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plied ; for whether the nature and objects of the Society be regarded , what it has effected and is effecting , or what it promises to effect , its success , it is presumed , will be felt to be intimately connected with the promotion of virtue , religion and happiness .
As the Society is desirous of the concurrence of every friend to the encouragement of pure Christianity and intellectual and moral excellence , and as many perhaps may have withheld their support for want of information respecting its nature and objects , the writer may be indulged in copying a few words from the report
to explain them : " The leading object of the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society is tiie diffusion of vital Cbribtmniry—of the worship of one God , as the Father of his creatures , and the love of Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the world . The unity and paternity of the Supreme Being its members feel to
L > e the foundation and top-stone of all religion : and the reality of a future state as flowing from the fatherly love of a beneficent God , they know to be human nature ' s best solace and support . The receptiou of these glorious truths tends to purify , exalt and sustain the mind ;
and the proposal of them to the great body of the people might be expected to draw thousands from the profession of infidelity , and to calm others agitated by the influences of systems which place the criterion of acceptableness with God in frames and feelings as variable as the
changeful day . To propose to more general acceptance the simple and affecting truths taught by Christianity , nine ministers of Manchester and its neighbourhood generously devote their gratuitous services . In their efforts they are
seconded by several highly respectable persons , who though they may never have enjoyed the advantages of a collegiate education , have felt the power of Christianity in their own hearts , and are willing to make no few sacrifices to aid in imparting its blessings to their
fellowmen " Another object ( if the Society which may almost vie in importance with that which we have just mentioned , is the diffusion of knowledge generally , and more especially among the young . With this view its Committee recommends
and assists the formation of libraries , and institutes , as well as aids to support , Sunday-schools at each of the stations visited by its preachers The usefulness of the Sunday-schools patronized by the Society , may be estimated when it is considered that the congregations in connexion with which thev are established , are mostly in places where even this means of information is difficult of ac-
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cess . Your Society lias frequentl y the gratification to teach those who ot herwise would remain untaught ; to infuse ? the love of virtue into bosoms which without its fostering care , might be acrl tated by guilt and remorse ; to t ransmit to children ' s children , to generations yet
unborn , through these their immediat e jmpiN , a veneration for God , for virtue for Christianity . These labours are truly labours of Jove ; they are lovely in themselves ; it is the love of God that invites us to join in them , and their reward will be the possession of his love through th « countless ages of an eternal world . " JR . BEARD , Secretary .
Subscriptions will be thankfully received by the Rev . J . G . Robberds , Gro& . venor Square , Manchester ; or b y the Secretary , 98 , Green-Gate , Sal ford , Manchester .
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Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . The Fourteenth Half-yearly Meeting of this Society was held at Bridport , on Good Friday , March 24 , 1826 . The introductory part of the morning' service
was performed by the Rev . Mr . Hughes , of Yeovil ; the Rev . S . Fawcett , of Yeovil , delivered the long prayer , and Dr . Davies , of Taunton , gave a discourse " On the prohibition of Christ to be addressed in Prayer , " from John xvi . 23 .
At the close of the service the business of the Society was transacted , and a report read , of which the following are extracts : " To this brief account of the results which have attended their efforts , your Com mil tee desire to add a few remarks . If a partial success only has attended these efforts in places where Lhritaritinism is not publicly professed , atid where the establishment of new societies
must be a work of time , it is fully evident that great advantages have resulted from the presence and exertions of your Missionaries to the established societies . The judicious zeal of many members of
these societies has been called forth , and impressions highly favourable to our doctrines made upon strangers , who had previously no fixed opinions as to their real nature and tendency , or were violently prejudiced against them .
" Your Committee advert with peculiar ^ satisfaction to the interest which the course of lectures , just concluded in Tauntou , has excited in that populous town . Without the presence of a
Missionary you must be aware this course of lectures could not have been delivered , and it is not too much to say , that the benefits to the congregation of that place and to the association generally , have not been purchased at too great a price .
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244 Intelligence . — Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/56/
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