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    x . 15 , from which he took occasion to repel the insinuations generally circulated , that Unitaiiaus maintain the superiority of reason to revelation , and limit by the scale of their own proud understandings the meaning and extent of the oracles of God .

    The evening service was introduced by Mr . Smethurst ; and Mr . Acton again preached from John iv . 13 , 14 , from which he stated the erroneousnesS of the too common representations , that

    Unitarianisin is inadequate to supply the spiritual necessities of man in the different situations and circumstances of life , and that it furnishes no support in the dying hour . The services were heard with

    deep attention , and were well calculated to weaken many popular prejudices , and to make a strong and ( we hope ) a permanent impression . In the course of the business of the meeting , a letter was read from Mr . Martin to the Secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Missionary Society recently established at Exeter . It stated that the

    prospects of Unitarianism in the district of Cornwall in which Mr . Martin is at present employed , are far from being unpromising . The Unitarian tracts are eagerly read and circulated , and his missionary services in most places well attended .

    The business of the Society having been finished , about thirty of its friends dined together at the Inn . After dinner several toasts and sentiments were proposed connected with the principles and objects of the meeting . Among these , the names of the Archbishop of

    Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter were given , because it was thought that opinions so liberal as they have recently and publicly expressed deserve the gratitude of the friends of freedom . " The Marquis of Lansdowne , Lord Holland , and the other senators who have advocated

    the rights of their countrymen , " were also remembered , and , it is believed , with such feelings as their manly , consistent and disinterested exertions ought , and we trust cannot fail , to excite .

    The memory of the late lamented Mr . Brown , who had long been a main pillar of the small Collutnpton congregation , and that of Mr . S . Shute , who was also an old and valuable member of it , were drank in silence . And it was

    remembered with regret that they had left none behind them who could fill the place they must fill no more . The meeting broke up with general satisfaction , and it was hoped that the interests of the Association had been promoted by all that had taken place during the day . Collumpton , July 8 , 1824 .

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    Eastern Unitarian Soctetg . The Twelfth Yearly Meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday , June 30 th , and Thursday , July 1 st , at Ipswich . The service on Wednesday evening was introduced by Mr . Clack , of

    Framlingham ; Mr . Selby , of Lynn , delivered the prayer ; and Mr . Scargili , of Bury St . Edmunds , preached from John i . 29 , " Behold the Lamb of God , which taketh away the sin of the world . " On Thursday morning , Mr . Valentine , of Diss , and Mr . Madge , of Norwich , read the Scriptures and prayed ; after which Mr . Aspland

    preached from Ephesians Iv . 4—6 . This discourse , as well as that delivered ou the preceding evening , was eminently adapted to advance the cause of religious truth , and it is hoped that both preachers will comply with the unanimous request of the Society that their sermons may be made more extensively serviceable to that cause , by their appearing in print .

    After service the usual business of the Society was transacted : —G . Watson , Esq ., in the Chair . The Report of the Committee was received ^ and the Secretary was directed to request its insertion in the Christian Reformer . * The next

    * See this month ' s Christian Reformer .

    Yearly Meeting was appointed to be held at Framlingham , on the last Wednesday in June and the following day . Fifty-eight gentlemen afterwards dined together , and after dinner about twenty ladies , and several other members of the Ipswich and Frarnlingham congregations , joined the party . Thomas Robinson , Esq ., of Bury , presided .

    It is gratifying to remark how much the interest of these meetings increases , and how completely the experiment of forming an Association in the Eastern District has succeeded . At tlie former Anniversary at Ipswich thirty-seven persons only attended , and now that number

    was more than doubled . After dinner , Mr . Aspland , Mr . Toms , Mr . Madge , Mr . Scargili , Mr . Selby and Mr . Latham addressed the company , and imparted a degree of interest and animation to the meeting , which , it is hoped , will not easily be forgotten . E . T .

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    Intelligence . —Eastern Umiartan Soditty . 431 v

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    Opening of the Unitarian Chapelp Todmorden , and Annual Association of the Unit aria ns of Rochdale > Rossendale , Sft \ On Whit-Sunday , June the 6 th , a new

    building was opened for religious worship on Unitarian principles in Todmorden , a village in the beautiful and thickly populated valley in which the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire meet . Di \ Philipps , of Sheffield / delivered in the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/47/