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CITY MISSION.
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UNITARIAN CHROMCLE , AND COMPANION TO THE MONTHLY DEPOSITORY .
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PUBLISHED BY C . FOX , 67 , PATERNOSTER ROW .
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No . XL ] December , 1832 . [ Price 6 d *
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We have received the following 'account from l \| r . Philp , of the commencement of his arduous and useful labours : — i Having read with considerable interest and pleasure , in the last and preceding INumiJer of the Chronicley Dr . TuekermanV Report , as a " Minister at large in Boston / ' it reminded me that your readers might wish to hear something : of that insti-.
tution . amongst .,, us , jw : htc ] i-is ,. as yet but in its infancy , —I mean ' « The Domestic Mission in London . " ' Though I have nothing great to report , and am by no means sanguine in my expectations , yet it may be satisfactory to the friends of the institution to know , that I am at least disposed to" thank God , and to take courage . " Since the , last . annual
meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , a small chapel has been . engaged and opened , in Spicer-street , Spitalnelds , under the superintendence of the domestic missionary . The objects contemplated in this , were to provide a place of religious worship for the poor principally , and in which a Sunday-school might be conducted , tor the reception of their children ;
in which they might le taught to read the , Scriptures , and , be instructed in the principles of morality and religion , unconnected with any human creed . * Divine service is now regularly conducted in this place twice on the Lord ' day ; these ; services are pretty
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well attended , especially the evening servipe , during which it is very nearly filled . At first a very few : only of those persons attended for whom the services were principally designed ; these have gradually in * creasBdy and some of them are now constant attendants , and they mani ^ fest , by their conduct , that they are both pleased _ and interested , and they appear grateful for the attention
sheWn-Jhem * J \ lany _ mare , Mm no doubt , would attend , did their circumstances enable them to make a decent appearance amongst their fellow-creatures . This has been confessed by some whom I have visited , and who were wretchedly off in this particular : nor have they the means of providing even necessary clothing , the whole of their scanty
income being required to procure food for their families , which , un-. happily , in Jhe midst of poverty , are . often very large . ' A Sunday-school has also beert . commenced , and is in a state of considerable progress . The present number of scholars on the books are forty-four girls and thirty-four boys * These , ail circumstances considered , . _^^_^__ j ^ _ j ^]^ v g orderly ;
evince a desire to learn , and are making some , progress . For most of this I am indebted to the Yolun- * tary and cheerful assistance of three male and as many female teacher ? , who are assiduous in their attention to the offspring of our poorer brethren , But as some of these qaimot
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/1/
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