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establishment , yet the most essential parts of their education will be grossiy neglected . 4 th . Because no master can be elected , however excellent and well qualified , unless he be a Churchman , and in that
case the minister of the parish is to have the entire controul of the schools , and can reject the appointment of the master , although duly elected by the parish householders , and can , at auy time he pleases , dismiss the master from his office without
assigning any reason for it . 5 th . Because , while about 50 , 000 Sunday-school teachers are already voluntarily bestowing their active gratuitous services , and their pecuniary contributions , towards the instruction of about 500 , 000 children in England and Wales , those teachers and subscribers who are householders will , in addition , by the proposed Bill , be most
unjustly and oppressively compelled to pay their assessed portion of the schoolrate towards supporting the parochial schools : and , further , because that rate being left discretionary , like the poorrates , may be so levied as to fall most heavily upon Dissenters , while the money so levied is to be expended for the purpose of training the children up for the Established Church .
6 th . Because , in the clause relative to fixing of the times of instruction , no mention is made of the hours in which the children may be required to attend on the Sabbath-days , thus leaving it to the option of the minister to direct the
master to assemble the children , and keep them at the school during such parts of the Sabbath-day as the minister may think proper , without any permission to attend either parochial or Dissenting Sunday-schools conducted by gratuitous teachers .
7 th . Because the experience of Sundayschool teachers positively proves , that the majority of the parents who may be Dissenters , will not avail themselves of the privilege allowed by the Bill , of taking
their children to any other place of religious worship ; but the parents will allow them to attend the worship of the Established Church , lest they should be liable to the ill-treatment of the master , or the ridicule of their school-fellows .
8 th . Because the well-known abuses and misapplication of property in many schools already endowed , leads to the reasonable inference , that the proposed parochial schools will entail a heavy rate upon the public , in addition to their present burdens ; and that the children who may attend these schools will not receive that better education which the
preamble of the Bill contemplates , but an education essentially deficient to what the scholars are at present receiving in
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our numerous daily and Sunday-schools , already supported by the extensive liberality of the British public . 9 th . Because the general levying of a school rate will have a natural tendency to lessen most materially , if not to annihilate altogether , the existing spirit of benevolence in the support of schools , which has so highly distinguished this
country . 10 th . Because the simple act of sub - mitting to the House of Commons , the proposed Bill , or any other bill founded upon the same unjust and oppressive
principles , by any person or parties whatever , may be fairly deemed a contemptuous reflection upon the progressive efforts of British benevolence in general , and especially on that disinterestedness and liberality manifested so extensively by Sunday-school teachers .
11 th . Because the various existing school societies , together with the unions established in most parts of this country , consisting of Sunday-school teachers of all denominations of Christians agreeing in the main doctrines of the Holy
Scriptures , are at the present time unremittingly exerting themselves in their different spheres , to realize the end proposed by the Bill , in a manner more likely to prove effectual than any legislative enactment , and at an expense infinitely below what parochial schools would require . Resolved , That in the event of the Bill being proposed to the Legislature , in its present or any objectionable shape , the committee of this auxiliary be instructed to provide petitions for the signature of the teachers and supporters of Sundayschools within this auxiliary union , founded upon these resolutions , and praying that the Bill may not pass into a law ; and that the petitions be presented to either House of Parliament , by such members as the Committee may be able
to interest in this subject . Resolved , That these resolutions be forthwith printed and circulated ; and that copies be forwarded to the parent union , and to such Members of Parliament as the Committee may consider advisable . [ Similar Resolutions have been published by the " South London Auxiliary Sunday-school Union , " the " Southwark Sunday-School Society , " &-c ]
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316 Intelligence . —Southern Unitarian Society .
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Southern Unitarian rund society . The Southern Unitarian Fund Society held its annual meeting at Portsmouth , as usual , on Easter Wednesday , the 25 th of April . The morning service , at the General Baptist Chapel , was introduced by the Rev . T . W . Horsfield , of Lewe * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/60/
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