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ten days before the poll . The call is subscribed by the people , and attested by the minister . „ If the candidate chosen be a probationer , he is put through a course of second trials , previous to ordination . And so completely does the election of a minister rest with the people , that immediately previous to ordiiiation , they are asked whether or no they continue to abide by their call . The candidate having' answered such
questions as are judged necessary to satisfy the ministers and people as to the soundness of his principles , the Presbytery proceed to ordination by prayer and the imposition of hands " . The service commonly consists of an ordination sermon , a " discourse on the
ordinance , the dedicatory prayer , and the charge to the minister and the people . Two-thirds of the Presbytery present must concur in the ordination ; and if any minister shall protest against it , all farther proceedings must cease until next meeting of General Synod . The same is the case with respect to licensing and installing .
In 1 / 51 , the ministers of the Synod established a fund for the benefit of their widows and orphan families . It possesses this peculiar excellencethat in case a minister shall survive his wife , his family ( if any ) enjoys the benefit of the fund for eight years . Or , if the widow die within eight years after the death of her husband , the
annuity for the remainder of the eight years is made good to the family . The fund has been assisted by various bequests ; but has arrived at its present very flourishing state chiefly by reason of the augmentation of the Royal Bounty , Its members are incorporated by Act of Parliament .
In the Synod of Munster there is a widows * fund similar to that in the Northern Synod . It produces at present J ? E > 0 per annum to each annuitant . There is also a fund called the
General Fund , under the direction of the ministers of Dublin , and trustees elected from their respective congregations , for the purpose of promoting and supporting the Presbyterian interest within their bounds , and for educating young men intended for the ministry . It produces at present . ^ 450 per annum .
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Bigotry of the Home Missionary Magazine . ' 70 $
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Mr . Frend on a recent Notice of him in the British Critic . ( Continued from p . 612 . ) Sir , fTPMiE concluding period of the JL British Critic ' s reflections on the
Unitarians is in these words : " The doctrine of Monotheism and the rejection of revealed truth may be worthily professed by those who reject the doctrine of gravitation and deny that two and two make four /* 1
Monotheism is . accordingto the Monotheism is , according to the British Critic , a doctrine calculated for such persons as deny that two and two make four , m other words , ibr
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Lambeth , v > Sin , Nov . 17 , 1 S 24 . LOOKING over the Home Mfo 1 sioflary Magazine for the present month , I was a little surprised at the following passage contained in an ac * count of the Banbury Home
Missionary Station : " Forseme years past , it ( the chapel at Great Bourton ) was variously supplied ,, and many individuals who attended sunk into the cold , heartless and impious system of Soci ~ nianism . " I cannot for a moment
conceive that the above passage was perilled tty one whaiiad carefully considered the evidence on which SocinU anism , as he is pleased to term it , is founded , nor the many difficulties attending the opinions opposed to it , but must believe it to be the hasty conclusion of One whose mind has
i in bibed the prmcip le ^ and prejudices of a party , without taking the trouble of examining both sides of the question for himself . Cold , heartless and impious ! If to set forth the Divine Author of ottr beinjr not asaOodof
wrath and inexorable vengeance , but as the providential , tender and compassionate Parent of all his creatures , be impious , Unitarianisin must plead guilty to the charge ; yet th £ volume of Nature which lies open before us , the voice of reason within us , and
that revelation which God has graciously given us , all unite to asstire us that he is love ; and though Unitarianism may want the heat of
enthusiasm and the blind zeal of bigotry , yet it can only be accounted impious by those who would measure its claim to truth by the standard of their own opinion rather than by the Word of God . H .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/5/
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