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much of which is unquestionably owing to his exertions , good sense , and clear judgment , in giving a bent to those institutions which have succeeded in promoting such desirable objects . ( Loud applause . ) Gentlemen , it has been said , that we have done wrgng in holding this commemoration during
the state of alarm that at present prevails in this town and neighbourhood ; but the number of individuals whom I see around me , makes it perfectly clear that that is not the genera ! opinion . I , for one , must confess , that had the public distress and alarm been much greater than it is , I could have
seen no harm in our meeting to contemplate the character , virtues , and good conduct of our venerable friend . It seems to me , fhat we shall not be the worse prepared to meet and bear the afflictions that may visit ourselves , nor less disposed to alleviate those of
others , after paying a deserved tribute to talent and virtue such as his , ( Applause *) I shall not detain you longer , than to request you to drink to the health and happiness of our friend , the Rev . William Turner , and with the accustomed honours .
The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm , followed by three times three , and long continued applause . -The Rev . Gentleman then stood up , amidst renewed approbation , and addressed the company to the following effect :- —I am sure that tlxio aoocmbly will be sensible that I rise under a state of very mixed feelings- —feelings of great thankfulness tc ^ lny friends for the kindness which , has induced
them to assemble on such an occasion , and for the favourable hearing they have given to the speech which our worthy chairman has been so good as to make upon the subject . He has very properly observed , that in
various , indeed in all the circumstances in which I may be thought to have been useful , I have had many excellent coadjutors . In fact , it may be said , and I frankly acknowledge it , that in scarcely any instance have 1 been , the original propo ^' of the Be *
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"Veral useful schemes in-which I haver assisted . With regard to the origin of Sunday Schools , I was urged to that by a very excellent friend of mine , Mr . T . B . Bailey , who at that time filled the situation of chairman of the quarter-sessions in Lancaster , , § B < Ljwa 8 ^ als ^ pre ^ eji ^^ L ttie _ WarT
rington Academy , at which I was educated . In one of this gentleman ' s charges to a jury , and almost immediately after the establishment of Sunday Schools by Mr . Raikes , he
recommended their formation throughout the populous manufacturing district over which he presided . He afterwards sent me a copy of the charge , and a letter , urging me to establish a school in * this town . These I
communicated to several of my young " friends , of both sexes , belonging to the congregation with which I have liad the happiness to be so long connected ; and in December , 1784 , was opened , under their superintendence , the first Sunday School that had been formed in this neighbourhood : and I
have ha / 1 the gratification to see , that since that time , they have been very successfully adopted by persons of every denomination , and become the source of great religious and moral improvement . ( Applause . ) With respect to the Literary and Philosophical Society , also , it originated , as I have
stated before , in an address upon the opening of th © present building , in a club then held in the town , o f which Mr . Sorsbie , Mr . Cramlington , and several other influential gentlemen , were members ; and , after a good deal of conversation , I was desired to put
upon paper the circumstances and particular views to which the discussion gave rise , and that statement , on 'being circulated , was certainly the cause of the meeting to which the Literary Society owes its orig in : but in this respect , it must be observed , I had little more to do than with the
winding , —or what may be called the employing the pen of a ready writer , to put down the suggestions of other highly respected individuals . As to
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1832, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1805/page/5/
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