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£ 56 Intelligence . —Unitarian Association *— -Corporation and Ttst Acts .
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broken , we are not separated by any great distance ; and I hope that they who % kye honoured me with their friendship , yrill honour me with it still : nor will the impressions of your esteem ever be effaced from my heart till that moment shall arrive when ail human sympathies must be dissolved * And may you ? prayers to the throne of Mvinp grace be granted m& , that I may devote the remaining ardbur of a declining life to the cause of religion and virtue , and that , should the
providence of God grant me the hoary head , it may be tftmnd in the way of duly ; and , while I entreat for the effusions of your piety , I , with th < £ warmest sentiments of Christian love , commend you to God , and beg of you to accept my sincerest wishes for your temporal and eternal happiness . "
Concluding Prayer . u Almighty God , the Fountain of-all wisdom , we 16 ok ; up to thee for thy blessing upon us > and beg thine acceptance of this our last Christian duty presented to thee in these walls , which have long been consecrated to the . services of
religion . We trust , O merciful Father , that thou hast often graciously heard the prayer which from , this sanctuary Has been offered to thee in ' sincerity , and that thou hast accepted the sigh of the contrite heart . Be with us through the remainder of our pilgrimage ; and when this mortal life shall be ended , mayest thou be our strength
and our portion for ever ; and may the succeeding generation , corrected by our errors and animated by our labours , carry on every great and good work , to the glory of thy name , and to the increase of virtue and happiness in the world . To thee be offered in the churches everlasting praises through the one great IVlediator between thee and us . Amen . "
I fear , Sir , that I have already occupied too much space in your Journal , but I cannot close this communication without Stating some , if not the only , causes which have led to this
so-much-to-belamented separation ; possessing , as we do , a minister of such acknowledged talent , and so zealous in the discharge of his pastoral duties .
The seeds of dissolution must be looked for in the mind of man , ever variable and requiring constant change and novelty . The noxious plants first began to shew themselves towards the termination of
the ministry of Dr . Fordyce , who lived to see a great diminution in his popularity * Dr . Aikin , in his Biographical £ > ictiotiary % alluding to this circumstance , thus , in some manner , accounts for it : ** Fashion and curiosity , it will readily be imagined , had some effect for a time in producing the throng of his hearers ;
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Unitarian'Association . The Committee intend renewing their application to Parliament on the subject
of the Marriage Law as early as possible in the ensuing Sessiofe They propose commencing in the House of Commons , and it does not appear to them to be necessary or expedient to procure petitions on a subject which has been already so fully discussed *
The Committee take the opportunity of again noticing , that the small subscriptions of congregations , on which they mainly rely as the fund for carrying on the objects of this Association , are in a v £ ry irtfegulatr state , and in many cases several years in arrear , while it is difficult for them or their Collector to find a
convenient channel for application . They suggest , that at all events a small collection might occasionally be made , v ^ hich ( if it were inconvenient to send up the subscription annually ) would supply its place .
Subscriptions are received by the Treasurer , James Young , Esq ., 16 , 'Change Alley ; the Secretary , Mr . Edgar Taylor , 9 , King ' s Bench Walk , Temple ; and the Collector , Mr . Tomalin , No , 13 , Sise Lane .
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Corporation and Test Acts * It is understood that €€ The Deputies representing the Dissenting Congregations in and near the Metropolis , " " The General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations / ' and " The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , ' * have come to
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but the . attachment of persons attracted $ y fticjv motives will be as capricious and variable as their minds : fji ^^ rill change theirpreachers as they change their ch-ess * not from their own ^ ^ t ^ te- —for in general they have none- —but . from the desire of being where others are , of doi # g "fyhat others do , and of admiring wh ^ t others admire . " If to these we add tne removal of most of the respectable fatnilies from the City to more fashionable parts of
Town , the dilapidated and gloomy appearance of the Chai > el itself , independently of th&t of thfc neighbertirhood , and the iem for which the Chapel was held being expired * Without the practicability
of obtaining a renewal , —I tmnk it cannot create much surprise that a Congregation differing in religious opinion , and principally kept together and united through esteem and friendship for tJie late tnucHlatnented Dr * Lindsay , should have declined and ultimately separated under his successor . 40 HN ESDAILE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/52/
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