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Extract from an Account of i ) je Bishop of Dromore * s Sunday Schools * My George Aust , Esq . In the Sunday Schools which the
Bishop of Dromore has established in his neighbourhood , children of all persuasions are admitted , and in considerable numbers . On a Sunday -when I visired the Bishop last autumn , there were above 100 children assembled on the
lawn in the £ > orit of his L , ordsfnp s palace , half a mile from the town of I > romore- ; and they were all carefully examined and rewarded according to their merits . I have since learnt that they frequently assemble there in far greater numbers ^ and t have received the following particulars concerning the establishment of these schools .
There are five Sunday Schools in the parish of Dromore ; two of them entirely supported by the Bishop . He contributes to the three others , giving occasionally to them all , books and other premiums . Twenty years have passed , since he first established them . Having for some months tried the effect of a
certain number of children of the different religious persuasions , he had a meeting of some of his own clergy at an examination of the Schools , uniting with them the Roman Catholic priest , and two dissenting ministers of the different congregatians , called here Old and New
JLights * , With them was settled a plan of instruction , for instilling the * fundamental principles of Christianity , chiefly taken from our church catechism ; and for teaching them their duty to God and their neighbour ; impressing them with a particular abhorrence of lying and theft . —The effect has answered his
most sanguine expectations ; the surrounding peasantry being now remarks able for their truth and hofcesty . ¦ Every Sunday morning the- children attend their teachers in the
schooi-hous-* The Old Lights strictly adhere to the Calvtfnst Doctrine * Both agree in the SMttie Presbyterian Church government .
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es ; and after divine service , three and sometimes four of the schools ( the fifth , being too remote ) assemble with their masters , as is above-mentioned , before the Bishop ' s palace . Every one that can answer the question proposed is rewarded with a halfnennv : afterwards
they withdraw with the greatest regularity , arranged two and two together ; the first step towards improvement being to accustom children to a respectful , decent , and -orderly demeanonr . They are also required to come neat and clean ly , and the Bishop has given amongst them for a Christmas orift * a cross , or
twelve dozen of combs . The childrea of the poor families around him , whether ,, their parents be Roman Catholics , Dissenters , or of the established church , are all equally desirous of receiving this instruction , and of enjoying these benefits , of vrhich . they ail partake without distinction . In order to remove
every prejudice , the Bishop is not so exactly scrupulous in the choice of masters ,, as to confine them entirely to members of the established church ; but he is careful to see that they strictly
follow the plan of instruction , which had been prescribed ; and for that purpose they are constantly . examined by his own agent , and by inspectors appointed by himself ; and he has never found tha f any undue advantage has been taken of his . confidence in the teachers .
The members of the established church form here a very respectable and latgc congregation , which has so increased * , that it has been found necessary to make the addition of another aisle to Dromqrc church . This church was rebuilt after
the restoration by that excellent prelate . Dr . Jeremiah Taylor , then Bishop of Down Connor , and Dromore , and an * thor of many valuable works , particu- * larly his Rule of Holy Living and Dying . In this church he was buried . —^
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Intelligence . —The Bishop of Droin ore ' Sunday Schools * 45 S
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out such books as are returned , or required ; and fifteen or twenty volumes are usually exchanged or issued upon these occasions . The masters of families read them to their children , Sea . in the evenings ; and thus a few visitors are perhaps detained from the ale-house
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tain what other volume * may have been found useful and popular in similar institutions . My present collection is nearly already all in circulation . The schoolmaster attends on Sundays for half an hour prior to the beginning of the morning service , to receive and give
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ACCOUNT OF THE BISHOP OF D&OMORE ' s StfXDAY SCHOOLS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/53/
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