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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . Southern Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society took place at Poole , © n Wednesday , August 3 rd , when the Rev . Edmund Kell , of Newport , delivered an admirable sermon , on the Superior Influence of Unitarianism over Calvinism
. considered as a Moral System , and urged his hearers , froip the question in the fifth chapter of Matthew ' s Gospel , " What do ye more than others ? " to see that they conducted themselves worthy of the principles they professed to esteem . In the evening , the Rev . J . Fullagar . of
Chichester , addressed a numerous audieuce , on the Nature of the " Damnable Heresies " mentioned by the Apostle Peter , and in his discourse clearly shewed , that the charge of " denying the Lord that bought them , " frequently made against the Unitarians , could not be applied to them ,
without setting scripture phraseology and ecclesiastical history at defiance . After the service in the morning , the business of the Society was transacted , Thomas Cooke , Esq ., of Newport , having been called to the Chair , and the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to .
That , while the members of this Society deeply deplore that the attempt to relieve conscientious Unitarians from the present Marriage Service , has again been frustrated , they feel themselves the more obliged to those friends of civil and religious liberty in both Houses of the Legislature , who have continued to support their cause , and beg hereby to return them their cordial thanks .
That the members of this Society , deeply feeling the great obligations under which they lie to that , upright and'enlightened Senator , William Smith , Esq ., for his endeavours to procure them relief from the present Marriage Service , and for his judicious and unremitting
exertions in favour of civil and religious liberty , beg to return him their sincerest thanks , and to express their hope , that his life will , by a gracious Providence , be long preserved , for the ftutherance of those plans connected with the moral and social welfare of mankind , by the steady pursuit of which , his senatorial career has been uniformly characterized . That the renewed thanks of the members of the Southern Unitarian Society
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be individually presented to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , the most Noble the Marquis of Lansdown , the Right Hon . Lord Liverpool , and the Right Hon . Lord Holland , for their late support of the Unitarian Bill in the House of Lords , accompanied with an expression of their
confidence , that the continued endeavours of their Lordships will not be wanting to obtain for Unitarians the liberty that has been already granted them by the Commons House of Parliament , of solemnizing their Marriage Contracts in conformity with their religious principle s *
After the business of the Society was finished , the members of the Society dined together at the Antelope Inn , to whose pleasure , the talents and zeal of James Young , Esq ., of Hackney , who kindly consented to preside , not a little contributed .
A great wish was expressed that some steps should be taken to introduce Unitarian principles into Southampton , Salisbury , Ilomsey , and other neighbouring places , and an instruction was given to the Committee to keep this object in view , and , if possible , to act in conjunction with the Southern Unitarian Fund for its accomplishment .
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr . Price , its worthy Secretary ; and Mr . Fullagar ( who acted as Secretary for Mr . P ., he having been prevented from attending the Meeting ) was requested to forward copies of the votes of thanks to the , several distinguished individuals above-mentioned .
The Secretary has received the following letter from Lord Holland , in acknowledgment of the Society ' s resolution of thanks communicated to him .
{ Copy . ) Sir , I beg you to accept for yourself , and to convey to the other members of the Southern Unitarian Society , my thanks for your flattering notice of my earnest endeavours to contribute to an act of
justice due to persons of your religious persuasion . It will always be my wish to see persons of every religious opinion exempted from insult , as well as from injury , on account of their opinions ; and to exact from those who differ from the
Church , a conformity in the points oh which they differ , as the condition of legalizing such an importaut contract , as that of marriage , appears to me both insulting and injurious . You may always
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/51/
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