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    Durrag The Autumn Of Last Yefcr Mr; Wrig...

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    As Mr . Wright pursued nearly the game course in the preceding year , the following extracts from his Jouri _^ ai are all that the Committee deem it necessary to lay before the Subscribers . Some of them are selected on account of thelt relation to objects towards which it is desirable to direct the benevolent attention of the Unitarian public .

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    ' _" This journey employed me _^ nearly three _months , during which time I travelled 936 miles , preached 61 times , administered the Lord ' s Supper twice , and attended various other Meetings . It was one of the most _laborious" and successful that I have ever performed ; in the course of it I had the happiness of witnessing , in several places , the effects of my labours during the preceding summer in various parts of the same district , and of observing the rapid progress the cause had made in the last twelve months , which is certainly greater than I had ever before known it to make

    _jn any one year . 49 Hanley . < € This is an interesting station for the establishment of the Unitarian cause , being itself a populous town * , still rapidly increasing in population , wd : situated in , the _centre of the Potteries . As large a congregation is already collected as the place of . meeting will admit of ; a number of persons

    appear to be well informed in the Ointarian doctrine , and to be _^ in honour to the profession of it . Much has been done , considering the shortness of . the time which Mr . Cooper has resided among them . 1 preached at Hanley three times to large congregations . i " I had much _coityersation with the friends respecting the erection of a chapel at Hanley , which appears to be absolutely necessary to the firm establishment and furtherance of the cause there and in the Potteries at large . Before I left , I attended a meeting of the friends to consider and digest the plan of building a chapel . I am happy the matter was fully determined on ,

    and have no doubt but that those who have the management of the business will proceed with economy and prudence , and that , when the chapel is finished , the congregation will much increase , _" There is every thing to encourage the Unitarian . ptLblie to patronize this object * The situation and _populousness of Hanley and the neighbourhood around ; what has been already done _ia th _6 cause there in a short time ; the pledge which the friends at Hanley and Newcastle have given , by their

    exertions in the cause , and liberal contributions towards a chapel , that _| | one be erected , they will not fail in their steady endeavours to promote Unitarianism , and render it successful _; the well known character of Mr . Cooper , the steady exertions he has made and is _making , the respect he has _eXcited , and the success which hag already attended his labours y all _thepp things , it is hoped , will have their due weight with the Unitarian putilie , and induce them _mll

    to subscribe liberally _towards the erection of a _^ chapel al _PfOafey , _xvUich be a temple for the worship of the One Goil the _Father , ia a populous district _^ itj which , till lately , his exclusive worahip was _unknbvm and _uhpati-bnized _^ * _Frbtn Hanle y ami Newcastle , the pure doctrines _t'tttf the gdspel _fcnd Christian liberality may be diffused over _Extensive trapt _^ _af _tfQfliitry , enveloped in the darkness of reputed orthodoxy , and where _tfte _^ _iinds of men are . _fettered by : human , _cree < _Ja , _^ _illiberality , and bigotry . _^

    . ¦ ., > , ¦ - _y - . / _fuaiern , 1 _vUlago , _strtiat miles from Narttwfch . E _^ reT plnak _^ i £ t _^ _orf _^ n air to a large congregation . When I had done , a MethbdiBt preacher stepped forward and _aaid , * I also came here to preach , and I « J _^ _H pi _" eacli i

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_02061823/page/2/