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experience . Several other societies have been established upon similar principles , and whether they succeed or fail , they will afford an interesting and instructive experiment for the consideration of the friends of human nature and of human happiness . ADELPHOS .
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______ % Experiment in Monmouthshire for bettering the Condition of the Poor . ( Continued from p . 58 . ) To the Editor . Sir , IVoodfield , Jan . 17 , 1829 . Such a practical experience and visible manifestation of some of the beneficial effects of my village system upon the condition of the first adventurers , as were exhibited during the third year of the experiment , proved nearly
decisive of its success , or at any rate insured it a fair trial . What appeared to most persons at first visionary , had began , to be considered possible ; au opinion of uncertainty was exchanged for a conviction of probability ; and incredulity itself was sileuced , even where not absolutely convinced . This salutary change of opinion , however , extended only , or
at least chiefly , to those who were to be immediately benefited . The practical proof that a man who had been accustomed to pay 6 / . or 71 . a year rent for very insufficient accommodation iu his house , and little or no garden , might , with but little exertion of hand and head , acquire a comfortable dwelling and sufficiency of garden on such easy and
advantageous terms , was irresistible ; but the idea of rescuing any considerable number of the labouring poor from the moral , personal and political degradation into which they had fallen , continued to l > e treated as visionary , even by many who ought to have known better . The necessary impulse had , however , been given—the trial was certain—and though difficulties and discouragements were , to say the least , unnecessarily and
unworthily thrown in the way , many lifeleases were taken , and so considerable a number of houses built or begun , that before the end of the fourth year 1 determined to erect a market house , with a large room over it , tor the establishment of a school , and for the occasional use of the Village Provident Society . This room , also , I had registered at the Quarter Sessions as a chapel , and ita use was offered to and accepted by several different congregations of professing
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Christians , on the sole conditions of producing" unquestionable testimony of the good moral character of the officiating minister , and not obstructing or abusing each other . At this period , an inn was built for the accommodation of travellers , as well as for more local purposes ; aud siuce then various shops have
been opened , including a smith ' s shop , and a medical man established in the village . In the year 1824 , finding that even more of success than I had anticipated promised to attend my experiment , I founded a second Village on another part of my property , in the same valley as the first , three miles distant , aud , in 1826 , a third , in the Rumney Valley , on
the confines of this county , bordering on Glamorganshire . Both these last -named are in some respects on different modifications of the selfsame principle ; they differ also a little from each other , both embodying improvements on the first , as suggested by experience ; but of these , together with the moral and personal effects already resulting from the attempt
practically to demonstrate that the moral degradation aud wretched poverty so common to the British labourer of the present day , are neither necessary in themselves , nor attributable to his own fault chiefly , I must defer writing at present , having barely time at command to add , that the three experimental
villages contain already upwards of two thousand inhabitants ; that they are all steadily and regularly increasing , though in different degrees , both in size and prosperity ; and that of this amount of population , Black wood , the first attempted , contains about fourteeu hundred souls . JOHN H . MOGGRIDGE .
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The True Worshipers . To the Editor . Sir , If a second appearance in your valuable Repository should not be deemed unreasonable , as confined to a single though very important subject , will you permit me to thank your correspondents for the liberal spirit in which they have met the remarks I ventured to make on the subject of " True Worshipers" ?
To E . K . I feel indebted for the detail he has giveu us of the revival of our own peaceful and heart-consoling worship at Wareham , and glory in an event , which all who value our opinions must rejoice at .
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 125
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/53/
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