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love < rf Qo 4 a&puncj ainong your people ; inay H np * di # , niay it not fade , may H pot waver ; may $ h # love of man also abound # njo | ig them through your successful labours , the same mind of gentleqess , generosity aad forfrearapce , which was also } n Christ Jesus ; and may you nto
^ eep the m faithful u death : may it tye youra to see the prize of their high calling secure in their possession , to see the crown , of glory which fadeth not away placed upon their heads by the Judge of ail the earth : may your bliss be multiplied into the bliss of them all : may you have it to say to your Father ,
* ¦ Here we are , aad the brethren whom thou hast given us ;* and in the presence of Jesus , your eldest brother , and the great high-priest of your profession , may you evermore dwell with them , and ia the glories of paradise be evermore partaker * with them , aud in all the songs of paradise be joined by them V
. «? An £ now let me be permitted to address a few words to our young layfriends , particularly to those who are to leaye us : but who will not , I trust , dissolve their connexion with us , or let their
good wishes and exertions be wanting for the future prosperity and success of their Alma Mater . May she have proved indeed a mother to them ! May they continue to exemplify the principles and habits to which it has been her wish and
Jjer endeavour to form them : and may they never nud cause to regret their ne . gleet of her instructions , or feel that , when the knowledge which they should have acquired here shall be called for , to j > e applied in the discharge of the duties of Hfe , it is not at hand , as their friends might have expected !
" But I hope better things of you all , Gentlemen , although I may thus speak , —in the language , I trust , of caution father tha , n of reproof . It is also my earqest desire to caution you against imagining that your education is concluded when you leave this place . On
the contrary , you will fiud that it is , in fact , only begun : that the path is pointed put to you , indeed , which leads to know ^ tedge , virtue and happjues * , but that you must yourselves proceed in it according to the directions giyeu , if you would successfully travel through the journey of } ife , —It is . however , a circumstance of
great encouragemeut , that thpsc of you who have , on th ^ is occasion , exhibited j » pe , cimens of your proficiency in composition , have chosen subjects connected With the maintenance of piety Tind virtue , t | l 4 consequently of haDpincs ^ , both pubc and pritfate-r- ^ thaj , you have reajd the J ^ story _ pf ' mankind with a view to its moral application , th <| t yoti are aw ^ r £ of
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the natural { unperverfced ) connexion of civilization with general benevolence , and of religious liberty with national prosperity ; you feel that the duellist can claim no discipleship of him who cqunnauded us to love our enemies , you are , there * fore , determined never to break the laws
both of God and man , in inean submission to the barbarous maxima of falsely . called polished society ; and are auitnated with that ardent , but liberal aud en light * ened patriotism , which , while it begin * at home , by no means ends there , but embraces the whole Face of mankind . —~
Let me cordially exjjprt you to carry with j * Hi into the world the principles which you have here been forming ; and by a wise and faithful application of them , do honour to the institution in which you received them . " It would have been highly gratifying to have been able to report the spontaneous effusion of the Assistant Visitor , in which the sentiments contained iu the Address
were illustrated and beautifully enforced , and much additional advice was given to the Students in a very interesting manner , but the surprise and delight of the audience precluded the thought of taking notes ; and your reporter would not venture to give a ^ sketch of it from memory . On Friday morning the Trustees wet for business in the Common Hall , when
\ t was a matter of regret to find that the Funds of the College hat } rather decked than advanced during the p ^ st year , particularly in the article of congregational collections , which , with one or two handsome exceptions , ( from Hackney and Bristol , ) appeared to have been rrearly given up . The proceedings of this meeting will be ^ regularly advertised : at
present it will be proper to report , that the Trustees " finding that the present state of the funds did cot admit of any jucreaee iu the expenditure , and ther ^ being only two removals of Divinity Students this year , while there were seven candidat es , conceived it expedient to select four out of the number , a ^ d to grant half of the usual exhibition U » -eac } i ,- provided that
such an arrangement should prove acceptable to their friends ; it beiug understood that these shoqld have a prefereuce to Succeed to full exhibitions as they foil out ; the order of sucf ^ ssion among theni to be hereafter oeeided upon : " that iC the
number © f exU ^ uon , s should be gradually dirainUhei } to 0 &rtee *> , u nless -the public should enable tha Committee -to provide for a l ^ gqr number V" a » d that " the- . ywinl wftHtiQIl-tt tft ? Perwaaem f und , * o replace th ^ < Jepfe Ja . i ; ion -or- ^ bou 8 c-property , bs winded frtft ™* P * *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/50/
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