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the discipline and jurisdiction of the General Synod , the only points which the ^ Committees had to consider , respected various Funds in which both parties had , and as will be seen from the official copy of the Resolutions agreed on , continue to have , an interest : To render the following articles intelligible , it is necessary to premise that the Divinity Professorship Fund consists of certain monies , raised by voluntary contributiou among the congregations of the Synod of Ulster , for the support of a theological lectureship in the Belfast Academical Institution . That seminary , having , with a prudent and laudable impartiality , declined to connect itself exclusively with any sect of religionists , offers to all sects a literary and scientific education ; and has repeatedly engaged to afford accommodation to any religious teacher who may be appointed by any class of Christians to instruct students for the ministry ; provided always that such instructor be remunerated , and all the expenses of his class defrayed by the body under whose sanction he enters the walls . Of this privilege the Syuod of Ulster availed itself in the year 1817 . The Fund for the Endowment of the Professorship was formed by a general subscription of all the congregations then belonging to the Synod , including , of course , several which have recently seceded from the Body .
The Home Missionary Fund was set on foot a few years ago in order to defray the expense of supplying with preaching certain Presbyterian families scattered through the Southern and Western parts of Ireland , where there are no regular congregations . It differs from the preceding in having no funded capital , and consequently relying on annual subscriptions .
The Charitable Fund , and the Fund for Incidentaltexpenses , explain their own meaning . The Widows * Fund affords a provision for the widow and family of every minister of the Synod , who had been a contributor thereto during his incumbency . It was established at a very early period ; and possesses a considerable capita ) , invested in Government securities , or lent on mortgage . The Regium JJonumy or the Bounty , is an endowment settled by the King ' s Government on the ministers of certain congregations in the Synod of Ulster and Presbytery of Antrim , according to a regulated scale . Each minister , on his ordination , forwards a memorial to Government , praying for a share of Bounty .
If granted , he receives the allowance during life . The terms of separation proposed by the Remonstrants were , — 1 . " That all sums contributed to the Fund for the support of the Divinity Professorship , by congregations which are now , or which may hereafter become , connected with us , shall be returned to such congregations . 2 . " That all ministers who are now , or hereafter may become , connected with us , who may wish to become contributors to the Widows * Fund , shall be admitted as such : and their widows and families shall be entitled to the full benefit of that institution . 3 . " That an equitable proportion of the Charitable Fund shall be returned to such of our ministers and congregations as have contributed to its establishment . 4 . " We make a similar demand with respect to the Fund for defraying the Incidental Expenses of the Synod : and in case the said Fund shall prove insufficient to defray the debts already incurred by that Body , we pledge ourselves to contribute for this purpose , whatever sum we may be justly liable to pay . 5 . " We make a similar demand with respect to the Fund of the Home Mission Society . 6 . " We require our brethren of the Synod to declare , that on our ordaining a minister in any congregation now in existence , or which may hereafter be erected , their Moderator shall iu all such cases annex his signature in the usual manner to the memorial for Royal Bounty , forwarded to him by such minister ; and shall , on no account whatever withhold his signature , when regularly certified of such ordination . 7 . " That the members of our connexion shall at all times have free access to the records of the general Synod , which are anterior in date to the present time .
8 . " That some convenient mode of managing the concerns of the interloquitor be adopted , " The Committee of the Remonstrants having stated in a short preamble , that they stipulated for these rights and privileges , ' not only on behalf of themselves , but of all who might hereafter join with them , ' the Synod ' s Committee declared that they did not * hold themselves competent to enter into any stipulations with or on behalf of any persons , except those who , at the meeting of Synod in August , requested the appointment of the present conference . ' At an adjourned meeting of the Synod ' s Com-
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202 Intelligence . —Synod of Ulster .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/58/
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