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The Anniversary Meeting of the Society for the relief of the Widows and Children of Protestant Dissenting Ministers , instituted 1733 , will be held on Wednesday the 2 d April next , when a Sermon will be preached at the Old Jewry Chapel , removed to Jo win Street , Aldcrsgate Street , by the Hev . William
Orme , of Camberwell . Service to begin at twelve o ' clock precisely ; at the close of which , a report of the funds and of the present state of the charity will be made . The friends of the Society will afterwards dine together at the Albion , in Aldcrsgate Street .
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Rates / or New Churches . The attention of the parish of Lambeth has been lately very strongly excited by an attempt that is now being made to impose upon them , " An Annual District Church-rate . " According to the new church acts , the salaries of the ** clerks , and other expenses" of the
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.. Sussex XJnitorim As&ooitttion . / The last Quarterly Meeting of tlie S ussex Unitarian Association took place at Brighton , in December last , when the Rev . T . HoisfieW ( now of Taunton ) preached an excellent sermon from Eccles . vu . 10 : " Say not thow , What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not
inquire wisely concerning this . " After the service a party , to the number of about fifty persons , took tea together . The subject for discussion , as decided on at the preceeding meeting , was " The Inspiration of the Scriptures ;" ajid , after the opinions of various celebrated writers had been read , a conversation of unusual interest took place ;
and the great utility of such meetings , and especially of such discugsions , when properly conducted , was evident to all present . The Revds . Dr . Morell , T . Horsfield , W . Stevens , and J . C . Wallace , and Messrs . Ashdowne . -and Holtham , took part in the conversation ;
and the whole party expressed the greatest satisfaction at the manner in which the evening had been passed . It was proposed and agreed to , on the part of the ladies , and for the accommodation of all who prefer that method of offering their opinions , that written communications be received and be read
by the Chairman before the discussion commences for the future * The next Quarterly Meeting will take place at Lewes , on Wednesday , the 5 th of March , when the Rev * J . C . Wallace is expected to preach ; and the subject for conversation , as decided on at the last meeting , is " The Atonement . " Service will commence at three o ' clock in the afternoon , and tea will be provided as usual .
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^ T « H J ones has beew uwa * niiftotfafy chosen pantor of the newly established Unitarian congregation at Northampton . . ' : '
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ClericatJustice * , Mr . Brougham , in his admirable speech ou the Law , on the 7 th of February , makes the following observations ou the practice which has been so com * moi ) , of making meddling clergymen more troublesome by making justices of them . " In looking at the description of
persons who were put luto the commission , he was not at all satisfied that the choice was made with competent discretion ; and upon this part , of the question he might as well declare at once , that he had very great doutjts as to the expediency of making clergymen magistrates . This Is a course which , whenever it could be done conveniently , he should certainly be glad to see arrested . His
opinion was , that a clerical magistrate , in uniting two very excellent characters , pretty , commonly spoiled both : and the combination produced a sort of what the akhyinlsts called tertium quid , applicable to very little indeed of beneficial purpose , and , indeed , comprising all the bad qualities of the two . There was the activity of the magistrate in an excessive degree ,
—over-activity was ( morally ) a very high magisterial erime , and almost all the magistrates distinguished for over-activity were clergymen— 'joined to the local hatmgs and likings , and generally somewhat narrow-minded opinions and prejudices , which were apt to attach to the character of the parish-priest . There were some lord-lieutenants of counties he knew , who made it a rule never to
appoint a clergyman to the magistracy ; and he entirely agreed iu the policy of that course , because the habits or education of such gentlemen were seldom of an enlarged or worldly description , and therefore by no means calculated to qualify them to discharge the duties of such an office ; but , generally speaking , as the House would be aware , through the country that rule did not exist . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/59/
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