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634 Intelligence .- ^ -General Synod of Ulster .
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General Synod of Ulster . ( From the Dublin Evening Post , Tuesday , July 13 . ) The following is a summary of the proceedings of this venerable Body : Wednesday , the 7 th , was chiefly occupied in routine business , such as the appointment of Committees , receiving the
Reports of the Presbyteries , &c , and various other acts of discipline . A Report was given in by the Committee appointed to superintend the formation of a Fund for the support of the Professorship of Divinity in the Belfast Academical Institution . Such measures were , in consequence , adopted , as are likely to promote that teiidable object .
A Code of Discipline for the direction of the Presbyterian clergy and laity in connexion with the Synod of Ulster was now submitted . This document had been in preparation for several years , and had undergone a final revision by a numerous
Committee of the Synod , which had met at Moneymore in December last . In this amended state , after due deliberation , it was finally adopted , and orders given that it should be printed , under the direction of a Committee , which w * then appointed .
On the morning of Thursday , the Rev . Mr , Cochran , of JUarne , appealed from the sentence of the Presbytery of Templepatrick , who had sus p ended htm sine die . The Synod dismissed the appeal , and confirmed the sentence of the Presbytery . After a protracted discussion , it was agreed that , in future , clergymen who shall absent themselves from the Annual
Meeting of the Synod , shall each pay a fine of 2 / ., except in the case of ministers whose state of health , or advanced time of life , necessitates them to employ assistants . The assistants are also exempt , in consequence of their receiving no share of the Royal Bounty .
After some other business of minor importance , Mr . Cooke , the Moderator , left the Chair , in order to propose an overture to the Synod . After expressing his approbation of the conduct of the management of the Belfast Institution , and the great utility that must result from
this Seminary , he concluded by moving an overture to the following effect : — That hereafter the Moderator , on being notified of an approaching election , should call together the Syii 6 d * s fixed Committee , * and submit to them the names and qualifications of the candidates ; that he should then take their advice as to the
• This Committee , which is appointed annually , consists of two ministers and au elder from each of the fourteen Presbyteries contained in the Synod .
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vote he should give , and should be autho * rized to express to the other electors the opinion of the Committee . —The Learned and Reverend Gentleman observed * that in this way the Moderator wouid appear and act as was intended by * he framers
of the Act of Incorporation , not as a private individual , hut as th * Jiepresentative of the Body , This motion , which was seconded by tbe Rev . ^ M r . Porter ,:, of NewtawnJimavady , passed unanimously , and seemed to give the most general satisfaction . ; ¦ -
An Address . from the Faculty of the Belfast Academical Institution was then read , giving favourable details of the literary operations and progress of that Establishment during the last year * Another address was presented by the Bev * W . D . H . M'Ewen , Professor Thomson and Thomas Ekenhead , Esq *» from the
Joint Boards of Managers , and Visitors of the Institution , detailing die proceed * ings of those Boards ; and , in particular , referring to an application which was lately made to the British Government , in favour of that Seminary . It also stated , that Parliamentary Commissioners had been appointed to inquire into the utility , administration and resources of the
Establishment * On this important subject , Mr . M'Ewen and Professor Thomson gave such farther details as seemed ne ~ cessary for the more perfect informatioa of the Synod . The Synod then unanimously came to a resolution , which was in substance to
the following eflfect : —" That they learned with great satisfaction , that Parliamentary Commissioners had been appoiated to inquire into the state of the Belfast Academical Institution , as they hoped that such investigation might tend to establish thai connexion betwixt
Government and the Institution , which would be so instrumental in promoting the ipesk timable advantages of home education in this part of Ireland *—at * object which , from the experience of nine years * they have found this Serainary so eminently calculated to effect . "
On Friday , a -memorial from certain members of the congregation of Turlough , in Connattght , was . presented to the Synod , complaining that their rights had been invaded ^ in the election of a minister , and that the Rev * John Hamilton had been irregularly ordained among them , by the Presbytery of Clogher . A
long statement of the facts was read by the Clerk , and the Presbytery of Clogher heard in defence . It was decided , that the proceedings of the Pml > ytery have been informal and precipitate , and three members were appointed to visit the congregation , and act according to Synodica l regulations . ' i' ^ n-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/58/
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