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have to report that since the last annual meeting Mr . Bucklatv ! has visited the district about Padibam fotir times . At Padiham he has preached " on these occasions fourteen times , to congregations
averaging about 220 persons . He has also attended several of their prayer and conversational meetings , with which he has been much delighted . He states farther , that they have a well-conducted Sunday-school , consistingof 280 scholars , several of whom are adults . Your
Committee deeply regret that this zealous and indefatigable people should be invojved in poverty and distress ; and have no doubt but they will receive the sympathies of every generous and benevolent breast . It is pleasing and satisfactory to know that the sacred&and pacific influences of Unitarian Christianity have proved the solace and support of these its
humble but sincere professors ; which is one among the many proofs of the suitableness of its doctrines and spirit to the capacity and condition of the poor . At Hu i ) coats Mr . Buck land has preached once to more than 100 persons ; at Cheapside three times to large congregations in the house of a Methodist ; at
Higham twice to more than 120 people ; at Lower Moor , near Clitheroe , in the open air to several hundreds . In these last four places he was the fust preacher of Unitarian ism that ever appeared . In several of these places , and especially iu the last , which the Padiham preachers have since visited , a considerable impression has been made in favour of the new doctrine . Mr . Buckland has also
preached twice at Newchurch , and three times at Ratton * tall . In June he was accompanied by Mr . Beard , who preached twice at Padiham to congregations of near 300 persons , and once in the open air at Downham , a village three miles from Clitheroe , to more than 150 persons . At the same village Mr . Buckland has preached three times during his missionary excursions . He states that there are in it about a dozen Unitarians , who are very desirous to have a missionary . "
" From the facts contained in the foregoing statement , the Committee trust it will appear that the members of the Missionary Association are not engaged In an experiment likely to be wholly unsuccessful . They are now enabled to
appeal in behalf of that experiment to congregations raised where before there was no public worship , schools established where before there was no instruction , and the pure doctrines of the gospel preached where before tliey had not been known . " After stating that these re *
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suits are not so disproportionate to the small means of the Society as to render unadvisable tfie trial of what might be done with larger , it goes on to say , " The good to which the members of this Association look as their great object , is the diffusion of truth—not merely speculative , but practical and influential truth ; that truth which will make men free from sin , and fill them with love to
God and to one another . The means to which , under the Divine blessing , they look for the accomplishment of this obi ject , are the support of public worship and gospel preaching , the establishment of schools , aud the circulation of books . The efficacy of these means , they are aware , will mainly depend upon the spirit in which their missionaries apply themselves to their work of preaching , aud their teachers to their work of
instruction , and their readers to their business of learning . The Committee rejoice in believing it to be the sincere desire of every one who goes out as a preacher for this Association , to keep in mind that the great end of Christian preaching is not merely the instruction , but the reformation of the hearer . In like manner , they trust it is remembered
by the teachers in their schools , that their business is , by every means in their power , to produce a moral and religious impression on their pupils . And by every one who assists in the circulation of their books , they also trust is felt the exceeding importance of ministering rather to the sincere and humble desire of religious and moral instruction , than to the mere love of controversy . "
" They who approve the object above stated , who think , also , the means which have been mentioned suitable to its accomplishment , and who wish them to be employed in the spirit which has been described , are respectfully solicited to give their support to an association which recommends this spirit , employs those means , and pursues that object . " Manchester , April 18 , 1829 .
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Sussex Uniturian Association . A Meeting of this Association was held at Brighton , on Wednesday , March 18 th . The service was opened by the Hev . C . P . Valentine , and the sermon delirered by the Rev . O . Duplock , from James ii . 18 . At the close of the service , a meeting took place in the vestry , when it , was proposed by Mr . Holden , and seconded by the Rev . J . C . Wallace , that in consequence of the excited state of public feeling , the discussion of the
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360 Intelligence . — Sussex Unkarian Association .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/64/
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