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    • OPENING op the NEW UNITARIAN CHAPEL at RAMSGATE.
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      Scriptural subjects , and of checking the current misrepresentations respecting that body of believers . The Chapel is the oldest dissenting place of worship in Yarmouth . The Society of Independents , at the New-Meeting , branched from it one hundred years ago ; since which time a numerous congregation has assembled within its walls . Owinsr to

      various causes , its numbers are much diminished ; but from the manner'in which these lectures have been received , and from the present state of public feeling and opinion on

      general subjects , the friends of pure and unadulterated Christianity anticipate with confidence the spread of those sentiments , which appear to them intimately connected with the well-being of mankind . William Alexander .

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      day , and pointed out the extensive field of usefulness in which all ought to be engaged for the benefit of their fellow-creatures . Alluding to the pleasing occasion on which so many had assembled , Mr . P . made the

      following remark : —* We are called , my friends , to hold fast our profession without wavering ; for , having set our hands to the Gospel plough , we may not look back , nor linger after the vanities of the world , but press onward towards the mark for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus * Let us persevere , that we may obtain ,

      in the field of labour , that pearl of great price , the true Gospel of pur blessed Saviour . He came , my friends , and laboured in the midst of persecution and trial , and suffered many things here below for our good , till he resigned his spirit into the hands of hiiri who gave it , and cried , " Thy will be done , O Lord 1 " The disciples and

      apostles of Jesus followed in their master ' s steps , and having now rested from . their labours , their works do . fol * low them . Christianity is still supported in its purity ; men are still found to preach the glad tidings of salvation according to the Holy Scriptures , and who are specially protected by the God of their fathers . You are

      here this day to profess to follow their bright example , and enter into the vineyard of Christ . You know the engagements you have made , therefore imitate your predecessors . It is ? in honour to be classed \ vith those eminent men here , and afterwards

      share with them an eternity of glory in that holy and happy place where all is joy and peace . Therefore , my beloved brethren , be ye steadfast , immovable , always abounding in the work of the Lord , forasmuch as ye know that your labour is ^ no t in vain in the Lord . '

      In the evening the discourse was from the 4 th chapter , 1 st Epistle of John , part of the 1 st verse , * Try the spirits / It was listened to by a very attentive congregation , and we hope had the effect of inducing many to

      Opening Op The New Unitarian Chapel At Ramsgate.

      OPENING op the NEW UNITARIAN CHAPEL at RAMSGATE .

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      On . Sunday , the . 6 th oL May , the above chapel . was opened for divine service . A short notice has already appeared in the * Chronicle * relative to this secession from the

      Methodist connexion . They have for some time met in a room for public worship ; but very liberal offers being made to them , they determined to fit up a more convenient place for worship , and have expended about 100 / . upon their present chapel . It is situated in Ef- ^ fingham Place , ai > d presents a neat

      appearance , though small . A large party of the friends from Canterbury arrived early in the morning , to attend the service of the day ^ on which occasion the Rev , G . Pound , of Dover , preached two sermons , the chapel

      being crowded both morning and evening . -Mr . Pound selected for the morning ' s discourse the . 4 th chapter of John , and part of the 38 th verse : ' Other men laboured , and ye are entered into their labours . ' In the

      course of his sermon , he took a cursory view of the state of man from our first parent Adam to the present

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1718/page/13/