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jBirnnngham , glB f October 12 , 1 SIQ . fTTiHE last Monthly Magazine con-JL tains the following suggestion : " I beg leave , through the medium of your Magazine , to ask , if any of your correspondents can inform me if a
monument , or any mark of public approbation , lias been made for Robert Raikes , the well-known founder of Sunday Schools , —a name dear to the p hilanthropist ; and 1 hesitate not to say , as my firm belief , that through him all the education that i . s now
imparting in various -ways to the poor , is chiefly to be attributed . In this country of extended benevolence , surely such a man ' s memory ought not to pass into oblivion ; such a character deserves honourably to be
recorded . I think , more than that of the greatest statesman , philosopher , or warrior . As an individual , I conenans debit ?* seveiitate objiirgandus , et ecclesiastica pcena tergiversanti intermix nenda est . " ccxxv . " 3 . Tertiiim est
executio : quod si euim ne sic quidem aliquid eificttur , sed is , qui haoreseos ex Scriptura convictus , pertinaciter eaiu tuetur , tune ad popnlum deferendiis est , baeresis publice refufanda , et at unities ab ejusmodi boinine tanquam seductoie et perturbatore sibi caveaut , sedulo nionendum . Hoc est haereticum homiiiem post
unam et alterain adinonitionem wctpoti-TEtrOai , devitare , rejicere , et oirme cominercium ejus , quoad ejus fieri potest , fugere . " cexxviii . u Mag'istratus quatuor habet , qiuc hoc in casu agat . l . ' Curet ante
oinnia , ut ministeriutii ec ' clesiae sit purnm , ab onrini siispicioue hacreseos alien inn . Qnam in rein publieis edictis scriptis et confessiouibus veram doctriuam comprehendere , et adiniuisliis pubticormn officioruni subscribeiuiuin prop < rnei * e prodest . " cexxix . u 2 . Ne tam facile insinuare poss'Jit falsi doctores ad ininistros suos in
politicis c ^ t ecclesiasticis muncribus juraiuento rcligionis a \ U \ devinciat . ' * cexxx . 3 . Ministros ecclesiae vel mal £ vircntes , vel impi ^ docentc ^ , officio deponat , alioset
• j ^ e sinceritate doctrinae , integ-ritatc vitm couiinendutos , accedeiitibus totius ecclesiac siiffVag-iis , substituat . " cexxxi . " 4 . ^ a lsae doctriiiae : disseminate res , ab « c « le-« mstico ministerio legitime convictos , et taineii oliainiiuin vel voce , vel seripto alios Sf - < iucentes , compescat , eosque vel carcere "inlcfet , « t et ipsi sapere discant , et alii * MjMesti v . sae dcsiiiant ; vel ad suos procul ? » re jubcat , ut ad minimum sui tcrritorii "icoIob ab coruin veiK » no tuti esse . pos ^ int . **
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ceive , Sir , that ] am in a most honourable post when I sustain that of " A Sunday-School Teacher . " London , July 31 , IBIQ . " / I cannot well describe my feelings on the first glance of this paper ; whoever the writer may be , 1 hope the hint will not be lost upon the
public . One may envy the merit of the recommendation , and I sit down hastily ( fearful of being forestalled ) to atone for the self-reproach of not being the original instigator , by seconding the motion -with fervent sincerity . No sucli public token that I know of exists . I have , within
little more than the last month , seen no less than three public , out-of-door monuments to the destroyers of mankind , viz . Nelson , Hill and Rodney 5 these and similar ones obtrude
themselves upon the eye of the traveller in every direction ; when shall the better feeling be as publicly excited of admiration towards its real benefactors ? Who can withhold his assent
from the opinions so well expressed by the " Teacher , ' and who does not wish that his name would give an impulse to his object ? If the introduction of Christianity and Printing , have marked the two most important epochs within their respective periods , that of the public patronage of instruction is fairly entitled to rank as the third stage of improvement in the
human prospects of future amelioration and happiness . Raikes seized the fortunate moment ; his zeal and pi-rseveranee proved the practicability of his theory ; the national benevolence kindled at the shrine of his
ardour ~ 3 and without wailing for the cold calculations of bigotry , superstition , pride , or selfishness , erected a speedy , beauteous and permanent structure on an inmioveable rock * No impulse was over more universal ; its progress was rss rapid and uniform
us its object ws ' is beneficient and godlike . Not a town , and scarcely a village in the nution , has neglected to honour itself by its efforts in the cause ; the whole continent of Europe bus caught the enthusiasm , and the expatriation of Lancaster has carried the * sacred torch to illume the
immeasurable wilds of America . Considering the Dissenters as somewhat more generally interested in the question than the members of the
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Proposed Monument to Mr * Raihes . 6 B 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/33/
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