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The money already subscribed when the writer of this note left Holland amounted to 3600 florins , equal to 300 / . sterling . This was effected in a week , and the poor sufferer ( through the assistance of these generous Hollanders ) is now carrying on business in a house of the same name . "— The Times of April 16 , 1829 . « Fire atSherrness—Mr . Brothers .
of Sheerness , who had for several years been the principal supporter of the Unitarian society in that place , was the severest sufferer by the dreadful lire which recently happened there ; and as he has received no pecuniary assistance from his neighbours , although his mite was promptly tendered to some similar sufferers on a former occasion , his case is offered to the consideration of the
Unitariau public , from a persuasion that it will excite their generous sympathies in his behalf . " The flames breaking out in the house immediately adjoining that in which he resided , it was with difficulty and peril of their lives that he and his wife and six children made their escape from the devouring element , with barely a covering to their bodies .
Having opeued a shop in the Druggist line , he had just laid in a considerable stock of goods , which , with his household furniture , he was on the point of insuring , when , by this sudden catastrophe , he was deprived of the whole , amounting to 870 / ., unable to rescue any part of it from destruction .
" These peculiarly untoward circumstances , together with the consideration of the religious prejudices which , from having been conspicuous as a Unitarian , have loug operated against his pecuniary interests , will , it is presumed , plead in his favour with the liberal-minded , more particularly with his brethren of the Unitarian persuasion .
c < Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Mr . Horwood , No . 3 , Walbrook Buildings , Walbrook . "—Monthly Repository Wrapper , April , 1829 . The gentlemen who recommended this affecting case to the attention of the public , affix the date of Nov . 10 , 1827 , —and yet , Sir , I deeply regret having to state , ( hat down to March 31 , 1829 , there had been subscribed towards the assistance of
this ruined f amily only the trifling sum of 3 W . 14 s . When I read the above article in the Times newspaper and recollected the advertisement , I must honestly confess I felt ashamed of my country ; and I hope your readers will pardon me when I add , still more so of my Unitarian bie-
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thren . But on reflection I have been induced to hope , that the readers of the Monthly Repository have not become acquainted with Mr . Brothers' strong claims ou their sympathy and their Christian benevolence . Feeling little interest in advertisements , they have passed over that of the Fire at Sheerness , unconscious that a fellow-creature , a fellow-christiau , had long been appealing to them in vain . This charitable construction I am bound
to put on their conduct , as the prompt and generous aid afforded to the late Mr . Gisburue and his dependent family is fresh in my memory . In the hope that those in whose benevolence I then felt an honest pride , need only to have their attention called to the distress of Mr . Brothers and his numerous family , to
come forward with equal promptitude and geuerosity , I have ventured to put the two extracts together . I must add , that I am personally unknown to Mr . Brothers ; but I most earnestly request your subscribers to read both the extracts attentively . Let them emulate the truly Christian conduct of the Hollanders , and then our Lord and Master will not
fail to declare at the great day , " Forasmuch as ye have done it uuto thesey ye have done it unto me . " A MAN OF KENT .
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Thoughts on Education . To the Editor . Sir , In your last number , I observe Thoughts on Education , which coutaiu some excellent remarks , but the writer of which does not appear to me to have
taken a sufficiently comprehensive view of the subject . In all that he has said of the importance of attending early , and always , to the acquisition of a knowledge of chemistry , &c , 1 cordially agree with him , and I have been for forty years labouring to carry such views into effect , with what success or in what wanner is
nothing to my present purpose . The error he falls into is , that he does not consider sufficiently the number of years for which useful education is to be supplied , or he would not have recommended high payment to masters on the ground of its being a saving , if they
taught as much in one year as was before done in rive . Now I would consider that we have to provide for sixteen years or more , during which the habits of the future man are to be established , and a foundation laid for a life of progressive improvement . The period till eight or nine would be beat spent with an intel-
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . $ 49
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/53/
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