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The Christian pioneer, Volume 4

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Belfast - Page 433
In Belfast and its neighbourhood, six individuals have contributed one hundred pounds each; several others have given fifty pounds each; ...
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Ayr - Page 328
have opened its doore to them in the Presbytery of Irvine, or within the bounds of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. ...
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Glasgow - Page 261
Bishop Abernethy Drummond having been appointed to the united diocese of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Fife, held the first diet for confirmation at Glasgow ...
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Dublin - Page 433
Society*' is proceeding with good prospect of success — that the lectures at Belfast and Dublin have been well attended to the close — that similar ...
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Leeds - Page 1
THE subject of this biographical notice was born at Leeds, iri Yorkshire, in the year 1732, His father, the Rev. ...
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Warrington - Page 277
William Broadbent, who, in 1790, settled as pastor of the congregation at Warrington, and the Rev. Eliezer Cogan, who afterwards exercised his ...
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York - Page 328
Hawkes, one of the students at York, who lias nearly completed his preparatory studies for the ministry, and is invited to the second congregation at ...
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Rome - Page 191
Tried by the standard of those exact and elegant compositions, which proceeded from the classical writers of Greece and Rome, they no doubt have much ...
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Dundee - Page 293
Much have we been pleased with the particulars of a lecture delivered at Dundee by a common Carter, to an audience of nearly four hundred of many of ...
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London - Page 382
This phrase does not imply an immediate setting out for Galilee; when a man has fixed upon a long journey to London or Bath, it is common enough to ...
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Keene, New Hampshire - Page 333
Congregational Society at Keene, New Hampshire, America. [THE Rev. TR Sullivan, the Pastor of this Congregation and the Editor of " The Liberal ...
Norwich - Page 328
one of the students at York, who lias nearly completed his preparatory studies for the ministry, and is invited to the second congregation at Norwich, ...
Manchester - Page 432
He was glad to hear the members of the London deputation express tbe gratification they had experienced from their present visit to Manchester; ...
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Edinburgh - Page 303
The remarkable situation and picturesque aspect of Edinburgh and its environs, its public institutions and splendid buildings, the respectable ...
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Hackney - Page 228
Belsham was chosen his successor by the congregation at Hackney; which situation Dr. Priestley had occupied after the disgraceful outrages at ...
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New Lebanon, NY - Page 345
Not long since, I attended a religious meeting of the Shakers at New Lebanon, NY This Society, the oldest of the kind in America, was founded by ...
Gibraltar - Page 413
only yesterday a letter was received from Gibraltar, stating that various tracts had been printed and widely circulated by the Committee at Gibraltar. ...
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Lancaster - Page 302
After passing through the counties of Stafford, Chester, and Lancaster, they were much gratified by visiting Windermere, Grassmere, Derwent Water, ...
La Roche - Page 314
The story told of the pious and venerable La Roche, will illustrate our meaning. The old man had suffered a severe domestic affliction in the loss of ...
Bristol - Page 254
His means of information, too, were extensive, being Physician to the Lunatic Asylum near Bristol ; and Dr. Mason, who is mentioned in the extract I ...
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Boston - Page 90
His own place of worship being small, he advertised for the loan of some of the other places of worship in the city of Boston. ...
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Jerusalem - Page 247
resembling in this respect the Jews who returned from Babylon to build the wall of Jerusalem, of whom the sacred historian remarks, that " every one ...
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Plymouth - Page 237
that he should extend to the new Church and its Pastors, in the name of the Christian brethren at Plymouth, the Right Hand of Fellowship, ...
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Bolton - Page 417
Macclesfield, Chester; Bank -Street, and Moor Lane, Bolton; Altrincham and Hale, Hindley, Blakeley, Warrington, Preston, Stockport, Ormskirk, Chorley, ...
Eretria - Page 269
Andrew Scott, titular bishop of Eretria, residing in Glasgow, is coadjutor to bishop M'Donald, with right of succession). ...
Nottingham - Page 263
a distinguished member of the Society of Friends, having publicly opposed a preacher on a point of doctrine, was imprisoned in Nottingham in 1649. ...
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Northampton - Page 2
Cappe spent at Northampton, some doubts arose in his mind respecting the evidences of Christianity. These he determined to investigate in the most ...
Damascus - Page 48
