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Constitution , Mr . Hutton , on Fortitude , Mr . Kenrick , on theDifTerent Conclusions to be drawn from the Success of Christianity and of Mohamedism , and by Mr . Henry Turner , on the State of the Roman World at the coming of Jesus Christ . The examinations continued
each day from nine to five o ' clock , and gave great satisfaction to all who attended them . They were closed by the following Address from the Visitor , which , at the request of the Trustees present , is sent for insertion in the Monthly Repository . " Gentlemen , I have the highest
pleasure in fulfilling the commission with which I am honoured , hy those who have attended this long and satisfactory examination , of expressing to you the favourable opinion which they have formed from it , of the improvement you have made of the advantages which it has been their happiness to provide for
you . We are gratified also , to hear from your tutors a report of your general regularity and good conduct , by which you have maintained the character of the Institution accuiredby your predecessors in these important respects , I confess myself to have been particularly pleased to learn , that at the same time that you
liave yourselves been receiving the benefits of an education of the highest form , you have exerted yourselves , with the utmost cheerfulness and assduity , to instruct , in your turn , the children of the poor , in knowledge particularly suited to their humbler rank , though essential to the happiness of every class of men . I allude to the Sunday-school on the
Lancastrian plan , which you have sppntaneously instituted and personally taught . I trust that the satisfaction you have experienced , from the success with which this benevolent employment of your Sundays * leisure has already been attended , will encourage you to persevere in it , and thus , at the same time , both dispose
and qualify you for hereafter preaching the gospel to the poor : by impressingyou with a personal sense of their importance and value , not only as members of society , but as creatures and children of God , and equally obects of his love , and
expectants of his future favour , with those who may seem to be placed at present in more favourable circumstances ; and also by rendering you better acquainted with their wants , their prejudices , and the behaviour and language best suited to the removal of both , In
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this view of your late exertions , you w |}( be found in fact , while instructing others , to have been essentially teaching your selves ; and to have been in a course of preparation for greater usefulness , in the exercise of that important profession to which so many of you have devoted y ourselves .
" I now come to discharge a very agreeable part of the duty of my office by distributing the honorary testimonies of their approbation , which the trustees have it in their power to bestow at the close of every session . In reviewing however , the Report 3 which we have
received for this purpose from your tutors , we have felt a no" unpleasant difficulty , in making the due selection . Among the students of the third year , particularly , there appear the names of some , who , though from the rank which their modesty has induced them to take in this institution , and their excellent
conduct in it , they are strictly within the limits prescribed by the law , have yet , by the improvement previously made by them of the advantages of other seminaries , scarcely left to their younger class-fellows a chance of competition , This is particularly the case with Kir . Joseph Hutton , A . B . of the University
of Dublin , who will , for this reason only , find his name omitted among the students of the first three years : but to whom , and also to Mr . Henry Turner , of the University of Glasgow , the Trustees desire to present the two interleaved copies of the Improved Version of the New Testament , remaining from the
donation of William Smith , Esq . M . P . The first of the three prizes for diligence , proficiency and propriety of conduct , and also for his amiable dispositions and manners , has , after mature deliberation , been awarded to Mr . Hugh Ker , of Hull ; the second to Mr . Thomas Crompton Holland , of Manchester , and the third to Mr . Robert Wallace , of Dudley Of
Mr . Ker and Mr . Holland , their tutors concur to bear the honourable testimony , that they have never , in any the minutest instance , been deficient in their preparation of the business assigned them in their respective classes . The same report they extend to Mr . WdJiain Hincks , of Cork : to whom , is assigned the prize for the greatest proficiency , during the session , in attaining a jus
and natural elocution . « It might have been a natural conclusion of this-short address , to w
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4 ± 0 s intelligence * — York Institution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/56/
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