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    alone guided , and that wherever he found truth he followed it to its consequences , whatever those consequences might be . This was an example which he trusted all would follow . They were met there to consider and promote those views of

    Ghr-istia-nit ^ y ~ whi < jh--they ---belie"Ved- ~ - be correct . This meeting was important , inasmuch as it encouraged them , by their mutual support , honestly to stand forward and promulgate within their respective circles , those truths on which thev believed

    the happiness of mankind to depend . They would have laid before them reports of the proceedings of the Association during the last year , and various resolutions would be submitted to their discretion , to which he requested their attention . ( Hear . )

    Mr . Hornby ( the Treasurer ) said , it now became his duty to lay before them a statement of the accounts of the Association to which he requested their attention . ( For this and other official documents we refer our readers to the printed Report of the Committee . ) It was right to observe that the excess of income over

    expenditure was not to he attributed to the circumstance of their possessing an income more than adequate to the wants they had to supply , for he could bear witness that the

    Committee had been obliged to be much less liberal than they could have desired , and , indeed , altogether to reject some applications , because they deemed it necessary to retain a "balance in hand in order to answer

    contingencies and to meet those demands to which they were liable . He trusted , therefore , their friends would not fail to come forward and enable them to render yet more efficient service . He bad been

    requested , although , perhaps , it did not properly come within his business , as Treasurer , to state to them another account , —that relating to the improved Version Fund , —which he would read to them , He begged to lay before the Meeting these accounts ,

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    It was then moved that these accounts be received . Rev . Samuel Wood asked whether 150 / . was the whole amount paid to the Sub-Secretary of this Association , and whether beyond that , there was no per centage for collection .

    —Mr . _ HoRNa-Y ^ said-that ~ the-ac . count was made out rather differently from the account of last year . The present sum included the Collector ' s per centage , as well as the Sub-Secretary ' s salary . Rev . S . Wood was perfectly satis * fied with the explanation , but was not so well satisfied with the balance in

    the hand of the Treasurer . It struck him that there was not the slightest occasion for retaining so large a balance in hand , which might be much more usefully occupied if applied towards the objects of the Association .

    Rev . J . Yates explained that the reason for keeping so large a balance in hand was , that , in the accounts of the Association , the Fund raised three years ago for the support of the City Mission was included , which Fund the Committee considered should be sacredly devoted to that object .

    Rev . S . Wood inquired how much had been raised expressly for the City Mission , and what portion of that amount had been expended . Mr , Hornby said the sum raised for the Ci ^ y Mission was 49619 s . 9 d , of which 204 / . 10 s . had been expended , leaving a balance of 291 / . 19 s . 9 d . due to the City Mission out of the total balance in hand of

    332 / , 4 s . 6 d . ( Applause . ) Rev . S . Wood was sorry to intrude himself further on the Meeting , but he wished to know whether the sources from which the City Mission had been supplied , were considered as terminated , and whether it looked for supplies to the ordinary funds of the Association , or whether anything more was to be expected from the

    same sources . Rev . J . Yates replied that the money was not contributed solely foi

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    196 INTELLIGENCE AND

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/4/