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    Evening Lecture in the western part of the metropolis . The success of a recent experiment of this kind in Southwark , offers the

    areatest encouragement to the measure . It might be accomplished by means of the London and Countr } ' Ministers who co-operate with the Unitarian Fund , and the

    subscriptions of individuals would probably relieve the Society from suffering any great weight of expense in the prosecution of the object , " Before your Committee

    conclude their Report they must discharge another duty by recommending that the attention of the Society be turned towards Ireland , especially the North of it , concerning which they have obtained , the following information from a

    valuable correspondent on which the society may calculate , as authen * . tif . It is known to all that the North of Ireland is chiefly Presbyterian ; andi says our correspondent , the Presbyteries of Antrim , Templepatrick , Bangor , Armagb and I believe Straban have laid

    aside all subscription to creeds , and almost unanimously avow the new light doctrine , as moderate Ariahism is called in Ireland :

    to which I may add the whole of the Southern Association , some of tbe members of which are humanitarians . Even in the more

    orthodox presbyteries they subscribe to tbe Confession of Westminster , with this reservation , ' so far as it naay be agreeable to the Scriptures- *

    ^ It will be for the consideration ; 6 f the next Committee how for tbe political state of the sister ttJand may render a mission thittw expedient for the presenttut no doubt can be entertained that in a short time Ireland must

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    form a prominent object in your annual Reports . 4 t It is already known to the Society that , with the blessing of

    God , the Rev . T- Madge of Norwich is to preach the next annual Sermoji j and the Committee have the satisfaction of stating further , that they have engaged the Rev . W . Broad bent , of Warririgton , as the Preacher for the year ensuring .

    u Your Committee close this address with commending the Unitarian Fund to the liberal friend * of truth througl > ottt the kingdom and with commending them and the supporters of all institutions having the good of mankind for their object , to the blessing ofjthe the One God , the Father of our

    Lord Jesus Christ *' We have now only to record a few of the Resolutions of the meeting . The Report was agreed upon as there port of the Society andordered to be published as the Committee might judge expedient .

    Mr . Kentish was thanked for fiis 'judicious and suitable sermon * and requested to print if * The following grew out of the Re * . port , ' That it is necessary to

    appoint trustees in whom property may be vested on behalf of the Society ; that the number of trustees be ten ; and that the

    fdMdwing gentlemen be the trusteesy viz . Mr , Christie ( Treasurer )* Mr-James Esdaile , Mr ; Win , Frend ^ Mr . Thos . Gibson , Rev . T . ftecs , Mr . C , Richmond ,, Mj % T . vBj . Rotyc , IVJf r . Richard Taylor , Mr ,

    James Young , and 5 Rev . R . Aspland ( Secretary . ) The next resolution we also copy entire ; .-s-That it appears highly expedient to this meeting thai the Corn-

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    Intelligence . —— Unitarian Funj& Anniversary . 647

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/59/