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      North Eastern Unitarian Association , On Wednesday and Thursday , the 6 th and 7 th of July , the AnnuaL Meeting of the North Eastern Unitarian

      Associatioriy was held at Lutton , in Lincolnshire . On Wednesday evening Mr . Scargill , of Buiy , introduced the service with reading and prayer , and Mr . Seiby , of Lynn , preached from Acts v . 29 , vindicating Unitarian dissent on the ground of the allegiance we owe to God rather than to

      men . On Thursday morning , Mr . Kirby , of Thorne , conducted the devotional services , and Mr . Scargill preached from the Gospel of John , i . 29 , giving a practical view of the mission of Jesus Christ :

      and on Thursday evening , Mr . Jones , of Boston , demonstrated the inconsistency of modern orthodoxy with the divine immutability : his text was James i . 17 ; Mr . Selby having previously introduced the service with reading and prayer . Immediately after the morning service a number of friends connected with the Association entered iuto resolutions to

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      form a society for the purpose of aiding and supporting the Association , and giving regularity and greater effect to their meetings . Many names were subscribed on the spot , and it is intended to connect the distribution of tracts with the

      other objects of this meetiDg , provided their funds be adequate , of which there seems no reasonable ground to doubt * From the Chapel the company adjourned to Sutton , where the friends dined together to the number of between sixty and seventy . In the course of the afternoon several gentlemen addressed the

      company on various topics connected with Unitarian dissent . The day passed with satisfaction » and no doubt with improvement , to all present . The ChapeJ was well filled , and the next anniversary , which is to be at Boston , is anticipated with . much pleasure .

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      Association for Hull , Lincoln , Don * caster and Thome . The Annual Meeting of the Members of this Institution was held in Hull , on the 7 th and 8 th of July . There were , as usual , three religious services . On

      Wednesday evening , July 7 , the Rev . Dr . Hutton , of Leeds , preached from John i'k . 41 , " If ye were blind , ye should have no shi . " On the morning of Thursday , July 8 , the Rev . C . Wellbeloved , of York , delivered a discourse on 2 Cor . v . 21 ,

      " For he hath made him to be sin for us * who knew wo sin ; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him- " And on the evening of the same day the Rev . W . J . Fox preached from Acts xviL 31 , " Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world iu righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained , "" &c . To convey a just idea of the merits of

      these discourses would be difficult , especially in a report which must of necessity be brief . It may be sufficient to observe respecting them , that they were all well suited to the occasion on

      which they were delivered ; that they afforded the highest satisfaction to those persons who were more immediately interested iu the objects of the Association , and that they were well calculated to diminish prejudice , and to sap the foundation of popular errors . They proved

      that , although the advocates of Umtarianism may be comparatively few , they are yet inferior to none in the power of their eloquence , in the profundity of their biblical learning , and in the yveight of their arguments , deduced both from reason and revelation . These discourse ** were heard with a degree of attsntioa

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      the codony of Newfoundland—a colony , which was in itself at least a contradiction of that statement so generally made , that our colonies were rather a burthen than an advantage to the mother-country . In Newfoundland , that Bill , to which he had alluded , under the

      profession of serving the Protestant Dissenters , had , in . point of fact , produced much mischief ; or , at all events , in its present condition , it was calculated to cause considerable inconvenience . He had himself pointed out within a few weeks the raanuer in which that

      measure interfered with the rights of Protestant Dissenters . An Act had passed too , requiring that all marriages should be celebrated by Protestant ministers ; and this law was qualified , by permitting Protestant Dissenters to be married by their own pastor , provided they resided at a distance of ten miles from a

      Protestant Church . But what would the meeting think ? Lest the Protestant Dissenters should regard this measure as a boon , it was accompanied by this enactment , that they ( the Dissenting pastors ) might , tinder such circumstances , marry even Protestants—members of the Established Church . ( Hear . ) In consequence of a

      suggestion from him ( Mr . Wilks ) the Bill was altered , and its obnoxious provisions rectified ; aud he did trust , that an enlightened legislation would speedily perceive the necessity of introducing some measure on this subject applicable to the whole of the British nation . ( To be concluded in the next Number . )

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/57/