On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
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
Rty as wisely adapted to the state of the Jewish People , by Mr . Philipps ou the Universal Belief in and Worship of the Deity , Mr . Sqtiire on Luke xxiv . 26 , Mr . Higginson on Acts xiv . 15—17 , Mr . Rankin on John i . 14 , and Mr . Gaskell on Luke xxiv . 26 .
The College Prizes , as well as those proposed by individual friends , were then adjudged and delivered as follow : The First Prize for diligence , regularity , and proficiency during the Session , to Mr . Charles Davidson , a Lay-Student in his third year . The second , to Mr . Thomas Baker , and the third , to Mr . Mortimer Maurice , Divinity Students in their
first year . The Mathematical Prizes , given by a Friend to the College , to-Mr . Davidson in the senior class , and in the junior to Mr . Baker . The Classical Prizes , given by Robert Philips , Esq ., to Mr . Robert Mitford Taylor , a Divinity Student in his second year , and to Mr . Edward Worthiugton , a Lay-Student in his first . The prize offered by Euelpis for a Greek Prose Translation , to Mr .
Francis John Rankin , a Divinity Student in his fifth year . The prize given by John Bell , Esq ., for the best Latin Prose Composition on the subject , " Quibus nam de causis eloquentice studia magis apud Orcecos quam apud Romanos cceterosque populos viguerint ? " to . Mr . Charles Fletcher , a Lay Student in his third year . The Treasurer ' s prizes for the best Oration delivered at this examination , to Mr . Davidson : for the best delivered
Oration , to Mr . Higginson . It was announced , that a prize of Five Guineas is offered by Euelpis for the best Essay on the Difference between Classical Greek and the Greek of the New Testament . The competition to be open to the fifth year ' s Students of the next Session , and to those who leave the College at the end of this , or who left it at the end of the last Session . The
Essays to be delivered in before the last day of May , 1829 . The Visitor then , as usual , closed this long and , on the whole , satisfactory examination , with an Address , which we are sorry that our limits this month oblige us to omit . The company then separated , after a
short devotional exercise , well satisfied with the business of the preceding three days . The attendance had been less numerous than usual , owing to the public meetings in London and Liverpool , during the former week , on the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Act * .
Untitled Article
Presentation of a Piece of Plate to the Rev . Charles Berry , Leicester . The Unitarian Chapel in Leicester is the oldest , and at the time of its erection in 1708 , was the largest , Dissenting place of worship in the town . Hence it acquired the name of the Great Meeting ; an appellation which it still retains , though several chapels of equal or greater dimensions have since been built by Dissenters of other denominations . The
congregation , during the last century , were Arians , and had the happiness for more than half that long period to possess for their pastor the Rev . Hugh Worthington , ( father of the late distinguished preacher of the same name at Saltera' Hall , London , and great grandfather of the late highly talented and amiable minister of Cross-Street Chapel ,
Manchester , ) who presided over them for fifty-six years , and whose memory is still held in affectionate veneration among them . He was succeeded by the Rev . Robert Jacomb , now of Wellingborough , Northamptonshire , and on the resignation of that gentleman , whose Calvinistic opinions but ill accorded with the increasing spread of Unitarian ism among
his hearers , Mr . Berry , then a student at Homer ton , was requested to fill the vacant pulpit until the choice of the society as to ' their future pastor should be finally decided . Though at that time very young , and unsettled as to his theological opinions , the candid turn of his mind , his amiable disposition , and agreeable
manners , soou rendered him so general a favourite , that he was solicited to remain in the office he had provisionally undertaken ; and thus commenced a connexion , the harmony of wbich has never met with the slightest interruption , and which , strengthened as it now is by family ties and long attachment , we hope will only be dissolved by death .
The progress of the age , which has caused all minor political distinctions to merge in the two grand divisions of the friends and the enemies of social and intellectual improvement , has operated a change somewhat analogous in the religious world , which may be considered as divided into those who admit the
supreme authority of reason as the interpreter of Scripture and those who do not . It is the avowal of this principle , still more than the assertion of the Divine Unity , which has drawn upon its professors the hostility of their brethren , and the Leiceater congregation , with their pastor , have shared largely iu the
Untitled Article
5701 Intelligence .- ^ Presentation a Piece Plate the Rev . C . Berry
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/58/
-