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Due from Booksellers and Country Societies « . . £ 128 10 4 Estimated value of the Stock on hand o » . « < , 343 11 2 In the hands of the Treasurer O . oo . o « , 10 51 482 6 7 Owing for Printiog , Paper ^ &c . &c . o o o 101 5 6 Leaving a balance of . £ 381 1 1
The Society ' s property at the preceding Anniversary amounted to to £ 442 . 9 s . % \ d ., which exceeded the present amount by upwards of £ 61 . This defalcation was accounted for by the above-mentioned unexpected claim of nearly ^ 50 , aud the circumstance of the Society
being at present without a Collector ; so that few of the subscriptions for the current year have as yet been received . The Committee hope they will be able shortly to announce the appointment of a gentleman to this important office . Thanks
were voted to the Literary contributors , to the officers , and to the Rev , James Yates , for Ms valuable services and for his solicitude to provide an efficient successor . The following gentlemen were elected into office for the year ensuing : Treasurer * James Esdaile , Esq .
Secretary 3 Mr . George Smallfjjeld . Committee ^ Messrs . J . Bowring , Jo Clennell , H . Daw , J . Evans , J . Fernie , S . Haft , S . Hart * Jun ., J . C . Means , C . Richmond , R . Rogers , and W . Wood » Auditors , W . Frend and T . Hornby , Esqs ., and the Rev . Dr . Rees .
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Association of the Kent Unitarian General Baptist Churches * The Annual Association of the Kent Unitarian General Baptist Churches , was hold at Canterbury , on the 25 th of April , 1826 . The sermon on the preceding evening , was preached by the Rev . B . Mardon , of Maldstone , who kindly gave hh services to supply the place of the
Hev . T . Ranger , of Headcorn , who was prevented by sudden indisposition from proceeding in the discourse which he had begun . The preacher , from the parable c the publican and pharisee going to pray , forcibly pointed out the necessity 1 )
r right dispositions to secure acceptance to our prayers . The Rev . E . Chapman , on the Tuesday morning , addressed a numerous and respectable audience , from Matt . vi . first clause of the 10 th verse : Wer ably and clearly denning the diflferen 'e between a bigoted love of party , ""I a warm but charitable attachment to 11 ut " , he strongly deprecated an inclif-
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j ference which , sheltering itself under the pretence ^ o £ charity , would abstain from manifesting itself by active exertions to be the friend of truth . He then noticed the different ideas with which the immediate disciples of our Lord used this
prayer , "Thy kingdom come , " according to the views which they entertained of the nature of his kingdom , and how various the views with which it is now uttered ; and concluded with an eloquent appeal to his audience , to join in this
petition not only with their lips , but with their hearts also , and then would a drooping cause , wliich every sincere General Baptist mast consider to be the cause of truth and of God , flourish aad spread . About 70 friends afterwards sat down to an economical dinner .
Afterwards they returned to the chapel , and having brought the business of the Association to a close , they partook of a social cup of tea which had been provided on the occasion . In the evening the friends , to the number of 60 , again met where they had dined , and spent a very
friendly and pleasant hour . The question proposed , Whether love or fear was the more powerful in its influence on the mind , ' gave rise to many excellent remarks . Among the speeches with . '' which the evening was enlivened , none excited a deeper interest than one from Mr . John Brent , a descendant
maternally from the late Sampson Kingsford ^ Esq ., and paternally from the late Samuel Brent , Esq ., individuals whose piety and zeal in the cause will be long remembered by their friends . The animated propriety with which it was delivered , the excellency of Its matter , and the frank and manly pledge of an adherence to the same cause which his
ancestors had so laboriously and steadilyadvocated , riveted the atention of the whole company , and , causing tears to flow at the recollection of what had been , while bright hopes were excited of future usefulness , produced an impression which it is believed will not soou be forgotten .
The company separated highly delighted with the whole proceedings of the day ., and thus ended one of the most spirited and interesting Associations which has taken place for many years . May it be indeed , as It seemed , a pledge of better days to come ! A . r I—i—TniilH IiU'i'I limiiin ¦ ai # iM
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n Opening- of the Unitarian Chapel aJ Radfbrd , near No I ting" ham a On Friday , May 12 th , the above place was opened for Divine worship , by a service in the evening , conducted by the Rev . J . G . Robberds , of Manchester . The same gentleman preached in behalf
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Intelligence . —Opening of the Unitarian Chapel at Rddford . MB
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/63/
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