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Southern Unitarian Fund . The Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Portsmouth on the 22 nd of September . The Rev . Samuel Walker delivered an impressive discourse in the morning , on the Importance of
Consideration with respect both to the Doctrines and Duties of Religion . The Secretary ( Rev . Russell Scott ) read the Report of the Committee , detailing the continued success of missionary exertions for the spread of gospel truth . The members and their friends dined
together ( T . Cooke , Jun ., Esq ., of Newport , in the Chair ) . The Revds . S . Walker , It . Scott , Hughes , Fullagar , E . Kell , Beard , Sen . and Jun ., Mr . Archibald Ken rick , of West Bromwich , and other gentlemen , severally addressed the meeting , recommending perseverance * and
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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . * The Half-Yearly Meeting of the Somersetshire and Dorset Unitarian Assoc iation was held at Crewkerne , on Tuesday , the 5 th of October . There was a religious service in the morning , at which Messrs . Walker , of Crewkerne , and Hughes , of Yeovil , performed the devotional part 3 ; and the Rev . E . Whitneld ,
oi Ilminster , preached from John . hi . 16 . In the evening , the Rev . Mr . Yeates , of SidmOttthy introduced the service , and the Rev . L . Lewes , from Dorchester , addressed a crowded congregation on the words of the historian of the Apostles , Acts xvii . 16 : ' * While Paul waited for
them at Athens , his spirit was stirred in him , when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry . " The interval between the services was occupied by the usual engagements . The oniy parts of the transactions , however ,
which demand public notice , are , the resolution that the next Meeting shall . be held at Honiton , on the day commonly called Good-Friday , 1825 , and the appointment of the Rev . Dr . Davies , of Taunton , to be the preacher on that
oc-. It is hoped that the proceedings of the day , interesting as they appear to have been to those who visited Crewkerne on the occasion , will be also useful in diffusing and increasing an enlightened zeal for the great principles of Protestant and Unitarian Dissent . G . B . W .
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Welsh Unitarian Quarterly Meeting The Quarterly Meeting of Unitarian Ministers , in South Wales , was held on Thursday the 7 th pf this month , at Panty-defaid , Cardiganshire . A meeting was held in the afternoon of the preceding
day , at CapeUy * . groe , s , about seven miles distant from tjie former place . Mr . jl Davies , of Llwyij-rhyd-Ow ^ n , introduced the service , and Mr , J * James , of Gellipnen , preached from Rom . iii . 28 . On Thursday , about fourteen preachers were present at Pant-y-defaid . Dr . D . Rees , of
Merthyr , conducted the introductory service , and Mr . T . Evans , of Aberd ^ r , preached from John v . 23 . The question discussed ! , at the close of the service , was Original Sin . Some of the preachers produced several convincing arguments against that doctrine , and shewed that
those passages of Scripture which are often cited to prove i % , afford it no support , when rightly explained * consistently with their context . In the evening , Dr » D . Rees , of Merthyr , preached at JLlwynrhyd-Owen . Chapel , , . fromv 2 Coif *; . y . 17 « All the services were well attended *
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Oldbury Double Lecture . On Tuesday , Sept . 14 , 1824 , the Annual Meeting , denominated the Double Lecture ^ took place at Oldbury . The Rev . Hugh Hutton , of Birmingham ,
conducted the devotional service . . The Rev , Joseph Hunter , of Bath , and the Rer . Charles Wallace , of Altringham , preached . The former on 1 Cor . xii . 12 ; the latter on Acts i . 7 . Sixteen ministers were present . The ministers and some of the members of their respective
congregations , afterwards dined together , the Rev . John Corrie being in the Chair : and in the course of the afternoon several gentlemen addressed the meeting on subjects connected with the interests of religious truth and liberty . The Rev . John Small , of Coseley , and the Rev . Evan Jones , of Bevvdley , were appointed to preach at the next anniversary . * J . H . B .
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pointing to means of more extensive use * fulness . The Rev . Si Walker also delivered a lecture m the evening , in which lie eloquently shewed that Unitarianism is more honourable to God and more conducive tp die improvement of mankind , than the popular creeds of the day . The , public services were well attended , v D . B . P .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/54/
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