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pointed out , briefly but energetically , the importance of Sunday Schools , the necessity of co-operation , and of more extensive exertions . He was right : Suuday Schools might be made productive of for greater benefit than they are . Hundreds have no opportunity of learning beyond what is thus afforded them . Why , then , cannot plans be adopted that shall embrace the elements of a
liberal education ? Why confine them to reading the Scriptures merely , and perhaps to writing ? Why not endeavour to give them a taste for reading and a love of learning , by giving them an insight of the treasures of intellect that lie before them ? Derby , Sept . 14 , 1831 .
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Eleventh Half-yearly Meeting of the Bolton District Association . The Eleventh Half-yearly Meeting of the Bolton District Association was held iu Hank-Street Chapel , Bolton , on Thursday , Sept . 22 nd . In the absence of the Rev . W . Tate , of Chorley , the devotional services were conducted by
the Rev . B . R . Davis , of Chowbent . A truly admirable discourse was preached by the Rev . James Whiteheari , of Cockey Moor , from the words of St . Paul , " Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth . " 1 Tim . ii . 4 . The view in which the preacher indulged on the authority of this passage , was one of peculiar
interest to those who delight to dwell upon the progress of Christian principles and the triumphs of truth and charity . The peculiar design of the discourse was to prove from the words of Revelation , that whatever we witness of error and mystery , of sin and misery , shall all terminate in light , truth , aud felicity .
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After the religious services were concluded , about forty dined together , Robert Darbishire , Esq ., in the Chair . Iu the course of the afternoon , many interesting subjects of conversation and discussion came before the meeting . The following is the Report of the number of tracts circulated by societies iu the Association during the past half year :
Bolton , Bank Street . 12 copies of a monthly publication called the Moral Reformer , besides 2 Christian Reformers , and a Monthly Repository . Bolton , Moor Lane . Christian Reformer , Monthly Repository , and other tracts . Chotobent . 50 tracts .
Cockey Moor . 20 tracts , and 50 in the Chapel library . Hindley . 6 tracts . Park Lane , Christian Reformer , Repository , aud Pioneer . Rivington . a large number of tracts circulated from the Chapel library . Walmsley . Monthly Repository , Christian Reformer , and other tracts , from the Chanel library .
Bury and Chorley made no report : no individuals from those societies being at the meeting . The spring meeting of the Association will be held at Bury on the last Thursday of April in the ensuing year , Mr . Tate being the preacher , aud Mr . Probert the supporter , on that occasion .
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Meeting of the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster . ( Continued from p . 724 . ) ffW ednesday , Sept . 7 . At three o'clock the Synod resumed . A memorial from a number of heads of families , from the congregation of the Rev . Mr . Parke , Ballymoney , was
read . Memorialists stated that they had , for a considerable time , felt much inconvenience ; they could not conscientiously worship under Mr . Parke , and they had no opportunity of worshiping under a minister whose sentiments they approved of . Towards Mr . Parke they entertained personal respect . They had stated to him their intentions in a
friendly manner ; and had parted from htm without any feeling of dissatisfaction , except in as far as they held religious sentiments different from his . They , therefore , prayed , that they might be taken under the care of the Remonstrant Synod , and be supplied with preaching , until such time as they might be able to erect themselves into a con-
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792 Intelligence *—Meeting of the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster .
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Oldbury Lecture . At the annual Lecture , on Sept . 13 , at Oldbury , the devotional service was conducted by the Rev . W . Bowen , of Cradley , The Rev . Michael Maurice , of Southampton , preached from Acts xxii . 22 , on * ' the rejection of Christianity by the Jews—the publication of it
to the Gentiles—and the dreadful effects of Bigotry and Intolerance . " Afterwards , the Rev . Richard Fry , of Kidderminster , delivered a discourse , from Acts v . 29 , on * ' the sacred duty of asserting : and maintaining the rights of Conscience , " in which he gave an outline of the history of Nonconformity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 792, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/68/
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