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    i ! fceproposer , I was told , attended . Some murmu red , but the people seemed generall y satisfied . I preached another evening in this l&rge room , and though the notice was short , it was nearly filled .

    13 , Cockey Moor Chapel- I preached here for Mr , Beatey , by iiis request and that of the leading people of his congregation . JVIr . Bealey was the most intimate friend of the late Dr . Barnes .

    He had contemplated strict Unitariarrism as a frigid , dry , philosophical system , which would diminish devotional feeling and love to Christ ; but , after the

    deepest examination , he has given up his former views and is lately become avowedly an Unitarian , pn the true eyangelical ground ; he now views . Unitarianism as the

    # ery doctrfne of the gospel , and greatly rejoices in it . He declares his former fears to have been totally unnecessary , and that strict Unitarianism , so far from diminishing , increases lov ; e to Christ and devotional feeling . He

    is considered by all our Irieiuls , and very propeily , as an important accession . His longstanding , considerable learning , and high worth of character , with the deliberate manner in which he

    has pursued his inquiries , must reader him highly valuable to us . 1 preached in his place to , I sup . pose , 500 people . With Mr . Beaiey ' s conversation , the piety , * eal , and affection with which he talks on theological subjects , 1 was both edified and delighted .

    Rochdale . To this place I tvas invited by A > oth parties of Unitarians ; for a great part of the people who -formed the congregation of the late Mr . Cooke are bow Unitarians , and have been

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    recently dispossessed of the chapel erected far him , called Providence Chapel . I preached on the Sun *> day mqrning in the

    14 , Presbyterian Chapel , Rochdale , which was well filled . As it had been anticipated that it would be too small for the rest of the day , the loan of 15 , Providence Chapel , Rochdale , had been obtained . I

    preached in it in the afternoon , to 9 it was estimated ^ 1000 people , and in the evening , though it was dark , rainy and very dirty , to seven or eight hundred . J had

    rnuch p jeasing conversation with our friends of bofh parties , apd I hope an union wilj be effected between them , Mr . Lyons has beeri with them the last two Sundays . They want a minister , and if they can obtain a suitable one . a rno ^ t

    respectable congregation will be established . Rochdale presents an important and extensive sphere of usefulness ; a minister placed there would find openings for preaching in the country below if , in Rozendale , a district which I

    regretted J had not time to explore , but wh I understand there are many persons * favourablp to Unitarianism . l 6 , Manchester . I had to regrct 1 could spend so little time in Manchester , and that it was not

    possible for me to be a Sunday there . I preached two evening ? iri the meeting-house in Cross Street ; the congregation was estimated the first evening at 700 people , the other at a thousand ;

    some estimated them higher , some lower . Iliad proposed preaching the last evening at MrVHawkes ' * place ; but this was given up merely because it was supposed it Would not Contain the people wh o *

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    fntefligence . —Mr . Wright ' s Tbur in the-North-tvest . 5 #

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/59/