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INTELLIGENCE.
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Tenterden District Meeting . The Eighth Anniversary of this Brauch of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association , was held at Tenterden , on Wednesday , the l ! Hh of October . Mr . George Buckland , of Benenden , read the Scriptures and offered up the
general prayer . Mr . Payne , of Rolvenden , preached an excellent discourse from Colossians iii . 16 : " Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another . "
After the religious services ninetyseven individuals , of both sexes , adjourned to the Town Hall , where tea was provided . After tea Mr . Holden was called to preside . One of the first toasts was the King : to mention his name is now something more than a
mere form , —this is shewn by the way in which it is received in all assemblies and for whatever purpose met . In the course of the evening speeches on various subjects were elicited by the sentiments proposed by the chairman ; but whatever the topic , there were continual allusions more or less distinct to the
great question . Was the topic the coming conquests of truth ? Reform would do much for the truth , by removing the supports of error . Was the subject colonial slavery ? Grant but Reform , and soon will the matidate be given , to let the oppressed be free . Even tfae passing of the Unitarian Marriage Bill was considered to be contingent on the success of that
measure to which all thoughts are turned . City Missions , and Unitariauism in India , were also amongst the topics to which the attention of the meeting was directed . The individuals who took a principal share in the discussions of the evening , were Messrs . George Brick la ml , Mace , E . Adams , Payne , Ford , and Talbot . E . T . T .
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Opening of the New Unitarian Chapel , JVolverhampton . On Tuesday , the 18 th instant , the Snowhill Chapel , Wolverhampton , wTs opened for public worship . An interval of nearly fifteen years has now elapsed ,
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since the congregation assembling in this chapel , were unjustly expelled from their former place of worship in John ' s Street . During this period , they regularly assembled for public worship iu a school-room , having the services conducted by oue of their own members , with the occasional assistance of
neighbouring ministers . The attendance on this occasion , and the liberal contributions of many of the members of different churches around them , evinced the steady progress of liberal aud cha-, ritable feelings . Among the numerous congregations which attended on the various services oil the day of opening , and the succeeding Sunday , they had the happiness to number many of the most strenuous and consistent supporters of the Established Church , —and have reason to hope , that many went away impressed with a more favourable opinion of Unitarian Christianity , and feeling that though its professors may differ from them in many of their distinguishing doctrines , they are yet not wholly unworthy of the name of Christians and brethren . The morning sermon , on the day of opening , was preached by the Rev . John Kentish , of Birmingham , who , in a most luminous , eloquent , and powerful discourse , pointed out the grounds of our dissent from the Established Church of this country . He was followed , with great ability , in the evening
sermon , by the Rev . Samuel Bache , of Dudley , who , with great force of argument and warmth of piety , illustrated the unity which the Scriptures represent as subsisting between Jesus Christ aud his God and Father , with the powerful motives which this doctrine presents to his followers , to imitate his example iu spirit and hi conduct , and thus become joint partakers with him of the ' * divine nature . "
After the morning service , the members of the congregation , with their friends , sat down , to the number of seventy , to a dinner which had been provided at the New Hotel . On Sunday , the 23 d instant , notwithstanding the unfavourableness of the weather , the two services were most numerously attended . In- the morning , the Rev . Stephenson Hunter , the miuis-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/65/
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