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The Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association . The Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association took place on Wednesday , June 29 th , at Chatham . The Rev . James Taplin , of Battle , and the Rev . L .
Holden , of Tenterden , conducted the devotional services . The Rev . B . Mardon , late of Glasgow , delivered an excellent sermon from Philipp . ii . 5 —11 , Who being in the form of God 9 &c , which he shewed , by a variety of scriptural arguments , cannot bear the usual Trinitarian
interpretation . Mr . Mardon likewise argued that the Apostle Paul , by these words , inculcated the doctrine of the Divine Unity and the proper humanity of our Lord . Towards the conclusion of the sermon , the preacher made some practical observations of which the text admits ; and took a short view of the
great progress of Christian truth . The minister of the Independent chapel being present at the delivery of this discourse , has since publicly made some an iiu ad versions upon it ; in consequence of which the sermon will be presented to the public .
On the Chair being taken for business , the proceedings of the Committee , since the last annual meeting , were read and confirmed . From the Treasurer ' s report it appeared that the subscriptions for the
support of Mr . Harding as a missionary through Kent and Sussex , were insufficient , and that it was necessary to adopt some plan by which his valuable services might be retained . A resolution was accordingly passed , making a positive en-
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gagement with Mr . H . for three months longer ; during which time , it is hoped every effort will be made for the support of this valuable object . Votes of thanks were passed to the Treasurer and Committee for their services during the last
year , and officers appointed for the year enduing . The ministers and their friends then withdrew to the Mitre Tavern , where one hundred and three sat down to dinner . Thomas Baldock , Esq ., as chairman , by his good sense and Christian temper .
greatly contributed to the pleasure of the company . During the afternoon several sentiments were proposed , and , among others , € i May Popish prejudices and errors be subdued by Protestant liberality , candour and charity : " " Equalxights and equal laws ; with the speedy repeal of
the Test and Corporation Acts : ' * " The memory of Mrs . Barbauld and Mrs . Mary Hughes , those best of benefactors to the poor , and may their loss be well supplied /* *< The healths of the Marquis of Lansdown , W . Smith , Esq ., and all those members in both Houses who
supported the Unitarian Marriage Bill . " The Meeting was highly interested by the speeches of the Rev . L . Holden , Rev . B . Mardon , Rev . J . Taplin , Rev . H . Green , Mr . J . Green , Jun ., and several others . Most of the company , with the chairman , withdrew early to partake of tea provided for them at the houses of friends . T . F . THOMAS . Chatham July 14 , 1825 .
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the Object of the Divine Law , from Mark ii . 27 , After service there was an open conference , at which the speakers were Messrs . Evans , of Aberdar ; Thomas , of Pant-y-defaid ; Davies , of Neath ; Jones ,
of Bridgend ; Griffiths , of Llaa-y-fau ; Bromley , of Llanrhaiadr yrn-mochnant ; and Jones , of Capel Sion . The subject was , The Divine Agency on the Mind of Man .
Mr . Belshain ' s Calm Inquiry * was printed by the Society , in Welsh , iu the years 1820-4 , and its debt incurred on account of that work has been reduced to £ 4 ; 6 s . The next annual meeting is to be holden at Pant-y-defaid , Cardiganshire , Mr . John Jones , of Bridgend , to
* The Calm Inquiry , in Welsh , is sold by the Society at 7 s . in boards .
preach . The next quarterly meeting of Unitarian ministers in South Wales is to be held at Blaengwrach , on the first Thursday after Michaelmas-day ; Mr . John Thomas , of Pant-y-defaid , to preach . July 16 , 1825 .
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426 Intelligence . —Devon and Cornwall Unitarian Association .
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^¦ MH M ^^^ H ^^^ taHMt Tenterden District Unitarian Association . On the 3 d instant , the Tenterden District Unitarian Association held their
Annual Meeting for the purposes of public worship and social intercourse ; . The chapel service was introduced by the Rev . B . Mardon , with reading the Scriptures and prayer . The Rjev . H . Green then delivered an instructive and animating sermon on the Progressive
Nature of the Gospel Kingdom , from our Saviour ' s beautiful parable of the leaven , " which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened . " A party of ladies and gentlemen , about ninety in number , then adjourned to the Woolpack Inn to tea , after which
Mr . Mardon was called to , and very ably iilled the Chair . The evening was employed in addresses from different speakers , and that interchapjge of sentiments and observations usual on these gratifying occasions . Tenterden , June 28 , 1825 .
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ii—Devon and Cornwall Unitarian Association . The Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the 6 th of July , » t Exeter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/42/
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