and who have pursued this highly commendable object with unabated zeal and ardour from ks beginning . To * this I wotfld add , that on all other occa-

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    sions I hare had the ready cooperation of ! my friends . As tp myself , in whatever degree I stay have T > een useful « o you or to the world , to God be all the glory .

    To the Two Deacons . I have also to express my obligations to you , Gentlemen , for the respectful and affectionate manner ia which you have fulfilled the trust reposed in you . I can only add , may the best blessings of Heaven attend on all around me .

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    TkB congregation of the New Meeting in Birmmgkam , a few months ago , testified its sense of the important services which it has received during a series of years from one of its members , who ( will

    he excuse the writer for saying it ?) cannot be knowu without being esteemed ^ by presenting him with a very elegant piece of plate . The following is th € inscr iption which it bears :

    " This piece of plate is presented to Mr ^ Thomas Ryland , by the Members of the Congregation of the New Meeting House , as a memorial of their gratitude for his highly valuable services in instructing the children of their Sunday-Schools in singing , during thirty-four years , and for his kind attention to the psalmody of their pubHc worship .

    " Birmingham , November 1 , 1821 . " We have sineere pleasure in recording such testimonies of gratitude and affection . B .

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    f&tellig % nee * - ^ Te * tbmhp of Bespecl to Mr . Thomas Ryland , ? 7 * fl

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    The Rev . J . Donougbue has resigned the pastoral charge of the congregation assembling at the * ' Great Meeting House , " iu the High Street , Coventry : and on Sunday , October 13 , the Meeting House , which had been shut up for more

    than three months , during which time a large proportion of the congregation regularly met , on the Lord ' s ^ day ^ in a different part of the city , was again opened for public worship , by the R « v . James Hews BranBby , of Dudleys who preached , in the morning , from Psa . exxii . 1 : " I

    was glad when they said unto me , Let us go into the house of the Lord ; " and ki the afternoon , from Gol . i . 28 : *< Whom we preach , warning every man , aud teacil ing every man in all wisdom , fhafcjjpt may present every man perfect in CSSffli

    Jesus . " Mr . Bransby concluded his morn ^ ing sermon with an address adapted to the peculiar circumstances of" the congregation , urging on hi ^ bearers , the paramount importance of those great principles in the prtffessirin of which they were assembled ; and affectionately re *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/55/