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Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society . The Annual Meeting of this Society was held in Manchester on Friday , April ] 7 , 1829 . There was a religions service iu the morning in Mosley-Street Chapel , which was introduced by the Rev . J . Cropper , of Bolton ; and a very excellent
and appropriate discourse , characterized by a devout earnestness and Christian simplicity , was afterwards delivered by the Rev . J . Hinks , of Liverpool . The preacher dwelt for a considerable time on the religious advantages which the Unitarian enjoys in common with his brethren of other communions . At this
part of the preacher's address we were pleased to observe that the leading principles of revealed religion , whose sole object is to refine and exalt the human character , are recognized by the enlightened and rational of all denominations . During the delivery of this part of the discourse the thought occurred to us , how might the members of every church
be led to regard each other as the brethren of one family , notwithstanding the few slight shades of difference that may appear in their counteuauce—how might they be induced to co-operate with one another in lesseniug the amount of human misery , and in enlarging the boundaries of the Redeemer ' s kingdom upon earth—did they fully understand and feel their common and iutimate relation to
each other , as the equal partakers of the privileges and blessings of the gospel ! We were glad to learn that this part of the discourse will be appended to the Committee ' s Report . The preacher them proceeded to point out some of the advantages which are peculiar to Unitarian Christianity ; the simplicity and consistency of its doctrines , its analogy to nature , the unison of its spirit with the best affections of the heart and its entire
adaptation as a moral and religious system to the wants and condition of humanity . He then concluded by deducing from these important considerations the most powerful motives to virtuous exertions , and Insisted on the imperative duty of Unitarian Christians to support more liberally than they hitherto have done such institutions as are calcujpted to make known their peculiar opinions ,
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and to promote the best interests of" the human race . After the religious services , the friends of the Society ( about sixty-five ) retired to the schooUroom connected with the chapel , where they partook of a plain and
economical dinner . The price of the dinner was such as to admit the poorest members of our denomination , and we hope to see at the next anniversary more of that highly useful class of men , whose improvement and happiness it is the chief object of this S = ociety to promote .
After the cloth was withdrawn the business of the Society was transacted ; the Rev . J . R . Beard , of Salford , in the Chair . The report of the Committee ' s proceedings during the past year was then read ; after which the following gentlemen addressed the meeting on subjects connected with the promotion and spread of scriptural truth : Revs . J . G . Robberds , J . J .
Tayler , J . Hinks , W . Johns , G . Bucklaud , and Messrs . R . Potter , E . Shawcross , R . Nicholson , and F . Ihiffield . During the greatest part of the past year the Society has supplied with preachers three congregations , Old ham , Swinton , and Astley . At the two last-mentioned places there are large Sunday-schools , and the congregations are in a flourishing
state . Middieton was supplied by this Society till Midsummer last , when it was thought desirable to give up the chapel on account of the sraallness of the attendance * Occasional services have siuce been conducted in a private house ; little , however , can be done here unless a more convenient room could be procured , and the means of the Society increased .
la addition to the regular supply of these stations , the Society ' s Missionary , Mr . Buck land , has been accustomed to preach on a week evening in various places , with a view to break up fresh ground or to strengthen and increase the congregations already established . In connexion with preaching , it has been his uniform
practice either to give or lend tracts of a doctrinal aud practical nature . To shew the extent of the operations of this Society , and what it has done with the very limited means placed at its disposal , we make the following extracts from the annual report read at the meeting : " In addition to what has been done at and near the regular stations , the Committee
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/63/
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