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    decisi ve and splefidtd demonstration of zeal which has ye * occurred in the history of Unitarianism . It is also proper for me to mention , that several of the letters contain important observations on the future conduct of the mission , which I shall take care to bring under the consideration of the Committee * W . J . FOX .

    Dtlston , May 27 , J 825 . P . S . It will be convenient for all the remittances to be made to the Deputy Treasurer of the British and . Foreign Unitarian Association , Thomas Hornby Esq ., 31 St . Swithin ' s Lane , Lombard Street . The Annual Subscriptions should be reckoned as for the current year . _ i ^^ m ^ mt ^ m

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    to set their shoulders to work , and- thus public worship and instruction have been regularly maintained , so that we may say , " Hitherto hath the Lord helped us ;" He then alluded to those whom the Unitarian Fund enabled to visit us from the south , one of whom he said , though dead , still speaketh ; our worthy friend Mr . Wright , was particularly aud gratefully remembered ; nor was the worthy and learned predecessor oL Mr . Mardtin

    forgotten ( the Rev . James Yates , now of Birmingham ) . He then adverted to the regular and interesting services of Mr . Mardon , which had called forth the present . spontaneous expression of our gratitude and esteem . And in presenting him with the book , hoped , that while it would recall to his recollection the

    gratitude of the people of Paisley , it would be equally instrumental in enabling him to illustrate and defend those important truths which were at ouce the means of our connexion , and so essential

    to the grand designs of the gospel—the extirpation of persecution , bigotry , superstition , and vice , and the promotion of the virtue and happiness of the whole human family .

    Mr . Mardon then rose , and thanked the Meeting at considerable length . He expressed himself as not having had the slightest expectation of such a mark of friendship and regard . And though he was by no means insensible to the approbation of his friends and brethren , he was well aware that a Christ iau minister

    should , and he hope : d he always would , be actuated by higher motives . He referred to the pleasure which he had ever experienced in his visits to Paisley , and the Christian spirit with which he was always received ; and he considered , that had lie done any less in the situation

    which he held , limn lie had done , he could not have satisfied his own mind , or justified himself . He hoped Ijc would continue to merit our good opinion , by steadily and perseveringly continuing those studies and efforts which the present gift was so well calculated to assist him in . In concluding , he wished us

    every prosperity , and hoped , that though he could never expect to meet us all again in this world , that he would meet us in another , and a better , where o \\ v faculties would be expanded , and our intellectual pleasure and improvement continue throughout the never-ending ages of cteniity . —Mr . Boag concluded with prayer , and ( he meeting adjourned . |

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    Removals , fycof Ministers . Ti-ik Hev . Cieokcje Harris lias given notice oi his intention to resign his situ atjon at ftolton at the close of September

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    Intelligence . * - * Testimony of Christian Respect to Rev * B . Mardon . 315

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    Testimony of Christian Respect to Rev . B . Mardon , A . M . y by the Unitarians ; of Paisley .

    The above gentleman being about to leave Scotland , his friends in Paisley considered it indispensable , that , previous to his departure , some expression of public esteem and regard should be given him by the congregation . He has been upwards of nine years minister of the Unitarian congregation in Glasgow ,

    during which period , he has kept up a regular monthly sermon in Paisley ou the second Sunday of every month . They therefore , on Wednesday , May 4 th , presented hi in Schleusuer ' s Lexicon , ( recently published in this country in three volumes , ) elegantly bound , with the following iuscriptioH inside of the cover of each volume :

    Presented The Hev . Benjamin Mardon , A . M ., By the Unitarians of Paisley , As a Testimony of

    Gratitude and Esteem , For his j Zealous and Gratuitous ] Labours there , While stationed in ;

    Scotland , The congregation assembled at eight o ' clock P . M ., aud Mr . Mardon constituted the Meeting by a suitable and impressive prayer . Mr . Robert Boag , our

    senior elder , then addressed the Meeting . He remarked , that it was now upwards of twenty years since the Society was first established ; and though begun in much weakness , yet that Providence had raised up instruments Loth within and without

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/59/