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    Chidiester , Sin , Aprils , 1819 . AS I think it highly desirable that the Monthly Repository should be a register of' facts , illustrative of the state of Unitariainsm , I am happy in being able to communicate the

    intelligence , that a Fellowship Fund was , last Sunday , established at Chichester ; and that our congregation has also agreed to belong to the Unitarian Associationf recently formed in London , for the protection of our religious liberty .

    So much has already been said in your publication on the utility of Fellowship Funds , I should not trouble you with any observations , however much I may be convinced that the

    happiest results will flow from their creation , did 1 not consider that the Unitarian public is not sufficiently alive to their importance , and to the necessity of their being generally , or universally established .

    I know not how many Unitarian congregations there may be in our country , but supposing them at two hundred , had they each a fund , they probably would be able to afford on

    an average two pounds to every application for assistance , in which case the sum of four hundred pounds would be raised with ease , without enormous deductions for travelling expenses in its collection .

    But if these funds should not become general , or , if the weekly members of our societies only subscribe their weekly penny , without liberal donations , the pecuniary assistance afforded to our cause will probably not be so great as it was before their projection . Our charitable exertions will be so

    much better directed , and proportioned to the importance of the case requiring assistance , by these funds , than they can be without them , I would willingly abate a little of the actual amount of the sums collected annually rather than not have them established ; but this evil effect should not

    accompany them . We ought to have , in consequence of their formation , both more money at our disposal , and more

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    wisdom to direct its application . This will be the case , provided those who are in humble life , like the poor widow casting her mite into the treasury , subscribe their weekly penny ; while the female members of our

    congregations emulate Mary with the spikenard ,, and testify , by the outpouring of their benevolence , their attachment to their Lord ; and the sons of commerce , or of independence , contribute , according to the apostolic direction , as the Lord has prospered them .

    But whether our fellow-worshipers do good as they have opportunity or not , these funds will probably excite a more general interest for the Unitarian cause , by the greater diffusion of knowledge relative to the concerns of the whole body , which the various

    applications tor support must necessarily produce . And allow me to submit to your consideration , whether the publication of a list of all the religious societies in our connexion , with the names of their ministers , and a notice where these funds Iiave been established , with any other particulars

    which may , from tune to time , arise concerning them , would not be highly useful , tending in a great degree to keep alive this interest ? My conviction of the propriety of this measure is strengthened by the same view having been taken of it by our

    friends at Portsmouth , Poole , &c . The map of England * and its immediate connexions , would impart additional pleasure to the mind could we , from such a list , contemplate the associations of our fellow-worshipers , whenever we look at a county , and the traveller would know where to

    find his kindred spirits , and by a little management in his journey , would be able to spend his sabbath agreeably to his Christian convictions , instead of being obliged to loiter the day away at the inn , or to frequent places of worship where Ms best feelings are outraged by the absurdity of the doctrine .

    I confess I think such a list , rectified from time to time , as years create changes among us , would be a pleasing article both in the Repository and Reformer , JOHN FUULAGAR .

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    to the extent and degree it might have been , is the inevitable conviction of THEOPH 1 LUS BROWNE .

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    SO& Mr . Fullagar on the Establishment of the ChicAester Fellowship Fund .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/22/