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from tin * frippery of human ornaments , and cleared from the mbb \ sh of human bulwarks . It is no small part of the province of a teacher uf Christianity to distinguish betwot n the word of God and the additions which men have made to it . ' *
At this particular crisis I should derm myself wanting in duty , as an advocate of Protestantism ^ not to congratulate the religious public upon the recent multiplication of Charity Schools and of Bible
Societies throughout the land . The truly Christian union of Churchmen and Dissenters , in this blessed w (* rk , is a cheerful and invigoratmi ? ray of light which shoots athwart the portentous darkness of the tiirtfes . It shews that Chris ~
tianity , with its divisions and subdivisions , hath still left energy enough to lift up its professors above the wretched narrowness or party-views ; rendering them
intent on advancing the glory of the SuPRhjVTE Betno , by cordially uniting to promote the present ar-d everlasting interests of mankind——< Ho'd fast the golden chain Let down t : om Heav'n—' twill bear thee upward : ' Twas Wisdom ' s noblest work—and every link is love ! Watts . Islirigton , Feb , 8 , 1812 .
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Present State % > f Education in Iceland ^
[ From Sir G . S M ckenzie * * Travels in Iceland . 4 to . pp . ^ o—^ ' «] At the present time , the school of Bexsestad is actually < he onl y
establishment fc > r « ducation in Icr . land . About the middle of the l 6 th century , when the reformation or religion took place in the island , two schools were founded
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one at Skalholt ^ the other at H 9 ot um in thfc northern province ; and a landed property was attached to to these institutions * sufficient for the support of between twenty and thirty scholars at each place . Towards the close of the last century , the two schools were united into
one , and transferred to Rtxkiavik , ' while in lieu of the school-lands , which were appropriated by the crown , an annual sum from the public money was allotted to the support of the establishment . A
few years ago , the school was again transferred to its present situation at Bessestad ; the building being vacant which was ibrnurly the abode of the governors
of Iceland . This edifice , though b y no means in good repair , is from its size better adapted than any other in the country for the purposes to which it is now applied ; and , but for the interven - tion of the war between England
and Denmark , would have beeti further improved l > y the completion of some additional buildings , which are yet in an unfinished state . The establishment at Besses tad
consists , at present , of three mas - ters , and twenty-three or twentyfour scholars ; the funds of tbp school not allowing the reception of a greater number . The head master , or Lector Theologian ^ has an annual salary of 600 rix . dollars . It is his office to supeiintend
the general concerns o £ the school , and to conduct more especially the theological department , and the study of the Hebrew language At the time of our arrival in Iceland , the person who held this 3 i < uation , was Mr , Steir * grim Jonson ; a man apparently not more than thirty-five years of age but
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144 Present State of Education in Icelan d *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/8/
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