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Sir , AMONG the ad vantages of Christianity may be justly considered the number of benevolent institutions to which it has given rise , and the promotion and improvement of them are objects , I am sure , near to your
heart . On this account give me leave to suggest to you the propriety of devoting occasionally , a page or two of your excellent Repository to this subject , that your readers , by seeing what is done in other places , may adopt similar plans for the good of the circle in which they reside . I
nappenea nave one Drought within piy notice the other day , that for the simplicity of its plan , its economy arid its advantage to both giver and receiver may perhaps be thought by you worthy of being recorded . A Society of ladies are united together on the plan of affording to poor families various articles of dress suited to their
situation iu life . 1 o this society men as well as women may be contributors , and according to their subscription they receive one or more tickets , valued at three shillings . These
tickets are distributed among the poor , at the discretion of the subscriber , who , of course , is expected to take some pains in the selection of suitable objects . The receiver of a ticket adds
to it three shillings , and presents the sum to the ladies at an appointed place , on a certain day , where she may choose amongst a variety of articles what amounts according to the marks on each article to six shillings . The ladies have previously taken care that the new material shall be good according to its price , and it is cut out and worked by them and their assistants . In this way many a piece of work is performed at a tea-party ,
which many of the visitors supposed destined to a different purpose . In this society no regard is paid to difference of sects , all may contribute to the good purpose , whatever are their religious opinions , and I may add , that the unison of benevolent
persons in a common cause for the good of their neighbour , cannot fail to soften down that bitterness and animosity which are apt to prevail in places where , though a common Saviour is acknowledged , the people are divided from each other into detached parties , each having its peculiar shibboleth . I remain , &c . W . F .
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_ Exeter , Aug . 24 , 1815 . OlRy DO not recollect that the obiecU I and exertions of the British / lnd Foreign School Society have been noticed in the Repository : * and lam
desirous of calling the attentiou of your readers to its present wants , by submitting to them part of an Address to the Friends of Education and the Dissemination of the Holy Scriptures , which is now circulating in this part of the kingdom .
•« It has ceased to be a question among the liberal and judicious , whether it is expedient to communicate elementary instruction and religious knowledge to the children of the poor . This is uow very generally acknowledged to be one of the most important objects of benevolent exertion , considered both as a means of national
prosperity and reformation , and as a source of moral and religious improvement to individuals . This is not a matter of theory . It is fully established by numerous facts , alike striking and indisputable . Wherever the blessings of a well-regulated education hare been diffused among the
poor , there we find them most useful , respectable and happy . *• To this great object , the exertions of Mr . Lancaster have eminently contributed . He went on for several years in his useful work with little
public aid and encouragement , except from his Majesty , who was his steady and liberal patron : but at last a So * ciety was formed , to relieve him from his difficulties , and to prevent the loss of his system . The objects of the Society rapidly extended : schoolmasters were properly trained , and
lessons prepared - and numerous schools have , by these means , been established in various parts of the United Kingdom . The Society next began to look to foreign nations and the prospect presented itself of diffusing the advantages of education in distant countries . To express the nature and objects of the A ssociation ,
* We are very glad of an opportun ity of promoting- the excellent object Her brought into notice by our respectable erespondent , and we cannot help »^ , the proved attachment of the fontm Repertory to the New System of *' u tion on the liberal principle > a * ™\^ een by consulting onr vtb , vitf * •** volume * . £ p .
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6 i 4 A Benevolent Institution . —British and Foreign School Society
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/14/
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