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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    DOMESTIC . Religious . Unitarian Fund . [ Report of 1818 : Mr . Wrights Journal of his Mission in Scotland ^ in 1817 , concluded from p . 125 ] . 5 . Ferry . A village near Dundee . A member of

    the Dundee church resides here , and is doing- what he can to enlighten his neighbours . I visited him , and preached to a small attentive audience . 6 . Aberdeen . In this city and its vicinity there are several Unitarians , and other persons who

    afe favourable to Unitarianism . I spent one Sunday here , and preached three times to large and attentive audiences . The congregation in the morning * was estimated at four hundred , that in the afternoon at six hundred , and that in the evening at

    eight hundred persons ^ and I was informed many went away who could not get into the place . I hired tlie Caledonian Hall for the purpose . So far as I could learn , many who attended possess a disposition to inquire after truth , and judge for themselves . Besides conversation at other

    times , I spent one evening in conference with those who are declared Unitarians . I had a pretty long debate at my lodgings with a party of Calvinists , on some of whom what was said seemed to make an impression . Could proper means be applied , I think an Unitarian church might soon be raised in Aberdeen .

    7- JBlackford . A village in Perthshire . In this village there is au Unitarian church , the history of which is briefly as follows . The first time I was in Scotland I heard there were a few Uniyersalists at Blackford : I visited , preached amono- , and had a good deal of conversation with them . They were none of them at that time Unitarians . The

    second time I went to Scotland I did the same , and found them more favourable to l / nitariauisiii . The third time I went to the North I renewed my visit , and found they were become Unitarians . Ever since they have held regular meetings for the worship of the one C * od , and for mutual instruction . When they meet with

    sermons which they think proper , they read them publicly- They have been visited by no Unitarian minister but myself . The person who took the lead in conductingtheir meetings is gone to America y still they g-o on and hold their religious meeting's as before . I spent a day with them , and preached in their usual place of meet-

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    ing * . Here is an example which ought to be followed wherever there are two or three Unitarians . 8 . FalkirJc .

    In this town and its vicinity there have for several years been Unitarians ; but they lu > rd no reg * ular meetings . I preached here once to a pretty large company . 9 . Carluke .

    Here I preached to a pretty large and attentive audience ; and should have revisited Carluke , and have spent a Lord ' s day with the brethren , had not other labours prevented . Had a good deal of interesting conversation with the friends of Unitarian ism , who are pretty numerous in this yrUag'e and its neighbourhood . 10 . Wishaw .

    In this village I preached to an attentive audience . 11 . Lanark . Here I preached on the Gas tie Hill , to a respectable assembly . There are some Unitarians in this town .

    12 . Camworth . In this place I preached in the Masons ' Hall , to a small company . 13 . Renfrew-In this town there are several Unitarians , and , if public wettings were kept up , a small congregation might be established , I preached to an attentive audience . 14 . Kilburchan .

    In this village there are several well informed and respectable Unitarians . preached to an attentive and pretty Urge congregation-. 15 . Port-Glasgow *

    Since I was kere before , the number of Unitarians in this town has increased ; they have not yet begun to hold meetings , but talk of doing it , and I hope they will soon commence them . I preached twice , and was well attended .

    16 . GreenocJc . I was surprised to find that no meetings bad been held at Greenock since Mr . G . Harris left Scotland ; that when Mr . Marr don of Glasgow had offered to go there to preach , his services had been declined ., and that no steps whatever bad been taken

    to keep the congregation Mr . Harris had collected from being- scattered . Those who are regarded as leading persons among the Unitarians in this town , seem to think nothing- can be done till they have a chapel

    erected , and a minister fixed among- them , and that nothing can be done but by a minister . They seem to think the present is not exactly the time when any thing should be attempted . They talk of building 3 but no spot is fixed on . no time for

    Intelligence.

    INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/58/