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    beea continued ^ au <* * e Committee iu making a recent distribution , have been induced to recommend a change iu the mode . It appears to them expedient to allot to every subscriber , one copy of each tract which the Society n > ay publish ar circulate ; and to place the remainder

    at the disposal of the -minister of each congregation , or of a Committee , with an understanding that subscribers who can distribute the tracts advantageously , will render material service to the Association by applying for them , and employing them iu this way . \

    The printed circular drawn up by the Secretary at the suggestion of the Rev . S . Fawcett , and sanctioned by the Committee , has no doubt made it known throughout the district , that a plan is iu contemplation for prooiotiug the objects of the Association , by the euiployuaeut of

    a supernumerary or Missionary Preacher , The Committee are enabled to report that , since the above-mentioned circular was printed , a- liberal subscription has been entered into at Brid port , and at Taunton , fur providing pecuniary means to accomplish the plan ; and they can&dently

    hope that the ministers of Unitarian Societies , ia the other places immediately concerned , will express their concurrence by such additional subscriptions , as will render the execution of the scheme easily practicable . Encouraged hy promises of support already received , and desirous

    that there should be no unnecessary delay , the Committee have been employed iu obtaining information as to the practicability of engaging suitable agency for car * rying the intended plan into effect * They have had some correspondence with the Gloucester , Wilts , and Somerset

    Unitarian Missionary Society ( at whose ; late meeting the secretary attended ) , The members of that Society are very desirous of all possible union and co-operation I aud will readil y concur iu a plan for the exchange of Missionary Preachers , which exchange would ensure to tbe Somerset and Dorset Association th € services of

    Mr . y , Clarke . Your comnaUtee have likewise ascertained , that the Society may obtain during some mouths in the approaching summer , the assistance of Mr . Howarth , a senior student at Manchester ColJege , York , of whose qualifications very favourable accounts have been ^ from various quarters , received .

    The Committee canuot retire from the station assigned to them , without expres-S 1 » g their satisfaction at the improved prospects which are op ^ tiitj # to thv j > ocietiy ; and the . devout hope that the blessing of Ueaveu will prosper its endeav oura to advance the cause of pni ? e aud uodefileil Christianity H the wqrl& Messrs Wright ^ . How $ e > wd K . ,

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    Nias , having , attended this Meeting as a deputation from the Somerset , Gloucester , and Wilts Association , and stated the desire of thai Association to co-ope * rate with this Society ^ Resolved , That this Meeting duly appreciate the expression of friendly regard

    offered hy the Somerset , Gloucester , aud > Wilts Unitarian Missionary Association ; aud will be eager to concur with its members in pronioiiug the common cause , by the exchange of Missionary Preachers , the joint publication of tracts , and any other advisable mode of co-operation .

    Resolved , That this Society are desirous of uniting , in a similar way , with the Devou and Cornwall Unitarian Missionary Society . Resolved , That it appears to thi ^ Meeting desirable for the Association to connect itself with the London Unitarian Fund .

    More than forty friends of the Society , among whom were several ladies , dined together between the services * Iju- the course of the afternoou , the Meeting was addressed by Messrs Acton , Mauriee * Srnetburst , Wawne , Wright , and others ; and the sentiments which the occasion called forth were highly honourable to the speakers , and to the cause they advocated . Several allusions , were made to

    the morning * ^ discourse ; its spirit was commended and enforced . Charity indeed , seemed to pervade all hearts . To an ardent desire for the diffusion of Christianity in its purest and most

    unexceptionable farm , was united a love for ail the brethren who profess that holy religion . Those who were present will not readily lose the impressions they received—i repressions of philanthropy which nor time nor circumstance should ever efface . E . W ,

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    —™—^—^ Somersetshire , Gloucestershire , and Wiltshire Missionary Association . ( Established at Bath , Sept . 8 , 1824 . ) It has often , and with much truth , been observed , that though Unitarian Christianity is making rapid progress in various parts of this kingdom , yet there

    are many districts wherein it is but little known , and others , where , although there are a few Unitarian congregations , little or no effort is made to increase them , or to extend the beneficial influences of the

    doctrines they profess to places where they are scarcely known * These observations are particularly applicable to the counties qf Somerset , Gloucester * and Wilts . Influenced by this state of thing ? , some respectable individuals , seriously concerned far the wider diffusion of £ Jni-

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    j ntelligence . ~ Somersetshire % Qlmce&fer ) sluref and Wiltshire Association . 311

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/55/