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? Second , to Mr . John Howard Ryland , of Birmingham , a divinity student in the second year ; and the third , to Mr . Richard Martineau , of London , a lay student in the second year ; the first Mathematical Prize to Mr . Ryland , and the second to Mr . John Hugh Worthington , of Leicester , a
divinity student in the first year ; the Prize for greatest improvement in Elocution during the Session to Mr . Edmund Kell , M . A . of the University of Glasgow , a divinity student in the fourth year ; and that for the best delivery during the present Examination to Mr . G . B . Wawne .
Mr . Philips' Prize for Classical Proficiency was awarded to Mr . Ryland . After which the business of the three days was closed with the following Address : " The occasion on which we are now met becomes the more interesting , on account of the considerable number of students in the College , who are this year to leave it with a view to the exercise of
the Christian Ministry ; a circumstance which naturally suggests the propriety of rendering this short Address the means of conveying to your minds , my young friends , an impressive idea of the importance of the office which you are undertaking , and the necessity , if you mean to be faithful in the discharge of it , of continuing to devote the main part of your time to the studies and duties connected
with it ; and , if you should find it neces sary to your further comfortable provision , to have recourse to any supplementary means of subsistence , or expedient , in order to your more effectual
lespectability and usefulness , to assist in the promotion or management of schemes of public advantage , of considering these as only subordinate to your great object , and directing them so sis to render them subservient to it , in the advancement of the mental and moral character of the
places where you may reside . With the allowance of these extensions it will become your duty to * meditate on' the objects connected with your profession as Ministers of Christ , and to ' give yourselves wholly to them , that your profiting may appear unto all . " * 1 trust that you will none of you be tempted to
conclude , from the expression too commonly used respecting students on their quitting a place of academical education , that you have * finished your studies / ff you have duly attended to and profited by the excellent instructions you have here received ,
you will be sufficiently aware that they are only begun ; and that your whole lives must be devoted , without being sufficient , to their completion . You have here had presented to you a sketch only , happily indeed conceived and skilfully traced , and you have been directed to
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the choice and judicious application of the materials proper for fitting up the complete figure of the perfect man in ' Chirst Jesus ; but it will remain for yourselves in humble dependence on the Divine assistance and blessing , for which it will become you earnestly to pray , to bring out fully the several organs and
lineaments , in all their beauty of proportion and colouring . The field has been set before you in which you are to sow the good seed ; but it will require all your study and attention to apply with judgment the principles of cultivation to the various qualities of the soil ; and , while you rejoice , as we hope you will have
reason , in the abundant produce you will perceive growing up , almost without your care , from the good ground , to root out the thorns of worldly-mindedness , to temper the hasty , unproductive heat of the shallow * stony ground , and to put to flight the tempters that hover round to pick up the seed from those by the wayside , before it is cherished and allowed to
strike root . You see , therefore , that you still have much to learn , much that will require the careful application of your best abilities : and if it should please Divine Providence to lengthen your days , you must expect , like the ancient sage , to ' grow old learning many things /
" With respect to the state of mind with which it will become you to enter upon your office , and the sort of reading and study which will , for a time at least , demand your whole attention , I doubt not you will avail yourselves of the instructions of your excellent Theological Tutor , of whose disposition and ability to afford
you on this important subject the most judicious advice , you have already so pleasing a specimen in his address to a class of your predecessors ( 1811 ) annexed to his ' Sermon on the Objects of pursuit proper for Young Persons who have received a liberal Education . ' ( A discourse which I earnestly wish m ; fy engage the
close attention and study of our young lay-friends who are leaving us ; they will find it an excellent directory of their future conduct in the scenes of active life . ) And I trust 1 may , without danger of disappointing either you or the public ,
encourage the expectation of your enjoying the further pleasure and advantage of receiving from the press the services which delighted a numerous assembly on a late occasion . ** After this I hope it will not be considered as quite presumption to refer you to a Letter to a Young
* On the Settlement of Mr . J . J . Tay ler in Mosley Street , Manchester , April 20 , 1821 .
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428 Intelligence . —Manchester College , York .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/48/
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