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HQNTHLT RETROSPECT OF PfJBLIC AFFAIRS $ OR, The Christian a s Starve]/ of the Political World.
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The falsely called National Society , for the education of the poor , has taken into consideration the plan of union of their diocesan and district commttees , and have made such resolutions as naturally arise from the connection between the correspond ng societies It is a very judicious plan as thus a constant communication wjII be kept up between the fnembers of the established sect and , ^ he whole seems to have been formed upon the system of those correspond ng societies , when a few years back Were the object o ) the vigilance of government . One regulation only respecting the children to i « e educated ^ cla ms our
attention : —It is in the following words : *< It is required that ail the children received into the sdbools fee withput exception inst meted in the liturgy and catechism * and that in conformity with the directions in that liturgy , the children of each school do constantly attend divine service in the r parish church , or other place of publ c worship under * the establishment , wherever the same is practicable , on the L » ord ' s . day , unless -such reascm for their non-attendance -tie assignee ?; as shall be satisfactory to
the persons having the direction of that school > and that no religious tracts be admitted into any school , hut which are or shall be contained in the catalogue of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge /'
The members of the established sect have thus taken due pains to instil such notions into jthe children , as may , it is to be presumed , preserve them from imbibing the principles of anv other sects . And this would be a great point , if the established < sect hdd a * great majority x > ver the other sects . But as it is , hap fjjtl y , in a minority all < bcse pains will e to very tittle purpose Their
children will mix with other children , and the defects of he lirurgy and catechism , will sooner or later be pointed out . The farther the falsely called National Society proceeds , the less danger do we apprehend to the cause of liberal ty , religion and truth ; and the more pains are taken to bend the tree in one direc-
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tion , with greater force will it go afterwaids in the contrary direction , when the mind is left to its o-. \ n exertions . Our sentiments on th's National Society , or as it is more properly called , and we shall hereafter give * t that narne ^ The Anti-national Society , have received great support by a deb ^ te . nd the result of it , in the court of Commoji Council
of the metropolis . A motion was made to gtant five' hundred ounds to the society , and the argument on which it was founded was—it became the city to encourage an establishment for the benefit of the established sect . The motion was opp * * ed by Alderman Goodbehere , who considered the society not
to be national « , not formed to unite and increase universal harmony , but to disjoin man from man The great merit of Lancaster ' s plan was ts comprehensiveness , but the exclusion of this , new society , appeared to him unworthy of support . Mr . Quin disapproved equally of the title assumed by this new society ,
whose propriety he called \ n question , because the members of the establishment in England and Wales did not form one half of the population of those countries , nor one fourth < fcf the population of the United Kingdom . He then entered into a comparison of the merits of the Lancasterian and the Bellian
schools , giving to the former , independently of its enlarged liberality , a , decisive preference over the latter , in every thing relative to education He ins anced the state of education in Chint , » vhere every child was educated in reading , writing and cyphering , without any regard at all to religion , as in that country was no established sect to domineer over
the othtrs ; and to that and to the attention paid to education might be attributed the peace and tranquillity of that extensive empire . It was t ^ o mu ch for this nevi society to say . that it wbuld .
be fatal to the state as well as their own sect , if ( he poor were educated in any principles but- theirs , principles of so small a part of the community He saw the rising of a persecuting spirit in this business , which he hoped the Dissenter ?
Hqnthlt Retrospect Of Pfjblic Affairs $ Or, The Christian A S Starve]/ Of The Political World.
HQNTHLT RETROSPECT OF PfJBLIC AFFAIRS $ OR , The Christian a s Starve ]/ of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/68/
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