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REVIEW. Xi Still pleas'd to praise, yet not afraid to blame." — Pops.
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fke Report of the Stnurhridge Auxiliary / Bible Society . 1814 . Printed by Henry * High Street , Stourhridge . ONE of the best comments on the tendency , &c . of the British and Foreign Bible Society , ia a Report like that before us : and if facts can satisfy persons who ask for demonstration , some are disclosed here which ,
it might well be supposed , should remove the doubts of the scrupulous and excite the joy of the benevolent and pious . While this highly valuable institution is opposed at home , on principles which it seems impossible to reconcile with those of our dissent
from the see of Rome , we hail the numerous testimonies to its beneficial effects throughout the world , and not least in . our own country . At present , we shall call the attention of
our readers to one happy result of it , which has not perhaps been sufficiently regarded , but which the litble pamphlet in our hands will serve to illustrate—we mean , the more
extensive diffusion of the blessings of education . The Committee of the Stourbridge Auxiliary Bible Society , " beg leave to notice ( pp . 9 , 10 ) the state of the Charity and Sunday Schools within the parish of Old Swiiiford , * especially as before the formation of the
society , these institutions constituted * he principal resource for supplying * the vicinity with Bibles and Testa * roents : for < 5 n a survey of the neighbourhood being made to ascertain the number x > f Bibles in the possession of the poorer classes of the community , it
appeared that those which had been distributed to the children on leaving their respective schools , had furnished a considerable supply . —In 1810 / there were ten charity-achools , containing j H 4 scholars , being 1-twenty-third of «* e population ; f twelve Sundaysc hools , consisting of 450 children , or ^ -eighteenth of the population ; and «* e total number of charity and Sun-< fo y-school s gives an amount of 794 Molars , being ou <* to ten of the
po-* ** which Stourbridge is situated . T Thin population , ; i « -oor < lin ;> to the l «« i * - © f 1811 , i , < V 7 : >;> .
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pulation . Since that time they have rather increased than diminished , exclusively of the schools for adult persons , described in a former report . Those institutions [ the schools for adults ] derived their origin from the Stourbridge Auxiliary Bible Society .
The average number of . individuals instructed weekly from May 1 st , 1813 , to Oct . 5 th , 1814 , is 189 ; and 54 have left these seminaries , who have made considerable proficiency in reading . "
We learn from the former part of this extract that Charity and Sundayschools have contributed to the diffusion of the scriptures . In the concluding sentences we are presented with a proof that the zeal exerted for the circulation of the Bible , has been
the means of engaging a number of adult persons to seek instruction in the art of reading . As reference is made to a foregoing report of > the Stourbridge Auxiliary Society , for a description of the origin and success of the measures employed in their behalf , we transcribe from that
document the following paragraph [ Report , &c . 1813 . pp . 13 , 14 , 15 ] : u The individuals who were deputed td visit the cottages of the poor in the district of the Lye Waste , J discovered a considerable number of persons grown to maturity who were totally ignorant of letters .
Some of these had never enjoyed any opportunity of learning to read i and others had neglected to avail themselves of the opportunities which had been presented to them during the period of youth . Several of these persons acknowledged and lamented their ignorance , in plaintive
accent , and with tears , and most of them expressed an earnest desire to be instructed . It was deemed expedient , and highly important , that some plan should be adopted to furnish them with the means 6 f improvement . An application was made to & generous individual , requesting- that
he would permit those who were desirous of learning to read , to be instructed by the teachers of the schools which he had previously established at the Lye Waste . He cordially assented to the proposal , became a liberal contributor to the institution , and on the 26 th of April his schools were . ¦ ¦ t "I In the parish of Old Swinfofd . Mon . Repos Vol . 1 . 53 .
Review. Xi Still Pleas'd To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame." — Pops.
REVIEW . Xi Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " — Pops .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/39/
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