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that it is difficult to say in which he most excelled . No man in thai college it is supposed ever examined so many difficult and weighty subjects &s he did , and few even in their limited courses maintained an equal reputation $ nor were his views exclusively occupied with these higher concerns , but extended to the minutest point
of cfiscipline . It was his custom to attend early prayers at six o ' clock in winter and summer , that he might set an example of devotion , industry and self-denial to ih * students ; sloth he considered as the bane of youth and nurse of idleness , and therefore he
omitted nothing that could induce them to become active and diligent . He was equally in the maintenance of gOod order and good government , yet the strictness of his discipline he admirably tempered with the courteousness of his manners .
and was popular even with those whom he was obliged to censure . Thus he proceeded in his government of the college to the universal satisfaction of the public , tril his Grace the Duke of Richmond , lord lieutenant of Ireland , in his
accustomed noble spirit of patronizing men of virtue and talents , thought fit to reward his services by Conferring on him the bishopric of Dromore , vacant by the death of the late Dr . Percy , and had itpleased the Almighty to have spared him some years longer we cannot entertain
it doubt , but that he would have adorned this high station ivith the graces becoming a Christian bishop . Even during the short titne he lived after his appointment , he ttoti ^ d his mind to the care o £ hi s diocese , enquiring into the state of Iiis clergy , providing-for their constem residence , and forming tfe .
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188 Obituary . —Rev . Gr , Halt , D . D . late Bishop of Dromore .
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signs for the faithful discharge of thei ^ r sevefal duties . But he was
destined to view his earthly reward only at a distance and for a momenta the'day of his consecration , we may say , closed the scene of his valuable life ; on the next , a mortal complaint seized his throat , and , baffling all the efforts of medical skill , hurried him off in a
few days ; he expired in the bosom of the present Provost > Dr . Elrington , who had through his illness , watched with the anxious tenderness of a friend and brother . The foregoing historical summary has accidentally exhibited
some traits of his lordship ' s character ; a few more may not be unpleasing to the reader . He had early imbibed a principle of religion , the only sure and safe guide of life , and had made it the foundation of his moral conduct : hence .
that sobriety and modesty so remarkable in his youth ; hence , that regular attendance on divine offices and his dfcvout humility in attending them * His piety was warm without enthusiasm , sedate without austerity * he worshipped in the beauty of holiness , in spirit and in truth ; he was well versed in theology , to the study of which much of his time was devoted , not
so much from curiosity as conscience , for he deemed it the duty
of every minister of the gospel , to be ready always to give an atfsvtfer as to the r ^ aston of his hope- stich were his religions impressions . In his transaction ^ with the tv dvl d he was strictly just , candid and honourable , hospitable without parade , and charitable without
ostentation , a generous relative , a 6 onantand sincere friend , tttpgjttfally toithose under the pressure bf sickness or sorrow , when the ^ e ap-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/52/
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