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    • THE UNITARIAN CHRONICLE.
    • EDUCATION FOR THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
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      A practice has ' prevailed of dedicating a child to the work of the ministry from an early age , if . not . from the period of its birth . So . pure and arniable ka $ been the motive which , in many cases * prompted the conduct , so earnest has been the desire to present a hallowed and acceptable offering on God ' s altar , and so great and sustained , in some cases , the labour in order to realize the

      desire , ^ hat , however mistaken , . parents who have made the dedicjtipji ^ mejiijijctthiTiig- at the : Christianas hands but respect . I honour their pious zeal while I doubt the wisdom of their pious efforts . I admit that the knowledge of the sacred destination of the child may increase the parents' anxiety , and double their labours to render their child eminently qualified for his future duties * In some cases such anxiety and labour may be crowned with large success ; but in other cases the anxiety being undue ,

      woutefdefeat its own object . I know not but I may have seen how an intense concern to strengthen the mind has weakened the body , — has even impaired the mind itself by leading to a premature expansion of its faculties ;—how an intense anxiety to keep the heart pure and the actuating principles lofty * has unfitted . the character for the ^ intercourses pr earth / strung tri e nerves to too delicate and trembling a tension , and exposed the breast to influences which robuster natures would have been proof against , and in that exposure diminished the usefulness , harassed the soul , shook and eventually broke up the frame .

      However this may be , clear is it to me that these early dedica ^ tipns , pught . ppt to-take . place .. ; because , if for ncother reason , the varieties of natural character are as numerous as the individuals of the race . Allow that you render ^ youth the best minister he

      could be by an early dedication , yet it may be . only the best of an inferior kind . The soil is cultivated to Jhe utmost , but by nature the soil is poor . 1 take for granted what I suppose no one who has lived , not in the schools , but the world * will deny , that we are all born with diverse aptitudes . In the mind what variety I

      The Unitarian Chronicle.

      THE UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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      Speaking the truth in love . —Paul .

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      THE TRUTH TELLER .

      Education For The Christian Ministry.

      EDUCATION FOR THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/1/