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    • ANNUAL VISITATION OF THE DIVINITY SCHOOL.*
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      struction ; this ia well ^ nd good ; ibr bur great nation h&s at ' least ten millions of inhabitants who can neither read nor write . Matter * is a good theologian , a very learned philologist , an elegant writer , author of several first-rate works , and among the rest of a very able History of the

      Philosophical-SehooLof—Alexandr-ia , ^ -and especially of a valuable History of Gnosticism . He has put beyond all doubt , in this last work , according to the views of Priestley , that numerous and clear allusions to the special tenets of Gnosticism appear in the gospel of John and the epistles of Paul . He is publishing at this

      moment an Ecclesiastical History ( five vols . Svo ) , which is by far our best . Matter is , of course , a rational Christian ; but he follows top much that middle path | vyhich is the favourite road of all those who , wishing to oifend nobody , please nobody alto gether . He will still do much good , and is perhaps our most learned Protestant-writer ; -You know that Mr :

      Goepp , one of the Lutheran pastors of Paris , has received from Louis Philip the cross of officer of the Legion of Honour , for having married at Compeigne the Queen of Belgium . He was before knight of the order ; and the difference is that he will

      wear a gold star instead of a silver one . Mr . Goepp is a very good and enlightened man ; but can you conceive anything more prodigious , than to see a minister of Ohristreceiving a feudal star for a religious ceremony ? Alas , such is France , only two years after the revolution of July ! O .

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      The sixteenth annual visitation of the Divinity School , at Cambridge , took place on Wednesday , the 18 th July , in the College chapel . The exercises were introduced with * This and the following articles of American Unitarian Intelligence , are from the Boston Christian Register .

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      prayer by ' Professor . Palfrey , at ten o ' clock , and were as follows , — -with the exception of Nos . . 2 and 9 , necescessarily omitted : —> 1 . Exposition of John iii . 1-12 . — - Mr . Horatio Wood . 2 . Keinhard and Oberlin conir pared , as Examples of the Ministerial— Char-aGtfciv—Mrv—Josiah—KWaite . 3 . On Monastic Institutions . —Mr . John D . Sweet . Hymn by the Choir of the Divinity School .

      Come thou Almighty King ! Help us thy name to sing ; &c . On the Importance of Investigation into the Testimony of Scripture respecting Controverted Doctrines . —Mr . Andrew P . Peabody . 5 . On Earnestness in the cause

      of Christianity , as distinguishea . from zeal for a peculiar scheme of Christian Doctrine .- —Mr . Henry A . Miles . Anthem—The Lord will comfort Zion j &c . 6 . On George Fox and John Wesley-j a-s founders of religious sects ^ - ^ Mr . Rufus A . Johnson . 7 . On the effect of the situation of the writers of the New Testament upon their writings . —Mr . Charles A . Farley .

      8 . On the unhappiness of a sceptical state of mind . —Mr . Curtis Cutler . Anthem ^ - Lord of all power and might ; &c . 9 . On the value of Christian Institutions . —Mr . Reuben Bates . 10 . On Authority , as tending , to restrain the just exercise of reason in matters of Faith . —Mr . Charles Babbidge .

      11 . The Young Minister's anticipations , —Mr . Joseph Angier . The following selected hymn was then sung by the choir , all of whose performancesweffeiff a style of unusual excellence . The exercises were concluded with prayer by Professor Palfrey , Dean of the Faculty .

      HYMN . O God , whose presence glows in all Within , around us , and above 2 Thy word we bless , thy name we call , Whode word it ) Truth , whose name is Love

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      UNttARlAK CHItONlCLEi 1 $

      Annual Visitation Of The Divinity School.*

      ANNUAL VISITATION OF THE DIVINITY SCHOOL . *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/19/