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      most iute ^ esUag edifyjng to witness . The ; waiter of this has beard . her represent the alteration in the state of her feelings as ( with respect to her ) a change " from , darkness to light . " She described herself as enjoying almost a new existence—mew in her conceptions of the character of God , new in her future

      expectations , new in her motives to exertion ; for now she experienced the full power of the truths of the gospel unimpaired by those human additions which paralyse its force and destroy its beauty . She delighted much to dwell on the perfect benevolence of . the Deity , and to picture forth the , period when , the pure cc knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth ,

      as the waters the chaunels of the deep . " Her complicated disorders , which for the last four years of her life scarcely allowed her any intervals of ease from pain , had rendered her thoughts familiar with the approach of death , and made her look forward to a future world with joyful anticipation ; yet she never expressed a wish for her release before that period when , it shouW . be the will of her hea-

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      DOMESTItt RELIGIOUS . Opening of the New Unitarian , ' Chapel , Biddenden . The uew Unitarian Chapel at JBidtten den , in Kent , ^ was opened on Tuesday , December iftYi last , when , two discourses in the afternoon and evening were

      delivered by -the ; Rev-. Lawrence Holden and the Rev . Benjamin Mardon ; and the : devotional part of the services were conducted by the Rev . T . F . Thomas and the Rev . Edwin Chapman . Mr . Holden , from Acts iv . 19 , 20 , set forth , by various impressive remarks , the obligations upon those who embrace Unitarian views , of

      Christianity , openly to maintain their principles , notwithstanding the obloquy which they have still to encounter from the advocates of reputed orthodoxy ; and Mr . Mardon , from the first clause of Luke iv . 18 , expatiated , with fluency and force , on the privilege and duty or free inquiry , on the several truths which

      Unitaxianism includes , and on the liberal and excellent spirit . which- it , inspires . The chapel was filled . to nearly overflowing , jparticularly at th , e evening service , witjy attentive auditors of truly respectably appearance . The . hospitable attentions of Mr . Cole were shewn both by his friendly reception of the strangers at h } s mansion on the ^ ir arrival , and by

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      v ^ nly Path s ** to terminate her sufferings , Those ^ ho attended her duriu& l | | | tl lriess , atid who will long reverb "hSjfiiSkmory , can best bear witness tb ^ h # jpitiehce and resignation with which she endured her afflictions , and the pious cheerfulness which , she evinced , even to the close of life . E . K .

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      the comfortable accommodations and refreshments which were , provided afc a neighbouring Inn , in the interval of Ihe services . He delivered a neat , and animated address to the company there assembled , which consisted of about sixty persons , on th # business of the day , concluding with a fervent expression of liis

      wishes for the growing prosperity of the Society , and that Biddenden might be " inundated with the pure doctrine and spirit of Christianity . " The Society was formed principally by the gratuitous labours of this gentleman , and , by his advice and liberal assistance , seconded by those of Mr- Holden , it has been enabled

      to adopt the measures necessary to the erection , of its chapel . The contributions at the . dopr , toward defraying the moderate debt remaining upon it , amounted to £ 7 . 1 $ . ; which , consisting in a great degree * of the well-earned wages of rural industry , afforded , a pleasing testimonial

      to the enlightened zeal of the . contributors . The remaining arrears are , however , about £ 70 ; the reductions of , its original cost to this sum , has lain he ^ ry on the principal agents and projectors , and though it has the cordial co- > operation of the members in general , yet as

      their pecuniary resources are circumscribed by their lowly situations in life , the contributions of the more affluent part of th'Q Unitarian body , toward the liquidation of this debt , would at once

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      O N < and : ylfrtellig ^ &e . ^ peningjofi ^^ eur . Unitarian Chapel , Biddenden . 57 \ ¦ ¦ ' " ¦ *¦

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      Seldom has the awful fact , that " in the midst of life we are in deajth , " been more strikingly exhibited than it was in

      the Unitarian Chapel at Chichester ; on Sunday , January 1 . Mr . Leggaty \ tfhb left his home apparently in perfect health , and in the pleasurable expectation of seeing on the morrow some of 'his friends to hail the advent of the N ^ w Year ,

      scarcely reached the seat he was accustomed to occupy , when he fell down , and instantly expired . On the following Sunday , some practical observations , in allusion to this event , were offered from the words of our Lard , " What I say unto you , I say . unto all , wArcti .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/57/