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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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Resolutions of the Protestant Society o ? i Mr . Brougham * s Education BilL [ The Committee of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , cherished a hope that Mr . Brougham would not have re-introduced this Bill to Parliament , or would previously have consented to make many
alterations , rendering it less objectionable to all classes of Dissenters from the Established Church . Those hopes they now fear will meet with disappointment , and they request the insertion in the Monthly Repository of an abstract of the Bill as
circulated by Mr . Brougham , * and the Resolutions expressive of their sentiments thereon adopted by the Committee in July last . The Committee expect that your numerous readers may be thereby enabled to determine whether it be a measure which their real desire for the
education of the poor , their attachment to liberal principles , and their love to religious freedom will allow them to approve : and will be better prepared to concur in such efforts as may be suggested , and they shall deem expedient , to prevent its success . —January , 1821 . ] At a Special General Meeting of the Committee of " The Protestant
Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , " held at BatsorCs Cojfeeffouse , Cornhilly on Tuesday , July 18 , 1820 , " To consider a measure announced to Parliament , * for the General Education of the Poor ;'" David Allan , Esq . in the Chair ; H was unanimously resolved , 1 . That this Committee appointed to protect the Religious Liberty of Protestant Oisseiiters , believe that wisdom and
freedom mutually promote individual and public happiness ; and desire that all men should enjoy the benefits of an appropriate and religious education , —including instruction in reading , writing and arithmetic .
2 . That this Committee have observed with satisfaction not only the numerous educational institutions , liberally endowed by our forefathers , but the general diffusion of elementary knowledge among their fellow-countrymen ; and the great modern increase of attention to the instruction of the poor , manifested not only
* The strictures on the proposed Education Bill already inserted in this Number under the head of " The Nonconformist , " pp . 25—33 , supersede this part <> f the Committee ' s request . Ed .
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by poor parents—by Parochial Schoolsby the National Society—by the British and Foreign School Institution—but especially by the establishment of Sundayschools , —which combine the great advantages of sufficient tuition with the due observance of the Sabbath-day , and with moral and religious improvement .
3 . That , gratified by these observations —considering also the facilities to instruction afforded by the systems of Dr . Bell and Mr . Lancaster—anticipating that the benevolent zeal already manifested , and yet progressive , would continue to increase — concluding that as parents , themselves instructed , would
become the instructors of their children , or desire their instruction , the progress of instruction would augment with every successive generation—and believing that spontaneous beneficence is more effective than extorted contributions , and that individual and cordial efforts , are more useful than prescribed and legislative
systems , this Committee have cherished a hope that , without any extraneous interposition or parliamentary enactments , every benefit that the love of freedom , patriotism , philanthropy and religion could desire as to general education would be eventually , speedily and happily obtained .
4 . That tins Committee—representing a large portion of the population of England and Wales , from whom many civil rights are yet withheld , on account of their religious opinions , and who arc yet subject to exclusion from offices , and to tests
which they deem obnoxious and disgraceful—must deplore any measures that may increase the degradation they desire to terminate , and augment the powers and abuses of a system which they conscientiously disapprove .
5 . That this Committee have therefore perused , with regret , some Charges and Discourses of Dignitaries of the Established Church , declaring that the general
education of the poor would be connected with the Established Church , and that the parochial clergy should be invested with additional powers , to superintend that education , and to render it subservient to the increase of the members of
that -Establishment . 6 . That such regret is augmented by the proposition of a measure to Parliament , realizing all the apprehensions excited in their minds , and proposing to establish Parochial Schools at a great immediate national expense , and at coiisiderabic and permanent local charges : — and si > connected with the Established
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/57/
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