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« To those of our young friends who are leavin g us to till important stations " m our churches , I should feel desirous to offer a variety of observation if U wete consistent with the time prescribed for this Address . In the mean time , I feel a irratiAcation in learning , that it is their
general intention to solicit the advice of their elders respecting their conduct aa miutsters of the gospel . By whatever name this sort of service may be called is a matter of inferior consequence ; iu itself I cannot but feel that it is a highly seasonable and proper service . I shall
cot anticipate what you may any of you respectively hear on such occasions ; but I may , perhaps * presume to recommend to your careful perusal a letter of my own , and the correspondence occasioned
by it , in the Monthly Repository for 181 i . Some practical hints may be gathered from thence , which may probably be fouud useful ; as I believe they have been found by the frieud to whom they were first addressed . "
The Visitor ' s Address was followed by some important extemporary remarks by Mr . Yates , the Chairman , as the Senior Vice-President , which gave great delight to all that were present . He particularly
insisted on the talent of aa easy and ready utterance as necessary to a particular species of eloquence , which he would call conversational eloquence ; the possessor of which was enabled to avail himself of
many opportunities of inculcating important truths and iu stilling useful sentiments , which did not eeme within the province of the public orator . He also cautioned his young hearers against two errors into which the student is very apt to fall . When he is acquiring knowledge ,
it is very natural that , considering it as the foundation of virtue and piety , and tliese as the only solid foundation of present peace and comfort and hope , and of immortal felicity and glory , he should be Ud to undervalue every thing but pure knowledge ; whereas it is in itself of little
value , unless he who possesses it have also the power of communicating it : the best means of doing this is therefore of great importance . But another error was zteo dangerous * the imagination that it la * talent of easy attainment . After what they had heard in the Visitor ' s Address , and in the quotation frqm Mr . Brougham , it
was unnecessary for him to add any lh to shew , that he who speaks best will write most : but he entreated iris youug friewjs never to go to the humwest of the westings , they encouraged > w ; taout making a previous- preparation ; without serious thought , iwteime study **<* co nsideration whut was the end they tur ^ ' ? ° g to P »<* - I * was ver y na ^ mi * or K <> u » g -mm , « duq < ued with so
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much science , to talk about enlightening the mitid ^ ban ishing p rej ud ice , overcoming obstacles to the propagation of troth , ; " ' hut unless you have also , at heart the grant ! object of saving from error , vice and misery , and preparing your hearers for immortal felicity , you fall short &f the great end of your ministry . "
The Assembly then separated , after a short devotional exercise , highly gratified wifh ttte proceedings of the week . [ The next Session vvili commence on Friday , the 23 rd of September * on or before the evening of which day it is desirable that all the Students should be present . ]
On Friday , July I , the Trustees held a meeting in the Common Hall for inquiring into , the affairs of the College , which were found to be iu a very promising state , though standing In continual need of public support . Several applications for admission on the Foundation were
accepted , others referred to the Manchester Meeting . And on Saturday a considerable party of his friends accompanied the Rev , W . S . Brown to Hull , ou the invitation of the congregation there , who had chosen him to be their minister , to introduce their young friend to his new charge , and to offer their advice to , and prayers for , both minister and people .
On Sunday * July 3 , after a short introductory prayer by Mr . Tagart , ( who was so far on his way to Norwich , where he succeeds Mr . Madge , and where , we understand , there was to be a somewhat similar service on the 31 st July , ) the Rev . George Lee , as an old member o > f the
congregation , rose up tn ~ the pew in which he sate , aud announced to the crowded audience ( for there were many strangers of various sects and parties ) the election of Mr . Brown to be their minister ^ their conviction of the utility and suitableness
of a religious connexion commencing with a peculiar religious service , and of the benefit which both minister and people might derive from advices to each by their older and more experienced friends . That this has been called an Ordination
Service ; but that this term is ouly applicable to it , when it is considered as consequent upon the previous proper ordination of the minister by the congregation , who ,, by their election , have appointed , or ordained , him to fill that important office . That the presence of so many of their
friends , on so interesting an occasion , could not fail to be highly acceptable ; and their advices would be listened to by both minister and people , not as an exercise of their authority , but as an expression of their Christian regard : and he hop < ed would be prodfcietire of much practical benefit . Mr . Brown , fcora his own proper place
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Intelligence . —M&ncheH&r College , York . 423
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/39/
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