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      f 0 Ml m ^^ iffim r ^ a ^ a ^ u ¥ HeS * & * % cM to his call . Bat fttien «« ^ feM nW adtf ^ rbW ftofW WVb ^ tel which none may lightly trefcd , we shrink from his side , ^ d To ^ lt krbiinfd Wr a guide whom we know to have attained its heights dnd iathbtnied kfc deptfis , who can interpret to us the celestial harmonies which reach his ear in no unknown tongue , and who can " Fix in calmer seats Of moral strength , and raise to loftier heights Of love divine , our intellectual Soul . *'

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      hctt . lll .- ^ -Mitiittes of a General Synod held at Strabane . 1827 . Belfast , : printed by F . D . Finlay . jfiiWE hayes received a copy of this document , which has been printed for

      theiuse of the members , but not published . Like the , votes of the House of Commons , it contains the proceedings , resolutions proposed , &c . &c ., without giving the speeches with which they were accompanied . It will enable us to state some interesting particulars for the information pf our ceadecs , who are probably unacquainted with the constitution of this Synod , though they have lately become acquainted with some ofifs proceedings . though they have lately become acquainted with some ofifs proceedings .

      It appears that the number of congregations , the in , iaist ; ercs a ^ d , elders of which constitute the Synod , is at present 201 ; and that iwrh ^ n alt tkk vacan cies iare njled , the number of ministers is 222 , the excess of rninisters arising from collegiate charges and from assistant ministers . Allowing an eider for each congregation , the whole body , if a ^ sembled ^^ otuld , amount to 423 , exclusive of the Presbytery of Antrim , which consists height congregatio n * and eleyen ministers . The meeting having freen , appoint to , be , held at

      ISfcrabane , a town in the western part of the county , of . Tyrone , adjoining both Derry and Donegal , there assembled there ] on > T&esijay , 26 th of June , one hundred and thirty-four ministers and for ^ yrnine ^ el ^ rs , so that it could not be said of the latter , that " } bey were a dead weight , " in producing a majority , as at the Synod in 1723 , of which such an interesting account has been given by Dr . Winder , a contemporary English minister settled at Liverpool , who happened to be present . * It appears , therefore , that theje was not a half of the members at Strabane . r - ,

      The business was opened by the Moderator of the preceding year ,,, the Rev . William Wright , minister of Annahilt in the county of Down ,, , ^ jty > preached an excellent sermon on charity , from Coioss . iii . 14 , and vvtyx , $ ki not , yi } ae the Rev . Gilbert Kennedy in 1723 , make a sermon on brotbfci % love a vehicle for uncharitable censures , nor did he in his subsequent j C ^ Ht duct act at variance with the doctrine he recommended . The Synod | J (> aving

      been then constituted by prayer , a new Moderator was chosen . On this occasion every Presbytery has the power of nominating a candidate ? ua < Jer certain regulations ; and the roll is then called to determine whicjx of , the nominated candidates shall be Moderator . On this occasion only one wa $ nominated , the Rev , James Seaton Reid , Minister of Carrickfergue , and he was unanimously chosen . The election of the clerk succeeds , and it has hitherto been a mere matter of form ,. aa the pffice is considered to be one of ? Dr . Winder ' s letter ia published in the Christian Moderator for October 1827 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 909, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/53/