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    turned to village preaching , and , though never assuming the profession of a minister , he was always ready to assist his ministerial friends whenever called upon ; and this without distinction of party ; for he was of a catholic spirit , and saw something to approve , and also , it must be admitted , something to censure , in all sects and parties . His discourses

    upon these occasions discovered much serious thought and great earnestuess . Some of them , delivered to the villagers of Cambridgeshire especially , will never he forgotten . His sentiments on religion were nearly those of the late Drs . Price and Rees . Circumstances latterly threw him chiefly into conuexiou with

    Unitarians , but he never went to the extreme lengths of some of the accredited writers of this denomination , and his honesty was shewn iu his habit of opposing them , when he thought them wroug , with as much plainness , as any other guides of public opinion . His temperament was constitutionally warm , and this led him to an occasional fervour and even seve- ?

    nty of language which was sometimes misunderstood ; the writer ventures , however , from an intimacy of thirty years , to say , that never was there a hu-

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    Unitarian Chapel , Wareham , Dorset , The addition of a Christian Society to the Unitarian body is a circumstance that may not be considered unworthy to be recorded in the pages of the Monthly Repository , since its present Editor wishes it should sustain " the

    honourable character of the Unitarian Review and Magazine / ' The occurrence of the first anniversary of the day on which a house of prayer was opened in this town for the worship of one God , through his Sou Jesus Christ , appears a proper opportunity for noticing the event , and registering it in the annals of Unitarianism .

    The Society began to be formed under circumstances of peculiar discouragement , with the detail of which it is unnecessary to trouble the readers of the Repository . The leading members of it , compelled to quit the Old Meeting-House , to which time and circumstances had attached them , assembled , although

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    man heiui ^ made more co nscience of truth , or was more desirous of extending to others the ample liberty which he claimed for himself . He was quicksighted to what appeared to him to be religious hypocrisy or poiitica ) senility , and he was no doubt sometimes mistaken

    in his suspicious , and sometimes immoderate in his accusations ; bat his errors leaned to the side of truth and liberty . The best proof of the goodness of his heart is , that he numbered amongst his warm friends persons of all religious persuasions . The last scene of his life was distressing , in so far as it shewed the decline of his meutal faculties : yet there were not wanting gleams of sunshine in this gloomy day : he enjoved ,

    through the blessing of Providence , lucid hours , in which the best affections of his heart broke forth , and in which those that watched his decline were delighted to perceive that his last thoughts and feelings Were consonant to his life , and that he sunk into death with the hope and belief , that had always been present to his miud aud dear to his heart , of a resurrection , through and with his Redeemer , to life everlasting .

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    212 Intelligence * — Unitarian Chapei , f Vareham > Dorset .

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    few in number and without a pastor , in another building , resolving to worship God according to the teachings of Scripture , and not according to creeds and catechisms . This was on the first sabbath in the month of February , 1828 . At first the house was kept open , partly by the reading of one of the members , partly by the services of the

    neighbouring ministers , who were anxious to lend a hand ia raising another church , professing ( as it appeared then ) the pure faith of Jesus and his apostles . To the Unitarian minister at Poole , in particular , the Warehani ^ congregation embrace this public opportunity of expressing their gratitude . Nor can they soon forget the aid afforded them iu their

    emergency by a gentleman of Arian sentiments , who had formerly been their minister at the Old Meeting , Hearing of their shepherdJesa condition , he readily employed his valuable services amongst them , and , for the space of three raouths >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/60/