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    S&TltACtS 3 FJELQM THE SIXTH ANNUAL RSPGllt Of THE COMMITTEE OF THE UNITARIAN FIJKD Readte the General Meetings June 33 , l 8 lO . ( Concluded from p . 471 . )

    Jtfr . Robert Blake 6 f Hull , whose name has been before introduced to the society , haa , besides his labours at home , be ^ two mi ssionary j ournies in York--4 &ke , under sanction of the Cottimittee ,

    in which be preached many doles ; ih one place several times amongst the Method fat * , , and as the language of the reporter of his trai ls is , broke up niuch new ground / ' * ¦ He was heard by coj ^ iiderablc numbers , and a general -wish and expectation is expressed that M& W «|^ a . t should soon follow over the track which Mr . Blake has marked

    In the last year Mr . Wright has pursued his missionary labours with unab * ted * wiA unexampled ardour . . Betides 4 ii $ tour to Scotland , he has travelled as a missionary 15 Jo . miles , and preached seventy-eight sermons . On reviewing his labours he says ^ M y travels and intercourse with our fellow

    Christians of different parties , during the ls » $ t twelve months , liave given me some fresh opportunities of estimating our prospects * the efficacy of our plans , and the difficulties we have still to encounter . Satisfied am I that the prospect brighten * upon us , and that things are come to that point which renders

    oar plans most higbjy important , and imperiously neces ** ry to counteract the coipapl ^ e subversion of real Christianity by Wild ^ cthLU » iasm and superstition , auad the , ^ pr e ^ d of infidelity among the lower ckise * of titie people ; and to save the bf $ t of causes from coLd ^ ficarted

    indifference on the one hand , and destructive feqgptry and uncharitableness on the atim- Wa have nothing to do but to pqriewcrc increasiagj our exertions , and nwicfaiagaHy pur » uuag tbe rational ,

    libcra and act * v « plans in which we are cng ^ 4 * The success already obtained ccrtunl y exceeds what any of us cx ~ pecte 4 iq the time * when the Fund Society was first , instituted . Still , long

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    time and unwearied exertions are essentially necessary to the general restoration of pure and primitive Christianity : and nothing short of this ought to satisfy us ; at no inferior object ought we to stop . Many and great difficulties still remain ; thank God , they remain to sti « nralate our zeal and increase our

    exertions . Enough has been done to prove that the plans adopted are efficacious , and to serve as a specimen of what may be effected by unceasing efforts * Let us go on in the natnc of the God of truth , in the spirit of Jesus the faithful and true witness , till error and superstition , be banished from the earth . "

    The journey to Sussex * wad undertaken by Mr . Wright at the particular instance of the Committee , who were induced ! to request this service by the pressing solicitations of many subscribers at Northiam and Battle . The Fund has received the mos-t liberal support from the Unitarians in those parts , which circumstance Necessarily added weight to their recommendation in the minds of

    the Committee ; besides that there is no part of England where missionary visits have produced such instantaneous and great effects . The ; seeds of inquiry , sown years ago under apparently

    disadvantageous circumstances , * by Mr . Tidier , bave at length sprung up into a golden harvest ; and recent jburnies ; of Messrs * Vidler , Bennett and Wright have facilitated and hastened the growth of truth , and are referred to with gratitude and joy by our friends in all their

    communications * " On Saturday the 14 th , " he stater , € t I came to Battle , where I fbiind . niy good friends glad to see me ; and therecollection of what had passed in mjr former visits among them , made me rejoice at seeing them again . They ever welcome the stranger with simp le-hearted affection .

    * This journey had been before adverted to in the Report . Our plan is to give extracts mm the Report , and not to mould it anew in an abridged form . ' — £ »?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/40/