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British and Foreign Unitarian Asso ciation * Tub Anniversary of this Institution was held * on Wednesday , June 2 nd , in the Unitarian Chapel , South Place , Finsbury . The attendance on the religious services in the morning was highly respectable , and more numerous than
usual . The Rev . J . S . Porter , of Carter Lane , introduced the service by prayer and reading the Scriptures . The Rev . M . Maurice , of Southampton , offered the general prayer . An excellent sermon was then delivered by the Rev . J . J . Tayler , of Manchester , from Ephes . ii . 17 , 18 . A discourse more appropriate to the
occasion , more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the gospel , or more admirably adapted to promote the great objects to advance which we associate ourselves together , of free inquiry , religious knowledge , a rational faith , pure devotion , and universal benevolence , we
never remember to have heard . Its publication has been earnestly requested by the Committee , and a more particular notice of it may be expected in our next number . After the sermon , the following hymn , written for the occasion by Dr . Bo wring , was sung :
" Now let the light which blazed of erst Round Sinai's consecrated hill , On all the expectant nations burst , And all the expanse of darkness fill . Now let the light which Jordan ' s stream Saw hovering o * er the Saviour ' s head , On all earth ' s scatter ed children beam , Thro' earth's remotest regions spread *
Truth ' s glorious triumphs are begun , The upward gospel-path is trod ; There walks the meek , the lowly one , Led by the Almighty hand of God . We join the heaven-directed throng ; The Saviour's splendid victory share ; And echo back that choral song Whose strains eternity shall hear . "
On the evening of the same day , a large auditory assembled in the chapel to attend the meeting for transacting the business of the Association . At 6 o'clock , J . T . Rutt , Esq ., was called to the Chair , and opened the proceedings as follows : " Ladies and Gentlemen—I can assure you that i am not able to express the
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sense I entertain of the honour conferred upon me in having been called on to preside at this Association—an Association formed for purposes the importance of which it is beyond my power to describe . There are associations carried on for the wise purposes of civil policy and of a kind and persevering" charily , which have served , I trust , in a great measure to redeem the character of our
age and country . But our Association is for higher objects . Its intention is to recommend to this country in the first instance , and ( as opportunity may offer ) to other and far distant lands , that religion , as we conceive , in all its parity and power , the design of which is not to serve
the purposes of worldly ambition , but to spread peace on earth and good-will among men . I trust , my friends , that we have met together , and that all the discussions of this evening will be , under the influence of that spirit of good-will . You will please , in the first instance , to hear the Treasurer ' s Report read . "
Mr . Hornby then read the Treasurer's Report , by which it appeared that the balance in hand had diminished from 454 / . 15 * . 7 d . to 140 / . 2 s . The largest item of expenditure was the purchase and printing of books and tracts , being 412 / . 17 * . lid . Against this , however , should be reckoned the receipts in this department , which amount to nearly
120 / . Upwards of 300 / . has been expended on Congregational and Missionary objects at home ; and 250 / . on account of the Foreign Fund . The diminution of revenue seems to be chiefly owing to a falling off of donations and collections . Mr . Young . Before any step is taken with respect to this Report , as our funds
are most important for the promotion of our common object , I desire to have some explanation . It appears that the receipts fall short of the disbursements . Am 1 correct in this ? I think that the receipts are a thousand and odd pounds , and that the expenditure has been 1300 / . If this be so , then in what do the funds of the Society consist ?
Mr . Hornby . We have 140 / . in cash , besides a stock of books to the amount of several hundred pounds . Our books are worth about 1000 / . Mr . Young . Then am I to understand that there arc no debts due to the Society ?
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Intelligence.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/45/
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