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the few , very few individuals of our sect who ever appeared among" them . Allow me , in conclusion , to express ray hopes , that your Non Con correspondent is not quite decided in his
opinion respecting the impropriety of uniting Dissenters and Churchmen in the good work of sending abroad the word of life . Many sterling principles , much rectitude of heart , may be lost and frittered away in those circles of dissipation where the Dissenter is daily shamed or invited into
alliances which conscience forbids . But I feel infinitely less suspicious of the human heart where it is under a religious influence , and can hardly
believe conformity to establishments is the necessary result of an awakened attention to the duty of disseminating the Scriptures . It is fair , in general , to conclude that the Christian who is serious on one point is not careless and conscienceless on any ; he may ,
doubtless , deceive us and himselt too ; but " to his own master he standeth or falleth . " Meanwhile , though we are forbidden to do " evil that good may come , " it is no where said that we are to abstain from doing visible good because there is the possibility that evil may ensue . Non Con carries his dislike to establishments far indeed if he will not allow Churchmen and Dissenters to join together in giving a Bible . Q
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From a conversation I had with Mr , Owen in Leeds , some few weeks since he gave me to understand that a great improvement has taken place in the minds , learning and general deportment of the children since my visit in
1819 . Being deputed , along with Mr . Oastler and Mr . Baines , by the Guardians of the Poor of the townshi p ol Leeds , to visit the Establishment in New Lanark , we arrived there in the evening of the 28 th of August , 1819 . On the next morning
" The three years' old children's school was our first object ; and a more pleasing sight to the philanthropist is not to be seen from Johnny Groat ' s House to the Land ' s End . An innocent glow of health , pleasure and unabased childish freedom mantled on
their pretty countenances : this melting sight gave me a pleasure which amply repaid the toils of the journey . " VVe then went into the upper school—a school , for cleanliness , utility and neatness , I should not suppose surpassed in the kingdom . This
was Sunday ; they were just commencing , which was by singing a psalm , then the master went to prayer , and afterwards read a chapter . The girls and boys , being placed on the opposite sides of the room , then read in the New Testament ; a boy read
three verses , then a girl three , then a different boy other three , then a girl , &c . alternately . In another part of the room a person was hearing the boys and girls the Assembly ' s Catechism . Old Lanark is improving in morals , as any child who is willing to walk down from the Old Town to the
New may have instruction gratis . * * * * * * * Next morning , " After calling upon Mr . Owen at Braxfield-House , we walked down to the village , ami entered the small children ' s play-ground . God bless their little faces , I see them now ;
there were some bowling hoops , some drumming on two sticks , all engaged in some infantine amusement or other ; not a tear , not a wrang le—innocent peace ran through the group . As soon as they saw us , curtseys and bows teemed about us . Mr . Owen seemed here to be among his own imaginary improved state of society-
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Leeds , Sir , May 7 , 1 * 22 . OUR publication for January Ylast has just been put into my hands , and Dr . Morell ' s letter on Mr . Owen ' s System of Education ( pp . 6 '—8 ) pointed out to my notice . Without
entering into any discussion on the doctrine of hereditary depravity in the human species , or any speculations upon divine revelation , 1 cheerfully communicate , through the medium of your Repository , the substance of what particularly struck me in that branch of Mr . Owen ' s Establishment ,
which is employed in the education of the children ; and perhaps I cannot do this in a better manner than by making extracts from the letters which J transmitted from Lanark to Leeds , when the scenes were fresh in my fcight . ft will be recollected that these obscrvcitiono were made in 181 . 9 ,
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294 Mr . Cawood on Mr . Owen ' s Establishment .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/38/
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