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thing . EJVery Unitarian should know and feel that the Association has the most earnest desire , and the most inviting opportunities , for rendering important services to the cause of truth , nghteousess , and benevolence ; that it only wants the power ; and that it is for him to withhold , or to iui part , a : portion of that power *
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Hull , East-York , and North-Lincoln Unitarian Association . The half-yearly Meeting was held at Lincoln , on Thursday , March 31 st , and Good-Friday , April 1 st . On the Thursday evening , the Rev . W . Worsley ^ of Gainsborough , conducted a religious service at the chapel ; and the Rev . J . R . Beard , of Salford , preached from 1 John iv . 14 * << The Father sent the Son to be the
Saviour of the world . " On Friday morning , the Rev .: Richard Wright , of Kirkstead , led the service ; and Mr . Beard preached a sermon on « ' the decline of Trinitananism in whichafter briefl
, " , y tracing the growth of the Trinitarian system in the Christian Church , he pointed out the numerous and plain symptoms of its decay which are now manifested in almost every country where the gospel is professed . He took for his text Rev . xiv .
15 : < ' Thrust in thy sickle and reap ; for the time is come for thee to reap ; for the harvest of the earth is ripe . " In the evening Mr . Duffield , of Thome , led the service ; and Mr . Higginson , of Hull , preached on the Sacrifice of Christ . The members and friends of the Association dined together soon after the morning service , to the number of fortyseven ; of whom thirteen were ladies .
The Rev . R- K . Philp , of Lincoln , presided . Omitting the particulars of " appropriate sentiments" and " animated addresses , " which are usual on such occasions , the writer hazards his opinion on what was more peculiar at the Lincoln meeting , the presence of ladies at the dinner-table . It is the habitual arrangement at some Congregational and Association meetings ; and he must at ouce avow that he wishes it may become more
general . The exclusion of the weaker sex from an intellectual and religious treat ,- which they would enjoy as much , and desire as earnestly to participate , as the " lords of the creation" themselves , appeal's a most unmanly and unjust procedure * Why should the men monopolize a religions social meeting , unless their sex alone were designed for society and interested in religion ? Why should women be excluded , if their religious
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feelings would he interested not ! es « deeply , and if their social relations are equally important ? Nay , if ( as is more strictly the case ) the religious principle is deeper , warmer , and more susceptible of social culture , in the female btiisom ; and if the place which women fill in domestic and social life is such as to give them a more extensive influence on the
conduct and happiness of the human species , the claim becomes the more imperative to provide religious influences for those who will cherish them so deeply , and reciprocate them so widely . The influence of the female mind in civilized society is incalculably important ; and if justice does not recognize the claim here asserted for equality of rights , the appeal
may be made , perhaps , with better success to the policy of the plan . If we disregard the wishes or dispute the rights of the claimants , perhaps we may find ft advisable to gratify their feelings for the sake of promoting their usefulness to our families and ourselves We may be disposed to make their intercourse even more improving and delightful , to keep
up their intellectual activity by every means as an incitement to our own , and to give them free access to stores of religious thought , from which we may draw refreshment in the troubles , and support under the anxieties , of the world . But it is said , perhaps , the enjoyment and the advantage of our social religious meetings may he extended to females
without placing them at a public dinner table . In plain English , " they may go into a gallery or be accommodated with back seats , after the cloth is drawn , to hear the speeches ; and this is all they care about . " True ; they care nothing about the eating and drinking—they only wish to hear the speeches . " The feast of reason and the flow of soul" is to them
the single attraction ; and if the ladies will consent to be introduced with the dessert—at ' any rate , if , as it is sometimes alleged , they would prefer { his plan as more unobtrusive than the other , let this be the plan adopted . Provided they have such an opportunity as they think It not unbecoming to accept , of sharing the intellectual and religious pleasures of the
meeting , it is enough . The advocate of their claims is satisfied , if they are . But not a little may be said in favour of the Lincoln plan . It seems , in the first place , more like the acknowledgment of a right than the doling out of a favour ; and such it ought to be . At the table , the women seemed to be recognised as parties to the religious interests of the
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Intelligence * - * -Huil and £ a * t-York Unitarian Association . 429
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/69/
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