On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
fbat 1 f " ee * a P * interest in their Improvement and future welfare . With one of them I hope I may be allowed to claim a personal connexion , through a succession of interchangeable good offices , and consequent obligations , continued now for three generations ; and I trust mv young friend will recollect that he
will be expected by the public , as well as by his near connexions , to make a worthy use of the station in society in which he has been placed by * energy of talent . ' Others there are , who can never look round this hall without meeting with the countenance of a venerable ancestor , calling upon them , I trust they always feel ,
in silent , indeed , but mild and expressive language , to keep up the credit of a long race of his successors , who have hitherto maintained the family-character for promoting , as he most eminently did , the interests of learning , tiuth and liberty Others , I observe , the descendants or sons of those who have adorned , or are
adorning , another liberal profession ; and who , at the same time , have shewn , or are shewing , the sincerity of their attachment to the free profession of religion , according to the dictates of individual judgment . All these , and the rest of our young lay friends , are the objects of our most affectionate good wishes ; and our hope , we trust not ill founded , that they will be the ornameuts of a rising
generation " I . desire to congratulate you , my young friends , who are students for the ministry , on the ready and prompt
support with which the public have met your laudable endeavours to render yourselves useful to the best interests of men , by enabling you to complete your chapel and school at Welburn . I am happy to hear that you have attended to the
suggestion which I offered last year ; and that , whether you are present or absent , public worship is always celebrated there on the Lord ' s-day . I understand it is likely that you are in future years to meet with some opposition * from a class
of Christians , the merits of whose original founders we have just heard so promptly and candidly acknowledged , t and who have been eminently useful in the promotion of practical religion , though m connexion with the zealous
maintenance of a scheme of doctrines which we ate apt to deem erroneous . But I trust that I may be permitted to entertain on good grounds the full confidence , that "us circumstance will not excite in your j mnds any feeling of jealousy or ill-will ; oat only that of a laudable emulation .
__ , rhe foundation of a Methodist chai . Sf lately been laid at Welburn . t By Mr . Beard .
Untitled Article
I entertain this confidence with the fuller security ^ ince-I heard yesterday the excellent Oration of one of you , who , having already stooped to the office of instructing infantine minds in the Sundayschool , and thus imitating the Master to whom he is devoting himself by * gathering the lambs with his arm , and carrying
tnem in his bosom , ' is in future to be one of those who succeed you , my friends who leave us , in instructing more advanced Christians . I persuade myself that he , and with him all of you , my young friends , will carry the principles of that essay into practice ; and that , while you are aware of the great
advantage which religion has derived from the opposition of sects and parties , you will be careful to keep the pure gold of Christian earnestness undebased with the alloy of animosity ; while you inculcate what you deem to be the truth as it is in Jesus .
and study to impress the minds of those who hear you with a deep sense of its practical results , and while , in so doing , you may find it necessary to refute what you conceive to be erroneous , you will never revile or scorn , or even ridicule
them , still less the persons who may hold them . In short , that , in this your higher office also , you will imitate your Master , and ' never strive nor cry , or cause your voice to be heard aloud in the streets : " that you will also cultivate the spirit of his apostle , under a feeling of opposition , * What , then , every way , Christ is preached ; and I therein do rejoice , yea , and will rejoice . *
" In the exercise of your Missionary labours I understand you have taken much pains to acquire the talent , or gift , ( as it is often called , and as it is right to call it , for all our talents , whether natural or acquired , ought to be received , acknowledged and exercised , as gifts from God , ) of speaking extempore . It would
ill become me , who have almost daily occasion to lament the want of it , to throw any obstacle in the way of its cultivation or practice . I am aware that what is often acquiesced in , is also often mistaken for , a natural inability ; and I greatly regret that I did not , in early life , make more vigorous efforts for its
acquirement . Since I came among you on this occasion I have read Mr- Henry Ware ' s ingenious , and , on the whole , very excellent ' Hints for the Attainment of the Talent of Extempore Preaching ;" and 1 have no doubt that , under his
restrictions , and by a close attention to his rules , it is an accomplishment which may be applied to the noblest purposes , and be productive of the most beneficial effects . Still , however , it has its peculiar temptations : and if it should lead the Christian teacher to trust too much to
Untitled Article
Intelligence . —Manchester College , York . 421
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/37/
-