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frequently , in former years , beeu favoured with Mr . Holland ' s occ p ion ^ J services ) his warm and animated addresses from the pulpit , delivered with au energy almost . peculiar to himself . He was eminently what the old divines have cal ] e 4
an " cc experimental preacher , " laying holc ( of every incident whicli occurred , whether of a public or more private nature , from which he might draw a religion ? or moral application , especially if it could he done to the advantage of his younger hearers , to whose service and improvement he was devotedly attached . Nor
was it only to the young of his own congregation that he laid himself out to he useful ; many other young persons of both sexes , who are now settled in highly respectable and useful stations , were indebted to him for some of the most important knowledge and best
principles which they possess . In the early part of his life he took an active part in the applications which were repeatedly made for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ; and in the year 17 ^) 0 , published an " Address to the Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Bolton / 5 with a view to
confute some gross misrepresentations which were zealously circulated by the opposeis of the repeal . About the same time he had the merit of projecting the first periodical religions work on a broad
and liberal principle , under the title of i % The Christian Miscellany ; " the prospectus of which , composed by him , gives a more full and judicious account of what such a work ought to be than has
perhaps been hitherto realized . The work itself ( certainly not through any fault of his , but through untoward circiinisteiriccs not under his controul ) by no means came up to his ideas , and though it contained a number of good papers , chiefly furnished by him or through his influence , scarcely struggled through the first year . In the year 1791 , lie engaged with his neighbours , Mr . Kirkpatrick , of Park Lane , Mr . Toulmiii , of Chowbent , and Mr . Lloyd , then of Dob Lane , near Manchester , in a course of evening lectures at Wigati , on the principal points of the Unitarian controversy ; which drawing forth the animadversions of Mr . ( now Dr . ) lloby , the four friends united in the publication of a Seiie . s of Letters to the Inhabitants of VVigan ; whicli having been chiefly confined to the neighbouring district , are dow too much foremen , though they well dircn e a mure extensive circula-
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406 Obituary . —Rev * John , Hollan d *
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tion . The several letters are signed vyith the initials .. of . their respective authors . It lias been . '" mentioned that he published several catechetical and other pieces for the use of the several classes of young persons in his congregation : for the instruction of an , older class , he added , in 1794 , A Plan of Lectures on the New Testament , " very judicious , but perhaps somewhat too concise : it washowever . ¦ ¦
, ^^ - ^» ^^~^ m ^ ^ t ^ ^ « ^ m ^ b ^ ^^ — — —r — —* — — — — w ^ M — ^ " ^ w ^^ J ^ k ^ L made the basis of a useful course of biblical criticism . In like manner , for his more general classes , he published , in 1799 , a " Sketch of General History , in a Series of Questions , " which were afterwards ( 1803 ) filled up , so far as they related to ancient history , by the Essays
on History , " formerly noticed ; those have lately come to a second edition . About this time he also printed a catalogue of the library which he had long before instituted and taken much pains in collecting for the use of the congregation ; the
preface containing many important directions to young persons for the choice and perusal of books on the various branches of useful knowledge . In 1810 , on the death of the Rev . Ralph Harrison , of Manchester , he was called to preach the funeral sermon , which was afterwards annexed to a volume of Mr .
Harrison ' s sermons , published by his son . In 1815 , being on a visit at Newcastle , he preached to the Unitarian Tract Society there , a Sermon " On the Wisdom of God in the several Dispensations of his Grace and in the variety of the
Instruments employed in their Promulgation ; and on the Duty of uniting Love and Meekness with Activity and Zeal : " which the Society obtained his permission to print . He afterwards printed , but only for distribution among friends , a Sermon on the Death of Mr . Peter Smith , the
oldest representative of a very numerous family , many of whom still remain members of the congregation . These , with what were mentioned in the former article , contain , it is believed , ( with the exception of papers in periodical works , ) a complete account of Mr . Holland's publications- It may well be
supposed from the slight sketch which lias been given of thena , and of their author , that his memory must be held in grateful esteem by a numerous class , only of those who have lived with him , but also by those who are now taking , " arc beginning to take , an active share in the concerns of society according" to then ^ arious stations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/52/
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