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they equally breathe a spirit of benevolence and charity to all around ( hem . Sunday evening lectures have been and are delivering at Headcorn and Biddenden with gradually increasing numbers e and a donation of Unitarian Tracts froni the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , or from any other quarter , is become desirable , the local preachers or others seeing to their distribution . L . H . Tenterden , Sept . 13 , 1829 .
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Southern Unitarian Fund Society . The Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Fund Society took place at Portsmouth , on Wednesday , September 16 th . In the morning , the devotional services were conducted by the Revds . E . Kell and J . Fullagar , and an interesting discourse was preached by the Rev . H . Squire , of Wareham , from John i . 9 ,
" That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world /' In the eveuing , the service was introduced by the Rev . M . Maurice , aud the Rev . R . Cree , of Bridport , delivered the sermon before the Society , from Luke xii . 32 , " Fear not , little flock , for it is your Father ' s good pleasure to give you the kingdom , " which concluded with an
eloquent appeal to the members of the Society to persevere , without regard to the fear of man , in their laudable endeavours to diffuse a purer knowledge of the gospel . From the Report which was read by tjie Secretary , the Rev . Russell Scott , it appeared that the Society haviug in preceding years supported week-day lectures at the towns of Fareham ,
Gosport , Portsea , and Portsmouth , it had freen thought desirable to transfer the operations of jthe Society to the Western part of its jdistrjet , and that during a part of the last winter , lectures had been delivered by the neighbouring ministers , once a fortnight , at Poole , where the audience , had averaged 250 persons . A few lectures had also been delivered under the superintendence of the Society at Wareham , which were well attended .
^ As a request had been received from the Unitarian Societies at Poole and Wareham , that lectures might be continued in those towns during the ensuing winter , it had been de ^ erminqd by the Committee tjhat a lecture should be delivered once a fortnight at each place . Between the religious services , the members and friends of the Society dined together at the Fountain Inn , T . Coolie , Jun ., Esq ., in the Chair . Amoug many valuable observations which were made at the
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meeting , a hint was thrown . out by Ml * . Cree , that as Uuitariaus are often subjected in their attendance at meetings of the Bible Society to the necessity of heaiiug their opinions publicly attacked , it would be desirable to set apart those funds which they at present devote to this object , to the support of a similar Society of their own , and that , under the auspiees of such a Society , it might be advisable to print an edition of the Bible
similar m its form and its general text to the present " Authorized Version , " but with an alteration of those few passages conuected with doctrinal points which are generally allowed by all competent judges cot to represent the words of the original , E . KELL .
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Separation from the Synod of Ulster * Dublin , Sept . 15 . ( From the Correspondent of an Evening Paper . ) The Synod of Ulster have at length agreed upon the terms of a separation . This body has been composed of
Calvinlsts and Unitarians , but the former were the great majority , and for a considerable time past there has been a struggle for the predominance of Calvinistic principles in the Synod , the congregations of which include the great body of the Dissenters in the north of Ireland . A
Conference was held in Belfast on Wednesday , between a committee nominated by the Geueral Synod of Ulster , and a committee chosen by the Remonstrants ( Uuitarians ) against certain overtures euacted by the Synod in 1828 . These committees were appointed in order to arrange
the terms of an amicable separation between their respective constituents , which had been considered absolutely necessary , owing to the distractions and disagreeable bickerings which have prevailed for a considerable time past at the meetings of the Synod . Although the Calviuists and Unitarians are the
very antipodes of each other in a primary point of doctrine , nevertheless , as Presbyterians , they submitted to the clerical discipline of the Synod ; but in consequence of the passing of the ** overtures , " or regulations for the
examination of candidates for the ministry , and other obnoxious rules , the Unitarians remonstrated without effect , and finally resolved to separate . The remonstrants presented a minute of terms at the Conference , which , after much discussion , and some modification at the instance of the Calvinistic party , was agreed to .
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Intelligence . — Separation from the Synod of Ulster . -7 ^ 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/55/
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