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- « ed this long , thoug * h satisfactory examination . And indeed it is the tess necessary ^ on the present occasion , as you are also this ^ lay to "become the objects of a most affectionate and impressive address , which will presently be delivered to you in another form * hy one of the most excellent
of your friends , to whom you and all your predecessors are most deeply indebted , not only for the great advantag-e of her inestimable notice .. and friendship , but for the Important public testimony which she is iiow about to bear to your excellent conduct during your residence in this place
of education : " a testimony which you will know bow duly to appreciate , and which you will , I trust be solicitous , through the whole of your future lives , that none of you may forfeit . I am sure
that you will highly value , as I persuade myself will also the public at large , this " lasting * token of her sincere friendship for you , " in furnishing you , and through you the world , with another volume of the invaluable discourses of that venerable
person , who knew so well how to exhibit iu all their beauty and force , the precepts and motives of the gospel ; that those of you who shall be called to fill the honourable station of preachers of the gospel , will make these excellent specimens of the 1
proper way of preachingit , the subjects of your daily study $ and that all of you will be careful to learn from them , < c to adorn the gospel by a life of perfect conformity to it awful sanctions , and to the glroious hopes which it assuredly inspires . "
May the supreme Father and Governor of the world direct and bless you iu your future conduct through life 5 that you may employ the knowledge which you have here respectively acquired , to his glory , the good of mankind and the advancement of the true gospel ofliis son Jesus Christ . Amen .
Tlie company at dinner each day was tnore numerous than on any former occasion ; and , under tlie direction of their venerable president , spent the evenings in a manner highly satisfactory to all present The report of the state of the funds was very
encouraging ; . several new names were ¦ announced both as lay and divinity students , but there is still room to receive a further addition to both classes . Perhaps It is not so generally known us it ought to be , that students for the ministry admitted on the foundation , have the whole of their
* Viz . That of a dedication of a volume of sermons , by the late Hev . and learned Newcome Cappe , just published by Mrs . Cappe , -and addressed l > y her to the students In the Manchester College , Yorfe ; to all of whom who are now exercising-, or intended for the ministry , copies were presented fey the excellent , but too bountiful editor at the close of the examination .
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expenses both of board and tuition d frayed by the fund ; no student however can be so admitted , hut on the recornmenl dation of three ministers residing * in th neighbourhood where he lives , who shall certify , " that at the commencement of his course he will have attained the full ac , e of sixteen ; that on their personal examina
tion and knowledge , his moral character natural endowments and classical profi * ciency , are such as to qualify him fOr becoming a student for the ministry and that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice . His ability to read
Homer and Horace will be considered a > essential . " Such certificates are regularly presented at the annual meeting at York ; but they may still be sent to G . \ V . Wood , Esq . the Treasurer , in Manchester who will lay them before the committee .
Much interesting conversation took place on the desirableness of a more iatimate knowledge and union of the members of the Unitarian body ; and the Re ? . Cliarles Wellbeloved , Dr . Thomson , Mr .
Tottie and the Visitor , were appointed a committee , to consider whether a plan could be formed for accomplishing * this object , which might be free from several objections proposed ; particularly which migiit not interfere with the most perfect
freedom of individual judgment and profession . V . F . N . B . The next Session commences ok Thursday , September 21 st ; and all Students are expected to be at York on the 23 d at the latest , as the several classes regularly open for business on Monday 25 th . "
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450 Intelligence . —THeeting of the Dissenting ministers in Lancashire .
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On the 21 st of June , was held at Chowbent , what has been called from the time when Presbyterian forms and discipline were common , The Provincial Meeting of the Dissenting * Ministers residing in Lanca shire and Cheshire . Mr . Housrhton of
Liverpool , conducted the devotional part of the service , and read the scriptures before the sermon with characteristic and unaffected simplicity . Mr . Gruiidy of Manchester , then delivered an animated and animating * discourse on the advantages and difficulties of Unitarian ministers .
considered as Christian watchmen . But since this discourse , agreeably to g eneral request , is to be printed , it is unnecessary to give any further account of it . The congregation was nHmerous ana res pectable , supposed to be more thaw 800 persons , many attending" from t » f ' neighbouring- congregations . Aftethe services in the chapel , *' 1 Aim —
r -ixll . V-, lav ol-i v ii ^ v ^ .. »« -- * a . - w gentlemen , including- 34 minister * ^ dine tog-ether and spent the afternoon , m tn social harmony and instructive conven - tion , ' which tend to unite Christians in bonds of affection , and produce co-operation -in useful and laudable pursuits . ll > e course of the afternoon , severa l gen
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/50/
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