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    Lancashire and Cheshire Provincial Meeting , The Annual Provincial Meeting of the Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire was held on the 22 d of June last , at the Unitarian Chapel , Mosley Street , Manchester . The service in the ; chapel was introduced by

    the Rev . J J . Ashton , of Knutsford . as subthe Kev . . Ashton , ot Knutsrord , as substitute for the Rev . C . Wallace , of Akringham ; and a sermon was preached by the Rev . W . Tate , of Chorley , from Matt . xxiii . 8 ; in which , with great candour and earnestness , he stated the grounds ,

    doctrines and discipline of the Church of England . A meeting for business was afterwards held , when thanks were voted to Messrs . Ashton and Tate fur their services on the occasion ; and the Rev . J . Whitehead , of Cockey-Moor , was appointed supporter to Mr . Wallace , the

    preacher at the next annual meeting . Certain propositions having been drawn up by some of the ministers of Manchester and its vicinity , and submitted previously to the consideration of their brethren in the two counties that they might come prepared to express their opinions

    upou them at the present meeting , it was agreed that this meeting be now adjourned , and that its further proceedings be resumed immediately after dinner at the mn . Upwards of thirty ministers , and a considerable number of

    lay-gentlemen , assembled and dined at the Spread Eagle , Hanging Ditch ; and almost as soon as the cloth was drawn , business was recommenced : the Rev . YV \ Tate in the Chair . In the course of the afternoon the following resolutions were passed :

    Resolved , on the motion of the Rev . W . Hincks , of Liverpool , seconded by the Rev , W . Broadbeut , of Wawiington , That , with a view to excite additional

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    interest in the proceedings of tlie Provincial Meeting of the Presbyterian and Urn tarian Ministers in Lancashire and Cheshire , and to promote increased unity and co-operation among its members—it be henceforward conducted according to regulations to be agreed oo at the present meeting .

    Resolved , 1 st , That , at the future Anniversaries of this Meeting , the Commit , tees of the Manchester and Liverpool Book and Tract Societies be requested to furnish a brief report of the proceedings and an abstract of the accounts , of the

    two Societies for the preceding year ; for the purpose of making the operations of the Societies better known and more extensively useful to the Unitarian bodv , throughout the two counties of Lancashire and Cheshire .

    Resolved , 2 d , That , henceforward , the Committee of the Missionary Society be requested to furnish this Meeting whh a statement of the proceedings of that Society during the past year , for the purpose of enabling this Meeting to > take into its consideration the best means of

    improving the funds of the Missionary Society , and of giving increased usefulness and extent to its operations . Resolved , 3 d , That this Meeting will be glad to receive from its members ,

    especially from ministers in the remoter parts of the two counties , a statement of the progress of the Unitarian interest in their several neighbourhoods , and of the number of children educated in the schools

    connected with their respective congregations , and , in particular , of the way and the degree in which the operations either of the Tract Societies or the Missionary Society could be made to serve the cause of piety and virtue , and to co-operate with the labours of the settled ministers in their several districts .

    Resolved , 4 th , That this Meeting , still retaining the name of the Provincial Meeting of the Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire , will connect itself as a District Association

    with the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , and transmit to the same , annually , a brief statement of its proceedings , and of the most important tacts contained m the several reports laid

    before it . Resolved , 5 th , That all ministers settled in either of the two counties , and every layman entitled to a vote at the Meetings of any one of the Unitarian Institutions alread y established in the two

    counties , viz . either the Widows" Fuud or the Manchester or Liverpool Book and Tract Society , or the Missionary Society , be considered a member of the Provincial Meeting , atid entitled to a vote w lt 6 proceedings *

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    434 Intdiigencei—Lancashire and Cheshire Provinctkl Meeting .

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    your hearts . Stir up the gift of God that is in you . Cherish in yourselves the noble principle of love to ( jod , to the Lord Jesus , and to the best interests

    of men . Esteem it the greatest happiness of your lives , and the most acceptable way of serving God , to be diligent in serving your generation according to the will of God . Be kind to the unkind

    have charity for the uncharitable , comfort the feeble-minded , support the weak , be patient towards all men , and by manifestation of the truth , let it be your aim to commend yourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God . "

    The company then separated , after a short devotional exercise , as much satisfied with the result of the week ' s examination , as the great heat of the weather would allow .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/54/