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fc *) y , for his exertions to obtain the reptailof the penal statutes against Anti-TVioitarmns * publicly avowing and defending their principles : and the chairman ( Richard Hall Clarke ^ Esq . of BridWell ' Hotise ) was requested to communicate this resolution to him
in , behalf of the Meeting ,. The Rev . Ur * Touhnin , gave great satisfaction to ti > e Society by intimating ' his intentipn to prepare for the press a series ot \ , Fatnily Prayers , corresponding to bfi $ * excellent Prayers for the Closet . Tbe thant&s of the Society were given to Wm . iVlanningford , Esq . of Bristol ,
for bis Very able and active discharge of tfce office of Secretary , ( which it was earnestly hoped he uould long continue t 4 undertake ); and also to the Rev- John Rowe , for his unrernitted and important exertions for the welfare of the Society . The business of the society being concluded , between forty and fifty gen
tiemen ( principally members ) dined together ; when M . Blake , Esq . M . D . was called to " the ' chair . The sentiments which were afterwards proposed , gave an opportunity to Messrs . Howe , Butefeer and Rowe , Dt Toukriiri and other gentlemen , to address the meeting- ori "various subjects connected with the
dtifftision of religious knowledge in general , and of Unitarianism in particular . Mr . $ Lowe gave an account of the progress of the Sgciety from its corixmen cornea t , Which presented great cause for thnnkfWlness for the past and encouragement fjpr tlie future . IndeecJ , whatever may He asserted by thp adversaries of
Unitarianism , there is no reasonable ground tp cjouht , that its grand principles ( the ¦ ptOfper Unity of God and the restriction of worshiped the Father , ) are rabidly gaining a firm and extensive footling ^ rn ong scr ipturalists of various denominations > and we indulge the hope that ys delightful views of the character and
dispensations x > f the God of love and inercy , and <> f the real nature and value of those glad tjdings which ov ^ r Saviour Brought frorr * his God and Father , and wj ^ ic ^ i he died to assure to us , —in connection with its strict and comprehend of Christian will
sive principles duty , , pnder the . eivine r ^ lessing , be abundantly efficacious in promoting holiness in heart iind in life . VVfccn the health of the ^ ev . jT . >] ow e was druqk , with thanks to hin > for his appropriate h . nd excellent dkcOuTse , ^ h& was s ^ rorigiy urged to l ^ ublisA it , And respectfully solicited to
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give with it some account of the mental processes by which he had been led to * embrace the doctrine of the proper or simple humanity of Jesus Christ , rn con . nection with the essential pr nc pies of Unitariaaism . Dr , Carpenter took occasion to call the attention of the meeting to the infant societies
associating for Unitarian worship in Falmouth and Flushing . He represented them as affording a very important means of effectually distributing Unitarian tracts in Cornwall , * where , though Unitarianism is likely to meet with great opposition , several circumstances , ( connected with the increasing spread of religious knowledge and the
superior intellectual character of a large proportion of the Cornish people , ) give great room to hope , that all opposition will be ineffectual , and that the seeds of scriptural truth will , in a few 'years , produce an abundant harvest , t" He aUd gave some account of the Rev- Mr * Treleavefi , who has lately left the Wesleyan Methodists at Falmouth , ( being led to a close examination of the New
Testament b y their persecution of Mr . Philp and his friends ) and is now gone to preach at , Dorchester * where we hope the divine blessing will accompany his labours in the great cause of Christian truth and duty . — -Towards the close of the proceedings , before the evening service , an affecting rnark of esidem ana
respect was shewn to one who is emt * nently deseiving of them . . Adverting to the tribute of respect which had just been paid to the memory or Dr . priest ley , Mr . Landsey , andMr . Kenrick , Mr Rowe expressed his desire not to beunmindrul of the rivingj and at the close of a brief address , which will be long remembered for its eloquence ancj pathos , he said , "If there be one present , who , in peViods of difficulty and trial , as Well
• At the suggestion of the worthy Secretary of the . Jyondon Unitarian Society , the Committee of that . Society some time ago sent books to the Flushing ; Unitarians to the amount of tiye or sii Guineas . ¦
± We may suggest to our readers that any Unitarian Tracts they caa : sp ^ re may be sent to Mr . # hilp £$ F ? f » outh , ( who regularly officiates attfre two places , ) or to Me , Prout a ^ Jlv * b ing : or W they are . sentotiQ . thfc Rev * !• Worsley ^ of infmautb * ois . la ® Fm ® jFm pentcr . Exeter , they will be forwarded .
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ik&O Intelligence . — Western Unitarian Society *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/52/
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