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    « Since I arrived here , I have seen letters from Mr . Ashley and hisfamily , vvho ? emigrated from Battle to America . They are at a place called Marble-head , and are doing aU they can to promote Unitarianism . It strikes me that if a parcel of Unitarian tracts were conveyed to them to disperse , k would do good . " The Battle friends think my visit at this time very seasonable . A difficulty has arisen amoojr them . The Met hodirts h * d applied for leave to preach

    regularly Sti : their meeting-house on a rt 6 ek ~ day » Ife wa ^ thought their design was to form a party for tbemscLves , an 4 the difficulty «^ s how to grant their request without riiking serious

    inconvenience ; how to refuse it *** thoj * t being charged with ilUb $ * aHty . - p M&tirhwfc w * re iw > t agreed in opinion on t hs ? natter . When staled to me , my opinion was , that it should neither fee refused nor

    gramerfia tfie firit ^ ttBtaiic ^; but that a prof > es « & should be made by our friends , uc . that if they will act on the first principle of moral and Christian duty ; if they will do as they would be done by , their request should be granted ; if the Methodtets will grant the preachers in oar connexion * leave to preach in their polpifc ^ in thi s circuit , the jprulpit at B&ttje stall be < open to them ; if bot , ~ -no * Thm opinion meets with tie general ap ^ probation of oitor friends ^ and I believe

    will fee acted upon * . . " AtBattle a small library is established at the Meeting ^ ho ^ aei which is kept up and i »«« asc 4 by small quarterly subscriptions . Thi » will hdlp to promote tie cauae , which cannot fail to gala grou&A in proportion as persons are b * QHg }* t to read and think . Here is also a benevolent society for the relief of the which jus well sup

    ^ k aad distressed ^ - part ^ d . The rules of this society arc ifaftt to be printed . I this day , by refuest ^ corrjcclcd them for this purpose . U&Mftriroa&iii . will > I trust , ever identify *§^ . ^ ith bc nevokncer and in every place cherish every institution that is ) ca !~ ctttoted to . ailevi ^ te the distresses and th

    | roQM ^ t « , e iia ^ ppiiM ^ pf ma n kind . " . % c jQomiwttce rckiCtandy do » c the f ^ l ^ t of Mr / WHgHc * li laboiirs ; but t )^ y rcioic ^^ o MM ^^ S ^ U ^ iM ^ isiiB pi tim .. 9 aim xamgnitiiie or importance in ^ nteOM > kttion ior the eDsuinjr \ ear . It

    is the prayer of the Committee , as it is no doubt that of the society at large , that ^ may imrsue hi » great and good de-¦ ¦

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    signs in the strength of that gracious Being , who < $ 1 * 6 promised that his servant * shall not labour in vain . From the interest taken by the subscribers in the case of Mr . Gisburne and ' his congregation at ^ 6 % i m , ' ' mt- ® iim * bridgeshire , the Gomaiittee feel assured that it will give great satisfaction to the meeting to hear that the new chapel , contemplated in the last Report , is completed , and was opened in die month of Apiil and d ^ ca ^ rii ^ e « iM ^* r

    G ^ tte ^ al ^ ri ^ e ^ e h ^ W ^ defence c ^ A ^ Cl ^ u ^ e a ^ sir ^^ borne Iwr a l * b ^| l vpj ^ ft || # ^ soll ^ prioW at tibe JMt :-. iijip ^ 4 ^ jpr ^^ 0 pe ' iSSiaffil ^ fSflbe ^ - de < 5 med themselves at JHSi ^ Hr to ' v ^ te a cpB ^^ jafe ^ sWni ^^ f ^^ m ^ bif Society 40 the pe ^ Sej& Sdrkrn . ¦ ^ nr . ^ iflii' ''

    tiimlor thisljj ^ ity # e ^ l % ef mmm T ^^ MMMMm W **^^ permit ^ ^ ^ ^ an d * bf ^ % ^| r , - % be ^ cxir ^ d for Unitariati prcaen&g for ever . Trie tyiitariaii" ci ^ "Uf& * m expected , fiourisliinff at Soham and thid

    . neighbourhood , and now ' mst ' ft Has « ob ^ tined a perhianent rootrl » , will n > doubts under the blessing of > God , ificrease and mtiltipl y * The expenses of the new building i ^ evjer - iiitefptlffjet wholly defrayed ? and as the tongre ^ atioc cons ^ ste of pcrtws almost ehr ^ ncly in humble circumstances , and « s a wdght of deot imght fef ede their prc * gress , the Coinmittec Feel embordc «« l to recommend their caee to thi » l »> erayrf

    of the present meeting , and of TT « it * . rians in generals * " " " '• The ^ c ^ c \| m 8 taftces 6 f the chap ^^ ltt Soham being bM 4 nAe $ to- ^ * me& *•*§ & the Society , M fed trie Committee td deliberate upon the practitabiiity f > f the fund holding ch * # clrifl '&mr * 'Tmfc

    are some legal difficulties in tfife ^ w&y , and & % h » to *^ « e ^ ^ i ^ dbould instruct &e next Cdhimittee to procure advice on the tfubjtert ; Wid < to get & form of a deied pr ^ rpttre-d fdr tfcis aii ^ aljt- to ^ 'SKfi !^ T&e' eblb ^ nfp ?^ r ^ 5 «^ ^ W |» % Wlt sarisfactioa ifoa ^^ r btrt * ft < frs lafittWrs in Sti ^ Tliav ^ 'li ^

    mulupli ^ ^ h& Ite Y ** y ^ has been tsefnp'lri ^ * tfWdtt * & hit rt *^ sionary work . By tracti , codfciiM M wi ^ and serm ^ s , h « h * s * m *«* ied **** ** - tended the spW ^ MOfff ^^^^ over a consMerabie ; cfri * ftft dUeH ^ rt of truth . He has visited places unnotk 44 ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/41/