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    their mhicls—minds as susceptible of improvement as those of the apparently more favoured sons of rank and : wealth . —The addresses of the other speakers ' were also characterized by an earnest assertion of the right of the poor to be furnished with those imeans of instruction which may

    afford them intellectual pleasures , while they strengthen and perfect their virtues . The writer of this imperfect description of a highly interesting meeting , cannot conclude without inviting the attention of an enlightened and generous public to the objects of The Christian Tract Society . The times , it is confidently hoped , are gone by not only in this , but

    in almost every civilized portion of the globe , when the majority of the rich could delight in keeping the poor in profound ignorance , as the best or only means of rendering them subservient to their own unbounded love of pleasure or their insatiable cupidity . But if these times are gone by in Great Britain , how is it to be accounted for that The Christian Tract

    Society ' s publications are not more known —that they are not circulated among the poor and youth in general in a tenth part of the ratio of their intrinsic worth ? Have any ministers publicly advocated the objects of the Society ?—Though they might not be influenced by what is stated in the 6 th Rule , viz . " The Committee shall be empowered to appoint any Ministers

    of Congregations , who may have preached Sermons on behalf of the Society , mera ^ bers for life "—yet their affection for youth and their pious desire to instruct the ignorant , it is hoped , may ere long induce many of those who cannot be doubted to possess these feelings , to become the advocates of a Society whose Tracts , as a whole , may safely challenge comparison with those of any Society in existence .

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    Warwickshire Monthly Meeting of Ministers . On Wednesday the 7 th inst . a Monthly Meeting of Ministers was held at the Old Meeting , Alcester , Warwickshire , There were eight Ministers present . The Rev . James Scott , of Cradiey , offered up the prayer before Sermon , and the Rev .

    James Yates delivered an interesting Sermon from Deut . xxix ; * 29 . The reporter cannot pretend to do justice to this excellent Sermon , in which the preacher , with great force of language and of

    reasoning , shewed that mysteries , beyond the reach of human powers , are not prqjjjgrly the objects of our faith , —that where watery begins ^ religion entfs ; but that tJiG gfeat truths of revelation aj # plain

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    and not difficult to be understood . —in the improvement- of his ^ tJjtect , ftlr : Yates , with much enetgyi shewfcd thftt a ; regard to the J > rferu ? i |> l& ofnhe fext ; hv < iuld have preserved the' world ^ from- 'the two

    great evils of priestcraft and persefcntioti ; which have beeb universally exerted , ' hot on . account of the plain and pt ^ actical parts of religion , but in support of mysteries , which lie far beyond the grasp of human faculties .

    He was followed by the Bev . Mr . Bransby , who preached an admirable Sermon from John xiK 46 : " I am come a light into the world ; " in which he drew a contrast between the Christian and the

    Atheist , and shewed ki a clear , strong and pathetic manner , the infinite superiority of the former over the latter as to their motives to virtue , and their sources of consolation under the troubles of life , and in the prospect of death .

    The ministers and a few friends from the neighbourhood dined together at the Swan , and spent the afternoon in a very agreeable manner . Several persons addressed the meeting on subjects connected with the object of their meeting : viz . the Rev . Mr . Yates , Bransby , Browne of Gloucester , T . Davis , and Mr . Corn of

    Birmingham , as Trustee of the Meetmg-House . Mr . Thomas Foster , of Evesham , gratified the company by reading a very interesting letter lately received from America from his intelligent correspondent Hannah Bernard , on the progress that Unitarianism is making in that part of the world . T . D . June 10 , 1820 .

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    374 Intelligence .- ^ Contributions foi' thsUnitapiam Madras .

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    Contributions for the Unitarians at Madras . Sir , Your readers will have seen from the Report of the Unitarian Fund

    Anniversary in your last Number , ( p . 321 , ) that the plan of that Institution was , by iaia unanimous vote of the General Meeting , extended so ap to embrace foreign as well as British objects . I advert to this subr ject at present in order to apprize those persons who have manifested a wish to

    assist William Roberts an 4 the . Madras congregati 6 n , that in consequence of this change in the consl * ution > of the ( Society , it wiU now be competent to , the Committee of the UniUfi ^ n . jFund to , take up that case , and to apply to it such sums

    as may be raised expressly for the purpose , and such a portion of their own fuiids , as they maY > fo iheir discretion , think it proper to devpte to it . As soon as the new Committee shall have entered upon the duties of their office , I shall

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/50/