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master of the school shall be a member of the Church of England . This provision necessarily follows from the indispensable arran gement that the master shall attend the majority of the children to the worship of the Establishment . It may be imagined that the negative
granted to the clergyman of the parish , or the choice of , a master by the householders , may give him too much power . The object of that power is , however , of comparatively little moment . The clergyman has no authority to intrude any one into the office of master at his own
will ; and it is not to be conceived that many clergymen will run counter to the wish of their neigh hours , without some substantial reason . After all , the provision is no hardship upon us particularly as Dissenters . In the speech with which he introduced his Bill , Mr , Brougham proposed that
the master should be obliged to take the sacramental test . To the proposal of the extended use of that criterion , so obnoxious to our feelings , I had strong objection , which I lost no time in communicating to him ; but before he received my letter , he had been apprized of the impression it was likely to make on our body , and for that and other reasons had withdrawn it ;
and , m point of fact , it never composed a part of his Bill . I trust , Sir , that by this letter I shall have satisfied you and the rest of my Nonconforming brethren , that Mr . Brougham never entertained any unfriendly sentiments towards Dissenters . It would
give me pleasure to understand that my statement of the provisions contained in his Bill in security of our rights , has abated the prejudices entertained against it . The education of the mass of the population of England is a grand and momentous object , —for the furtherance of which , if need were , we should be prepared to make some sacrifices . But I
am nersuaded that no sacrifice we shall , by his Bill , be called upon to make , save the sacrifice of unreasonable jealousy and suspicion . With sincere esteem for your character as a man , and thanks for your exertions in defence of the common rights of the Dissenting body , I remain , yours truly , WILLIAM SHEPHERD . Gateacre , Feb . 1 .
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The Report of the Committee was then read . The first topic on which it treated was , a liberal offer made to the Society by one of its life subscribers to provide a pair of dies from which a medal might be struck , to be presented to the author of the best Tract during any one year . Neatly executed drawings of a devise and a motto for the obverse and reverse of
the Medal were shewn to the Meeting ; but as the other business was of a highly interesting nature , the subject of the medal was referred to the new Committee , of which the gentleman alluded to was chosen a member . It was stated that during the last year , three new Tracts had been published ,
and that 2000 copies of each had been printed . The first was from the pen of the Rev . R . JVright , under the title of The Recovery of the Lost Son ; the second was written by Mrs . Hughes , ( the author of so many of the Society ' s publications , ) and entitled The Sunday Scholar ; or , a Sketch from Real Life ;—and the third ,
by Mrs . Price , ( author of The Orphan Sisters , The Old Soldier , History of Ele ~ nor fVilliams , and The History of Edward Allen , ) and entitled The Miller * s Boy ; or , the Life and Death of Thomas Sankey . Besides these new tracts , three of the old ones had been reprinted ;
amounting together to 11 , 000 copies : but the number circulated in that period was stated to be nearly 21 , 000 . The amount of the Tracts printed from the institution of the Society in 1809 , was mentioned as being 295 , 000 , of which 26 * 1 , 000 had gone out from its store , and most of them had been circulated . In
the course of the ensuing year , in order to keep up the stock for complete sets of the four published volumes , it was sup ^ posed that not less than a dozen of the Tracts would require to be reprinted . From the extensive continental correspondence of one of their number , the Committee had been enabled to send sets
of the Tracts to Spam , France , Holland and Piedmont . In Holland they had been thankfully received by Professor Van Swinderon , of Groningen , and by his recommendation a set had also been sent to the Moravians , of Zeist , near Utrecht , who have established a society for the distribution of Tracts , with objects
similar to those contemplated by The Christian Tract Society . In a journal published by the French Protestants of Nismes , a very honourable testimony was said to have been given , in the number for November 1820 , to the excellence and superiority of tJve Tracts published by this Society .
Several grants had been made to Sunday-schools , in different parts of the kingdom , dining the year , and the Com- *
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Intelligence .- * Christian Tract Society . 189
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i - *— - . Christian Tract Society . The Anniversary of this Society was holden on March 8 th , at the Old London Tavern , — -James Esdaile , Esq ., in the Chair , at the meeting for business . When the Treasurer ' s report was laid on the table it appeared . that the Society was indebted to him £ 11 . \ 6 s . 3 d ., and to its Stationers £ 93 . 19 s .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/61/
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