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    Kent Sf Susses Unitarian Association . Tenterden , July \ p 1824 . The Twelfth Anniversary of this meet-ping took place here on June 30 . Our Unitarian Mends from different

    parts of the two counties , began to collect around us soon ' after eight , and continued increasing till eleven , the appointed time of their assembling in a place , long rendered sacred to the worship of ike one only living and true God ,,

    Although through the week many of our brethren are engaged in worldly concerns , or in their daily labour , yet about 400 persons were collected together ia the chapel at the above hour . Mr . Thomas , from Chatham , conducted with great propriety the introductory service

    of prayer and reading the Scriptures . Mr . Waterhouse , from Boston , in America , offered up the second prayer ; and this , not with the colloquial familiarity too often discoverable , but with what we conceive to be the true spirit and proper language of this most sacred , yet

    consoling and animating duty . After this , Mr . Fox , from Acts xvii . part of the 23 d verse , delivered a most luminous and impressive discourse ; taking into his view , as grounded on our first great principle as Unitarians , all the leading

    sentiments , truths and hopes which flow out of it . He proved , with an evidence almost forcing its way to the mind , that the Unity of God , or that he is , strictly speaking , one person , is in agreement with the light of nature ; supported in the dispensation by Moses , and most decisively confirmed in that which was

    communicated by Jesus Christ ; that it was coeval with the creation , and equally with the Divine Essence , eternal . Mr . Fox illustrated this great truth , more immediately from this seventeenth chapter of the Acts , which he forcibly maintained , and , we think , proved to be throughout Unitarian , He then called

    upon all around him to continue firm and resolved in professing and supporting sentiments which he considered as essential to the JTivine glory , necessary to the successful defence of revelation , and in the highest degree useful in promoting the best interest and happiness of all reasonable beings .

    After the necessary business of the Association , those who inclined proceeded to the Woolpack Iuu : a company of gentlemen and ladies to the number of 138 dined together ; which considerably

    increased after the cloth was removed . Non Notts Domine was then sung ; Mr . Tribe , of Chatham , called to the Chair , which he very ably filled . Messrs . Fox , Holden , TapJin , Ellis , Harding , Gris .

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    brook , and J . and H- Greetv then , as tlie sentiments were given , severally addressed the company . Mr . Fok was particularly happy in the turn he gave to the wards , in which the thanks of the Associated

    Body had been conveyed to him ; , and both in this and in a subsequent speech , in the point of his observations , and if I may be allowed the term , in the elec * trie strokes of his eloquence , produced a corresponding effect upon ali aroutid him *

    At six the company separated , and formed themselves into different tea par * ties , previously to their return to their respective homes ; nor has this Association ever had a more interesting , a more truly gratifying , and , I would persuade myself , more instructive meeting . LAWRENCE HOLDEN .

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    Southern Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Chichester , on the 30 th June . In the morning the Rev . James Hews

    Bransby , of Dudley , in a discourse , founded on 1 Tim . ii . 5 , ably contrasted the popular doctrine of the union of the DU vine and Human Natures in the person of Christ , with the apostolic declaration ^ that the Man Christ Jesus is the One

    Mediator between God and Men . An earnest wish was expressed by the ministers and members present , that this clear and forcible exposure of one o » f the most favourite retreating places of Athanasian sophistry should be published ; and , as the Society ' s finances have

    not for some years past admitted of printing the Annual Sermons , a separate subscription was entered into for the purpose—to accomplish which , the consent of the respected author is now alone wanting . Mr . Bransby also delivered a

    Lecture in the evening , recommending a serious and attentive study of the Scriptures , from 1 Peter iii . 15 . The introductory services were conducted by the Revs . Russell Scott , of Portsmouth ; J . B . Bristowe , of Ring wood ; and E . Kell , of Newport .

    The Rev . J . Fullagar was called to the Chair , after the morning service ; when the Secretary and Treasurer having made his Report , the cordial thanks of the Meeting were voted to the Rev . J . H . Bransby for his admirable sermon ; and in addition to the usual business the

    following Resolutions were carried unanimously , and the Chairman requested to notify their contents to the distinguished persons mentioned in them i—Resolved * That while , as Unitarian Disscniers , deeply lamenting the failure of the late application to Parliament to release them from the necessity of sotetn-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/45/