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tian Knowledge /* and to private charity , than to royal patronage or parliamentary munificence . At length , a good many years ago , the Welsh press was set to Work j since which time several large editions of Welsh Testaments and Welsh Bibles hivet
been printed in the eoiintry > and the people of Wales have now for some time been well supplied with Welsh Bibles * The consequence has been that the churches are more and more deserted ^ the meetings more thickly crowded , and dis * senters have at last multiplied to such a degree ^ that bishops and clergy and zealous churchmen seem to be considerably alarmed . Dr . Burgess ^ in particular , the present Bishop of
St . David's ^ and his clergy are taking measures to check * i £ possible , the growing evil , and bring back the strayed sheep to the mother-fold . The said bishop , clergy , church-going gentry ^ and others of that diocese ^ have formed themselves into what they have denominated " A Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the Bishopric ' ot
St . David ' s * " This society is said to exert itself wittr considerable vigour ; it encourages Sunday schools ; recommends appropriate sermons to be preached annually at stated times in each archdeaconry , viz . six in the winter half year , from Mi- > chaelinas to Lady Day , and the same number in the summer
half year ^ from Lady Day to Michaelmas ; also eight sermons to be preached annually in some one capital town , on- the eight Sundays following Easter , on the Principles and Duties of Church Union , Errors arising from unsettled Notions in Religion , the Excellence of the Liturgy of the Church of England , &c . for which the preacher is to have ten guineas . A premium of ten guineas is also offered for the best
Dissertation on the most Rational and Christianlike ^ Means of removing the Errors of Schism and Enthusiasm , and of recalling the Dissenters to the Church Establishment . A like premium of ten guineas is also offered for the best Dissertation on the best Means of reviving the Spirit of Public Worship on the Sabbath ^ and promoting a General and Regular Attendance at Church . A fvirther premium of ten guineas is likewise offered for the
best Dissertation on the most practicable and effectual Means of diffusing Religious Knowledge among the Poor , on some general and uniform Plan , which may comprehend the Poor of a whole Diocese ; and of establishing School-rooms for such Purpose . Considerable efforts are said to have been made , and to be still making by this society to promote and effect its ,
leading object or design , but without much if any apparent success . The Schism is supposed to have gotten to too great a head to be checked or healed by such means or such efforts * The increase of Dissenters there since the commencement and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/24/
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