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    TEA MEETING, LEWIN'S MEAD.

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    society . The Sermon , in the afternoon was on the utility of Sundayschools : it was attentively listened to by a numerous audience : and the collection on the occasion , in aid of the Sunday-school attached to the Meeting-house , amounted to upwards of £ 20 . The members and friends of the

    cong reg-ati on—metr ~ t o ~ dme ~ t 7 % eTber on Monday in the large room of the Town-hall . The number present was 106 , male and female . Mr . Smith presided . Among the many friends who addressed the meeting , were the Revds . William Smith , J . R . Beard , F . Baker , T . May , CD . Hort , C Wicksteed , and Messrs . J . Brandreth , F . Duffield , C . J . Darbishire , F . Darbishire , Peter Heywood ,

    J . Taylor , Richard Holme , J . Barrow and Boardman . The meeting was characterised by the same spirit of Christian zeal and harmony for which we are happy to say all the preceding Anniversaries have been distinguished . There was the same zeal arid spirit on the part * of-the speakers ; the same candour and earnest attention on the part of the hearers .

    On this occasion , however , there were some respects in which the Meeting possessed a peculiar interest . During the proceedings , Mr . Smith's acceptance of th ^ warm and unanimous invitation of the congregation to become their minister , was announced , and the enthusiastic manner in which it was received , sufficiently testified the attachment of his friends

    at Moor-lane to their deservedly re-r spectcd minister . It was particularly pleasing also to observe the kind spirit with which the chairman proposed , Prosperity to the Bank-street congregation ; ' and the frank and truly Christian temper in which that wish was responded to by the Rev , Mr . Baker and Mr , C . J . Darbishire

    —a manifestation of friendly feeling which may justly be regarded as a bright omen of the success likely to result from the united exertions of

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    these zealous and papular minisfcers in the cause of truth and virtue . In connexion also with this Anniversary , another very interesting Meeting was held on Tuesday , when the children of the Sunday-school attached to the Meeting-house were regaled with an economical dinner . And after having been shortly and

    Kindly addressed by the Revds . W . Smith , T . May , and C . Wicksteed , were dismissed to spend the remainder of the evening , in company with their disinterested and benevolent teachers , in innocent recreation . a w .

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    SiR , ^ -Marry of your readers will probably remember seeing in the Chronicle tor May , 1832 , an account of a Congregational Tea Meeting , held at Levvin ' s Mead Chapel in this city , on the general Fast-day . We had then to report proceedingsto us—of a very ^ iovel kind . It was ,

    as then stated , the first General . Congregational Meeting ever held among us . Many of our friends doubted the possibility of assembling any together at such a Meeting . Some doubted its utility . Oiir _ numbers therefore , comparatively , were but few ; ( about 45 ;) but those who

    were present , were so much pleased , that it was unanimously resolved to hold another such Meeting on the succeeding Good Friday in the sarne year . The result amply fulfilled our expectation ; and fully satisfied of the general utility of these Meetings it was then determined to hold one

    annually \ on Good Friday , that being the only day in the year when all classes are alike at liberty to meet together ; - ^ -Of our i Jlrst ArviwM Meeting , ' then , held on Good Friday , April 5 , I now proceed to g ive you a brief account .

    The pleasant character of the last year ' s Meetings had induced many who had only heard of them from report , to desire to attend this year in

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    CORRESPONDENCE . 153

    Tea Meeting, Lewin's Mead.

    TEA MEETING , LEWIN'S MEAD .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/25/