His own account is, that on a journey to Damascus, with a view to procure authority to persecute the Christians, he was suddenly struck to the earth ...
Liverpool - Page 417
Manchester; Salford; Paradise-Street, and Park Chapel, Liverpool; Newchurch, Rossendale, Todmorden, Padi- ham, Congleton, Knutsford, Lancaster, Hyde; ...
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Leicester - Page 211
It is related, that, when he left Leicester, the place of his residence in England, to embark for the forests of America, although at the time he was ...
Canterbury - Page 199
The English Secretary of State, however, procured two persons to visit England, from the Pope, " to whom he showed the London and Canterbury service ...
Vienna - Page 148
On his arrival at Vienna, he finds that a similar spirit has influenced the Austrian government, if not at the present day, at least of a former time. ...
Athens - Page 89
life by a resurrection from the dead, was deemed by tbem incredible, and was laughed at when Paul preached it at Athens (Acts xxvi. ...
Salem, Massachusetts - Page 210
ON the 6th August, 1629, was founded at Salem, Massachusetts, the first Congregational Church of the New World. Two centuries have passed away since ...
Coventry - Page 84
exclaimed the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. " This solemn mockery" — observed the Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst — " this unhallowed equivocation, ...
Florence - Page 403
They resemble the philosopher of Florence, who refused to look through the newly invented telescope of Gali-l leo, which displayed new Worlds never ...
Prague - Page 148
Proceeding north to complete the circuit of Germany, he is led to believe, on his arrival at Prague, that its library, of 100000 volumes, ...
Brunswick - Page 148
of less than 7000 inhabitants, and learns with no little pleasure, that the government of Brunswick has enriched it with a library of 200000 volumes. ...
Darmstadt - Page 147
After proceeding about thirty miles, he enters Darmstadt, where he beholds a third, containing 85000; at Mayence, another of 90000; ...
Hamburg - Page 148
Advancing still north to Hamburg, he is delighted in visiting the commercial and city libraries, of 25000 and 80000 volumes, to discover that this ...
Mayence - Page 147
After proceeding about thirty miles, he enters Darmstadt, where he beholds a third, containing 85000; at Mayence, another of 90000; ...
Oxford - Page 111
In that same year, Jeremy Bentham, then a student at Oxford, read that pamphlet. On reading the phrase, he is said to have exclaimed, ETPHKA, ...
Berlin - Page 148
Proceeding to Berlin, he enters the library of the University, containing 180000 volumes. The Konigsberg library, of 50000; the large collection at ...
Wigan - Page 364
THE Eighth Half-yearly Meeting of the Bolton District Unitarian Association, was held at Park-Lane, near Wigan, on Thursday, April 29th, 1830. ...
Maidstone - Page 43
Maidstone. Rochdale. Warrington. Bath. Kendal. Halifax. Mr. James Stansfeld,~jei 0 0 I Mr. Brown, — ., . A Friend, 10 0 Rev. W. Turner, Jun. ...
Munich - Page 148
at Land- shut, one of 100000; and at Munich, he discovers the largest in all Germany, and the third in the world, containing 400000 volumes. ...
Rochdale - Page 43
Rochdale. Warrington. Bath. Kendal. Halifax. Mr. James Stansfeld,~jei 0 0 I Mr. Brown, — ., . A Friend, 10 0 Rev. W. Turner, Jun. Miss lbbetson, 10 o| ...
Kendal - Page 43
Kendal. Halifax. Mr. James Stansfeld,~jei 0 0 I Mr. Brown, — ., . A Friend, 10 0 Rev. W. Turner, Jun. Miss lbbetson, 10 o|. Mr. Girle, £l 1 0 Dr. ...
Halifax - Page 43
Halifax. Mr. James Stansfeld,~jei 0 0 I Mr. Brown, — ., . A Friend, 10 0 Rev. W. Turner, Jun. Miss lbbetson, 10 o|. Mr. Girle, £l 1 0 Dr. Ramsay] — «. ...
Portsmouth - Page 42
Portsmouth. The British and Foreign Unitarian Associa. «£25 Mrs. Burkitt, Hackney, Joseph Wright, Esq. Dal- ston, — . .—-,—. 2 A Lady, by Rev. R. ...
Madras - Page 414
Rees said, " I think that our prospect at Madras affords the best ground of hope for ultimate success. It is not my intention to claim for William ...
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Perth - Page 263
William Wilson, Perth; the Rev. Alexander Moncrieff, Abernethy ; and the Rev. James Fisher, Kinclaven, — found it necessary to separate from the ...
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Berkeley - Page 318
that, by at least two of the greatest metaphysicians that ever lived, Berkeley and Hume, the very existence of matter has been questioned. ...
Cincinnati - Page 32
Ware, who had preached in several towns with great effect, offers the most interesting prospects ; in Cincinnati also, a surprising expression of ...
Calcutta - Page 427
The removal of some from Calcutta, and the death of others — for death has there extended its empire, as well as to other places — have thrown, ...
Delhi - Page 184
Without power, wealth, or connexions in the imperial city of Delhi, the character, talents, and learning of Ram- mohun Roy, have pointed him out as ...

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Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...Page 340
Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.Page 17
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.Page 198
... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...Page 407
Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.Page 139
... if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.Page 168
Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.Page 182
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...Page 338
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.Page 96
Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread?Page 314

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