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    will shortly come before the public . It is obvious that your fetation to this College as Students , and the duties which y 4 uf may be called upon to perform in otir regular churches , the state of the weather and ot your own health , and the circumstance of your return home at the

    vacations , will often necessarily occasion such absences . And if you get them into only half a habit of attending public worship , and that dependent on the visit of a distant minister , it is greatly to be feared that it will easily be laid aside

    again . 4 < Let me conclude , by entreating you to recollect the limited powers both of body and mind , with which it hath pleased the Giver ot all good to endow his creatures ; and not to count too much upon that measure of eitfier of them

    which he may have given to any individual . It is for wise purposes that these powers are so limited ; among others , that we may not be proud of our talents , or gaffed up by any little applause or success , but may always remember that we have the treasure of talents and even

    virtues * In earthen vessels , that the excellency of the power may be of God , and not of us . ' " It now becomes my pleasing task to distribute the testimonies of their good opinion with which I have been directed

    by the Committee * or made the instrument of individual friends , to distinguish those who have been thought most emiment in their several classes , or in general regularity , diligence and proficiency . " The two prizes offered by * a Friend to the Institution * to the Mathematical

    Students of the Urst and second years have been adjudged respectively to Mr . Francis Darbishire and Mr . Henry William Busk . The two prizes offered by Robert Philips , Esq ., to the best Classical Scholar in the first and second years , to Mr . Darbishire of the first year , and Mr . A . T . Russell , of the second . The prize

    offered by Euelpis for the best translation into Greek from some English Historian , to Mr . George Lee . The two prizes offered to Students in the first year , one by G . W . Wood , Esq ., for the best speeimens of English Composition produced in the weekly exercises of the class ; another by Dr . Carpenter , for the greatest

    proficiency in Composition during the Session , have been adjudged , by the Students themselves , Mr . Wood ' s to Mr . Edward Higginson , Dr . Carpenter ' s to Mr . Stephen Cornish Freeman . The prize for the beat Oration , delivered at this Exatninatioir , to Mr . Edward Tag-art ; for the greatest attention to : improvement iu -Elocution during the Session ,

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    and ai 9 o Mr . Wood ' s for the foefct-ddHver - ed Oration on this oceasioii / io Mr . Robert firook Aspfaiid , The second > nd third prizes foir general Diligence , Regularity and Proficiency are adjudged to Mr . Francis Dart > ishife arid Mr . Eel ward Higginson . If it were n 6 t necessary to

    limit the number of prizes , it would have been gratifying on this occasion to have distributed many others . I hope my young friends will feel a pleasure in this general testimony of approbation , almost as much as if each had been personally distinguished .

    " You are aware , my young friends , that there still remains a prize , and that the highest and most valuable for the honourable distinction which attends it , which it is to myself , as I am sure it is to us all , a subject of the deepest regret , that I cannot personally deliver . It is

    the first prize for Regularity / Diligence and consequent Proficiency , which I believe you will all acknowledge has been duly earned by Mr . James Martineau , for whose absence , and the occasion of it , we all too deeply feel to trust ourselves to say much : it is a subject on

    which I , at least , from najr own personal connexion in intimate friendship with those immediately interested , feel it prudent to decline enlarging . * Such examples of the early extinction of talents and virtues of the highest order , as we have witnessed during the last few years , are surely enough to impress us deeply ; and while they will not , I trust , weaken , in

    the slightest degree , the firmness of our trust in tl > e ultimate wisdom and goodness of God , under the most painful appointments of his providence , they will naturally dispose us all to rejoice vyith trembling , and will lead you , ray young friends , to work while it is called to-day , since the night of death may come—how soon we know not— -in which no man

    can work /* The friends of the Institution who were present on this occasion were Joseph Strutt , Esq ., President ; Abraham Crorapton , Esq ., and the Rev , John Kentish , Vice-presidents ; G . W . Wood , Esq ., Treasurer ; and Robert Philips , Jupior , Esq ., Assistant Treasurer ; Messrs .

    Bealby , Bell , Darbishire , Davvson , Hedderwick , H . Kinder , T . Eyre Lee , Paget , Ryland , Sanderson , Offley Shore , Talbot , Taylor , R . Wellbeloved and Hugo Worthington , and the Rev . Messrs . Astley , Higginson , S . Heinekin , Hutt , on , LL . IX , Public Examiner ; Lamport , Lee , Mardon , Philipps , D . D ., Worsley , jun ., and Turner , Visitor . ? Sec Obituary , pp . 424 , 425 .

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    428 1 n $ eliigeftc # .- » Manchester Cottege , York .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/44/