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    to hope that they went prepared to take their station there with respectability and honour . Some have continued with nie till the time arrived for entering at the university , and I hope some late occurrences at Cambridge * may justify me in sayiug , that at least they have not fouud their road to distinction impeded by the

    course of instruction which they had previously received with me . Some have engaged in the more active concerns of life : trade , commerce , occupy their care . To such , application , diligence , and attention , are habits of indispensable necessity . These habits I endeavoured to

    establish ; and though the medium made use of may be forgotten , yet the effects , 1 trust , remain , and will remain with you through life . Some are devoted to professional pursuits : there , also , are the same habits of equal utility , though directed to different objects ; and in

    proportion to their strength will be your usefulness and respectability . Some have engaged in a more sacred profession , and it is become their duty , as ministers of the Established Church , to teach others those principles by a due regard to which man is advanced from honour and

    usefulness in this world to happiness in the next / The number of these individuals has been very considerable ; and 1 trust that the instructions they received , and the habits they formed , under one whose views of theology differ in some respect from theirs , have not been such as will prevent them from filliug their important

    office with usefulness to the world and credit to themselves . —If iu the course ot twenty years I had never been the object of misrepresentation , or slander , my lot would have been , unusually privileged ; but you have this day enabled me to give a triumphant answer- to slander . Many years have'passed since some of you were removed ^ froatf-iayqare , who are now

    fully engaged hi your various pursuits . Many hare but Jately left the school , and are yet in preparation only for the business of life . All have spontaneously concurred , by fbis mark of esteem and affection , in bearing testimony to the faithful discharge of my appointed cjuties . This splendia j [ itt ' , wfien I am laltl on the bed appointed n > r all living , will remain with i \ . ¦

    * Among tfie company . present were A . Thurtell , Esa ., B . Av&c ., &c , &c , who this year attained the distinguished honour of Fourlh Wrangler ; T . Wall , Esq ., &c , &c , First Senior Soph . ; and G . Paget , Esq ., &c , &c , Second Junior Soph .

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    my children , and be a lasting memorial to them that their father was one who cheerfully devoted himself to the duties of life , and tba * if they do the saiue , ( though disappointment may far a time attend their exertions , ) they will at some time meet their reward . That I do fed at this moment an ample reward for ail my past labours and disappointments , in

    your affection so generously displayed , I most unhesitatingly declare ; and I fee ] that it will through the remainder of my life give a fresh stimulus to my exertions . I am afraid I have trespassed too long upon your time , and have talked too much of myself , when 1 ought rather to have made you the chief object of my observations . If I have appeared to © loquacious or egotistical , you must excuse me , for you have made me so . Once

    more I thank you for this splendid gift , for the honour and happiness you have conferred upon vote . Accept my best and warmestr wishes for your health and prosperity . JMay the blessing of Him who made and governs all things , attend you in your various pursuits I When you yourselves become parents , may you find for your children a master of more talents , though I think I may say , you cannot find one more sincerely devoted to their welfare and improvement /*

    The company were afterwards addressed by several gentlemen , and many pleasing remarks were made on the various events of their school-days . ^—The party separated about half-past two , amidst sincere expressions of esteem and gratitude on every side . Yarmouth , June 22 , 1829 .

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    Devonport Chapel . The new Unitarian Chapel in Devonport was opened for public worship on Sunday , June 21 . The dedicatory prayer was offered up by Mr . Worsky , of Plymouth ; the sermon was preached by Mr . Acton , of Exeter , from Mark xii . 37 . The object of the preacher was to avail himself of this occasion to give a

    statement of the principles of Unitarian-* sm as they are distinguished from thtf popular doctrines of the churches , and especially of the proper unity of the Divine Being , the leading and most important tenet we bold , without any prevarication or disguise . To us , he observed , it is the sun and centre of the Christian system , round which all the other doctrines revolve , and from which they receive all their light and glory-

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    588 Intelligence _ — Devonport ChapeL

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/70/