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BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.
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and infirm ministers who have borne the heat and burden of the day , and are by Divine Providence made dependent on the bounty of their fellow-Christians , who have been encouraged and benefited by their public labours . J ..... . T . R .
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The Annual Meeting of the Association took place on Wednesday , the 29 th of May , 1833 , in the Chapel , South-place , Finsbury .
Divine Service began in the mornins : at 11 o ' clock . The Rev . J . Fullagar , of Chichester , read ' the Scriptures and prayed , Th « Eev- . O . Harris , of Glasgow , preached a most eloquent , interesting , and admirable Sermon from Isaiah xl , 3- ^ 5 . We
are most happy to say that it is to be printed . Any further notice of it here is therefore" unnecessary . A collection was made after the Service , and in the evening , in aid of the Funds of the Association , which amounted to 232 . The meeting for transacting the business of the Association was held
in the Chapel . It began at 6 o'clock p . m ., and was most numerously and respectably attended . Amongst other distinguished visitors , was the celebrated Ramrnohun Roy . On the motion of Mr . J . T . Rutt , John Taylor , Esq . F . R . S . was called to the Chair .
The Chairman said that on assuming the station to which they had called him , he did so with extreme diffidence , and with a consciousness of his inability to perform the duties which devolved upon the Chairman of such a meeting . He could have
wished that a more distinguished individuaihad occupied that place ; but , however distinguished any individual mi ght be , he would say this much for himself , that no one could be more honestly and sincerely desirous of promoting the great interests that had
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brought them together , than he who had then the honour of addressing them . ( Hear , hear . ) To those who had the advantage of hearing the eloquent address that had been uttered that morning from the pulpit , by the eloquent preacher who then addr . essedJ : h . em , _ ke __ CAuld ^ hayjeJittLe _
to say ; but he was sure that all must feel the importance of those great truths which had that day been propounded to them . All must acknowledge the alliance between Christianity and true philosophy , for , as that eloquent preacher had justly observed , pure Christianity and pure science had advanced hand in hand .
In comparison with the dark times of superstition and ignorance , a brighter day had dawned upon the world , and they Were now looking forward with sanguine expectations to a happy result of their labours for the
moral , religious , and political improvement of mankind . During the last year a pleasing instance of the change which had taken place in society had occurred , when those devoted to science , whose names were
crowned with honours and distinction , when members of our leading universities , men of all sects and professions , were assembled together to do honour to the iiame of one so dear to all ; need he say it was the name of Priestley . ( Loud cheers . ) That name had been honoured by all the scientific men of this country congregated for that purpose ; professors of universities were heard to
deprecate in the strongest language the intolerance which had driven that great man forth from society , and which was a disgrace to the times in which he lived . ( Cheers . ) . The mode of investigation by which . Priestley pursued truth , and the man *
ner in which he followed it up , applied equally to every pursuit . It had been said of him truly in science , as in everything else , that setting aside all prejudices , however strong they might be , the evidence that came before him was that by which he was
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British And Foreign Unitarian Association.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/3/
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