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312 . INTELLIGENCE AND
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one of the best gifts they could make to their children . He next expressed the deep obligations he felt to the Manchester College , York , and connected with wishes for its success , the name of a gentleman present , late a student in that excellent institution ...- — - '
Mr . Coulson , m acknowledging this notice of York College , expressed his regret at the state of its funds , which he said was not in his opinion owing either to any defect in its constitution , for that was a liberal * one , or to any thing in the
characters or talents of the present conductors and tutors , whom he justly eulogized . He attributed its present condition to the loss of many liberal friends by death , and to the too general neglect shown towards the college by the Unitarian public at large .
Dr . Hutton said that there were this session four applications for admission upon the foundation at York , which he feared could not be attended to , in consequence of the state of the funds . That our institutions did not flourish more he believed arose from a false shame which prevented those who really could afford to give small sums from coming forward at all . If all who wished well to the cause
would come forward and contribute such sums as they really could afford , York College and other institutions amongst us would soon be in a very flourishing state . The Rev . J . J . Tayler said he had seen a letter from one of the tutors
which expressed a perfect willingness on his own part , and on that of his colleagues , to make any alteration in the . conduct . or the spirit of the institution that might be required ty the public . All that the Unitarian
public had therefore to do was to come forward actively and zealously to its support , and to express their judgments and feelings as to its wants ; and he was persuaded there was a disposition to make it as extensively valuable to the benefit of
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the Unitarian body as it could be made . The Chairman said that one ' pf the most painful subjects of contemplation to the Christian was the contrast which he must observe in his own heart , as between what he was and what he ought to be , as laid down in
the pages of the New Testament , and the contrast , too , between society as it is l and what it ought to be as developed by the principles of Christianity . But amongst many contrasts of this sort , he knew none more strikingly glaring than that between the bishops of the New Testament and the bishops of this realm . The Rev . Mr . Johns said that'he
did not approve of the church , and therefore dissented from it , quietly and withou t grumbling in ueh . But he felt there was great injustice in making dissenters pay a full proportion to the support of a system from which they received no benefit . As to-the contrast between the bishops of the New Testament ,- and the prelates of the church of JEngland , he must confess he should have been
greatly at a loss if asked to point out the similarity of the two orders . St . Paul never dreamt of riding in a coach and four . The bishops of the New Testament relied in part upon the labour of their own hands for getting their bread , and in part upon the voluntary contributions of their Christian brethren . All the prelates of the English church had considerable , some had princely revenues ,
The bishops of the New Testament were chosen by the society over which they presided , by voluntary suffrage ; they were ordained , not with great pomp , ' ceremony , and form , but merely by the simple appointment 6 ( the society . The bishops of the church of England were chosen by the king and his government , and it was very well known for what some of them had been chosen . In
the New Testament there were records of several bishops being found in one church , in the church of JEng-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/24/
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