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views were "making extensive though silent progress through the general synod of Ulster". This was a challenge to the orthodox, and the general synod at
Moneymore, on 2 July, agreed to a public contradiction of the assertion. Bruce joined the seceders of 1829 in the formation of the Unitarian Society
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presbytery. His father's old congregation at Strand Street, Dublin, then called him on 24 March 1782 as colleague to John Moody, D.D., on the death of Thomas
Plunket. He took part in the volunteer movement of 1782, serving in the ranks, but declined a command. At the national convention which met in
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Belfast, increased. He drew up for his congregation a hymn-book in 1801 (enlarged 1818), but while he paid attention to congregational
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Belfast Academy mainly owed its reputation to Bruce, who came through the "barring out" student rebellion of 12 April 1792. In the troubles of 1797 and 1798 he enrolled himself as a private in the Belfast Merchants' Infantry, sent his family to
216:, Belfast, 1824, 2nd edition 1826. In the second edition he rated his doctrines as "anti-trinitarian"; in later life he was anxious to have it known that he had not altered his views. He considered himself a Unitarian, though not in the sense of
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was offered to him, but he put forward the claims of another. He did become involved with the Widows' Fund, founded in 1751 by his great-uncle, William Bruce (1702–1755), and the establishment of a
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singing he resisted, in 1807, the introduction of an organ. He broke the custom of silent
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for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge (9 April 1831), though he would have preferred as the colourless name "A Tract Society".
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