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      WIDOWS' FUND ANNIVERSARY . The Annual Sermon on behalf of the Society for the Relief of the necessitous Widows and Children of Protestant Pissenting Ministers , will be preached on Wednesday , the 10 th April next , at the Hev . D . Davison ' s . Cliapel , —Jtodn—Street , — , Alde-r-sgate-Street , hy the Rev : E . Tagart , of York Street Chapel , St . James's . Service to begin at Twelve o ' clock precisely .

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      The religious Services connected with the Eighth Anniversary of the opening of this Meeting-house , took place on Sunday , Dec . 30 th , when sermons were preached in the

      morning at that chapel by the Rev . J . R . Beard , Minister , and in Mosleystreet chapel by the Rev . J . J . Tayler "; and in . the evening ,, in Crossstreet chapel , by the Rev . J . G . Robberds ; and collections made in aid of the fund for liquidating the debt on the Greengate Meeting-house , amounting together to £ & 0 . Us .

      It has been usual , in previous years , for the friends of the Greengate congregation to dine together with its members in the Sundayschool room under the chapel . Oil this occasion , however , it was resolved , instead , . to have a tea-party , by which the ladies of the three congregations were enabled to meet . The tea-party was held on Wednesday evening , the 2 nd of January , in

      the spacious apartments called the Exchange Dining Rooms , which were tastefully decorated with festoons and wreaths of flowers and evergreens . On this occasion 395 ladies and gentlemen , chiefly members of the three congregations sat down to tea and about 50 others came in during the addresses , The Rev . J . G . Robberds took the chair . After explaining the circumstances which had led to the change of character

      in this anniversary meeting , and expressing a hope that it would be the means of promoting a greater degree of union amongst the members of the three congregations , he said that sentiments would be proposed and responded to , and the only difference between that meeting and a public " clinner would Fe " that no wine would there be drank to the toasts ; but he had never been able to discover that wine ( though it might show that a number of glasses were drank to a

      number of toasts ) added anything to the sincerity and cordiality of feeling which led those present on such occasions to adopt the sentiments announced from the chair . The sentiments to be given that evening , would have no accompaniment but that of Christian feeling arid kind ^ ness . It was usual to commence public proceedings of this nature with a wish of kindness towards

      those at the head of affairs in this country ,-and though they did not there meet as politicians , there was on that very account the more claim upon them to express their kind wishes ; for he had too often found that those influenced by political feelings were either biassed by them to look up to the high and great of this world as if they were exalted above humanity , while those on the other hand who were disinclined to

      particular individuals by their political feelings , seemed as if they could riot g ive them the benefit of any of those rules for our conduct towards each other , which were enjoined by the Christian law . It appeared to him that Christianity taught us to behold in the highest as well as in the lowest , not a man connected witk

      some particular office , but a human being—a man and a brother , —one who has feelings such as we have , interests such , as we have , and one whose real happiness , whatever be his station , must depend upon the very same great principles of morality and religion upon which we believe our happiness depends . And

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      CORRESPONDENCE . 115

      Anniversary Of The Opening Of The Meeting Ho Use, Greengate, Salfokd,

      ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE MEETING HO USE , GREENGATE , SALFOKD ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1833, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2611/page/19/