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    wearied activity , unremitting attention , and sound judgment with which he has conducted the legal business of the Association , and that he be requested 1 to continue in office for the ensuing year . " That the thanks of the Meeting be given to Thomas Hornby , Esq ., the Deputy Treasurer-, for his very valuable services during the past year , and that he be requested to continue in office for the year ensuing .

    " That the following gentlemen be reelected of the Committee for the year ensuing : Messrs . David Eaton , John Fisher , Samuel Hart , Jabez Jackson , Samuel Pett , Richard Surridge , Richard Taylor , Edward Taylor , Henry Taylor , E . F . Teschemacher .

    " That the following gentlemen be Chosen upon the Committee for the present year : John Christie , Esq ., Rev . W . J ; Fox , Kev . E . Tagart , Rer . T . Madge , Rev . B . Mardon . ' " That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Auditors for their services ; and that E . Bicknell , J . E . Nettervill , Ebenezer Johnston , Esqrs ., be requested to act in that capacity for the ensuing year .

    " That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to the gentlemen who have so kindly undertaken the offices of local Treasurers to the Association . " That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Minister and Managers of

    Finsbury Chapel , for the use which they have so readily granted of the Chapel on the occasion of the present Anniversary . " That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman for his impartial superintendence of the business of the day . "

    A much- larger proportion than usual of the congregation remained to take part in the subsequent proceedings , and all expressed a strong feeling of interest and satisfaction in what passed .

    The Dinner . Upwards of two hundred and fifty friends to the Society sat down to dinner at the London Tavern , William Smith , Esq ., M . P ., in the Chair . The cloth having been removed , andNonNobis

    Domine sung , the Chairman prefaced the first toaat with some remarks on the obligations the Dissenters were under to his Majesty for his concurrence in the repeal of the disabilities under which they , as a body , so lately laboured , and gave "The King . " " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World /'

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    " The British and Foreign Unitariati Association /' Mr . Hornby , the Deputy Treasurer , then read a brief statement of the accounts , which he had been requested to do by their new Treasurer , who was * however , attending , and lioping to be practically informed in the duties of his office by the receipt of contributions .

    The Chairman said he had to propose a toast , which he was sure would be received with pleasure by all those who heard the Reverend Gentleman preach on behalf of the Association in the morning . He begged to propose "The health of the Rev . Dr . Hutton , and cordial thanks to him for his admirable exem * piification of Christian charity and

    religious liberty in his discourse delivered before the Society that day / ' ( Cheers . ) The Rev . Dr . Hutton was much obliged for the honour conferred upon him —and he thought he should best display it by not troubling the company with a vain attempt to make a suitable reply ; a duty for the performance of which his habits altogether unfitted him . He was

    desirous , however , to express his firm conviction , that the cause which they were assembled to countenance and promote , was the cause of truth and the cause of the gospel , and required nothing but a fair hearing to ensure its success ; success which , it appeared to him , might be anticipated with greater certainty from the circumstance that the sentiments

    which it professed might be held in combination with every form of church government . Episcopalians , Presbyterians , Baptists , Independents , and Methodists , as they were all Christians , so they might all be Unitarians . Unitarians contended

    for a general principle , for an eternal truth , and not for any particular forms of church government . Their object was to restore to the great universal Father that supreme homage , that exclusive worship , which all sects , whatever were their different forms of church

    government , ought to render unto him , and which was prescribed by Him who said , " In that day , whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name , that shall he give you . " Perhaps this might excite a melancholy feeling in the minds of some who heard him , and they might

    be induced to anticipate the arrival of a period when Unitarianism would merge mto Christianity ; a melancholy feeling he was persuaded it would not be , for this was exactly the nature of Unitarianism ; this was exactly the death of it which he would anticipate ; it was the death of the stream in the ocean : the

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    49 & Intelligence . *—British and Foreign Unitarian Astochtv&A *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/66/