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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Experiment in Monmouthshire for Bettering- the Condition of the Poor , To the Editor * 55 Jit , I am sorry that even now , after so long an interval has elapsed since my last communication , I cannot enter so fully into the principles and practical efficiency of the experiment for bettering the condition of the poor ( some particulars of which you have alread y laid
before your readers ) as I intended . Some effects of the lamentable change for the worse in the State of the mining acid manufacturing districts , which has taken place within the last three months , the unchecked progress of which threatens the most serious consequences , have occupied locally so much of my time and attention as a magistrate , and sometimes
most painfuliy , that my opportunities for indulging in more favourite pursuits have been materially Abridged . This very state of things , however , melancholy as it is , furnishes daily proofs of what vital importance it is to the happiness arid prosperity of a country , that governments should be invariably administered on the principle of a regard to the good of the whole , rather than for the nearly exclusive benefit of the few
Notwithstanding my present communication must necessarily be bri ^ f , yet , knowing as I do , from private and personal information , that many of your readers have been interested by ray former details , I cannot refrain from adverting , without more delay , to the progress made by the society for free inquiry , and for the acquisition of useful knowledge , established in Black wood village , which I have before mentioned . It is now
more than six months old , and has adjourned its meetings for the summer , Uie next meeting being to be held on the
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tion fot those who do not embrace them ; and , to complete the climax , that three are one , and one is three 1 . "Pp . 26 , 27 . Independently of its intrinsic merits , we cherish this Sermon as a memorial of Dr . Dmmmond ' s visit to England , a visit which we trust has been pleasurable to himself , as assuredly it has been highly gratifying to the friends of the Unitarian
Association . May it be the commencemetit of a more frequent intercourse and of a closer union than has yet subsisted between the votaries of Religious Liberty and Troth in England and Ireland ! Catholic Emancipation is said to have abo - lished the Irish Channel : let it be abolished for us also ., that we may frequently pass and repass for mutual encourage - ment and enjoyment .
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last Wednesday in September . It has upwards of sixty members , and its sittings have been attended generally by from thirty to fifty visitors ; several times , when particularly interesting subjects have been discussed , by from fifty to a hundred and fifty persons . Its discussions and meetings have been couducted inrariably with due regard to regularity , decency of conduct and speech , as well as to the great objects of the institution ; and . as I should have endeavoured to
explain , if I had had the opportunity of so doing , at the late meeting of the Western Unitarian Society , may , under good management , be made a powerful instrument , perhaps more so than any other , of imparting correct notions on all subjects , even those of the highest importance . That your readers may form some
judgment of the matter from the mention of the subjects taken into consideration , I subjoin the following list , merely premising that on the 3 d December last , at the general request of the members , I delivered to them an opening extempore address , which , has been since published at their request , and for their use . ' « The Evidences of Revealed
Religion ** ( occupied two nights ) . " The History of the Reformation , with an Account of some of the early Reformers . " " The Laws of Nature . " ** The supposed Deity of Jesus Christ ' ( two nights ) . •« The Internal Evidences of Religion . " " Doctrine of Original Sin" ( two nights ) . " Catholic Emancipation . " " Whether it Is proper Illiterate Persons should Preach the Gospel } " " Inquiry into the Nature and Truth of some vulgarly
supposed Supernatural Appearances the Neighbourhood" " Catholic Emancipation" ( in the Welsh language ) . ** Whether Men are endowed with Faculties superior to those of Women ?" ( two nights ) . " Whether the Improvc-
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5 / 6 MisceHeneOus CoTfetpfindence ' .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/56/
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