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    with our wishes for a speedy and great increase to the weight of his duties . " Mr . Hornby returned thanks . He observed that such aid as he could render to the Association he would give with great pleasure , because he firmly believed that it tended to promote the cause of truth and liberty , and to diffuse peace an earth and good will among mankind . More contracted views than

    these his judgment could not sanction . He would not iuterrupt the hilarity of the meeting : by going into any details connected with his office of Treasurer . At the same time he felt . it his duty to state , that in that capacity he required their aid and support . Such of them as had heard the re ports read at the meeting in the moruing must know , that on the one hand the sum at the command

    of the committee was small , and on the other that the demands upon them were various and extensive , as fresh fields of usefulness were continually opening . He had taken the liberty , in the morning , of suggesting one or two Instances of the means by which the funds of the Association might be increased ; and he had no doubt that such an increase would

    take place * His only wish was to receive with the one hand and to give with the * other . After congratulating the meeting and the town of Manchester on having a local treasurer so valuable as Mr . Richard Potter , Mr . Hornby concluded by saying , that he had attended many meetings , but never any where so much spirit was infused . He hoped that that was but the forerunner of many other meetings equally honourable to the county of Lancaster .

    The Vicip-President , Mr . G . W . Wood , now rose to propose the health of the Chairman , whose friendship he had had the happiness of possessing from his earliest infancy . He ( the Chairman ) had been bred in those principles which had ever marked his career . He had always been ready to take the

    place which his rank in society gave him in advocating the rights of his fellowmen , to secure their liberties and to promote their happiness . He ( Mr . ( 3 Tpttie ) was likewise descended from a nonconformist minister , eminent in his day , and had always shewn himself a firm and consistent Protestant Dissenter . [ Cheers . ) H $ then gave ,

    " The Cliairrnan of the present Meeting . " The Chairman returned thanks , observing that he had no other claim upon their notice thaji that lie had been , was , and should continue to be , a steady

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    friend to civil and religious liberty . The Chairman then gave , " The Secretaries of the Association . " Dr . Bowring . — Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , if those with whom eloquence is a habit , and whose thoughts we have been accustomed to follow along the golden chain of their intellectual superiority , feel embarrassed on

    occasions like this , we , who are not accustomed to such occasions , may well crave an excuse and ask your candid reception of the few words we have to ytter . For myself and my colleagues it is impossible to express the delight we feel at witnessing a meeting like this , and if any spur were wanting to encourage us to pursue the holy work in which we are engaged , the sympathy

    this day exhibited would be an abundant motive . We come to tell you the honest tale of our doings , and in that tale , though there is much to please and encourage , ihere is something to disappoint . Societies , as well as individuals , have salutary lessons to learn from depression ; and we have had occasion to reflect , that the uses of adversity are sweet to associations as well as to

    individuals . But to whatever part of the globe we turn there is much to reward us for the past and to encourage our exertions for the future . One great object of this Association has for the present been defeated . The removal of some from Calcutta , and the death of others , —for death has there extended its

    empire as welt as to other places , —have thrown for the present a cloud over that part of British India . But if there oar expectations have been disappointed , far more have they been realized in other parts of the Eastern world . We have had the unspeakable satisfaction to see

    temples raised to the one God in the midst of polytheism and idolatry . It has been from your funds that those temples have been raised , and it has been by your encouragement that light has gone forth to those dark parts of the earth ; and our success has , compared with oui * means , been greater than that of any of our Trinitarian rivals in the field of

    Christian exertion . You hare done much also for knowledge . You have erected schools in the midst of ignorance ; aud among the Hindoos , men have come forward , who have had the sagacity to perceive , amid tfce efforts made by every class of Christians in that part of the world , the superior advautages of Unitarian Christianity . Even among them there are men who I 131 * knowledge , come from what quarter so-

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    *>/ 0 Intelligence . — Unitarian Association

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/66/