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1 626 Review * - ~ Bran $ by $ Address on Opening a New School-Room .
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rail of doty , though summoniog to the bitterest . sacrifices of fprtune or of feeling , renouncing every ; prospect for the testimony of a good conscience , and in reliance on his providence : men who have developed the powers and asserted
the . rights of intellect , and won from Philosophy her proudest trophies to cast them « $$ . tb « foot of th 6 Cross ; and whose exalted talents and unshaken faith were a ^ SiK ^ iintion ' of the native affinity of Reason and Revelation : men who have raised the standard of religious freedom ,
aiid fought its battles , and suffered in its cause ; and prompted its manly and generous assertion , not only for those who were like-minded with themselves , hut on behalf of all , even though holding opinions ^ : the most remote , and mad with a bigoted hostility the most inveterate : men
wlio , deeply impressed with the practical importance of their own tenets , could yet most readily allow , and praise , and love goodness in others , whatever they believed , or whatever they rejected : men whose pure lives shewed that even if the
head were wrong , the heart was right , and that , if doing Christ ' s will be building on a rocky they need not dread the storm , come wnen it may : mjbn who loved their neighbour as themselves , and felt the zeal or \ benevolence in all its
energy * and were in doing good unwearied , and grappled man to their hearts with the affection of a brother : men who through life ' s changes , and in death ' s struggles , had hopes fixed on high , ever
firm and glorious , drawing their souls to heaven to join the kindred society of the just made perfect , and enjoy the full triumphs of that cause for which they combated , iu the subjection of all enemies at the Saviour ' s footstool : —nien such as
these has no system done more honour to Christianity than Unitarianisnt by producing in comparative abundance . The descriptions will suggest to you names whose praise is in all our churches ; nay ,
which pervades our country , and beams forth beyond , even to * the very boundaries of enlightened arid civilized society . " - ~ Pp ; 33 ; 34 . 5 /
Our good wishes and fervent prayers are given to these Temples of the Living ^ God . May they be at once memorials and shrines of Evangelic truth , pure and undefiled ! And may
thfe Holy Spirit of the gospel , " the spirit of poVirer , and of love , and a sound mind , " " the spirit of glory /' test upon them , and secure peace and prosperity within them !
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AnT . V . ' —An Address * delivered on Opening a New Scliool * Room , belonging to the 7 tyit $ tee& of Mr . Baylies ' s Charityfm Tower Street , Dudley , on Monday , Marbh 22 , 1824 . * By James Hews Bransby . 8 vo . pp . 36 . Ipswich , printed by John Bransby , and sold by R . Hunter , London . <
MR . ROBERT BAYLIES , a lime-burner of * Dudley * by an indenture , bearing date Nov . 9 , 1 / 32 , founded an institution for educating and clothing fifty poor boys . He provided that his trustees should be chosen from among such as are •* by profession Protestant Presbyterian
Dissenters , " but he solemnly enjoined that in selecting- objects of his bounty , " no regard whatever should be had to party or persuasion / ' He died at the beginning of the year 1745 . By the improvement of the charity , the trustees are enabled to educate two
hundred and twenty boys , though only fifty are clothed . They have also built an elegant and' commodious sehool , on the opening of Which ! the above " Address" was delivered , which is in every respect appropriate . Mr . Bransby concludes with a . suitable anecdote from Mr * Charles Butler ' s
Works ( IV ; 346 ) : w We are told that when the pious and amiable Gerson , the Chancellor of the Church and University of Paris , was on his death-bed , his soul appeared to be agonized at the thought of impending
dissolution , and at the prospect of standing before his eternal Judge . Astonished an < I affrighted by his terrors , his friends strove to console him . They brought * to his recollection the great and virtuous actions of his piiblic life ; the services he had rendered to the cause of religion ,
of which , during many years , he had been one oi the brightest ornaments ; the learned and pious works he had written ; his long protracted old age spent in prayer and meditation . But all was
vain!—His terrors continued , and he appeared to be sinking under them . At length one of his friends quitted the room . In about half an hour he returned , followed by three hundred children , who were sqpported and educated by the charity of the
dying man . The little creatures spread themselves from the thtffckholil of his house to his bed-chamber V ^ and there , falling on their knees raisedj ^ hqir hands to heaven , and cried , O God ^ be merciful to one , who in thy name h $ » been
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/50/
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