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freen built at the sole expense of Mr . WiUiam Walker , he procured it to be licensed as a place of worship , and a donation , amounting to half the expense of tlie original cost of the
building , being afterwards made by Mr . Barbara , Mr . Walker gave the congregation immediate possession of the whole . This building , in the lapse of time , became too small for the
auditors wlio attended it , and an addition of nearly one half more room was made to it in 1774 by Mr . Walker , and with his usual generosity devoted to the society . In 1 785 , this
congregation removed to Fairfield , a neat village , built by them on a plan of the utmost regularity , about half way from this place to Manchester . The establishment there has become one of
the most conspicuous belonging to the Brethren in the kingdom . Of other sects this township is not altogether unfruitful . A Calvinist chapel was erected here in the year 1806 ; one for the Methodists , near Stayley Bridge , in 1812 ; and one for the Roman Catholics is now lately roofed in .
Difference of opinion being the result of a very imperfect state of knowledge , while the imperfection of the one continues , uniformity in the other must not be expected . But surely the time is not far distant when
Christians will more perfectly agree to differ . We no longer contend about the use of the surplice , or the gown , the band or the velvet cap , as requisites for the decoration of a preacher . The attitudes of kneeling , standing or sitting at the communion table , have no
longer volumes devoted to ascertain the propriety of each as superior to the other . Could we say so much for the forty and five baptismal shades of distinction , by which some Christians choose to designate themselves , the press would be freed from much superfluous matter . But this conclusion
is unquestionable — while the great Head of the Church permits his followers to indulge such variety of sentiment on subjects of religion , all have an equal claim and title to assemble
together for the purpose of instructing one another . Hence the propriety of places of worship being set apart for that purpose , and if this neighbourhood has a greater variety of such places than others can boast of , their
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq . ( Continued from p . 454 . ) t fllHE new monarchical court was no JL sooner established than it became a mart of corruption , women bein ^ no less industrious than men in the bro - kerage of iniquity .
June 22 nd , 1660 . — " Mr . Hill ( who for these two or three days hath con * stantly attended my Lord ) told me of an offer of ^ 500 , for a Baronet ' s dignity , which I told my Lord of in the balcone of this gallery , and he said he
would think of it *—Thence to my Lord ' s and had the great coach to Brigham ' s , who told me how my Lady Monk * deals with him and others for their places , ashing him £ 500 , though he was formerly the King ' s coachmaker , and sworn to it . —23 d . —To
my Lord ' s lodgings , where Tom Guy came to me , and there staid to see the King touch people for the king ' s evil . f But he did not come at all , it rayned so ; and the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the rain in the garden . Afterward he touched
them in the banquetting-house . With my Lord , to my Lord Frezendorfes , " ( Swedish Embassador , ) " where he dined to-day . He told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerke of the Acts * place for me , at which I was glad , —25 th . —Thence to the Admiralty , where I met Mr . Turner , of the
* Feb . 12 th , Pepys calls this " lady " simply " Monk ' s wife ; " monarchy was not then set up . Lord Bray brooke thus annotates upon Pepys ' s text when he calls her Duchesse of Albemarle , " 1 . ? 7 . " Anne Clarges , daughter of a blacksmith
and bred a milliner ; mistress and afterwards wife of General Monk , over whom she possessed the greatest influence . ' This lady appears again and again in tlie Diary , as the patron of learned men ana the first personage at feasts . The Dianat speaks of her , notwithstanding , i » P English .
f For an account of this disgusting imposition on popular credulity , see M « K * Repos . Vlll . 93—96 , and XIV . 22 .
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520 Memoirs of Samuel Pepyty - £ hq .
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prevalence , may be traced to that firm and enlightened spirit by which our ancestors became the defenders , victims and the conquerors of Chris ^ tian liberty in the great struggle of Nonconformity , W . HAMPSON .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/8/
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