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    when Mr . Steward said , . " ' thathe had not made up his mind about going , that it was a matter of uncertainty , that when he could get a situation he would remove . " To our question " Have you any thing else to say or to propose ? " his answer was "No /*

    Of course , we immediately withdrew ; and nothiag further transpired . From that moment , however , the Trustees determined what course to pursue * > As this anecdote did not suit the purpose of the writer of the 4 i Appendix , " he has omitted it . His friend Steward perhaps

    did not think proper to communicate it . Much has been said by the nine ministers about " the violence of the Unitarians ; " and the writer of the " Appendix " ' -calls on

    4 i the Unitarians" to " blush at the mention of the Wolverhampton Case . " What will they think of this confession of Mr * Steward , that if he had been in the hands of the Galviniste he should not have been treated so liberally V I am disposed to believe , that henceforth Mr . Charles Mander will not plume

    himself quite so much on his friend s " Christian spirit . " Neither was this the only occasion on which Mr . Steward gave utterance to the same feelings . A highly valued minister , from a distance , called on him some time after the Chancery proceedings had taken place . He urged

    Mr . Steward , on the score of former acquaintance , to favour ' him with the reasons that operated in bringing about his relapse into Trinitarianism ; and asked him , what kind of congregation he had under the auspices of his new friends . Mr . Steward

    declined entering into an explanation of the grounds of his change ; and said " As to a congregation I have none at all , nor am I likely to have a congregation ; those who have taken the lead in this business are no friends of mine ; it is no part of their

    intention to serve me ; they have no influence , and are too little respected to be able to get me a congregation . " This was the opinion , or , at least , it was the language , ofMr . Steward , in the autumn of 1817- What degree of gratitude , and

    * Messrs . Benjamin , John , and Charles Mander

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1819, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1709/page/9/