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fcfrflkfertt to prevent such an influence ; btit he may improve what lie cannot render perfect , and modify what he cannot
subdue . A vessel in a strong cur . tent cannot be prevented going down with the stream ; but a skilful pilot may frequently chuse the line of his course , and avoid the rocks which he cannot remove . H . B .
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Sunday Schools of Catholic Origin *
Sir , - Aipongthi * institutions by which this country is distinguished , every eonskleffctfc ' Christian' will set a
fcigu value on the late establish . mettii of Surtday schools , which * toe $ so triwch honcnir to the me . ittory of Mr . Raikes . In contemplating , however , the advantages ro bederived from them , it
# t&y strike some of your readers ivith surprise , that the Protestants &b «* iild not only have been so long 3 time without them , but that the © atholics may with justice claim the honour of setting us the exam .
pe two hundred years ago . I ligve , in proof of this , made an extract- --from the Classical Tour £ k * obgb Italy , just published , tlhose amiable and enlightened author gives us the following aceotenf of the formation of them
by Stk Charles Borromeo , one of t 4 * 6 se great characters who shews tfe&t virtue and patriotism are to be found in that church , many of ^ hose tenets are deservedl y held tejT us in abhorrence ,
u Many of the excellent insti . twtions of Cardinal Borromeo $ till remain , and among others that of Sutoday schools , and it is both novel and affecting 16 behold * ii that day the vast area of the
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cathedral of Milan filled with children , forming two grand divisions of boys and girls , ranged
opposite each other , and these again subdivided into classes , aecording to their age and capacii ties , drawn up between the pillars , while two or more instructors
attend each class , and direct their questions and explanations to every little individual without distinction . A clergyman attends each class , accompanied by one or more laymen for the boys .
and for the girls as many matrons ! The lay persons are said to be oftentimes of the first distinction * Tables iuv placed in different recesses lor writing . This
admirable practice , so btneficia . 1 and so edilying , is not confined to the cathedral , or even to Milan . The pious archbishop extended it t ( j > every par * of his immense
diocese , and it is observed in alj the pan chial churches of the jVli * lanese , and of the neighbouring dioceses , of such , at least as Hf& suffragans of Milan /* i
It is not neefssary to recom * mend this practice to Uniiaruatns ^ as I believe very few plares of worship are among us without a Sunday school , but I must taka
this opportunity of adding my testimony to the zeal of the Catholic clergy in other parts of Kut rope , as I have been a spectator , in the Alps , and in the Low Countries , of their attention to
young children , an attention in which the Moravians ftlsoa < re very praise * worthy . At Neuwied ^ on on the Rhine , I was detained very
pleasantly in their chapel by tbe very agreeable manner in whichi instruction , suitable to the c <* pa » cities of the learners , was c ^^ iai u ^ j riicated . Our Unitarian brethren .
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Sunday SdHdots ef Catholic Origin . $ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/21/
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