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INTELLIGENCE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
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Intelligence And Correspondence.
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The Society for the Relief of Aged and Infikm Protestant Dissenting Ministers held its Annual Meeting at the King ' s Head , Poultry , on Tuesday , the 28 th of May , James Gibson , Esq . the Treasurer , in the Chair . From the Report it appears that during the past year , thirty-one ministers , whose names , and the
names of the persons recommending them , were read to the Meeting , have been . relieved by this Society , We are apprehensive that this Society is not so generally known , as its importance to our Churches , Und its claims on the liberality of the Christian public deserve . It has been in operation fourteen years , and has
rendered essential relief and comfort to a great number of aged and infirm ministers , who have expressed their
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devout gratitude for its existence . It was formed on the same basis , of the union of the three denominations of Protestant Dissenters , as the Widows' Fund ; and its affairs have been transacted with the greatest harmony , and the Father of mercies has crowned the institution with his
blessing . It only requires more extensive union and co-operation to meet the increasing calls upon its funds , IsTotbing can be more animating" to the labourer in the vineyard , than to know , that when he is
unable longer to exert himself in the best of causes , some provision is made for his support in his declining years ; and every Christian , and particularly every Protestant Dissenter , it is presumed , must feel a pleasure in contributing to the relief of those aged
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When he was brought out at sunset to worship or die , he gazed towards the west , and prayed within himself ; but he bent not the knee . Then one showed unto him the scourge , saying , ' ¦ Canst thou bear many stripes ?** And he answered , ' I know not mine own strength , but I will strive to endure even unto death . '
When they that tortured him watched in vain for wrath in His eye , and groans from his lips , they ceased , and called for the
arrow which should pierce his heart . As the slave who held the bow bent before him with tears , Semah blessad him , saying , ' Now art thou my friend , if thou settest me free . And he bared his bosom , and looked steadfastly at the arrow while the slave fixed it in his bow . When they who drew near to take up the body of Semah saw the smile that dwelt on his face , they said ,
* Let us search for the charm by which neither grief , nor pain , nor death could harm him / There was no charm of the eastern sages bound about his
limbs , nor any amulet fastened within his vest . Only in the folds of his garment was there found a scroll which a Nazarene priest had given him in his youth , saying that it contained the words of peace . ¦ - ¦ ¦¦ _
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/2/
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