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    Unbelievers and many followers of the religion - of Joanna Southcott- He ' considered Unitarianisrn as the only check to these two tendencies in the sphere of poverty , and had actually witnessed its powerful and salutary effects—Mr * Rutt introduced to the company the names of two gentlemen , whom from the similarity of the

    objects pursued by them he ventured to unite , tho * one must be supposed to be absent , the other was known to be present ; viz . The Editor of the Monthly Repository , and the secretary of the U . F . the Rev . Robert Aspland . Mr . A- said the Editor of the M . JBL .

    was before the public , and must be left to answer for himself . As secretary of the U . F . Mn A . dwelt a little upon the encouraging prospects of the society . Tt had rapidly increased every year and would no doubt increase more and more . The projectors of the Fund were as much as others astonished at its

    prosperity . At every successive anniversary , they were ready to ask , whether the Act of William and ^ Mary against Blasphemy were repealed : The present meeting had brought a great accession of numbers and strength to the Fund ; and when numbers and strength , concluded Mr . A ., are employed in the cause of Truth and Virtue , no good man can help foreseeing and rejoicing in the result . Mr . Frend on the health of the /? .

    * T . Rees , the preacher , being drunk by the company , rose to remark upon a sentiment in the sermon that pleased him ; viz . that there was a great and obvious difference between ignorance and want of learning . A man might not be a scholar and yet be a . well informed man ; as he might not be ^ a well-informed man though a scholar . To teach religion re-

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    quires © nly a knowledge of it * which ft man may have without classical learning . To be able to teli the name of a candlestick in ten different languages does not carry a man a whit towards the right understanding of the New Testae ment . At the same time the province of learning - "was described and its true usefulness insisted on . -Mr . Mardy

    addressed the company for the Committee , and Mr . Eaton op being alluded t © as the originator of the Unitarian Fund . The Treasurer , finally , stated to the meeting that a considerable number of new names of subscribers had been obtained in the course of the day , and that more than sixty guineas had been subscribed on account of Mr Gisburne .

    This gentleman ' s case will be more par » - ticularly described in the substances of tlxe Report that will appear in the Monthly Repository ; mean-time if any gentlemen absent from the meeting wish to testify their abhorrence of persecution by contributing to the object so unanimously

    taken up by the subscribers , their contributions will be received by the Treasurer , Secretary , or Committee . It is an encouragement to the opulent to subscribe on this occasion , that any surplus on the subscription list above the actual expences will be faithfully applied to the building of the new Place of Worship .

    Such is a faint description of the anniversary of the Unitarian Fund . To those who were not present we make no apology for any occasional glow of lartfguage in which we may have

    endeavoured to represent it , because to those , who were present we feel that an apology is actually necessary , for our failing te * give the reader in the preceding representation , a competent idea of the realit y *

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    1 a strong point of view . The simplicity and oeconomy of the domestic plan on which it was formed , were applauded , and every handsome and merited testimony was given to the talents , learning , and disinterested zeal of " the gentleman who presides over it . The collection at the doors , after service , amounted to jal . ii * . 6 d . and two gentlemen , gave their names as annual subscriber * . loth April , 1800 . v J . T

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    Intelligence . —iTotk Academy . 301

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    YORK ACADEMY .

    On the 9 th instant , at the request of the committee of the congregation of Protestant Dissenteis , of the New Meeting ,, in Birmingham , a sermon was preached from Matt . x . % 7 . by the Rev . John Kentish , one of their ministers , in

    iavour of the above Seminary . It was a very judicious , appropriate , and animated discourse , delivered with much strength and earnestness . The importance of tne institution , for which Mr . Kentish was an advocate , was placed in

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• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/55/