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    SOUTHERN UNITARIAN FUND SOCIETY.

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    of Protestanfc Dissenting Ministers , was preached at Salters' Hall Meeting House , on Wednesday , April 11 , by tiie Rev . Eustace Carey . From the report of the committee , it appears that the number of beneficiaries now

    receiving annual allowances from the fund is ] 99 ; of which 19 are widows oflnmi ^ tWs ^ dfllle'Presbyteriair-deno mination , 53 of the Independents , 75 of the Baptist connexion , 36 widows of Welsh ministers , and 16 new cases added during the past year . The finances of this charity have been

    gradually diminishing during the last few years , owing to the removal by death of many stated subscribers , VKftose places have not been filled up . The receipts of the past year amounted to 3888 Z . 3 s . 7 cL , and the expenditure to 33371 . 7 s . lid ., leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands of

    5501 15 s . 8 d , which sum , however , requires a speedy augmentation , as the annual exhibitions are to be paid next month , which will exceed 2000 Z . The annual dinner took place in the

    evening at the Albion Tavern , at which Thomas Wilson , Esq . presided . We regret to state that the company was but small , and that the collection here , and that after the sermon , were both less productive than , usual .

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    some old houses ) , by , which a building , which has been . consecrated to the cause of piety and mental freedom for considerably more than a century , is no longer hid from public view . In the evening Mr . Malleson preached from 1 Kings xiii . 13 . With eloquent

    simplicity and force he unfolded the ~ univeraality-and-depth ^^ feeling of compassion which is so distinctly legible in * God's revelation to the human heart . ' He asked , if such be man , what must man ' s Creator be ? And after inferring the im *

    possibility of infinite wisdom and goodness , calling beings into life on conditions compared with which nonexistence were a blessing ; or of his inflicting greater punishment than is necessary for the good of its object , he showed that the doctrine of eternal

    torments is no less opposed to the letter and spirit of the Scriptures , and declared it to be to him inconceivable , for a person really convinced of this doctrine , to think and to be happyr _ The Report read by the Rev . Russell Scott remarked that obstacles

    having prevented the execution of several plans for introducing Unitarianism in new situations , the Committee had engaged the services of their friend \ he Rev . Michael Maurice , of Southampton , to visit periodically , on the Lord's-day , such societies in the district as may wish to avail

    themselves of his valuable services ; trusting that such a measurem # y prove an acceptable relief to the ministers , afford an interesting variety to the hearers , and tend to keen alive a spirit of harmony and mutual

    cooperation between the several con * gregations , Although the society ' makes provision only for the charges of their truly Aposl ^ lic ^ il ^ Mioniafiyi '' they are not without hopes that the ' zeal of such ministers as are within

    convenient distances , may induce them of themselves to carry the object into more extensive operation . About forty persons dined together , the chair beirfg filled , with his usual

    Southern Unitarian Fund Society.

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    The Annual Meeting was held at Portsmouth on Good Friday . The Rev . J . P . Malleson , A . M ., delivered a discourse in the morning from Matt . x . 32 , ably delineating the character and enforcing the example

    of the primitive confessors of the truth ; and showing that those who , thinking they have attained , are yet content to hold the truth , for thems ? elves only , can have acquired little of that principle of universal

    brotherhood , which is the distinguish ™ ing glory of Christianity . The morning service was at the Baptist chapel , and the members were much gratified in observing the judicious improvements ( particularly the removal of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1832, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1811/page/14/