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decided to ^ discontinue this pecuniary contribution ; but it was unanimously resolved , that , to aid the Association in our great common objects , a donation be presented to it , for the year 1830 , from tbe books printed by the Society , leaving the Committee of the Association to make
their own selection , at the catalogue prices of the Society . The vote was con * - ftucd to the ensuing year ; since , in a Society constituted like the Western Uni * tarian Society * no proceedings of one Annual Meeting are obligatory beyond that succeeding .
About seventy-five members and friends of the Society afterwards ( Uued together , when Arthur Palmer , Esq ., was called to the Chair . Dr . Hutton , Mr . Row « , Mr . Hunter , Dr . Bowriog , Dr . Carpenter , and Mr . Bache , addressed the Meeting on various topics connected with the prospects of Unitarianisr * , and the diffusion of sound scriptural knowledge . Mr .
Rovve , in his speech , gave a view of the early history of the Society , and the ciiv cumstances attending the removal of its business department from Exeter to Bris-i tol , in 1804 , after the death of its then Secretary , the highly respected Mr . Kenrick . Dr , Carpenter addressed the Meet- < ing in reference to our increasing connexion with our American brethren ; and
adverting to the past proceedings of the Society , he pointed out the great and able devotemeut of time and exertion which Mr . Rowe had given to its affairs for above twenty years , daring which period it attained its present prosperity in reference both to its finances and the
number of its members . —One toast was given from the Chair , unprecedented in the meetings of this Society , but required by the great event of the year ^— «« His Majesty ' s Ministers . " It was associated with " the utter annihilation of all restraints on the rights of private judgment , " add was received with the most cordial expression of satisfaction *
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Warwickshire Unitarian Tract Society . On Wednesday , July 8 th , the Twenty - third Annual General Meeting of this Society was ! held at the Old Meetinghouse in Birmingham . The Rev . Timo-Ihy Davis , of Evesham , conducted the
< le . votioual service , and the Ijlev . Dr . Dnunmoad , of Dublin , preached a very animated and interesting discourse from John viii . 31 , 32 : •'• If ye continue in my ward , then -are ye my disciples , indeed ; and ye shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free . " At the close
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of the service the Rev . Hugh Hufcton was called to the Chair , the usual business of the Society transacted , and several names were added to the list of subscribers . About one hundred and twenty Mends and members of the Society afterwards
dined together , Thomas Eyre Lee , Esq ., in the Chair . Many gentlemen addressed the meeting on the great and interesting topics connected with the objects of the Society ; and while due honour was awarded to the living , the departed friends of religious truth and liberty were remembered with affection and
respect . In the notice of the last annual meeting of this Society , ( Vol . II ., N . S ., p . 576 , ) the wish , though not the expectation , was cherished , that speedy justice might be done to that body of Christiana
who were then debarred from the rights of citizenship . Since that time , the hope so faintly eutertaiued has been fulfilled , and within the short period of eleven months , the civil disabilities so long affecting Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics have been severally removed . J . R . W .
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Intelligence . ~ -Synud of ' Ulster * 593
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Sussex Unitarian Association * The Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Horsham , on Wednesday , July 8 th , The service was introduced by the Rev . J . C » Wallace * and the sermon delivered by the Rev . J . S . Porter . After service the Report of the Association for the past year was read , from
which it appeared that , in pursuance of a resolution adopted at the last General Meeting , a place of worship had Been opened at a village called Scarmes Hill , about ten miles from Lewe « . It had been regularly supplied with ministers , and the attendance held out a good prospect of obtaining a permanent congregation . The members and Mends dkied together at the Anchor Inn : J . Boyea , Esq ., in the Chair . Several gentlemen addressed the company in the course of the afternoon .
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SymdofPh&er . Thb annual meeting of this body \ tiis held at Lwrgan , on Tuesday , June 30 th ; and several following days . It-comes within neither our Ihnits nor our intone tions to report aW its proceeding ?; and those which we do notice , On accotonft of their reference to persons whose seftitfments and situation h . vve excited the in-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/75/
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