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examinations , the students are not previously apprized of any question that will be asked them , or of any passage which they will be calVed upon to explain , and that their orations and discourses are uncorrected ,
and indeed unseen by any of their tutors . Considering this , and the number of young students "who were now for the first time to appear before so numerous and respectable an assembly , the result was highly
satisfactory . The examination was closed by an address from the Visitor , which , at the request of the Trustees present , is sent for insertion in the Monthly Repository . A part of it was also ordered to be separately printed , and a copy given to each student on his admission , . " Gentlemen ,
" In commencing my annual address to you at the close of this gratifying exercise , I am naturally led" to express the regret which I am suTe we all feel at the absence of our late excellent and venerable president , so
distinguished by his uniform attachment , through the course of a ' long life , to the promotion of virtue , truth , and science , and to the cause of reli g ions and civil liberty ; by his steady friendship and substantial countenance of some of its most eminent
confessors ; and by his munificent patronage of the places of public education devoted to it , particularly of this Institution ; where we have seen his
cheerful and encouraging manners add a grace to the dignity and excellence of his character , an d a sanction to his judicious suggestions ; and , while they have commanded ihe esfeem and
respect of those of maturest age , engage the love and admiration of the young . I am sure 1 shall express the general wish . that this may be only an occasional absence ; and that though he has ceased to hold the connexion with us which it was every where our pride to avow , he will still continue to adorn
° ur annual meetings , so long as it shall please a kind Providence to continue to him the blessing of a healthy and vigorous old age , the consequence and . reward of a well spent life . % " It has been usual , in taking leave ° » our young friends , at the close of each session , to address a few word 9 to tho $ e , with whom our academical Jttnnexion is " concluded . To both-our wends -who are going out to theexer-
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ctee of the Christian mi n istry we wish the best success , —the success of eminent usefulness in the promotion erf * truth and practical religion , the uativ * union of which one of them has just so well described . I hope that neither of them needs to be reminded by me , that the eyes of the world will be upon
them — of many with no favourable intentions ; and that for whatever they do or say not only themselves , but the cause which they serve , will be made answerable . Great prudence and circumspection , therefore , will be requisite , to avoid every reasonable , and often even unreasonable cause of
offence . One of our young friends will have the difficult task of maintaining high credit already obtained by a former associate in the studies of this place , in one of the most eminent
seats of learning in the sister-kingdom . The charge is a weighty and important , and in some respects an awful one : for it wiH subject the man wtio holds it to the risk of dishonour as
well as honour , of evil as well as of good report . It will , of course , be an objecfof his constant ^ study , that the former be in no case deservedly incurred . —But into whatever situation either of our friends may be thrown , they will both of them , I hope , be careful to recollect , that great selfattention and caution will be
necessary , in the common intercourses of Iife , a 9 well as in their preparations for , arid conduct in the pulpit , to insure * their respectability and usefulness ; and the utmost care to avoid giving any handle to those who will be ready enough to take it , of perverting ;
illconsidered expressions to the disadvantage of the speaker and his cause ; of taking offence at petulant or provoking words ; and setting themselves in decided hostility to whatever may border on abxise or violence . —The sun
will prevail to strip off the cloak of prejudice , much sooner than the north wind " I . hope Mr . Strattorj " will believe he has our best wishes in the further progress of his studies , and in tftfe coiirse of his future life . He will excuse my * reminding him , for I am persuaded he needs only to be temimled—the reflection must often have occurred to
himself , while composing the excellent Essay which we haVe'just heard of the obligation which lies upon those whom P < rovi 4 eoce has placed in easy
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Intelligence . —Manchester College , Fork . . 417
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/45/
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