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    have themselves made towards defraying the expenses incurred by building their two chapels . Thus , with pecujiar pleasure , I have witnessed the close of my missionary

    labours in Thorne and its vicinity , in the full attainment of their object ; in the complete settlement of the united churches of Stain forth and Thorne , in decent chapels , and with a highly acceptable and useful minister /

    It only remains to sketch the present prospect of success to the Unitarian cause in the district I have mentioned . The congregations which assemble in the chapels at Thorne and

    Stakiforth are respectable ; the friends have much simplicity , Christian 'affection and zeal . The worthy young minister who is placed among them , seems well suited to the situation . He

    has much zeal in the cause , and is unwearied in his exertions to promote it . Already he enjoys the esteem and confidence of his friends in no low degree . He preaches at Thorne in the morning , at Stainforth in the

    afternoon , and at Thorne again in the evening . He also intends to deliver a week evening lecture at Hatfield , a neighbouring * village , and hopes to get into other villages . He has actually commenced the lecture at Hatfield , and has also established a Sundav

    school at Thorne . The Unitarian doctrine has spread pretty widely , and made a considerable impression on the minds of individuals , in the country a . > und Thorne . A s might be expected , all this has not been done without

    much alarming the reputed orthodox , who are , some of them , violent in their opposition . This can do us no harm while we suffer ourselvesto be hurried into nothing uncandid or uncharitable ,

    nor our Christian zeal to diminish . By perseverance in proper measures , there is a rational prospect , that in no long time , Unitarians will be the preponderating party in Thorne and its vicinity .

    It is hoped that the foregoing account , which shews the effects of perseverance in a good cause , may stir up others to exert themselves , however unfavourable the circumstances ,

    and to continue their exertions , though for a time they should have but little success . With this view I send it to the Monthly Repository , and pray God , you may have many such

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    instances to record of the fruits produced by the Unitarian Fund , and of the persevering exertions of the friends of truth . R , WRIGHT .

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    054 Legality of a Quaker ' s Affirmation .

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    Legality of a Quaker ' s Affirmation . Sir , Temple , Nov . 8 , 1817 . AS the inquiry made by Dr . Walker [ p . 585- —587 ] , may prove important to some , who , while they are

    not within the communion of the Society of Friends , conscientiously adhere to their leading principles , hasten to state concisely the opinion I have formed respecting it . The solution of the difficulty seems to me exceedingly simple . Courts of justice know nothing , and can know

    nothing , of the Quakers as a body , or take cognizance of any of those internal regulations by which they admit or expel individuals . This has been established by cases in which the King ' s Bench have refused all interference on behalf of persons excluded from their fellowship . But the Acts for the allowance of Quaker

    affirmations being intended to provide for the conscientious scruples of a particular class of men , extend to all who regard themselves as Quakers , and who think fit to claim the privilege . If a witness , in a civil cause , being required to make oath , declines on the

    ground of Quakerism , the court have no right to enter into the question how far he belongs to a particular society , or is acknowledged as a Quaker by others . It is enough that he feels the

    scruple on Quaker principles . This is clearly established by thie case of Marsh v . Robinson , 2 Anstruther ' s Reports , 479 , in Chancery , where an answer was put in on affirmation , and a motion made to the Court to take * t

    off the file , on the ground that the party making it was not a Quaker . He was proceeding to prove the fact disputed , when the Court said , " It is unnecessary ; by filing his answer as a

    Quaker without oath , he undertakes that he is a Quaker ; if he were indicted for perjury upon it , he would not be permitted to contradict this assertion /'

    I shall not enter here into any discussion of the general rules respecting the reception of affirmations , and of the oaths of those who either are not Christians , or decline to swear in the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/14/