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many churches , the ministers are almost entirely reduced to the ecouorny of the farm , and : lire in very straitened circumstances upon its produce . These 127 churches are again classed into ten districts , and these districts are entrusted to the superintendence of as many
archdeacons . The ministers appointed under the same archdeacon hold meetings of the district every three months , where the business of the district is transacted , the ordinations by the supreme consistory are read over , but principally ma ^ trimonial causes are put forward and sifted . All these churches and their
ministers are subject to the superintendence of the supreme consistory , which has its residence in Kolosvar . The members of the supreme consistory are—a superintendent , now John Korraotzi ; a general notary , now John Fuzi ; the professors of the college , now David Molnos and Nicolas Srekely ; besides the local ministers of Kolosvar , and all the more influential secular Unitarians
living iu Kolosvar or engaged in public offices , and others also dwelling in the counties . In this supreme consistory , generally assembling every week , the ministers called to different vacant churches are ordained , the civil rights of the religion are defended , the differences of parishes are discussed ,
matrimonial causes , as in a court of appeal , are decided , and other matters of business and religion are considered . Besides these ecclesiastical courts , every year , in the month of August , a general Synod is held , to which all the members of the supreme consistory , all the archdeacons , and other Unitarians of note ,
repair ; where chiefly the newly-elected ministers undergo a publie examination in doctrinal and pastoral theology , and are , by the superintendent , invested with the sacred office . But besides this , the general grievances of the Unitarians , their spiritual and political affairs are considered , and measures are taken for protecting the civil rights of the
religion . 3 dly . Their present state in regard to literature . The Unitarians have , in many of their churches , but not yet in all , lower or common schools , where , during the six winter months , the youth of both sexes are taught to read and
write , and are instructed in the principles of religion and morality . A better organization of these schools is , however , at present much desired . Besides these lower schools , the Unitarians have two gymnasia in Thorda and St . Kerebtur , where , by a professor resident
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there , and a senior , besides the common studies , ( combining a knowledge of the Latin language , ) geography , history , arithmetic , and the elements of dogmatic theology are taught . Iu these two gymnasia there are annually about three hundred youths . There is in Kolosvar one
college , whose building was erected by the munificence of an opulent man , named Ladislaus Tuxi . The Unitarian youths resort hither from the lower schools , and the two gymuasia above meutioned , to study the higher branches of education . Besides the more common
studies , whrch were formerly taught by five preceptors , but now by three , namely , David Molnos , John Fuzi , and Nicolas Srekely , Latin literature is taught here , philosophy , history , geography , mathematics , physics , and , especially , doctrinal , moral , and pastoral theology ; and , besides these , the German , Greek , and Hebrew languages . Almost all these things are taught in Latin , but some in the Hungarian language .
The liberal and systematic method of teaching the Unitarians , but especially the exemplary discipline , the order and moral deportment of the youth in this college and the gymnasia , have so much attracted public esteem , that not a few of the youth even of other religions frequent the schools and college of the Unitarians . The Unitarians have in
their gymnasia a very small library . In the college at Clausen berg there is also a library , composed of classic authors and ecclesiastical works , among which those volumes are conspicuous which the English Unitarians in former years have seut there . But it wants the
authors of more recent days , owing to a deficiency of funds . Here too I am compelled to mention the unpleasant circumstance , that in this college there is scarcely any foundation , and the youths are for the most part provided with no pecuniary aid , bo that only so many can come to college and complete their studies as can bring from home sufficient for their support ,
whilst the others , the greatest part of the Unitarian youths , are precluded by poverty from pursuing the higher sciences . This is a very great impediment to the progress of UnitarianUm , since , by the laws of Transylvania , those only can be employed in political offices who have completed their studies at college . But most unpleasant is this circumstance , that the professors , who have been reduced from five to three only , can be but scantily paid , and they are often obliged to struggle with domestic
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* 6 £ iO Intelligence . —Unitarians of Transylvania .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/74/
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