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    HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE UN1TARIAN ASSOCIATION.

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    not , but as a means of promoting sociability , particularly among the younger members of the congregation , they are highly useful . ' It will be seen by the statement annexed that the Society owes fifty-. fompaunds , jyhil e thereji s , due only

    thirty-eight pounds , showing a deficiency of fourteen pounds , which is , however , more than compensated by the increased amount of their stock . The Committee regret the deficiency of their pecuniary means , as they are very desirous of publishing a set of Cottage Sermons . This would furnish a variety in what they have as

    yet presented to the public , and would supply a want which has been much felt . They have had it also in contemplation toreprint , in a cheap form , the Morning Exercises of the late Rev . R . Robinson of Cambridge ; a little work which abounds in just and striking thoughts , and is written in a style peculiarly adapted to arrest the attention of those for whom the

    Christian tracts are chiefly intended . The Committee trust that the liberality of the public will enable them to accomplish one or both of these valuable objects '; and they hope they may be permitted to state as some encouragement for the liberality which is solicited , that the affairs of

    the Society , though not nourishing , are yet in a much more clear and unembarrassed condition . than they have been for years ; arid further ; , that such systematic arrangements have been made , that no delay will take place in supplying subscribers and friends with the tracts they may want .

    . After the Report was read , it was stated that the total number of tracts printed by the Society amounted to 552 , 459 , and that there were now on hand 76 , 139 , the estimated value of which was 470 / . 16 s , 8 d . The following gentlemen were elected into office for the ensuing year : —James Esdaile , Esq . Treasurer , John E , Clennell , Secretary ; Committee , Rev . Means , Philp , and

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    Wood , Messrs . Bracher , Dixon , Green , Hennell , Firnie , and Smallfield . The following resolutions were then passed , in relation to which the Committee will be glad to receive the opinions of the Subscribers : — - I . That it be referred to the

    Committee to consider andTreport ^ afc ^ tft ef next Annual Meeting on the propriety of adopting into the Society ' s catalogue any tracts published by other societies or individuals , which may be regarded as conducive to the objects of this Society . II . That this Meeting highly approve of the suggestion contained in the Report relative to a set of Cottage Sermons , and that the Committee he instructed to take measures for the accomplishment of this object .

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    188 INTELLIGENCE AND

    Hull, East Yorkshire, And North Lincolnshire Un1tarian Association.

    HULL , EAST YORKSHIRE , AND NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE UN 1 TARIAN ASSOCIATION .

    The twenty-first general Meeting was held at Thome , on Thursday and Friday , the 4 th and 5 th April . On the Thursday evening , Mr . Duffield , of Stockton , ( late of Thome , ) preached ' On the objects and advantages of a Christian

    congregation , from Heb . x . 23—25 ; and on Friday morning , Mr . Worsley , of Gainsbro ' , preached from Acts v . 38 , 39 , ' If this counsel or this work be pf men , ' &c . In the evening a public Meeting was held in the Chapel , Mr , Dufjpield presiding , when the following propositions were maintained in suitable addresses to a very crowded audience .

    I , By Mr . Higginson , of Bull : — As Dissenters from the Established Church of our country , we look-with lively interest to the progress of public events , whenever they bear upon the religious rights of ourselves an $ our fellow Dissenters ; and we confidently hope that the reformed Parliament will not long delay the completion of perfect religious liberty for all classes of British subjects .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/28/