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Provincial Meeting * of Preshyterutn and Unitarian Ministers in Lancashire and Cheshire , The Annual Provincial Meeting of Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers In Lancashire and Cheshire was held at Bury , on Thursday , June 22 nd . The religious services of the morning were Introduced by the Rev . J . G . Robberds ,
and the sermon was preached by the Rev . J . R . Beard , of Manchester . Mr . Beard advocated , with great force and eloquence , the cause of City Missions , exhibiting the inadequacy of existing institutions to the great object of bringing the ignorant and vicious poor to the knowledge and love of Christianity , deducing from this fact " the moral
obligation which rests upon professing Christians to adopt some additional means of communicating revealed truth to those that are " afar off . " The appropriate text— " Go forth into the lanes of the city and compel them to come in "distinctly pointed out this additional means ; the necessity of immediately adopting which , the preacher strenuously enforced . After the religious services , the business of the Association
was transacted , of which the consideration of City Missions formed an important part . The Rev . J . G . Robberds , after entering into some interesting details respecting the nature of City Missions , and urging upon the ministers present the adoption of the plan as far as possible in each of their
neighbourhoods , moved , «« That this Association grant the sum of 10 / . to the British and Foreign Unitarian Association towards the establishment of a City Mission in the Metropolis . " The motion was carried unanimously ; and before the close of the day , Asheton Yates , Esq ., of Liverpool , announced subscriptions towards the same object , from his sisters and brother , Richard Yates , Esq ., to the amount of 50 / .
About eighty gentlemen sat down to dinner , after the business of the Aaso ciation was concluded , and the afternoon was most agreeably and profitably spent in listening to a variety of interesting speeches . E . H .
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Religious Meeting at Padiham . On Monday , August 1 st , a Meeting was held at Padiham , in Lancashire , with a Tiew to encourage and cheer the congregation at that place , and foster the spirit of inquiry that prevails in the neighbourhood . The Rev . W . Gaskell , of Manchester , preached on the occasion an excellent sermon on the
nobleness of the Bereans ; and the Rev . J . J . Tayler , of Manchester , presided at a meeting held in the meeting-house , at which a series of resolutions was proposed and recommended by the Revds . J . R . Beard , P . Heaviside , F . Howorth , H . Clarke . The audience was also
addressed by the worthy men who , in this district , labour with their hands while they minster in holy things . We have the best reasons for believing that the objects contemplated were abundantly realized , and that the ministers who kindly undertook the labour of love were as abundantly repaid in the
satisfaction of seeing so many persons finding religion a delight . It was pleasing to learn that of the 175 / . required to purchase the ground-rent of 10 / . a year , with which the congregation are encumbered , 145 / . have been received . We hope it will not be long before what is yet wanting will be supplied , and we can assure the liberal friends who , for this and for other objects , have ministered to the aid of these excellent people , that they have done a good , the remembrance of which will not easily perish .
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Opening of a Meeting-House at Swintcm , near Manchester , for Unitarian Worship , A neat and convenient building , erected by Mr . W . Board man , of Swinton , for a Sunday School , and for the purposes of Unitarian worship , was opened on Sunday , Aug . 14 th , Two excellent sermons were preached on the occasion : one , in the afternoon , by ttoe Rev . J . J . Ta ^ W , and the other , in the evening , by the Rev . < J . G . Robberds , both of Manchester . In the evcniug there were upwards of one hundred persons present . On the Monday evening the members of the congregation , with several of their friends from Man-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 790, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/66/
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