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knowledged the notice which was taken of their services . The Chairman next gave- ^ - * All seminaries of education established on catholic principles , and may they never fail in producing' exemplary and efficient labourers in the vineyard of V . hritii : - '
The Rev . T . May , of Stand , had been requested to make a few remarks upon the last toast , and it was gratifying to him to do so , for he entirely concurred in the sentiment therein expressed . He had been educated in the Dissenting Academy at Belfast , where the most catholic principles prevailed . He had had for his fellow-studerifcs Churchmen and Calvinists , Trinitarians and Unita-, riansj .. hut these ^^ variesties of opinions had never interfered with their inter- '
course or friendship , and he felt c 6 n- vinced that their proximity to each other had fostered none but kindly feelings . He Wondered how hong'the t ytcrg&g&t ^ i ^ SJp ^ i ^^ of ^} is $ ^ fAi ^^ '' this country would be allowed to continue , without any effort being made to remodel their charters and ' constitution . If it be expected that such a movement will proceed from the learned dignitaries themselves , who preside over these institutions , we may wait till doomsday . The
spirit of the age may reach them , and must reach them ; but it must be expressed , before it . can be heard , by th ; e ' Idu'd ^ of public opinion . After some prefatory observations the Chairman then gave—' Thecause of education- —may speedy and effectual measures be takt * n to render it universal . '
MtvC -J . v Parhishire- rose-to express his admiration of the last sentiment which proceeded from the chair . Education appeared to him to be the instrument by which everything- enlightened an 4 generous in the character of a nation must be achieved . He did not altogether concur in the objections urged by the Chairman against a- national
education . Orily let us have education as much diffused as the light of day , and he eared not whether it was national or not . Once let ^ us feel the effects of it—let the 2 * great evil of ignorance be removexi , and everyother evil of a minor nature would _ be- ^ diminished—and—courected . ^_ -JJeU- ~
was anxious to see the higher seminaries of education constructed upon catholic principles , in order that such principles flight govern the lives of those wh < p are intended to teach in our churches ; but he was
not less anxious that schools should be established in every town and village in the kingdbrri , on the same principle , for the sons and daughters of the people . If it was desirable to protect the mind of the accornplishie < J minister of religion from the undu-e ' biases of preiudice and sectarianismv
inL how much more desirable was it to preserve the minds of the children of the poor from such pernicious infliiences ^ l ^ Ere wished"to see " schools established everywhere , and the . youtb of the nation instructed in suchprin- ^ ciples as would lead them to see thatftheir happiness consists in the
cultivation of their understandings and their hearts . The next toast proposed by the Chairman was' Health and prosperity to the advocates of Unitarianism in Ireland and in Scotland . The JRev . Mr . Smith , late of Dundee ; an ^^\ Y supplying at teTpeetinghouse , Moor-lane , Bolton > deejply sympathized in the situation of the IJnita- *
rians , both in Ireland and in Scotland .. He had been resident for some time past in the ¦ ' land of the mountain and ! the flood . ' He had seen in that countrythe s trongi . power . x ) f . earlyJmpres- - sions . From infancy the people of Scotland imbibed the doctrines of Calvinism . Was it any wonder that
the progress of other opinions was slow ? There was also something in the national character unfavourable to the spread of Unitarianism . He hardly knew how to characterize H , It secluded the real state of in-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1832, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1823/page/29/
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