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    "UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 121

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    ham , on the 1 st of September , on the Doctrine of the Trinity , the Deity of Christ , the Atonement , and the Duration of Future Punishments . This discussion was very numerously attended , was of eight hours' duration ; and gave great satisfaction to the Unitarians present .

    —^ Tke ^ Miwimr ^ iTs ^ dunwg ~ t \ re ~ ipsist year have been the Rev . H . Clarke , Mr . Francis Duffield , and Mr . Robert Shenton . Previously to October last , when Mr . Clarke ' s engagement expired , he preached on Sundays and on week-day evenings at Padiham and the adjacent places ; and in his

    last report , dated 27 th September , he says— ' The cause of Unitarianism is evidently extending in the neighbourhood of Padiham . ' Mr . Duffield ( with whom the Society entered into an engagement for six months ) visited Padiham in January last , and preached six times there , once at Burnley , and once at Rawtenstal . He also visited

    the neighbourhood of Ashford , Derbyshire , with a view of obtaining information respecting Mr . Shenton ; formerly a preacher among the Primitive Methodists , but who , having become Unitarian in his sentiments ; had applied to the Committee for assistance to enable him to extend

    the knowledge of the one only God . This information proving highly satisfactory to the Committee , and being confirmed by a variety of testimonials , a temporary arrangement was entered infer . ' with : Mr . Shenton in November last ; and , in a communication from him , dated December 29 , 1831 , he says—* I have preached once a week at each of the following places :

    Ashford , Tides well , Sheldon , Longston , and Taddington . In Ashford , Unitarianism is evidently making prc > - progress . A gentleman in the village has kindly offered us a building , which , when repaired , will be admirably fitted to the purposes of a school-room , as well as tp those of a place of worship . In Tideswell our prospects are most flattering : we have a neat and commodious room , and a numerous and

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    UNITARIAN VILLAGE MISSIONARY SOCIETY .

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    The Eighth Annual Report of the Manchester Unitarian Village Mis * sionary Society ( late the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society ) has been published within the-monthr— -We-recommend ™ its ^ pe ^ rusal to all those who would delude

    themselves into a belief that Unitarianism is dying out . As an abstract of its contents , ( furnishing , however , only a very imperfect view of the actual operations of the Society during the past year , ) the following may prove interesting to many of our readers : — The principal places , which have been under the frequent influence of the

    Society s labour , are Astley , Swinton , and Padiham , ( with twelve adjacent villages , ) and , occasionally , there have been services at Floweryfield ( Hyde ) , Oldham , Hindley , Wigan , Park-lane , Stoney Middleton , & c . The congregations at the three first-named places have been ^ niimerous and uniformly

    constant in attendance . At Astley there has been an average throughout the year of fifty-one adult hearers at each service ; at Swinton , forty-three in the afternoon and fifty in the evening ; and at Padiham the congregation is estimated at from eighty to a hundred . Public meetings , the interest of which was increased by the

    attendance of friends from Manchester , have been held , —at Astley on the £ 6 th of May , at Padibamon the Jst of August , and at Swinton on the 14 th of August . These meetings were numerously attended and gave great satisfaction in the neighbourhood . In consequence of several misstatements

    and misrepresentations of what passed at the . meeting at Padiham , made in the Methodist chapel by the Rev . D . Griffiths of Burnley , Mr . H . Clarke , then the Society ' s missionary , addressed the inhabitants of Padiham , in the open air , in refutation of these statements . This led to a public discussion between Mr . Clarke and Mr . Griffiths in the Methodist chapel , Padi-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1718/page/9/