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    JS ; ewcto $ tle-iinder-hyme . The aid Presbyterian Chapel in this place was re-opened , after an interval of twenty years , on Sunday the 16 th of April . The Rev . Hutton , of Warrington , preached in the morning and evening ,

    and delivered two excellent and very appropriate discourses ; the former from Hoinans xiv . 3 , enforcing the doctrine of free inquiry in matters of religion , and the exercise of charity and good-will towards those who differ from us : —the

    Jatter from Prov . xxn . 6 , en the importance and utility of instructing the lower classes of society . In the afternoon , the Rev . Wm . Filliugham , of Congleton , who has since supplied for us , also delivered an excellent discourse from 1 Tim . i . 15 , on the moral purposes of the Christian religion .

    The chapel was respectably filled , though by no means crowded , and there was a collection after each service , amounting in the whole to £ \§ . 6 s . 4 d . We have lately had an addition of several new members , and , upon the whole , we think our prospects are encouraging ,

    though our numbers do not increase very rapidly . There are at present about 30 girls and 20 boys who regularly attend the Sunday school , and who are instructed by some of the members of the congregation . We have , besides , a small library , for which we are indebted to the

    voluntary contributions of our Unitarian friends in different places . Our means at present being rather limited , we cannot do more than instruct the children in reading and spelling , but we have it in contemplation , ere long , to procure the assistance of some of our friends for the purpose of preaching a sermon , and having a collection , which may enable us to fit up the gallery in such a manner as to aiFord an

    opportunity of teaching them writing and Sphering . We think it right for the satisfaction of those numerous friends who have so handsomely contributed to the support of the Unitarian cause in this place by their pecuniary aid , to

    publish a statement of the expenses that have been incurred in repairing and fitting up the chapel . The amount , as near as ** an at present be ascertained , is < £ T 30 , towards which we have received as follows , viz .

    Peter Roult , Newcastle - £ 5 0 0 Miss Byetleys , Dittb ---50 0 Miss Wedgwood , Parkfi ? ld - 10 0 0 Miss S . Wedgwood , Ditto -10 0 0 l . slah Wedgwood , Esq ., Etr \ u'ia 10 0 0 Mis * Morgan , Bristol - - - 10 0 0 Mrs . Shapland , Ditto ---330 M 'Stamfwd , Litfffley Wood 10 0 0 Amount ca ^ rl ^ a forward - £ 63 3 0

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    Amount brought forward £ 63 3 0 Rev . William Fillingham , Congletjon -------110 'Collected at the re-opening of the Chapel - - - - - -10-6-4 Bristol Fellowship Society - - 10 0 0 Birmingham Ditto Ditto - - 10 0 0 Liverpool Ditto Ditto - - - 5 0 0 Rev . John Yates , Liverpool -5 0 0 Mrs . Mary Kenrick , Ditto - - 0 10 0 £ 105 0 4 Leaving a deficiency of - - 24 19 8 £ 130 0 0 P . B .

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    The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religions Liberty . [ Concluded from p 437 . ] To the subject of the Marriage Acts he [ Mr . Wiiks ] would now direct their attention . In the last session of Parliament , the Unitarians had introduced a Bill to allow the omission in the marriage service

    of the Church of England of certain parts , to which they could not conscientiously assent . It had been then withdrawn , but again it woulcfrbe introduced , and he sincerely desired their success . ( Applause , } His pleasure would be increased if the relief was extended to all classes of

    Dissenters . ( Great applause . ) Why should Dissenters who disapproved of an Established Church—who declined baptism , confirmation and burial by its . ministers , under their sanction begin their social , wedded life ? Why should Dissenters

    submit to forms from which Quakers and Jews and the Catholics in Ireland were exempt ? ( Applause . ) Why should not they apply for and obtain a similar exemption ? ( Applause . ) The marriage of Dissenters by their own ministers was not without precedent . Previous to the

    Marriage Act , the . matrimonial ceremony was often performed by them . During the protectorate of Cromwell , marriage was treated as a civil contract , and

    recognized by a justice of the peace . He had there the form of a certificate of such marriage . The form of the decla ^ - ration was simple and efficient . It resembled that now adopted by the Quakers ; among them " the man declared , I take this , my friend , to be my wife , promising through Divine assistance to be unto her

    a loving and faithful husband , until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us . " And then the lady declared , " t take this , my friend , to be my husband , promising through Divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife , until it shall please thfc Lordly defcrh t& separate us . " In the form , duriffg the

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    H t ^ lfgence ^ Protestant Society : Mr . fFilks ' s Spe&ch . 487

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/43/