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to St . Mary ' s , where I preached in the street on a Sunday morning to about a hundred hearers , among whom were the ministers of different persuasions stationed oit the island . At the conclusion of the service , the Baptist Minister came forward and offered me the use of his
chapel , which I accepted , and he gave notice to the people of my preaching there at nine . At the hour appointed I found a large , respectable chapel , and a good congregation , ' who heard me with the , greatest attention . I also preached in the same place in the evening . The
Baptist Minister invited me to his house , and accompanied me to Truscow , where I likewise preached in a small Baptist chapel to a very crowded and serious audience . The liberality of this worthy man I shall not easily forget ; though so widely different in our views of truth , he treated me with the greatest attention and kindness to fche last . I left behind me at St .
Mary s many tracts . Devonpott . < c From the gratuitous and valuable services of Mr . Gihbs , and the exertions of some other members , the congregation here is kept up in a very respectable manner . I had the happiness of spending
two Sundays , and two week-day evenings with them , and had large congregations . Our friends here are alive to the cause of truth and holiness : they have a good chapel library , and a Fellowship Fund , which is increasing . At Devonport I have preached eight times . "
Mr . Martin ' s report also gives a particular account of his having preached , generally to large congregations , at the following places , in Cornwall and Devon : —Chacewater , St . Day , St . Agnes , Marazion , Goldsithney , JVIilor Bridge , St .
Austle , Fowey , Looe , Stonehouse , Cawsand , Milbrook , Torpoint , Tavistock , Callington , St . Ives , Lostwithiel and Falmouth .
At Midsummer next a gentleman has kindly offered a room for Unitarian worship at Penzance , which it is hoped will be regularly supplied . Mr . Martin also reports the following facts , which appear to be sound proofs that his labours in Cornwall for another
year or two are likely to be productive of permanent good effects : — " The congregation at Flushing have raised the sum of about twelve pounds during the last year , —and there is every reason to expect
that this amount will be increased during the present year , and also that some money will be contributed by the congregation at Penryn . We have now three assistant preachers , and another bids fair to come forward soon . When I am absent , my place jus ' suxwlicd by Mr . Odgers ,
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Mr . Stuart , or Mr . Welsford , and several times we have beea favoured with tie services of Mr . Phil p * " . , ,- . Under these circumstances , and relynig partly upon the hope of a grant for this object from the Unitarian Fund , the
Devon and Cornwall Society have engaged Mr . Martin to continue his services for another year . And the Committee are fuljy persuaded that this Society , if liberally supported and prudently managed , may become the means of diffusing
through the district which it embraces , a purer knowledge of that most holy religion which was revealed from heaven to promote the true glory of God , and the present and eternal happiness of mankind .
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Half- Yearly Meeting of the Somersetshire , Gloucestershire , and fVilishire Unitarian Missionary Association . This Association was established in
September , 1824 ; its meetings are halfyearly , and may be held in any town in the above three counties , as the committee for the time being shall determine . The first Half-Yearly Meeting of the members and friends of this Institution war * held
at Bradford , on Friday , the 1 st instant , instead of the following Tuesday , as had been proposed , ( the latter day having been found inconvenient , ) and was respectably attended by friends from Bath , Bristol , Bridport , Yeovil , Warminster , Oakhiil , Trowbridge , Calne , Frenchay , Marshfield , Christian - Malford ,
Sutton-Benger , &c . The Rev . G . Roberts introduced the public service by prayer and reading of the Scriptures ; the Rev . S . Fawcett delivered the long prayer ; the Rev . H . Clarke preached a very suitable and truly excellent discourse from Luke xi 2 , " Our Father which art in heaven ;" and the Rev . Theophilus Browne concluded the service . Immediately after
the public service the meeting of business commenced , H . E . Howse , Esq ., in the chair . The Secretary read the Report of the Committee , which shewed that , if much had not been done during the short time the Association has existed , the committee had not been inactive , that they had used all the means in their power to gain information respecting the state of the Unitarian cause in the
district , to form an estimate of the measures it would be most proper to pursue , and to prepare for future exertions ; and , it appears , their attention is particularly directed to those places where the congregations are in a very low state , and where , without the fostering care of an association , there is a danger of the cause sinking . After the meeting of business ,
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Intelligence . —Somersetshire , 8 fC . Unitarian Missionary Association . 2 # 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/53/
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