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yeav ; > from > which , it appeared > that considera ble benefit had been done to the cause of Uiiitarianism , in several places to which the attention of the Society had been particularly directed *
IVJr . F- Board man was chosen Treasurer to the Missionary Society , in the place of Mr . Hall , who resigned , and the Rev \ William Dwffield was appointed Secretary to the same , instead of the Rev . T . C . Holland , who also resigned .
About fifty persons attended the annual dinner , aad the afternoon was agreeably spent in social intercourse . Several of the gentlemen present addressed the company , and the Chair was ably filled by the Rev . J . Gaskell , the preacher . B . R . D ., Secretary .
Ecclesiastical Preferments * Rev . J . B . Hollingworth ; D . D ., elected Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge , vice Dr . Calvert resigned . Rev . George Chandler , D . C . L ,, appointed Canon Hampton ' s Lecturer at Oxford for 1825 .
Rev . J . Williams , Rector of the New Academy , in Edinburgh . Rev . W . E , L . Faulkner , Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex . The Rev . D . Corrie , LL . B ., Senior Chaplain of Calcutra , has been installed Archdeacon of that Presidency .
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The present Vicar of Brighton owes his preferment to the powerful influence of his Grace the Duke of Wellington , Mr . Wagner having been private tutor to Lord Douro and his brother Lord Wellesiey , whilst these young nobJenien were at Eton School . —Morn , Chron .
The Rev . W . Dodwell , Rector of Welby and Stoke , near Grantham , in Lincolnshire , lately deceased , gave , a few weeks before his decease , the sum of £ 10 , 000 to the Wesleian Missionary Society . —Idem .
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Manchester College , York . The ensuing Session will commence on Friday , the 24 th of September , on which day the students are expected to be present .
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Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty .
[ Concluded from p . 441 ] Mr . Wilks came next to the conduct —to the new policy of this Government , as it regarded our West-India Colonies . He was quite convinced that that which
was good in England was not necessarily Rood throughout the world . The Saxon edifice or the Norman temple was not improved by the addition of a Grecian pillar , but the rash architect who under-
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took such art improvement ; despoiled t&e building , of its original and ! natural though rude appearance . That which was applicable to England in the same way , was not necessarily an improvement to the
colonies , and these episcopalian regulations , of which they had recently heard so much , were just as inappropriate to the rude state of West-India feeling , as were the splendid capitals of the Corinthian order ^ o the entrance of some Saxo * r
chapel . He knew not how to allude to the men who had toiled , and strove , and suffered in the service of religion in these colonies . It was difficult , in gazing at a bright and beautiful constellation , to select one star of peculiar brilliancy ; it wa » , however , not impossible ; and though
the brightness of the star might have passed away , its career of light would long be remembered . They all felt the allusion . He could not seek to harrow up their feelings by a recital of the sufferings of him who was now happily remored from all sorrow , whose course was finished , and who , ere this , if there were truth hi
the unerring promises of God , had received that crown of glory which the Lord , a more righteous judge than he was doomed to meet with here , hath given him . His multiplied ills were now ended , but the recollection of them still
remained . It did so happen , that that excellent man , when his letters were prevented from coining to this country , addressed to him a communication , complaining of this harsh determination ; and now he did uufeignedly rejoice that in a distant land his connexion with the
Society should have caused that selection . That victim of a persecution as illegal and harsh as ever disfigured any tribunal on any shore , had made his honest complaint , as it were , to that very society . What expectation could he have of a fair trial ? Who were his accusers ? Those
men who , when the missionary first touched the shores of that country , proclaimed to him , " The moment , Sir , you presume to teach the poor negroes to read , that moment you leave this
country . " And when men who had immortal souls were prevented h . oni attending at the table of the Lord , it was , in his opinion , such super-superlative heartlessness , that words in vain attempted to describe it . Oh ! the land where such deeds as
these could be practised with impunity , was not a land for freemen , but a receptacle fit only for demons . No man was so absurd as to assert that slavery , however odious in all its forms , shall at once
be abolished in these colonies . No ; such was not the course which the iinssionaries suggested—it was not in accordance with their practice . It was their habit to excite the moral , the intellectual , and the religious habits of the people with
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JnteH ? ge ^ £ . 7 ^ Prbiestaht Soc iety ' : Mr . 'WUks * s Speech ; 46 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/37/
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