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      . tiro influence of what they profess to believe , and to entrust their happiness to the hopes and promises of the gospel . At dinner the friends united in social harmony , aud in a sincere participation of delight with our Devon port brethren on the happy occasion which brought the Association in its annual assembling this year to the town of Plymouth . The afternoon was pleasantly spent , without the painful formality which generally accompanies a string of toasts , and scarcely any of that tioise and clatter too commonly made at these public inectiugs ; yet not without interest , deep and sincere , in the subjects which were spoken upon by some gentlemen present , especially in the comparative state of past and present times . I . W . Plymouth , June 26 , 1829 .

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      eveuhig the Rev . Michael Maurice fa , tioduced the service , and the Rev . W . Bowen , of Coventry , delivered a tecture from 2 Tim . i . 7 . At the business meeting of the Society , the Rev . J . FtrMagar in the Chair , after a resolution had been passed expressive of satisfaction at the emancipation of the Roman Catholics from their civil disabilities , it was moved

      " that this meeting earnestly desires the introduction into Parliament of a measure to relieve Unitarians from the uecessity of joining in those parts of the marriage service of the Church of England which are repugnant to their consciences , and instruct the Committee to prepare , on the first suitable opportunity

      a petition to the Legislature on this subject . " In the afternoon the members and friends of the Society dined together , when J . Crosby , Esq ., of Portsmouth , kindly presided ; and the day was spent in the cultivation aud enjoyment of that spirit of Christian harmony and enlightened zeal which such meetiugs arc eminently calculated to promote . E . KELL .

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      Unitarian Association for Hull , Lincoln , Gainsborough , Thome , Doncaster , and adjacent Places , On Wednesday and Thursday , the 1 st and 2 nd of July , the Fourteenth General Meeting of this Association was held in the Bowl-alley Lane Chapel , Hull . On the Weduesday eveuing , the Rev . R . K . Philp , of Lincoln , conducted a devotioual

      service , aud the Rev . E . Higginson , of Derby , preached from Heb . viii . 6 , '' The Mediator of a better covenant , which was established upon better promises . " On the Thursday morning , the Rev . VV . Duffield , of Thorne , led the religious service , and Mr . Philp preached a sermon from Luke ii . 14 , on the Superiority , the Design , and the Substance of the Christian Religion .

      After service the meeting for business was held in the chapel . From the report of the Committee , it appeared that the objects of the Society , viz . the mutual encouragement of its members , and the promotion of scriptural inquiry a » d religious truth by the distribution of tracts , had been steadily pursued during

      the past year . It was , however , deemed necessary , after some discussion ou the state of the funds , and the demands which the more immediate operations of the Society have upon them , to discontinue the vote of £ 5 annually , which had , for the last three years , been made to the British aud Foreign Unitarian As-

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      590 Intelligence <—Hull Unitarian Association .

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      Southern Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society was held at Newport , in the ; Isle of Wight , on Wednesday , the 1 st of July . The Rev . James Taplin , of Battle , introduced the service ; the Rev . J . Mitchelson , of Poole , offered the general prayer ; and the Rev . Laurence Holden , of Teuterden , preached the annual sermon before ihe Society , from Titus iV . 1 , " Sneak thou the things which become sound doctrine . " In the

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      Settlement of the Rev . Samuel Backe , at Dudley . The Rev . Samuel Bache , late of Manchester College , York , having accepted au unanimous invitation to be minister of the congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling at the Chapel in Wolverhampton Street , Dudley , a religious service took place there on Wednesday , July 1 , in consequence of his

      settlement with that society . The Rev . Dr . Hutton offered a prayer , and read some appropriate portions of the Scriptures [ Ezek . xxxiii . 1—21 , and Titus jij . Dr . Carpenter addressed the newly-elected pastor ; chiefl y from 2 Cor . iv . 5 , " We preach not ourselves , " &c , and , after Mr . Bache Had stated his

      motives for thus requesting the presence of his * brethren and friends , engaged in prayer . Mr . Kentish then preached on ** the . duty , the means , and the benefit af Christian ' socifetfes encouraging their ministers , ' * from Matt . x . 41 , [ He that reeeiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet , 'shall receive a prophet * s reward , ] and with a short prayer he concluded the service .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/72/