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Sir , Islington , June 14 , 1824 . IN my Obituary of the late Rev B . Marten , of the General Baptist Unitarian Chapel ,- Dover ( XVIII . 670 ) , I mentioned that in his last letter to
me , he communicated a plan for paying off tlie remaining debt of the Chapel . That plan I beg leave to lay before you with brevity . The debt incurred is 920 / ., the Chapel having cost 2000 guineas , being one of the neatest and most commodious for
public worship in the kingdom . Some friends ( unconnected with the Society ) being- on a visit at Dover , seeing the exertions which the congregation had made and were still making ; and , aware that so heavy a
debt would operate as a serious impediment to the cause of Unitarian Christianity at that place , suggested the following plan _> and kindly offered to contribute to it . It was , therefore , laid before the General . Assembly , held in London 1822 , and met their
unanimous approbation . 1 . That one hundred persons subscribe One Guinea each , annually , for three years . * 2 . That the same be placed out on compound interest , as it shall come to hand , until it shall accumulate to the sitm of 555 / .
3 . That with the addition of Mr . Squier ' s legacy of 250 / ., the sum of 120 / . only of the debt will remain . 4 . That this sum of 120 / . may be realized , in a few years , by the sale of the vaults under the Chapel ; and thus the whole debt will be liquidated .
My motive for communicating at this time to your readers these particulars is , that the names of upwards of forty subscribers will appear oa the Wrapper of this Month ' s Repository , hoping that it may incite others to follow their example in the completion of this good work . The plan is
an excellent one , suggested by three respectable individuals , the Rev B . Marten , the Rev . W . Moon , and Mr . Bradley , all of whom are now laid low in the dust . It may be successfully imitated ! by Unitarian friends , who may be similarly circumstanced , in other parts of the country . J . EVANS .
It might be convenient for several friends to unite in making up the Guinea , and to which there can be no possible Ejection .
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Society for the Relief of the Necessitous IVidows and Children of Protestcmt Dissenting' Ministers of the Three Denominations . WHEN a minister of the gospel , who has devoted a long and
laborious life , with acceptance and usefulness , for the promotion of the cause of religion , is removed by death , his name should be had in grateful remembrance , and his widow and children should inherit a portion of that affectionate esteem which in his
life-time he enjoyed . This was the feeling entertained by our pious Nonconformist forefathers nearly a century ago ; aad , in order to give it full effect , and carry . it out into lively and continued operation , they laid the foundation of this charity , which , was instituted in the year 1733 , for the Relief of the Families of such
Ministers of the Presbyterian , Independent and Baptist Denominations , as at the time of their death stood accepted and approved by the body of ministers of their own denomination , and who died so poor as not to leave their widows and children a sufficient
subsistence . At the first , the annual sum given to the English widows was only five pounds , and to the Welsh widows three pounds each ; but from the liberality with which the Society was supported , the Managers had the
pleasure of increasing the exhibitions , from time to time , until the year 181 Ij , when they distributed fifteen pounds to the English , and eleven pounds to the Welsh widows . They have since , though with great reluctance , been obliged to reduce them to fourteen and ten pounds respectively .
The Managers meet on the first Tuesday in every month , from the month of October to the month of May , both , inclusive , to receive , and examine , and relieve such cases as shall be presented to them from the widows of either of the three
denominations ; and such is the spirit of harmony which has prevailed , that they are not aware of any instance in which , a preference has been given to one denomination over the other .
Besides these annual donations , in urgent cases , the Managers frequently make a grant of ten pounds to apprentice out an orphan child of a deceased minister , by which means the immediate object is provided for .
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Plan for relieving Chapel Debt , Dover o . 343
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/23/
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