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    state they disapprove , whose discip line they reject , and whose tenets they in part disavow and disbelieve . He never could see , either , why the dissenters of England should not be permitted , as well as the dissenters of Scotland and Ireland , to marry in their own places of worship , by their mvinxfffirslie ^

    they approved of . Lord ( then Mr . ) Brougham , after his election for Yorkshire , had said that he was convinced the dissenters had only to ask this boon at the hands of parliament and it would be granted . He ( Mr . Potter ) therefore hoped , that the dissenters of England of all denominations would approach parliament in a manner not to be misunderstood

    and request to be placed on the same footing with other dissenters in the British empire . But he thought that there' was not , generally speaking , a sufficient bond of union amongst dissenters . He-did not , for his part , like mexely , to meet his fellow-worshippers once a week in the house of prayer , and then all intercourse between them to cease . He

    thought social meetings of this kind would lead to the happiest results , and he hoped that this would not be the last . The Chairman said , that all present owed a debt of gratitude to the Greengate Society for being the means of bringing them together .

    "hty would disci ) arge part , of that debt by expressing their hearty good wishes for the prosperity of the Greengate congregation , and for the increasing satisfaction and comfort in every way of their worthy

    minister . They had peculiar claims on the hearty co-operation and-support of the other two congregations , not merel y as a body of sectarians contending for certain peculiarities of doctrine , but also as an advanceguard of strenuous adversaries to

    Jgnorance , and vice , and crime . They were desirous of making their place of worshi p a centre of instruction and enli ghtenment to the neighbourhood ,

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    by the Sunday-school which they had established , and which was supported with great zeal and success by an infants ' -school which they had also established in the same room , and by a library and other valuable institutions connected with their place of worship . He was sure _ all

    present would join in the sentiment that ' while we express our hearty good wishes for our brethren the Greengate Society and their minister , we would particularly congratulate them on having added an infants ' -school to the other useful institutions connected with their place of worship . ' The Rev . J . R . Beard returned

    thanks for the good wishes expressed in the sentiment , and said , that he considered the congregation with which he had the happiness to be connected , owing to the strenuous , disinterested , and untiring efforts of its members , and to the unceasing kindness of its friends , to be ^ in a far better state at present than it had

    ever before been , and to be doing a good if not an extensive work in the neighbourhood in which it was situated . He would just allude to the infant school , which had not been established quite twelve months , because he wished to pay a meed of praise where it was most justly due ; and to show that with small means

    much good might be done , —that in fact wherever a Sunday-school existed there might also be an infantschool . Mr . Beard detailed the circumstances under which the school had been established , owing chiefly to the liberality of Mr . Thos . Potter , the result of which was that the

    school was now flourishing wjttli . an . average " of 130 children . He thought that the efforts made to raise up new congregations , crowned with success as they had been in Greengate and other parts of the kingdom , showed that much valuable good might be done in this way to the cause of truth . He would refer to another question , that respecting a

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    CORRESPONDENCE . 117

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1833, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2611/page/21/