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7 &Q Devon and Cornwall Society on Missionary Preaching *
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the Unitarian Fund in particular , to consider whether they deserve th ^ re- * pruacb levelled against them by Mr . Worsley , of having ** sadly misapplied
their money , by keeping in their pay itinerant preachers , " and of having had ' the reports of their Missionaries well enough got up for the Reposi ? tory . ^
But to the object of this paper * Towards the conclusion of his remarks , Mr . \ V \ alludes to the ** Devon and Cornwall Unitarian Missionary So--ciety /* recently established at Exeter , and offers the members his
advice-He advises that " they endeavour t © form Unitarian societies in the good to was of . this and the neighbouring county , before they think of employ * - ing their resources in smaller places and on the . sea-shores : that they take
good care to have a man to carry on this work of love , whose age , respectability of manpers , knowledge of the world , and acquaintance with the controversies of the day > fit him to meet the adversaries he may expect to encounter ^*
The Committee of the Society aL luded to , feel themselves called upon to thank Mr . Worsley for his advice , ¦—peFsuaded , as they are , that . it 5 s
given with the best intentions towards the cause . But is it quite so obvious , that they are bound to thank him for the very delicate and jinexceptionable manner in which he has chosen to
convey his advice ? Is the method which he has taken to make known his counsel , the most generous that could have been thought of towards an infant society , by a Unitarian minister residing in Devon , who must be well aware
of the difficulties which the Society has to struggle with ? As Mr . Wor&-ley himself , by a rule of the Society , has a right to act as a member of the Committee , would it not have been better , if he had first favoured the
Committee , with his proofs that they have employed , or that they are likely to employ , a Missionary who , in re ^ spec * to age , manners autl knowledge , is totally unfitted for the work assign . *
e < l to him ? May not those readers of the Repository , who are unacquainted with the facts of the case , suppose , from Mr- Wovsley ' s remarks , that such culpable imprudence is actually chargeable upon the Committee ?
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ties in "the good towns af these counties . * And it may be prpper to state that , bad not the Committee been disappointed in the hope which they had for some time cherished , of being able to procure the services of a gentleman well known to thd
Unita-They repel the insinuation , and hold themselves answerable for the character and qualifications of their Missionary . There can be no doubt that it b highly desirable , as Mr . W . counsels , to endeavour to form Unitarian
soeierian public as a respectable and successful Missionary , something would have been attempted towards this desirable object . Since they have been disappointed in this respect , however , and as it is not easy to find a person well suited for such an undertaking ,
they have heen constrained to defer making this attempt for the present year . But then , Mr . Worsley wishes them •* ¦ to consider whether , until they can find such a man , they had not better keep their means of doing good for a more favourable opportu-1
nity . ' In part , the Committee have done this very thing > - * --biit they have not thought it necessary to keep back all their means of doing good . Assisted by liberal grants ? from the Uni *
tarian Fund , and from th £ Bristol Fellowship Fund ., and therefore having the sanction of those respectably bodies to the propriety of the mission , they engaged Me . Martin to employ himself for a year in , certain-parts of
Cornwall * even ' * in smaller places and on the sea-ehores , " as Mr . W . intimates ; and they trust that the step has been attended with sufficient success to justify its having been taken .
Mr . Martin ' s . ' own reports to the Committee , though always remarka * ble for modesty and piety , are m the highest degree satisfactory ;~^ but these reports will be objected to , perhaps , as being " well enough got . up . " The Committee continue to receive , then , the strongest testimonies to Mr . Mar * tin ' s competency and accepfableuess .,
* Is not Devonport to be considered one of these *< good towns' * ?—the Committee beg to recommend this town to Mr . Worsley ' s particular attentionj *— -it m b \} t two miles from Plymouth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/46/
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