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Wales , which declaration must be annually renewed . No student is eligible under sixteen years of age . Testimonials are required from the candidates , with regard to their grammar
learning and moral character , and their *• appearing likely to be useful and faithful . " In filling up vacancies , the trustees are directed by the Will , to prefer the sons of poor Presbyterian ministers , equally qualified , before others . This privilege is of great
consequence , and should not be overlooked by the English Presbyterian ministers . The trustees meet quarterly , and the vacancies at Glasgow are filled up at the Lady-day meeting . Any trustee may propose a candidate .
on producing the requisite testimonials . It should be added , that these testimonials are expected to be signed by Presbyterian ministers , possessing a personal knowledge of the applicant .
The trustees are twenty-three in number , of whom thirteen are ministers , and the remainder laymen , the whole consisting of persons resident in London and the neighbourhood .
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Sir , June 2 , 1818 . TH ERE are few subjects of greater importance to us , as accountable creatures , than the use or abuse of that proportion of this world ' s goods , with which it has pleased a good and wise Providence to endow us ; and I wish
to draw the attention of your readers to it , as Christians , and more especially would I address a large part of them as Unitarians , who are at this time , by the rapid increase of congregations , chiefly consisting of the labouring classes , imperiously called
upon to assist liberally in forwarding the spread of their pure and scriptural faith . Ought not such to esteem it a high and precious privilege , to have an opportunity offered them for contributing according to their ability , towards the furtherance of so glorious , a cause ? Who that wishes well to
his brethren of mankind ; who that has a spark of celestial fire in his composition , can reconcile it to his heart and conscience to stand an idle looker on , while this ; great work is performed by the zealous co-operation of many who are possessed of means fair inferior to his own ? How can a rational creature , a professing Christian , expend in trifling amusements , o *
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in feeding a foolish and hurtful vanity , those sums which might aid in building temples to the living God ; in supporting * the revivers of gospel truth f and in training up many to righteousness ? If Unitarians , like other children of this world , are anxious for its
riches and honours , lovers of its luxuries and pleasures , they may doubtless join in the -worthless , mean pursuit , and have a share in the enjoyments and the vexations which they bring to those who seek after or possess them : but if these are our chief ob *
jects in life , we may as well give up the Unitarian , and , I had almost said , the Christian name ; empty , lukewarm professors can feel no interest in gospel truth , no aspirations after Christian perfection in the faith or practice of themselves or others .
Large possessions are blessings only to those who have the steady piety , which alone can enable them to resist the allurements of a flattering ami deceitful world , and in their use firmly pursue the path marked out by duty . Sad in reality , however gay or
splendid in appearance , is the condition of those who abound in wealth , yet shut up their bowels of compassion from those who need ! If religion does not open the heart to all kind feelings , and make the hand liberal ; it has done little of its genuine work * The man who gams a living by
ingenuity and industry , or by a learned profession provides for himself and his family , is called upon to hfc careful and sparing in his own expenses , and if possible so to order those of his household , as to have a regular * overplus of income at the end of the year * which , if he has children or other
connexions to assist . or » provide torn should certainly be laid up for that laudable purpose : yet a certain part of it , a tenth perhaps , might be spared for religious and benevolent purposes ; it will bring down a blessing upon the rest , and , by fostering the best feel- ' ing » in the heart of the bestower , give
him a double enjoyment of all that remains . There is something sordid in continual labour for the sole purpose of gaining money for ourselves and our families ; it is an object ao entirely selfish as to be in danger of shutting out all generous and kin < J feelings towards our fellow ^ cre at ures * but if we allot a proportion of our
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On the Christian Use of Wealth . 4 &T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/19/
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