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    INTELLIGENCE AND CORRESPONDENCE,

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    Intelligence And Correspondence,

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    LITTLE PORTLAND-STOEET CHAPEL . Sir , —My attention has lately been drawn tolbhe subject of the building of a Chapel in Little Portland-street , Regent-street , for the congregation of Unitarians who have for some years past assembled in York-street * St . James ' s-square , and as I deem it

    an undertaking of considerable interest to the Unitarian public , I trust you will give this letter a place in your valuable work . It may perhaps be interesting to such of your readers as are unacquainted with the history of this congregation , to state some particular ' s of its establishment and progress ; for I have met with few" instances lil

    the history of religious societies which afford so large a scope for pleasing reflection , as the zeal which has characterised the foundation of this ; and gratifying indeed to those who have persevered in the arduous task of its formation , must be the contemplation of the good work , and the benefit it is to be hoped will result from it .

    The Chapel in York-street Was fitted up and opened about nine years since , at the sole expense of a gentleman educated in the pTirieiples of the Established Church , but whose inquiring and ingenuous mind was not to be held in bondage by the contradictory dogmas and narrow pre

    judices of wnat is erroneously called the national faith . A comprehensive investigation of the Trinitarian doctrine by a itrind accustomed fvbm professional avocations to reason and reflect , convinced him of its fallaciousness , and of the truth of Unitarianism . This conviction once

    established , he felt it a sacred duty to devote his attention and means to the advancement of what he believed to be pure religion . It had occurred

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    td him that the establishment of a religious society in the western part of the metropolis , professing- the

    sublime doctrine ofThe simple unity of God , and the Messiahship of Jesus Christ , in the sense used by the Apostle Paul in that beautiful and impressive formula of the Christian faith , ' For unto us there is but One Ood the father , and one Mediator between God and man , the man Christ Jesus , ' wolildi be attended with results highly beneficial to the cause of truth ; and having this

    important object only in view , he consulted his valued friend , the late Mr . Belfcham , on the practicability of the undertaking : the consequence was the establisBment of another congregation of Unitarian Christians . It is to . fee lamented that . the progress of the cause in this quarter did not &i first keep pace with the benevolent wishes of its liberal promoter , the influence of fashion and the

    dread of censure operating to deter rnany , of whom better things had been hoped , from joining the Society still it gradually increased , and at length assumed & form which protfilged At no distant period to realize the just expectations of its friends , and to be the . means of important and extensive good . It was at this interesting period that it had to contend with unforeseen and serious

    difficulties , threatening the dispersion of the infant Church , by the congregation being unexpectedly called upon to relinquish the Chapel , which it appears was required asan ' adjunct to the neighbouring metropolitan fabric , Rumour has hinted that ;

    some little jealous feeling on the parfc of influential persona of the English communion was mingled with this transaction , and that the removal of such an establishment from the immediate neighbourhood , of an episco *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/22/