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    opened for the reception of adults * Persons were admitted from the age o . f thirteen to thirty-eight ; who are taught by tlie masters , assisted by tbeir elder scholars , during' the intervals of labour . Ijl ^ j ^ A $ U £ s , fiotti an accurate calculation , that tli £ nlliaber of persons attending * these SC&oqU , is oi > e hundred and tliirty-seven , though some weeks it has greatly exceeded , afcd it other times fallen considerably sl ) ort , of this statement . Some of these

    liave made great improvement and rapid progress . Several individuals have been constant and exemplary in their attendance i * PQ » public worship , w } io had previously Uve 4 in tjie total neglect of the ordinances of r eligion , Anqlj through the blessing # if heaven , tke mpst interesting and important results may yet be expected . "

    With-this-modest and pleasing narrattive we beg our readers to compare the sentences which we sh ^ ll next transcribe from GUpin ' s Life of C ranmsr CS 9 ) : the biographer , speaking

    Of aeopy of the Bible which , " through the means of the Lord Essex , was liceaaed by the king [ Henry VIII . ] , and 8 x # d to a desk in all parochial eh arches , " . says ,

    u The ardour , with which , we are informed , men flocked to read it is incredil > ier They who could , purchased it $ * &&& they who could not , crowded to read it , or to hear it read in churches -y where it was . common to see little assemblies of

    mechanics meeting together for that purpose after the labour of the day . Many ep . en learned to read in their old age ^ that they mig ht have the pleasure of instructing themselves from the scriptures . "

    In . like manner , one of Wesley ' s biographers f records , among the bet * esfiits arisdwg from the services of that qmioent person , the desire of numheJrs of the poor to be-taught the art of

    reading : ; a desire promoted bv their reading ; a desire prompted by their attachment to religion , and suggesting and executing measures proper for its ow * i gratification . ^ S , « reJv tbfise facts . authorize the

    hope that the Bible will not be exteMeively circulated without con&i-4 &nabtle adwajotoge to the miud of man Heijjce . his intellect will be improved and cultivated t and he will not sink

    below his just level in the scale of being . When jreligiW once eta gages the judgment nfld jthe affefctions , it js a iftiptiye of jrc ^ is tl ^ s ^ force to some

    J? fEvidentlv meaning some printed eopy of th « Bible ^ -fcwnjpfoii .

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    degree of mental exertion : nor could w ^ e be untTiank fu l for the success of the Bible Society , even were it instrumental to no other blessing-. Before we dismiss the report ( for 1814 ) of the Stourbridge A ssocintiori we shall inform our readers that the

    Committee ( p . 11 ) speak of " a considerable number" of Bibles and Testaments as having been *< sold to the poor at reduced prices , since the last general -meeting . ' This we are , from experience , persuaded is the most unexceptionable and effectual method of supplying the bulk of the

    labouring classes with the copies of the scriptuVes . They place a higher value on what they purchase than on what they receive gratuitously : and , having thus acquired a property in this part of their humble library , they are more likely to use it with faithfulness and wisdom .

    The British and Foreign Bible Sociejy has been denied the support of three classes of persons - , from two of which indeed it has met with a strong hostility . There are certain literary men who sneer at it : there are

    churchmen who view it as fraught with danger to the ecclesiastical establishment ; and a few of the enlightened friends of truth , liberty and virtue are of Opinion that its proceedings do not strictly correspond with its professions . We shall avail ourselves of the

    opportunity which the present article affords us of considering the language and the arg-uments of these several objectors . In a late number of the ablest of the critical journals % which are circulated among us , we find a remark which , in our judgment , is unworthy of the character of the writer and tlie

    reputation of the work . — surely / ' says this reviewer , " ag-e that gave credit to the miracles of animal magnetism and metallic tractors ; an ae-e in which infallible and universal

    remedies are swallowed by all ranks withimplick faith 5 an age that listened to tlie doctrines of the sage Lavater , and is now learning how to judge of a man ' s character from ; the shape of . his skull 3 a »^ " whk : h great statesixifjn have preached , ^ wondering , senates believed , the i » ag l P ^ powers of compound interest , to extingu ^ debt with borrowed money j an ag "

    % Edinburgh Revte ^ Vol . XX ^ 454 , 455 .

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    368 Revitov- — -Bible * Society .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/40/