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ness , do not step out of the way to Drove " that , whilst you have high thoughts of his person , you have not yet caught his spirit . *< Providence has giveu us a goodtempered and affable King—let us all be thankful , and unite to prove to him that we are his best friends , so long as he
preserves and extends our liberties ; that however we may differ on other points , we can forget all our differences when we have the opportunity of shewing to him , and to his government , that we are all equally inspired with the love of our country , aud as a means of preserving it in peace , with loyalty to a King who reigus according to law , and delights in the ad mi lustration of justice in mercy . ' *
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Cork Branch of the Irish Unitarian Christian Society * The Irish Unitarian Christian Society was formed for the purpose of extending the knowledge and belief of what its members regard as the pure and uncbr ^ hi pted doctrines of Christianity . With similar views of the value aud
importance of those doctrines , - and an equal desire for their more extensive propagation , the Cork Branch has been associated . Its lcadtn g bbjects are : — To endeavour to produce a mote full and general Conviction of the sufficiency of the ' Holy" Scriptures , as the sole rule of faith aud practice : To maintain the
right , and promote the exercise , of free inquiry and individual judgment on religious subjects , as being alike the privilege and the duty of all ' : To con firm in its members , and universally to promote belief in the fundamental doctrine of the
Bible , that " there is but One God , the Father , " a doctrine thus unequivocally expressed by our Saviour in prayer to his Father aud our Father , his God and our God : " This is life eternal , that they might know tliee the only true God , and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent : "
To exteud the influence of the devotional and practical parts of revelation , that men may be " doers of the word and not hearers only , " knowing that < e as the body without the spirit is dead , so faith without works is dead ajsa . " The / ojflowing- Means . are those by which the Attainment of the ahooe-nameU ' Objects is soitgkt . i . i . .
By pecuniary andother aid ; assisting the Parent Society in such measured as this Branch may deem best calculated to extend the- Knowledge and practice of true religion : By producing sympathy
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and co-operation among the many who believe in the simple - and undivided U » ii ! y of * God , even the Father , " thus encouraging their fearless but temperate avowal of this great doctrine , Which they believe to be truly consistent with
the teachings of revelation , and eminently calculated to advance the virtue and happiness of mankind : By holding frequent meetings for Scripture and ? other religious readiug , conversation , and prayer : By the circulation of such religious and moral publications as seem calculated to induce and facilitate
inquiry into the word «> f truth—to the end that ail may ** search the Scriptures , ' * tione rriakiug them' afraid , and " every man being fully persuaded in his own iiiind , " and knowiug the , truth , the truth may make him free . Arrangements ,
The Cork Branch of the Irish Unitarian Christian Society is composed of members and annual subscribers . The Society meets for religious and -moral reading , conversation , and prayer , from eight until ten o'clock , on the evening of every alternate Monday . All miaJor arrangements are regulated by an open
Committee of eleven members , wbieh sits in the Society ' s room on the evening of every Monday succeeding that of the public meeting . This Society deeming it highly important that its members be such as regulate their lives and conversation by the religious principles they profess , aud being desirous to recognize
the right of any society to choose its associates , has adopted the following regulation : —That on a complaint being preferred by two members of immoral conduct on the part of any member or subscriber , the Committee shall Inquire into the complain !; , and if it be wellfounded , a majority of the members of
the Society may , at a Special Meeting , exclude such member or subscriber . The funds of the Society are derived from annual subscriptions and from' donations . Candidates for admission , as members , ' having been proposed and seconded in Cfominittee , are elected or rejected by a majority of votes ; the adventitious distinctions of rank or station
forming no bar to admission . The rehiale and junior Unitarian friends of member ^ are admissible as annual sub - scribcirs v arid' ar > entitled to attend the ope * rtoeetihg& of the Society . Unita-Hah Christiana are admissible ad visits , on the introduction of arty member of the Society ; pgrddiis o > f any other religious denomination on the introduction
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Intelligence . — Cork Branch of the Irish Unitarian Christw 71 Society . 647
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/63/
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