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Northumberland Unitarian Association , * The First Annual Meeting of this Association was held at A In wick , on Thursday , January 1 st , 1829 . The Rev . William Turner , of Newcastle , delivered two excellent and interesting discourses ; — that in the morning from Col . iii . 17 ,
and in the evening from Mark iii . 35 . The congregations on hoth occasions were numerous and respectable , and the impressive instructions of the worthy minister were listened to with marked attention . These discourses are now published . ' -
The Association Meeting in the afternoon was well attended . It was opened with siuging and prayer , after which Mr . Davison was called to the Chair . The Report of the Committee of the Alnwick Congregation was then read , and was highly encouragiug to the members present . It noticed the great improvement that had taken place in the society throughout this district . The
established members of the Alnwick Congregation had considerably iucreased , and the pecuniary affairs had been materially improved . By the liberal contributions of some distant friends , and their own united exertions , . £ 126 of the Chapel Debt had been discharged during the past year 5 and a confident hope is encouraged that the continued liberality of their distant friends will enable them to
remove the remainder of this incurabrance . Unitarianism was never so flourishing in the town and neighbourhood as at this time , and the favourable change which has been produced in a few years could not have been anticipated by the most zealous and sanguine .
The success already attained is highly encouraging , and the steady progress of the Society is a certain indication that its friends have only to be united and persevering in their exertions — opeu , candid , and circumspect in their conduct , —to insure the progress of their
* We copy this Report from the 19 th number of " The Christian Advocate , " &c , a very cheap ( it is sold for 2 d per number ) and useful little njonthly publication , by Mr . Davison , of Alnwick .
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principles , and to gain the attention and respect of their fellow-men . The Librarian ' s Report was highly cheering to the friends of mental improvement . During the last year , about 70 volumes were added to the library , the readers have gradually increased , and there is a fair prospect of the library being of essential benefit to moral and religious improvement .
The Kev . John Wright next addressed the meeting ; and , after expressing his gratification in beholding the friends of Unitarianism assembled at the first meeting of the Northumberland Unitarian Association , he took a brief view of the spirit and tendency of Unitarianism , pointing out how closely it is connected with the present and the future welfare of man . He then gave a brief account of his missionary labours , froai which it
appears , that since his settlement at Alnwick , he has preached at Belford , Newham , Denwick , Alumouth , and Morpeth , and in all these places there are now several persons entertaining and advocating Unitarian sentiments ; and not ouly in these places , but in several other parts of the couuty , Unitariauism is spreading . Mr . VV . read an interesting letter from a friend at Warkworth , from which it appeared that Unitarianism is gaining ground in that place .
The Rev . W . Turner expressed the pleasure and satisfaction he felt in the reports and statements he had just heard . He said he hoped that in a short time he would be enabled to promote similar meetings at Newcastle and Stockton , and that the co-operation of these district associations would be useful in diffusing those doctrines he esteemed to be most consonant to the Gospel of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ . He informed the
meeting that it was in contemplation to open a chapel for Unitarian worship at North Shields ; and that the Rev . Mr . Lowrey , formerly a preacher conuected with the Home Missionary Society , had embraced Unitarianism , and was likely to be of great service in promoting the cause at Shields and Sunderland .
The meeting was concluded by siuging and prayer . Mr . Wright conducted the devotional services . Friends were present from Belford , Newham , Warkworth , &c . The iuterest excited by the meet-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/61/
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