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      the richest and the poorest , met together . The immediate object was the commemoration of a Sunday-school . The children were made sensible of the benevolence of their teachers aud friends , by an innocent indulgence suitable to the festive season . The benefactors were gratified by the sight of the happiness

      they were promoting . The teachers met together and encouraged one another in their good undertaking . The supporters of the school supplied their countenance and encouragement to the laudable efforts of their young friends who give their gratuitous services as teachers . Thus an interest in the school was quickened and spread . Then the friends of education remembered their other bonds of union

      as members of a Christian society . They were glad of the occasion to eat together as fellow-members one of another , in the same spirit in which they rejoice to forget the distinctions of rank and outward condition , when they worship together as fellow-mortals and fellowchristians . They felt at the same time their individual interest in the cause of

      religious truth and purity in the world at large , and by the detail of various facts relating to the progress of Unitarian Christianity in places nearer or more remote , reminded one another of the anticipations which they ought to form , and upon which they ought to act according to their several ability , respecting the future destiny of pure and undefiled religion . The presence of several persons belonging to other denominations of Christians is not the least pleasing part of my history . We were grateful to them for their demonstration of Christian

      liberality and kindness ; and they required no apology for our expression of interest in our own religious principles , while they joined hearts and voices in our song of religious joy , and prayed with us for the heavenly blessing .

      I firmly believe ( and it is under this conviction that I wish , Sir , to claim a portion of your pages ) , that occasions and methods similar to that I have described , are those to which we must look , in a very great degree , for the promotion of a spirit of effective co-operation and fervent zeal in our churches , and also , to no small extent , for the revival and increase of genuine and practical and social religious principle in our individual bosoms . EDWARD HIGGINSON , Jun . Null , Jan . 1 st , 1830 .

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      Ordination of Mr . J . € . Means . Oh Friday , January 1 , 1830 , iMr . J . C . Means was settled as pastor of the White ' s-Alley General Baptist Church , meeting lately on Sunday afternoon in Worship Street , Bishcrpsgate Street , but now removed to Trinity Place , Trinity Street , Blackmail Street , Borough .

      The public service was introduced by the Rev . J . S « Porter , of Carter Lane , who read the Scriptures ; the Rev . D . Davison , of the Old Jewry Chapel , Jewiu Street , conducted the devotional service ; after which the Rev . B . Mardon , of Worship Street , delivered a most excellent and masterly discourse , On the wisdom

      which cometh from above , from James iii . 17 . The service was concluded by a very animated and impressive discourse , on the various offices in the church appointed by Jesus Christ , from Ephesians iv . 11 , 12 , by the Rev . R . Aspland , of Hackney . Several of the ministers resident in and near London were among the andience .

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      New Unitarian Chapel , Norwich . On the 14 th of March a new chapel for Unitarian worship was opened iii St . Andrew's , Broad Street , at Norwich , by the Rev . B . Mardon . It was well attended in the morning , afternoon , and evening , and on each occasion that gentleman delivered an excellent and impressive discourse to a highly respectable congregation .

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      Boston Unitarian Congregation , The Unitarian Congregation at Boston have presented their late minister , the Rev . George Lee , of Lancaster , with a copy of Dr . Lardner ' s Works , accompanied by the fallowing note : Rev . and dear Sir ,

      1 have much pleasure in being made the organ of your late congregation , in presenting you with a copy of Dr . Lardner ' s Works , as a small tribute of affection , gratitude , and esteem , for the ability , zeal , and fidelity , with which you performed yourministerialduties amongst us ; and for the exemplary manner in

      which the virtues and spirit of the gospel were exhibited in your life and conversation ; and also for the earnestness with which you , on ail occasions , endeavoured to promote the great cause of civil and religious liberty . That you may long live to enjoy prosperity , health , and happiness , and be eminently useful in

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      Tntelligence . *— -Boston ifnitaritin Cong-relation . 279

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/63/