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( either through the daily and periodical press , or by the publication * df Useful and judicious tracts and addresses , ) as shall be desirable for the promotion of the cause , ' •' l ¦ ' ' ¦ ' '¦ > ' ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - :: That the Committee be fully
authorized at once to take from time to time all such ste ) ps as may be expedient for effectually following tip these objects , and that they report from time to time to the general meetings , —calling special general meetings if
necessary-That these resolutions be signed by the Chairman , and printed and communicated to all congregations of Dissenters throughout the kingdom known to the Committee , alid that it be recommended to them , to form some plan of communication and co-operation , through local
or district societies , With the bogy m London , and to send up petitions as early as possible , but , at all events , in the ensuing session , taking measures at the same time for interesting in their cause such Members of Parliament as may be more immediately connected with them .
That these resolutions be also officially communicated to the body of ministers and to the different Dissenting bodies associated there for the promotion of religious liberty , and be also inserted in the different magazines connected with off in circulation among Dissenters . ( Signed ) Wm . SMITH , Chairman .
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A Sunday-Evening Lecture was begun in January , and will be carried on till the end of July , in Essex-Street Chapel , by the Rev . Henry Matthews , lately Curate of St . Paul's parish at Bedford , with occasional assistance . i
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The Half-yearly * Meeting of the Somerset and Dorset Association will be held at Iiminster , Somerset , on Wednesday , April 21 st . The Rev . Samuel Walker , of Crewkerne , is expected to preach in the morning , and the Rev . H . Acton , of Exeter , in the evening . G . B . W . Bridpart , March 24 , 1824 .
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Unitarians * Marriage Bill . In consequence of the almost unanimous declarations of the Spiritual and Lay Peers in the debate of last Session , that though relief ought to lie granted in
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sosieform to the Uniiariajis , with regard . to the > present Marriage Service , there is no reason whatever for altering the law as respects J > issenters in general ^ and in consequence / also of the little disposition manifested by tlve Dissenters themselves to co-operate with the
IJiHtanatts m the attempt to obtain a measure of general relief ; the Committee of the Unitarian Association , with the countenance of their Parliamentary advisers in the Upper House , have framed ft Bill for the benefit of ? persons scrupling the doctrine , of the Trinity , commonly , called . Unitarians . ' This Bill was introduced
irUo the House Oi hords by the Marquis of Lansdowne , on Thursday the 11 th instant , and is to be read a second time this day . ( March 29 th , ) ^ It is understood that His Majesty ' s Ministers , ( we would hope , without an exception , ) are
favourable to the principle of th& Bill , and , we believe , we may state that it will not be opposed by the majority of tlje Bench of Bishops . If , as we trust , it passes the second reading , it will go before a Committee of the House . What alterations will be made in it there , it is
impossible to foresee ; b ut we fully expect that clauses will be introduced by the episcopal bench limiting and guarding the privilege of solemnizing matrimony , and that the same legal responsibility will be imposed upon such Unitarian
ministers as shall be allowed to perform the religious part of the Marriage Service as now attaches to the Clergy of the Established Church . Both places and persons are , we apprehend , to be specially licensed for the ^ solemnization , and the licence will be more restricted than
many wish and expect ; to be confined , for instance , to a certain number of chapels iu a district , to chapels previously licensed for Dissenting worship for a given term , and to chapels exclusively appropriated to religious worship and
charitable education ; and with regard to persons , to be granted only to ministers of chapels allowed to be licensed , such ministers not carrying on trade or any other calling than that of a
schoolmaster-The limitations are designed ^ professedly , and we cannot help thinking sincerely , to guard the sanctity of the rite , to prevent clandestine practices and to secure the legal proof of marriages . No clauses will be introduced , we would persuade ourselves , that will defeat the object
with regard to the body of Unitarians . If some trouble be imposed upon them * or a less amount of privilege be grauted than may have been anticipated , let H be remembered that the relief of con-r science is the great object io view , and that the relief in this particular instance
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Intelligence . — -Ecclesmstwal PrefemwriL— Unitarians' Marriage BilL 185
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Ecclesiastical Preferment t Rev . Hobbs Scott to be Archdeacon r > f Australasia , New South Wales , with an annual income of £ 2 , 000 .
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VOL . XIX . 2 15
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/57/
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