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DOMESTIC * RELIGIOUS . British and Foreign Unitarian Association . The Anniversary of this Institution will be held on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday in Whitsun week , the 16 th , 17 th and 18 th of May .
On Tuesday evening the General Committee will meet the Deputies of District Associations at the rooms in Walbrook Buildings at Six o ' clock . On Wednesday morning the General
Meeting for Business will be held at Finsbury Chapel , to which Individual Subscribers , Deputies of District Associations , Representatives of Congregations and Honorary Members are respectfully invited . The Chair to be taken at Twelve
o ' clock . On the evening of the same day a Sermon will be preached in Finsbury Chapel by the Rev . Lant Carpenter , LL . D ., of Bristol , in aid of the funds of the Association : divine service to commence at Jialf-past Six o ' clock .
On Thursday morning a second Sermon will be preached , also in aid of the funds of . the Association , by the Rev . James Ta y ler , of Nottingham : divine service to commence at Twelve o ' clock . After this service , the subscribers and their friends will dine together at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , in the Strand . [ For further particulars , see the Wrapper . ]
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\ ^^ ^^^^ wp ^^^^^^^^^**^* Annual Meeting- of the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society . On Friday , March 24 , was held at Manchester , the Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian
Missionary Society . In the morning , the Rev . A . Bennett , late of Poole , who has recently been engaged by the Society as a permanent Missionary , preached in the Cross-Street Chapel a sermon from 1 Tim . »• 5 , 6 . The attendance was respectable and numerous , and the sermon was heard with that deep attention and interest
which it merited . The discourse , which blended zeal with charity and practical with doctrinal preaching , may be regarded as a specimen of the manner in which Mr . Bennett proposes to l « iy the gospel he fore the poor . Such a manner cannot fail of securing some success . If argument does not convince , a spirit of chanty may conciliate and must improve those who arc addressed . And if the
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genuine spirit of Christian benevolence be increased in the district to which their exertions are directed , the Lancashire and Cheshire Missionary Society will greatly rejoice , even although the tenets which distinguish them from the rest of their Christian brethren noay not meet with a reception equally extensive . Not
that they are unsolicitous for the diffusion of their religious opinions , but if they cannot obtain all they wish , they rejoice to obtain a part . And they are persuaded that this part is the precursor of greater good . The operation of Christian love will prepare the way for the
reception of Christian truth , and a pure heart will generally secure an enlightened understanding . In proportion as the acrimonious spirit of controversy disappears will the judgment lose its trammels , and it cannot but be sincerely wished by every real friend of Christianity that a
disposition to denounce " those that oppose themselves , " whether evinced in the conduct of reputed orthodox or reputed heretical preachers , and which is no other than priestcraft and ill-nature modified by the spirit of the times , may soon cease to diminish the efficacy of the principles of the mild and benevolent Jesus .
In the after-part of the day a meeting was held for the despatch of business in the school-room of the Unitarian Chapel , Mosley Street , the Rev . J . G , Robberds iu the chair . The proceedings were commenced by the chairman with a few excellent prefatory remarks explaining the nature and
objects of the Society . The Secretary then read the report of the Committee during the last year ; from which it appeared among other things , that the Society supplied six stations with the means of moral and intellectual improvement , and educated above 600 children in its Sunday-schools . Representatives from each of the stations were then
called upon to furnish the meeting with an account of the state and prospects of Unitarian Christianity in their several neighbourhoods . They were kindly requested by the chairman to speak to the whole matter ; not to Unitarianism as a system of belief merely , but to
Unitarianism as a stimulus to duty also ; to the practice as well ; is the profession ot primitive Christianity . The statements of these humble and simple-minded person * afforded great pleasure to the audience . It appeared from the report that the Society is deficient in funds . This deficiency , it is hoped , will soon he sup-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/55/
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