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116 Unitarian Academy at York .
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He was well aware of the many difficulties he should have to encounter at its commencement ; and the extraordinary labour to which for some years he should be subjected , yet he willingly undertook the charge , conceiving it of the first importance to the interests of Christian truth ^ that the Manchester Academy should not be annihilated . It was removed to this City accordingly in the September of that year ; and for the former part of
the hrst Session , Mr . Wellbeloved was sole Tutor . During the course of the Session , however , Mr . Kerr of Glasgow , whose character in that university was deservedly very high , was recommended by Professor Young , and appointed Tutor in the classical and mathematical departments . During the first Session there were four divinity Students ; during the second , three ; during the greater part of the third , eight ; and at present there are seven , one of the number having been chosen Minister at Bury St , Edmund ' s ^ about two months ago . Here are also five lav Students .
The funds by which the institution is supported , arise from the buildings in Manchester , from contributions and annual subscriptions—the particulars of which are detailed in the several reports of the Committee , published in February 1804 , February 1805 , and February 1306 . Such has already been the success of the institution since its removal to this City , so rapid the improvement of the Students , and so general their good character , that no doubt would remain of its stability and continually increasing reputation , if the subscriptions were so much augmented as to admit of the appointment of a third Tutor : but this arrangement is become indispensable , it being impossible that the constitution of any man should much longer support the unceasing mental exertion which has hitherto devolved
upon the theological Tutor . How unremittingly Mr . Wellbeloved has laboured in the cause , and is now labouring , I shall forbear to say ; , but most earnestly do I wish that those who are interested in the institution would enquire ; and I will venture to predict that a great increase in the number of its patrons , so essential to its permanency , would be the result . May the example of the ^ Accidental Discoverer" be followed by that of many others ! —
You apprehend very justly , Mr . Kditor , that this Seminary is now the only one in the kingdom , where Unitarian Ministers can be educated . I request your insertion of this paper in the next number of your valuable Repository , the success of which , has the best wishes of Sir , Your constant reader , Yorky Feliuanj 6 , l $ 07 , C . C «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/4/
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