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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Birmingham New-Meeting Charity * Schools * 2 \ st Oct . 1814 . Sir , There is > probably , no part of
these kingdoms , in which the excellent institution of Sunday Schools has met with a more generous support , and been extended with more essential benefits , than
in the town of Birmingham , arid its neighbourhood . The congregations of different denominations , appear to vie with one another in lending it an active and vigorous aid . From the beginning of spring to the end of autumri riot a San .
day passes , but in one part of the vicinity or other , in the churches of the Establishnifent , or in the Dissenting places of worship , several sermolis are preached in its
favour ; the effects of which appear in crowded auditories and liberal collections . The congregation of Protestant Dissenters at the New Meeting , in Birmingham , comes behind none in the
encouragement which it affords to this plan of civilizing the manners , enlightening the minds , and ° f forming to virtue and piety the hearts of the children of the lower classes of the community . In the female schools the young ladies
of the society merit great praise for the attention they bestow on the instruction of the girls . Voiing n * en become gratuitous teachers w the boys * schools . One singu * 1 ' ar and berieficial result from these schools has been the rise arid formation of a society among them ,
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td carry on their intellectual im . provement , and to watch each other ' s morals through the subsequent years of the youthful period beyond the commencement of manhood , and to render aid in time of sickness * On the 25 th of
September last , the Annual Sermon was preached , by the Rev . Edward Higginson , of Derby , from Prov . xxiv . ^ 6 T C VA wisfe man is strong . " A sermon which , by justness arid compass of thought , and by energy of language and sentiment , arrested the attention
and commanded the warm approbation of the hearers * It not only very happily and forcibly displayed the benefits and efficacious influence of knowledge ^ but particularly the peculiar featured of the boys' school , which give a prominent character to that in . stitution . From an idea that it
could not but be useful , to make those particulars more extensively known , the favour of an extract from that part of the applauded discourse has been requested from the author ; with which he has been so obliging as to comply .
and to grant GTis permission to offer it for a place in your u Repository . " If you , Sir , judge that it will shew to advantage the influence and tendency of the institution , and excite an
emulatron among the friends of it in other places to improve on its general plan , and to give the de * sign farther and more extensive applications , you m \\ no doubt , be disposed to allot the commu-
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Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/11/
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