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    attend every Sunday , or twice on the same day , the assistance of other volunteers in this work of charity Is earnestly invited , especially as there is every prospect of as great an increase to the school as our place of

    meeting will accommodate . If this should meet the eye of any of the youth of either sex , who are disposed to co-operate in this act of benevolence , their services will be thankfully received . The school commences at half-past nine in the morning , and at three in the afternoon .

    * I beg also to observe , that the funds which were formed for the outfit of the school , by means of the charitable donations of certain kind individuals , are now exhausted , and that small annual subscriptions , or trifling donations , will be thankfully received , and faithfully applied to the

    purposes of this important object . J am pleased to find , and glad to " acknowledge , that the idea which I suggested to jthe committee , and on which they very readily permitted me to act , has been partially , and , I have no doubt , will yet be more fully realized . I thought that the

    opening of a place of worship in the district , and the establishment of a Sunday-school , would facilitate my intercourse with the poor . This has already led me to call on those , whom , otherwise I might not have seen , and has given me easy access where I ttiight , without it , have found some difficulty . Calling , as a visitor , to

    inquire after the children , in case of their non-attendance , &c , has invariably been well received by the parents , and in some cases with much apparent gratitude . This alone , as the school increases , will find mean introduction to different families , and will lead to a knowledge of their circumstances and moral condition .

    As , however , I wish , on this subject , to deal neither in fiction nor conjecture , I will take the liberty of simply stating one fact of recent occurrence , out of several that I mi ght name . This may enable your readers to

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    judge whether I am . correct- in my suggestion as to the plan adopted . In the earlypart of last week I called at a house to inquire after two of the Sunday scholars , who had not attended for the two preceding Sundays . 1 saw the father , who said

    their mother ' s illness had prevented their attendance . I inquirecE ~ into ~ the nature of her complaint , and said I should be glad to see her , if it were agreeable to him . He replied , she had been ill some time , but lie believed was now very near the end of her sufferings ; yet he seemed not to wish me to see her . I then asked

    what , in her weak state , she could make use of , and offered to bring her a little arrow-root the next day . He coldly thanked me , and I retired . The next iHorning I werIK , accompa ^ - nied by my daughter , and saw the poor creature , . who expressed gratitude for my attention ; and after

    conversing with her , and praying by her , my daughter having—promised- 40 bring her some articles of linen , of which she seemed much in want , we left her . When we again called with the promised parcel , we found a girl , of about sixteen years of age , sitting before a fire-place ,

    looking very disconsolate , and , on my hesitating , she said , pointing with her finger to a small inside room , " Walk in , sir , there is my poor dear mother , her sufferings are now ended ; " and she burst into a flood of tears . On my attempting to console her , she said , ' ¦ * O , sir , I

    am not sorry that my dear mother is released ; but if it had pleased God to take me with her , I should be happy . " On my inquiring for her f ^ keT ( jko ^ 4 Ji 0 jK ^ gPl % e . put )_ kit she scarcely knew where .

    Perceiving her shivering with cold , as well as overwhelmed with grief , my daughter asked her why she did not light a fire and attend to the other children ? She replied , «« O , Miss ! during my mother ' s illness , we have burnt all our coals , ' and have no money to buy any j nor have we any

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    iMb Z UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/2/