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    KENT AND SUSSEX UNITARIAN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, j

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    Several of tile friends of the Association spent the evening together in an agreeable and edifying manner , and listened with much satisfaction to the interesting account of the religious experience of an elderly gentleman , who had been conducted by

    a long course of cautious investigat-ion-lr'Oni-the > -g 4 oo . my-regions-of ^ 6 ab vinism to the pure apd cheering light of Unitarian Christianity , On Thursday morning , the Rev . T . Selby , of Lynn , read the Scriptures , and offered prayer , and the liev . J . Ketldy , of Ipswich , preached an excellent sermon from 1 Cor . xv . 24— £ 6 , On

    the mediatorial and priestly office of Christ , and on the consequent reciprocal duties of Christians . The business of the Association was transacted in the chapel immediately after the morning service . The Report was read , and the substance of it ordered to be printed . It contains a very encouraging account of the progress of Unitarian ism at Ipswich

    and Bury , whereTh ^ e ^ cause- had been for several ^ years in a very declining state . At Bury , the Calvipistic Dissenters confrdently expected , that the Unitarian Chapel would soon fall into their power . But the able and energetic minister who has succeeded Mr . Scargili , fyy persevering exertions , antf by a very extensive diffusion of tracts , has raised an

    ardent spirit of religious inquiry , and revived the drooning interests of this Unitarian CHurcK . The introduction of a Reformed Liturgy of the Church of England is thought to have considerably promoted the interests of the congregation .

    Muel ji interesting discussion took place in the chapel , and particularly respecting the most desirable manner of regulating the proceedings of the Annual Meeting , and it was unanimously resolved , that the congregation of the town where the

    Anniversary was held , use their own discretion in arranging" the mode of conducting the business of the Society , fr was also resolved , that a petition

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    be sent to the House of Commons , praying for relief from the burden of Church Rates , and other Ecclesiastical exactions . Thanks were voted to / the preachers for their excellent sermons , and to the officers of the Society . The next Meeting was appointed to be held at Yarmouth . At ^™ threiB ~ no ' tloc'l ^ nTt 3 ^ four gentlemen

    sat down to a cheap dinner . The chair was ably filled by Thomas Robinson , Esq . of Bury . Several ladies entered the room when the cloth was removed . The afternoon was spent much to the satisfaction of all present . Many , interesting speeches were made , and one feeling

    of Christian harmony and fellowship prevailed . And , when other engagements rendered it necessary that the company" should disperse , every one seemed to feel that it was ? good for him to have associated in this manner with his Christian bre- > thren of the same denomination . W . J . JB _

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    CORRESPONDENGE . / 243

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    The Twenty-first Anniversary of this Association was held at Canterbury , on Wednesday the 3 rd of July . The Rev . W . J . Fox preached from Jere ~ ftiiah vj . 16 . —* Stand ye in the ways

    and see , arid ask for the old paths , where is the good way , and walk there | n _ and ye shall find rest for your souls . ' The preachexy from these words , took occasion to point out how greatly the Christian world had deviated from the way of Christ and the Apostles . The antiquity for to is

    which we ' ^ re look not the anti - quity of this or that sect or party , but the uneorrujsted truth and pure spirit of the gospel . Deviations from the spirj-t of the gospel were chiefly clwelt

    upon ; departures from the mental freedom which it makes known , and the pure morality which B inculcates , The secularisation of religion ; the union of Church and S : ate ; the connexion of riches ami honourswith

    Kent And Sussex Unitarian Christian Association, J

    KENT AND SUSSEX UNITARIAN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION , j

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/23/