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    increasing congregation . In Sheldon our congregation is very large , considering the size of the village;—our tracts are well received , for the people say they are the best by far that they have ever read . At Longstone , the congregation is quite as large as our place of meeting will accommodate . ' fn ^ asubsequent-ReportT'extraets-frGm which were read at the Annual

    Meeting of the Society , Mr . Shenton observes , that on his removal to Ashford , about eighteen months ago , he found Umtarianism little known except in name—that the grossest misconceptions were entertained both as to its nature and tendency . These mistakes ( he says ) he took the earliest

    opportunity of correcting in the best manner he was able ; and the result was , that in less than three months the congregation increased from twelve or fourteen to one hundred or one hundred ^ niUfifty . The times and places of his labours , and the average congregations , he states to be as follows : Little Hucklow , every other Sunday

    morning , — average , fifty- hearers ; Tideswell , in the afternoon , forty ; Ashford , every Sunday evening , sixty ; Over Haddon , Monday evening , forty ; Sheldon , Tuesday , fifty ; Longstone , Wednesday , fifty ; Flagg , Thursday , sixty;—making a total of three hundred and fifty . But in several of these places , the congregations had considerably increased since the above estimates .

    The Sunday Schools were stated in the Committee ' s Report to be in a flourishing condition . At Astley there were one hundred and six children on the books , and twenty-five tecicbers , with an average attendance of eighty-two scholars . At Swinton , one hundred and twenty ^ six scholars ,

    and thirty-three teachers;—average , ninety-nine scholars in the morning , and ninety-four in the afternoon . At Oldham , thirty-five scholars . On the 25 th of September , 1831 , there were upwards of three hundred scholars present in the Sunday School at Padiham . The only wants of the So-

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    ciety appear to be funds , to enable them to extend their usefulness—i places adequate to the accommodation of many augmenting and many new congregations— -and tracts and books for circulation in the villages , especially in the field of Mr . Shenton ' s exertions .

    " —Sueh-is- 'the-Reporti ^ and ^ the-subsequent intelligence we have received ( some of which will be found in the following letter ) shows that the prospects are still increasing in extent and brightness . We may add , that Mr . Duffield has been engaged as the Society ' s mis * sionary for the present year ; that the allowance to Mr . Shenton has been

    augmented since the publication of the Report ; and that an effort will shortly be made to obtain an increased amount of subscriptions . We wish the lists were augmented tenfold .

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    Manchester , May 0 , 1832 . Sir , —The object of the present communication is to introduce to yom readers the following extracts from two communications lately received by the Secretary of the Manchester

    Unitarian Village Missionary Society . Those of your readers who have visited the Peak district of Derbyshire will recall with pleasure the remembrance of the romantic and picturesque sce » nery in the neighbourhood of Ashford in the waters : where hill and

    valley—rock , wood , and water , combine their respective allurements to charm the eye and delight the imagination . They will be glad to hear that a mental change is operating , promising to assimilate the moral to the natural aspect;—that a system of pure , simple , and rational Christianity

    is gaining ground on the bewildering mystifications of an intolerant orthodoxy . May it still go on and prosper , until it supplants the present system as completely as this has superseded the ancient and eata * Wished worship of the Druids , whose forsaken temple at Arbor Low , within a few miles of Ashford , still remains

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    12 % UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1718/page/10/