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contributions ; that 192 schools were opened without the aid of the society ; that 1500 schools are now in connexion with them ; and that there were 124 applications for aid in erecting new schools ; 1600 children are now receiving instruction in the model school ; and 11 , 392 children have been instructed in this school from the commencement . They have distributed ,
in the last year , 59 , 092 cheap books , ( and they are good as well as cheap , as we know of our own knowledge , ) making a total of 1 , 291 , 794 sold by the society since the cbmnnencement of its labours . Besides this institution there is the London Hibernian Society for establishing schools and circulating the Scriptures in Ireland . This society ( according to its own statements ) provides scriptural instruction for every class of the community ; establishes ailcl maintains day , Sunday , and adult schools , in which boys , girls , or grown persons , are taught to read the Holy Scriptures in English or
Irish ; it employs numerous Scripture readers who read and distribute the sacred volume in the Irish or English language ; and none , however poor , or whatever their religious sentiments , are excluded from its schools . It supports , at the present time , 1046 schools , which afford instruction to 67 , 326 scholars . Many other societies of minor importance might be named ; and though , in many of their details , these institutions are not what we would have them to be ; yet , if they do nothing more than awaken and stir up the public mind , they will confer a great benefit on that fine but unfortunate country .
The Christian Observer for the last month gives us reason to hope that the Watchman will not be utterly useless to our orthodox brethren . Their tone , we begin to hope , will be lowered , and their regard for fair dealing augmented . Our readers may remember some strictures which occured in our first number , on a passage extracted from the Observer , relative to * ' the too well-known Mr . Robinson of Cambridge . " The Observer replies , with all due humility , that it did not , by the language used , intend to imply
that Robinson was cut off for preaching Unitarian ism . We' are glad to hear the fact . But what impression would readers receive from 1 the language employed > We contend the inference would be , that his death was the consequence of a divine interposition to vindicate the'truths of orthodoxy . We take , however , the editor's disclaimer ; we acquit him of intending to mislead , but we doubt not he has misled ; we absolve * him of equivocation —Still he stands chargeable with ambiguity , to say the least * > Hef may have
meant no harm , but if harm ensues from his obscurities , the sooner he , or his Correspondents , mend their style the better . The editor , aflso ^ in the same paragraph , allowed his readers to imagine that Whitby wtefc © ot an Unitarian . To this he answers , he does not reply to every qnery o # his correspondents ; his pages are open to discussion . But it ifr not < a mfeitter which admits of discussion . Doubt there is none—room for argument there is none . This the editor knows , and he is highly blameable for allowing * his pages to convey erroneous impressions to the minds of his
readers . ' But we are sorry to be compelled to add graver charged . The editor continues— " As little justice is there in various other charges which the Repository has lately urged against us ; such , for example , as that in reviewing The Child ' tf Faithful Friend / published by a well-known Unitarictn bookseller * we invidiously suppressed the publishers name ; whereas , it is never our practice to give publishers names in our reviews or announcements . ' ? The facts are these i The Observer , in a review of the Christian Child ' s Faithful Friend ^ warned its readers ! against the work , < f as no notice is given in the work itself of its real object , " ' and complains stillfarther that
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330 The Watchman .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/34/
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