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limited to the dinner-table , but delivered in the place of worship , or in some other room fitted to accommodate a large and miscellaneous assembly .
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Halifax Sunday-School Meeting . The Annual Meeting of the Teachers and Supporters of the Sunday-Schools connected with the Halifax Unitarian congregation was held on New-year's day . The children having been assembled in the chapel in the course of the afternoon , the friends of the institution , to the number of 130 , adjourned to
partake of tea in the school-room . The Annual Report was then read , and much interesting conversation ensued relatiug to the present state and prospects , and to the future management , of the schools , to the welfare of the religious society with which they are connected , and to the general interests of the Unitarian body . One fact , of a less pleasing
nature , mentioned in the Report , occasioned some discussion . It appeared that out of 140 scholars , not fewer than 70 were the children of parents who were members of no religious society , and were not in the habit of attending any place of worship . Several friends undertook to visit these poor people , and endeavour by argument , persuasion , and
remonstrance , to briug them to a better mode of thinking on a subject so important to themselves and to their young families . In this "way , and by the distribution of tracts , tending to explain the nature and importance , and enforce the obligation , of public worship , it is hoped that some useful impression may be made . W . T .
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The TVareham Chapel . We recorded in our last volume the proposition for a settlement of the controversy respecting this chapel by * ix arbitrators , three nominated by the Calvinistic County Association , who were to have met three others appointed by the Southern Unitarian Society . The resolutions of the last-named body declining the meeting for reasons which are therein
assigned , were afterwards inserted , p . 888 . The number of the arbitrators was still further reduced by the illness of the Rev . D . Gunn , of Christ Church . Under these circumstances little importance can attach to the decision at which the remaining two Calvinistic nominees have arrived . However respectable tr > e Rev . Messrs . Key ties and Durant may bey they cannot be regarded as unbiassed judges ; aQd they have , in substance , confessed
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that there was only ex-parte evidence before them . As the subjt-ct has , however , been so often adverted to in our pages , we deem it incumbent on us to record their published opinion , that * ' the present occupants of the place are , upon every principle of equity , entitled to that possession ; that no dishouourable
measures have been employed to gam or retain it , " that * ' the individual whose conduct has been arraigned" is " utterly undeserving of the censures passed upon him , and that , on the contrary , he deserves well of the congregation itself and of the public . " Such is the verdict of this fraction of one side of the jury which was to have been impannelled . Valeat quantum valere potest .
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Address to the Rev . f ^ . J . Fox . An Address , of which the following is a translation , has been lately presented by the Committee of Spanish Refugees , to the Rev . W . J . Fox , in acknowledgment of the Sermon which he preached in aid of the funds collected for their
distressed countrymen . The sermon was not , as the Committee seem to have supposed , published in English ; but a Spanish translation of it has been very extensively circulated . " London , Dec . 1 , 1829 . ' Rev . Sir ani > Illustrious Patriot ,
" A Spanish Translation of the eloquent sermon by which you excited the benevolence of your most respectable congregation in favour of those of our fellowcountrymen who were dependent on the exhausted funds of the City Refugee Committee , having reached our hands ; and learning by the translation that you took the lead , by first elevating your voice in the midst of a Christian
congregation , in advocacy of a cause so holy as that of succouring the necessitous , by calling forth from the tribune of the gospel the word Charity , —a word to which the Unitarians so geuerously responded , —this Committee ( which , till now , has had no opportunity of hearing a sermon , but little circulated in English , an idiom with which the greatest part of them are unacquaiuted ) feels itself deeply moved
by the sublime touches of Christian eloquence with which it overflows , to state that not only the object of the sermon , but the manner in which the subject has been treated , compels them to declare their gratitude—a declaration they deem eminently urgent upon them , aa the only Committee of Spanish Refugees existing ifi this capital . " But the pressure of the circumstauces
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Intelligence . —Wareham Chapel . —Address to the Rev . W . J . Fox . 137
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/65/
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