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    liary for his own health and comfort the aeparation may have become , ) with . out very painful feelings . Hte n ^ cpe has l & ng be # n , aa 4 w | H long Continue to be , associated with that of the Unitarian Fund . The date of his connexion wi ^ h us differs little from that of o i ^ f existence as a S ociety . For twelve years be has been wholly in your employ , acting in harmony with each successive Committee , and receiving * y ^ ur ^ veM-merited thanks at each successive Anniversary . Throughout England , Walesf , and-Scotland ; in town wd , country ; i &' the most intelligent and in the wikie & tf-districts ,: in the chapel , the

    dwelling-house , the barn , and the open air ; by writing , preaching , conference and conversation ; from the pulpit andjjie press , he has advocated your righteous Cause , and heaven has blessed his labours . His Sermons and Tracts , simply , jaa & ul y ^ scjup ^ uraj , and convincing , quelled the fears of those who Apprehended that your , employment of Agents , who had not possesse 4 t & e advantages of a learned education , would disgrace the Unitarian name 5 and the large success of his exertions silenced their objection who thought that the time was not yet come when genuine Christianity caul 4 be preached , with . acceptance , to

    ike poor . This Society m ay justly congratulate itself . on having been the means of placing him in that particular sphere for which Providence seems to have formed him , and thus enabling him to achieve much which else he could jftot even have attempted ; and now that increasing years and infirmities have withdrawn him to a more limited , but highly important station , the

    affectionate remembrance and strong regard of its niembers wilj , follow him to his retreat , and their , earnest prayers fpr the peaceand happiness of his declining years will ascend to that gracious Being whose sole deity and paternal character he has vindicated to so many thousands q f his countrymen . Mi * . F . Horsfield was occupied , about five weeks , in June and July last y $ ar , by a mitsaioyi ^ ry excursion into the Eastern p art s of Yorkshire . His attention was chiefly directed to Selb y and its neighbourhood , which he had previously visited , wjth Mr .. Wright , in 1818 , and where Mr- Briggs , now removed to Besses Green , had engaged in Village Preaching with great success , in consequence of the occasional assistance granted him by the Fund , as

    was stated ip last year ' s Report . Mr . Horsfield was much impressed by the change which had taken place in this interval . " Then , " he observes , " there was ail interest in two places only ; now our cause has a fpotjng in twelve , all within eight miles of Selby . The improvement made botH as to increase of munbefs and religious feeling , ia at once surprising an < l delightful . and "

    Mr . Harding , under the immediate direction of tlie Jfv ^ nt Sussex U & itarian Association , continues to occupy his missionary circuit in those counties . fnthe course of the k \ st year hje has iqtj ; o ( iu . ? ef i U ^ itarianisjqa into several places where its doctrines have never been preached before . There is evei-y reason to expect that these labours will be productive of permanent gtfod . A grant pf 15 / .. has be ^ n made for his support , during the present year , in the office which he so honourably an < J usefully fills ,. lii © efrco ^ nt ojf Village Preachicandthe of stoted

    uragen ^^ , support or occasional Lectures by neighbouring ministers i , n places v ^ iere Umtarian > vorshiphas not yet bcjen established > are objects with the importance of which your » Committee are much impressed , and to which , whenever there w ^ a a reasonable prospect of succ ^ s ^ , the patronage of this SQ

    papulous district , and much , may 6 e anticipated from , his judicious andpersfitvering effijfrts . Ajt Jffa ^ l ^ t / h § hag . t * eei * eminej ^ tiy sucpesaful - , a congreg «^ oo is formed , and tb p erection , of a Cfeabel ha ^ became nec ^^ sary . About 300 / . is wanted-for thispurflose , and from the ii ^ ri ^^ ioii ^ hklL ia possessed by your Coinmijtee of theprpipiaing state of ourCa ^ there , they feel iuliy warranted in ; no ^ t e ^ pestly , recommendliig this obi ^ t to the Fe llp wship Bands of 6 ur CGpirregatftias . Mr . Wriflrht ' s recotniSmdation of thiiucase

    ( extracted from his JoumaJ , in No . II ; < if the Uni & iw Fiaid JWffl ^ ) is tnudU dtrengtbened by the progress which has been made since his Ssit , and Of wtofch a mare purUcu ^ accost mil be aDeetfly M ^ Jm ^ m ^ Bcnbers . Mr . Cooper ' s engagement with the . Ifiiifcfc reoiaiBa oa wi % Hrfoa

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/18/