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    with your efforts leads them to regard with a friendly feeling the progress of Unitarianism in the South of Ireland . In the month of April , a lively . interest-was-e-xeited 4 n" -th e-iiiin d s-of-the professors of Unitarian Christianity by the arrival from India of the rajah , Rammohun Roy . Immediately on

    his reaching London , a congratulatory address was sent forward by your Committee , expressive of respect , and of admiration of the talent , zeal , and Christian spirit manifested in his steady and persevering vindication of

    the Scripture doctrine , that * there is one God , and one Mediator between God and man , the Man Christ Jesus / To this address , which was presented on the part of the Society by the Rev . W , J . Fox , the following reply was received : —

    To the Chairman of the Cork XJnitarian Society . * Sm—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 2 d inst ., which indisposition prevented me from replying to earlier . I feel

    highly honoured by the address of welcome and congratulation on my arrival in Europe , by the Unitarian Society of Cork , and beg you will communicate to that Society , on rny behalf , art expression of the deep sense I entertain of the honour they have conferred

    upon me . * I am , sir , your obedient servant , 4 Rammohun Roy . •< I ondon / 125 , Regent Street , May 28 , 1831 ? One of your members , Mr . Jplm Osborne , who attended the anniversary meeting of the British and

    ForeignUnitarian Association , was vhe bearer of an address to that body , expressive of the fraternal feeling which your Society desires to cultivate with an Association so eminently calculated to promote the great cause of mental freedom and religious truth . During the year , fifty weekly meet *

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    UNITARIAN CHRONICLE , 117

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    Presented to the General Meeting on the 9 th of April , 1832 .

    Your Committee , m presenting their Report for the past year , deem it not inappropriate to recapitulate the objects contemplated at the formation ofthe _ Society :,,. not-only _ as-they ^ exhibit the views you entertain on the great question of Unitarian Christianity , but to ascertain how far the means you have been pursuing are likely to conduce to the proposed end ;—these

    are— - 4 To endeavour to produce a more full and general conviction of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures , as the sole rule of faith and practice . * To maintain the right and to promote the exercise of free inquiry , and individual judgment on religious subjects , as being alike the privilege and the duty-of all * 4

    To confirm in its members , and universally to promote belief in the fundamental doctrine of the Bible , that there is but one God , the Father ; a doctrine thus unequivocally expressed by our Saviour , in prayer to his Father and our Father , his God and our God— < l This is life eternal , that they might know Thee , the only true God , and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent . "

    * To extend the influence of the devotional and practical parts of Revelation , that men may be * ' doers of the word and not hearers only ;" knowing , " that as the body without the spirit is dead , so faith without "'works is dead also .

    At the commencement of the year , the First Annual Report was printed , and presented at the anniversary meeting of the parent society in Dublin , by the treasurer , Mr . King , who had been appointed your

    representative on that occasion . Copies were also addressed to such of the religious periodicals as advocate the cause of liberal Christianity , as well as to several individuals , both in these countries and America ., whose sympathy

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    SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CORK BRANCH OF THE IRISH UNITARIAN CHRISTIAN SOCIETY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1718/page/5/