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Christ . It * the course of the week he visited Wheat ley-lane , Do wnham , and Cheapside , to ' which places more particular reference will be made in speaking of Mr . Clarke ' s labours in this district . *• During the third quarter , A . D . 1830 , your missionary was stationed at Padiham , where he ministered with great
effect to large congregations . The chapel , which is sufficiently large to accommodate nearly 20 Q persons , was frequently too small for the congregation , and Mr . Clarke was obliged to adjourn i « to the open air to address his audience . At these services there were occasionally present upwards of 600 persons .
" The Sunday School at this place af ^ fords a pleasing spectacle to those who rejoice to see the youthful mind cultivated and stored with virtuous principles . About 200 . children assemble twice every Lord * s-day , to receive instruction in reading and writing ; and these are
regularly taught by members of the congregation , who appear zealous faithfully to discharge the duties they have thus taken upon them . Several persons who liave been , scholars , have become attached to the chapel , and now form part of the congregation , and endeavour to xepay their former instructors by attention to the interests of the scholars .
Your preachers have observed in this school a deficiency of books , particularly Bibles and Testaments . Three or four scholars were frequently observed with ouly one book , which was handed from one to another as each read his portion . Others were observed with a single leaf from old tattered books . The congregation being composed of poor men , cannot reinedv this inconvenience . Your
Committee would suggest , that donations *> f books , of the kind required , would be as seed cast iuto a grateful soil , and likely to produce an abundant harvest . ' * It has given your Committee much pleasure to learn , that some benevolent females of Manchester sent , the last and the previous winter , a considerable quantity of clothing to Mr . John Ash worth , for distribution among the more needy members of the Padiham congregation ;
and that a small sum has been forwarded to that excellent man * for the special aid of their two preachers , who toil six days in the week to procure a scanty subsistence , and labour oq the seventh to proclaim the love of Ood and the graciousness of the Saviour . The Society at Padiham arc at present encumbered ' with a ground-rent of 10 / . per year . As , in consequence of the indigence of its members , this has been found a weight
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too heavy to be borne , efforts hare been made by individuals connected with your Committee , and by others , to raise a sum of money sufficient to purchase the ground-rent . The sum necessary for this purpose is 175 / ., to which there will be some necessary expenses , to be added . Your Committee have much .
pleasure iu being able to state that this object , at once so desirable and benevolent , is in a fair way of being accomplished . Mr . Clarke has just returned from Liverpool , whither he had proceeded under the direction of Mr . Gruudy , and where he has received valuable aid on behalf of the Padiham friends . —*
The sums already received amount to 1207 . Of these it may not be uuinte-. resting to enumerate the following ^—Proceeds of Three Lectures on Astronomy , delivered at Padiham , by Mr . Clarke .. £ 4 10 0 Collection at Padiham Chapel , on the Sunday after the delivery of the Lectures .... 117 1 § Subscription of one Halfpenny each from the Sun- » day Scholars ....... & 8 < J
Amount raised at Padrham .. £ 6 15 6
Mr . Clarke has also delivered lectures at other places in aid of the Padiham friends . " Your missionary has preached in . their behalf at Leeds and Chowbent , where collections were made in furtherauce of the object here stated . Your Committee would earnestly recommend the example of these two places to be followed up by the Unitarian congregations in the neighbourhood .
" Whilst your missionary was stationed at Padiham , he preached tweutytwo times on the week-day evenings , at ; the following places in that district : — 1 . Cheapside . 2 . Wheatley-lane . 3 . New Church ( Pendle ) . 4 . Downham .
5 . Sabden . 6 . Craivshawbooth . 7 . Hawtenstall . 8 . Kitchen-row . His services at these places were generally numerously attended . At none of them , except Rawtenstall , is there a place for Unitarian worship *
' * At Wheatley-lane and New Church ( Pendle ) there had beep no Unitarian preaching previously to the first visit of your present missionary . From the maii-
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488 Critical Notices . —Theofog-icaf .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 488, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/56/
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