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** Give poaee in . our time , O Lord , and scatter thou the people that delight in War /' IGNOTUS .
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merit of similar establishments A \ r king ev £ ry deduction , 1 am pem ^ tliat Wamngton Academy was no * only the means of supplying the hh senting churches with- many valuable ministers , but also of fixing an attarh
meut to the dissenting cause in manv young men who would otherwise haVe been lost to us from the indifference or dislike to that cause , which thev would have acquired at other .. places of education . It is this reflection arising out of the history of the Warrin * .
ton Academy , which induces tne to request a little space in your Repository , for some remarks on a subject to which I think the public mind amongst us is not sufficiently alive—I mean the necessity of a Dissenting education for Lay Dissenters .
I shall not enter into any arguments to prove , that it is of vital importance to the permanence of the Dissenting cause , that the higher classes of our laymen should be retained amongst us by every honourable method , the thing is too obvious for argument , and my wish is rather to shew , how
essential it is to the attainment of this , that the education of youth should be carried on and completed as much as possible within our own bosom . Nor shall I think it necessary to provr , that a parent infringes no right of conscience in his child when he
endeavours to subject his mind to those impressions which will naturally dispose him to continue a dissenter . These chimerical rights of conscience have been pushed so far , that it has been held unfair to teach a child even
the being of a God , until he was of an age to judge of the argument ; and certainly if the principle were good for anything , it must be good even to this monstrous extreme . Bat every judicious parent acts on the belief that it is his duty as early as possible
to impress on his child ' s mind those principles by which he wishes his future conduct to be regulated , and to subject him to those influences whicn shall most effectually conspire wi » his direct instructions . The only question then can be , " Are my own
principles , as a Dissenter and a umwrian , of sufficient importance , to man me wish that my son should M <^ nti » in the profession of them ? I * » £ be any one amongst us who nesira to answer this question m the * w * ative—if there be any one callHtf *
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286 Necessity of a Dissenting ? Education for Lay Dissenters .
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Manchester , March 31 , 1815 . Sir , IN common with many of your readers , I have derived ^ veat pleasure from the accounts with which your correspondent V . F . has favoured us , of the students who were educated at the Warrington Academy . And I am sure that if any one equally qualified would undertake a similar account of the members of those other
academical institutions , from which our churches have been supplied during the last fifty years , he would perform not only a very interesting but a very edifying work . The list of the students at
Warrington has particularly drawn my attention , because , beyond any other of our Academical Institutions , it was instrumental in the education of Laylnen . When I look over its lists , and see how many of those educated the re , have since distinguished themselves as respectable and enlightened
members of society , and as steady friends of those principles of civil and religious liberty , which it was the object of their education to instil , I feel that a spirit of prophecy as well as of poetry dictated those beautiful lines , in which Mrs . Barbauld anticipates the future usefulness and eminence of its alumni . 66 How bright the scene to fancy ' s eye appears , 1
Thro * the longperspective of distant years , When they this little group their country calls , From Academic shades and learned halls , To fix her laws , her spirit to sustain , And light tip glory , thro * her wide domain ! Their various tastes in different arts displayed Like temper ed harmony of light and shade , With , friendly union in one mass shall
blend , And this adorn the state , and that de-¦ fond . " f TJie proportion indeed of those on whom these advantages were thrown away is too large , ' but the injudicious laxity : of admission which ruined the discipline of th $ institution , is a fault toopalpafcde not to be guarded against by - those concerned in the manage-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/22/
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