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of persons , the guidance in faith and practice which his word is intended to a fford , those distinctions cease to be remembered ; and your Committee would rejoice to see that an intimate and fraternal fellowship between the higher and the humbler classes of society f ormed more generally a characteristic of the professors o a religion so eminently calculated for the intellectual and moral advancement of mankind .
Early last year , the printed statement of your objects and regulations was forwarded to the Parent Society , to most of the Unitarian Christian Societies in England and Scotland , and to the Rev . Dr . Channing , of America , and in several instances letters have been received
expressive of a friendly sympathy in your efforts . Your Librarian has also to acknowledge the receipt of liberal donations of Books and Tracts bestowed upon your Library , by the Western Unitarian Society , the Newcastle Unitarian Society , the Hev . Dr . Druinmond , on two or three occasions , and by several of your own members .
Your Society at preseut consists of fifty-two Members aud Subscribers , who are generally , if not uniformly , present at your meetings ; and your Committee rejoice to see the constant and regular attendance of your intelligent and zealous Female Subscribers , convinced that while just notions of religion are of the highest importance to all , they are , perhaps , most
eminently so to those into whose hands are committed by its Creator the first unfolding of the infant mind , aud who possess the opportunity of rendering religion as well the comfort as the guide of those thus entrusted to their charge , by associating its glorious truths , not with gloom and melancholy , but with the earliest and happiest impressions .
During the year which has concluded , your Society has held thirty meetings for religious investigation , at which , in the course of Scripture reading , opportunities were afforded of comparing the declarations of Holy Writ with certain doctrines
commonly reputed orthodox ; viz . Original Sin , the Deity of Christ , Vicarious Atouement , Election aud Reprobation , the endless Duration of Future Suffering , and others of comparatively iniuor import ; and it is hoped that the scriptural illustration which has attended the
examination of these several questions , has not failed to produce deeper and fuller conviction of the great truths of Christian Unitarianisni . Oue of those meetings possessed peculiar interest from the presence ot a num-
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ber of visitors , amongst whom were the Rev . Dr . Druinmond and Rev ; . Mr . Armstrong , ministers of Strand Chapel , Dublin ; Rev . Mr . Hutton and Rev . Mr . Martineau , of Eustace-Street Chapel , Dublin , the latter Secretary to the Irish Unitarian Christian Society ; Rev . Mr . M'Alister , one of the enlightened and independent Christians who formed the
Remonstrant Synod of Ulster , and Treasurer to the Irish Unitarian Christian Society ; Rev . Mr . Crozier , of Cloumel ; Rev . Mr , Hunter , of Bandon ; Rev . Mr . Taylor , Rivingtou ; Rev . Mr . Palmer , of Waterford ; Mr . Rial ! , of Clonmel ; Mr . Rowliusou , of Waterford ; and several other gentlemen .
In conclusion , your Committee desire to express their happiness at the unanimity of sentiment which prevails in your society respecting the principal doctrines of Christianity , as well as at the spirit of candour and forbearance which is cherished where differences of opinion on some less important questions exist ; and would urge , that it is at all times , but
particularly at the present season of controversial excitement , our bouuden duty to cultivate towards those who differ from us , whether upon minor or on greater points , that Christian spirit of brotherly kindness aud charity , which will teach us , while " ready always to give an answer to every mau that asketh" us " a reason of the hope that is in ns , " to do so " with meekness and fear . "
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Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . The members of this Association held their twenty-third meeting at Ihninster , on Good Friday , April 1 . There were two religious services . The devotional parts of both were performed by the Revds . S . Walker and D . Hughes : the
Rev . R . Cree , of Bridport , delivered the morning discourse on a passage in Isaiah xli . 21 , Produce your cause , saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons , saith the king of Jacob ; and the Rev . W . S . Brown , of Bridgewater , discoursed in the evening on the Lord ' s prayer , Matt , vi . 9 , &c .
It may be necessary to give some of the resolutions which were passed at the meeting for business , held immediately after the morning service . They were : That the next meeting shall be held at Crevvkeine , on Wednesday , September 21 { VI r . Hughes kindly engaged to preach on the occasion .
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Intelligence Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . 365
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/67/
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