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    • OPENING OF A NEW PLACE FOR UNITARIAN WORSHIP AT MIDDLESBRO'.
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      archives of the state , and in an established clergy , but also in the affections of the great body of the people , and in an enlightened public opinion of which the assembly of representatives is the most faithful organ . Even a very intrepid theorist might bjj sitate ^ jgf ^^^ decree of extinction against a church ,

      though established by law , which has furnished a ^ succession of . ministers , through a long course of years , remarkable for pulpit talents , pastoral fidelity , catechetical diligence , freedom "from mundane cupidity and ambition , and exemplary lives ; which has opposed a prevailing barrier against the inundation of infidelity >

      when it was breaking with violence upon all its borders ; of which the temples are filled with thousands of both sexes ( not common elsewhere on the continent ) united in the solemn and truly Christian worship of one God , the Father , and in the -grateful remembrance of their com- '

      mon Lord . Its friends may , however , anticipate-with satisfaction the probable admission of an element of more direct popular representation into its constitution , by which it will be placed in greater harmony with the politicarinstitutions of the state , and with the spirit of the age , J . M . <¦ #

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      The twenty-seventh Annual General Meeting of the Unitarian-Tract Society , established in Birmingham for Warwickshire and the neighbouring counties , took place at Shrewsbury on Thursday / June 13 , 1833 . The Rev . J . G . Robbkrds , of Manchester , read prayers , and the Rev * William Bowen , M . A . of Cradhy , preached an excellent discourse from John xiv . 9 . At the close of the

      service the usual business of the Society was transacted , and seventeen new names were added to the list of subscribers . About thirty gentlemen ^ afterwards dined toge-

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      ther , the Rev . . Richard Astlby uii the "ehair . Several other ministers were present , and the rest of the day was spent" in much profitable and pleasing intercourse . This was the first meeting of the kind ever held at Shrewsbury , and considera- ^ ble interest seems to have been felt

      m the proceedings of the day , and jtfee objects of the Society by those who were present . It is ' thought desirable to subjoin the following resolution , which was passed at the me ^ eting for transaction of business .- /

      Resolved — That "this meeting , deeply impressed with respect and gratitude for the memory of Richard Peyton , Esq . their treasurer from the time of the institution of the Society , feel it a duty to record its sense both of his valuable services , and of the enlightened , persevering , and exemplary virtue and consistent zeal with which , through-a long life , he professed . and adorne . d the . ptinciples of . Christian IJnkadtanism /

      The Warwickshire Unitarian Tract Society was instituted at Birmingham in 1806 , and after those which arose in London , in the west , and in the south of England , was the first in order of time of the eminently useful associations which have been '

      established for the diffusion of religious knowledge , and the practice of virtue by the distribution of books . ' J , R r ^ RKFOBI ) , Secretary .

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      284 INTELLIGENCE AND

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      Middlesbro' is a small town which has been built within the last . three .... years at the termination of the Darlington railway , on the right bank of the river Tees , four miles below Stockton . It is a principal shipp ing port for the coal district connected with that railway , and notwithstanding its recent origin it already contains above 700 permanent inhabit-

      Opening Of A New Place For Unitarian Worship At Middlesbro'.

      OPENING OF A NEW PLACE FOR UNITARIAN WORSHIP AT MIDDLESBRO ' .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/27/