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gttisrjy attend , ( as being the parents of children in your chanty or Sunday schools , or persons who have been scholars themselves .
and wish to continue their attendance \ vhere they have received their education , though not as yet in circumstances to subscribe , or from whatever other motive they may attend ) endeavour to " obtain ,
with all the circumstances you can collect , respecting their characters , families , occupations , the best means of serving them , and the like , from the best private information . For this purpose you will make inquiry from the directors of the charitable institutions
supported by the congregation ; besides which you will soon get to learn who are the persons con *; netted with it , who are understood tote best acquainted with its several ranks , and ( using no doubt
your own power of discrimination and judgment how far those who are thus reported to you are worthy of your confidence , or might be tempted to abuse or presume upon it ) you may easily make such
penotis useful in communicating the information you are in search of When you have in all these ways , made out a complete alphabetical index of all who are in
any way connected with the so-Wy , this will serve as a table of reference to the next compartment orinain body of the book ; which should consist of a set of distinct P g ^ , or rather double pages , (^ ginning with the left-hand page , ^ pointed out in Locke ' s method
° ' keeping a common-pi ace book ) juitubered according to the num . » ete of the pews in the plan pre-* xe < L At the head ot each page ¦* y be entered the name of the ; I the fcwfty occupying the
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Letter to a young Dissenting Minister . 475
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pew to which it is assigned , his occupation , place of abode , number of family , with the respective names of the several individuals
composing it ; to which may be subjoined their ages , from the chapel register , or from such other authority as can he had . This will serve as a sort of led ° er or memorandum-book * in which you may enter , on the proper pages ( in short-hand ") , such particulars as rhay occur to you , in the course of \ our visits , or otherwise , teiKlin ^ to illustrate the characters , wants , opportunities of usefulness , or of your useiulness to"them , v ^ ith various other circumstances of each individual member . I have also found it
very useful to throw the list of the congregation into another order , upon a few of the blank leaves at the end of th *» book ,, viz . with a reference to the situation of iheir respective dwellings , as
they lie in particular streets or districts of the countrv , so as to point out how they may be most conveniently visited in the course of . particular walks or rides . This will tend to insure a more regular
visiting of the whole congregation ; at least it will be a means of preventing the inadvertent omission of any individual . Perhaps it might not be without its advantages to
procure a map of the town and district round it , in which your hearers live ; aud to mark with a pencil or some coloured ink , the residences of each respectively .
In commencing your personal acquaintance with the individual members of your congregation , a number of difficulties will of course arise . Most of these may , in alji likelihood be overcome by the aid of the persons above jeierred t «**
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/25/
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