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tfve 3 * Of its beneficial influence on the Scottish kirk we are not quite so confident . We speak from inquiries made by us on the spot : as large or a larger proportion of the inhabitants secede from the church establishment as of
the inhabitants of South Britain from our hierarchy . That our readers may judge of the effects of placing the whole system of education under the supermteru dance of a parochial clergy , we copy the following paragraph from the Glasgow Courier of May 31 ,
1811 . u General Assembly . u committee appointed upon the reference from the presbytery of Glasgow respecting Sunday Schools reported tfiat the presbytery acted properly in twinging the subject before the
assembly ; that the jurisdiction of presbyteries , by acts of Parliament , extends not only to parochial , bat to all teachers and schoolmasters ; that . the school taught by Mr . Moor in Glasgow ought fo be suppressed by the presbytery , as
he entertains most erroneous religious opinions , and if their efforts are ineffectual , that they should apply to the civil magistrate , to enforce their authority , &c . The assembly agreed to the report . "
P . 7 « * Do the members of the establishment shew the same wisdom with tbe dissenters in promoting plans of cdncatio n where no provision is m ? de for the national religion- ^ -or where it fcamatter of indifference whether the d&dren , on a Sunday , frequeat the conventicle or the church ?"
Is Dr . M . ' s use of the word Wwoentiole strictly accurate ? Is * t liberal and handsome ? Is it worth y of a fair reasoner and of J inan so gifted and accomplished ? Must we suppose Jiirja still ignorant of the impoTt of the term i *
**? io . note ( 5 ) . << It is obvious from ^ general tenor of this Introduction , * Mon . Rep , Vol . V . 406 .
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[ Mr , Lancaster ' s to Jhis work entitled Improvements in Educatioii ] that the w « rd sect is there applied as well to the established as to the tolerated religions in thh country /*
We shall' not justify the selection of incorrect and offensive words either by Mr » Lancaster or Dr . Marsh . But , really , when the Margaret professor calls a
dissenting place of worship a conventicle , he is rriuch more inaccurate than the author of Improvements in Education wh 6 styles the established religron a sect . In the eyes of the see of Rome it is as much a sect and sectarian as
those whom some members of our Protestant hierarchy delight to stigmatize as such . Henceforth let Dr . M . be mctfe cautious and impartial : Respicerc ignoto discat pendentia tergo . P . 10 . 6 < This system he conducts , " &c . And this system is , - in truth , a mechanical plan of teaching
children to read , write and cypher with ease and expedition . Consequently , being simply a mechanical invention , it neither has nor
can have a relation to any one class of religious tenets more than to another . It stands , in this respect , on exactly the same ground with Braidwoorl ' s ingenious
method of instructing the deaf and dumb , which received the warm approbation of Dr . Samuel Johnson , aind to which he never objected that it did not comprehend the church catechism and the thirty-nine articles , P . ii . " . Elven neutrality , however strictly observed , is in this , case a kind of hostility . " Neutrality must , surely , be alike favourable or unfavourable to the churchrnau and the dis-
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Pwfessor Marsh's Sermon on Education . SSS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/41/
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