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fessedly great , and no inquiry can be more important than that which is directed to the means of diminishing the number . In addition to the admirable remedies which your correspondent has proposed , allow me to suggest , that perhaps one of the most powerful would be found in the prevalence of that moral restraint among the lower classes of
society which would preserve from an early and improvident marriage as the dictate of prudence , combined with the highest personal purity , in obedience to the precepts of the divine law . It is confessed that great progress must be made in useful knowledge and good habits before this result can rationally be expected .
But it would be criminal to despair . Powerful causes are even now operating , and in the prevalence of a purer faith , in the dissemination of the principles of a sound morality which unites the highest good of the individual with obedience to divine and human laws , such a result may be anticipated , and will be found to influence all the classes of the
community . That your pages , devoted as they are to advance the progress of liberal sentiments and of a pure theology , may accelerate the event , is the ferveut wish of ,. Sir , yours , &c , EPS 1 LON .
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Christian Tract Society , No . 6 , Goulden Terrace , Pentonville , Sir , April 14 , 1829 . Will you permit me to say , that I am instructed by the Committee of the Christian Tract Society to forward to all the Ministers in otir connexion a copy of the Rules and last Report of the said Society , and respectfully to solicit their support , whether by preaching a sermon in re-
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Rev . W . Hassal . 1829 . Feb . 6 , at Manchester , aged 73 , the Rev . W , Hassal . He was educated for the ministry iu the Warrington Academy , and , on the completion of his studies , iu 1773 , accepted an invitation to become the pastor of the Presbyterian Congregation at Rochdale . This charge , however , he was soon obliged , by a failure of voice , to relinquish , fle then opened a school , which became and con-
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commendation of it , or by adopting auv other means of promoting it which they may deem suitable . I have also permission to add to that communication a few of the Society ' s Tracts , that ministe rs may be better able to give to others an idea of the sound moral principles which our Tracts are adapted to convey . To many ministers the proposed
communication has been made ; and , for the sake of economy , I am desirous of intimating to such as have not received it , that by application through any agent in town at No . 3 , Walbrook Buildings , they will find the packets ready for them . Subscribers to the Book department of the Unitarian Association can receive them when their allotment of books is sent .
The Treasurer * has lately received a handsome donation of Twenty Pounds from one friend to the Society , whose benefaction will be duly recorded in the next annual Report ; but other contributions are necessary before the Committee will be enabled to publish many new Tracts . The History of William and Mary Allen , and an Address to the Children in a Sunday-School , have been deemed by them suitable to the Society ,
and have been added to the Catalogue . I will venture to express my hope , that many active friends of truth and virtue , besides the ministers of religion , will lend their aid to promote the objects of the Christiau Tract Society , admirably calculated , as it seems to be , to furnish one remedy for that deplorable corruptiou in . public morals on which a writer in a late number of the Repository has so ably and judiciously treated . B . MARDON , Secretary .
• James Esdaile , Esq ., Bunhill Row .
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tiuued , for several years , the resort of as many pupils as he could accommodate , from the most respectable families iu Rochdale and its neighbourhood . He was afterwards very actively and eKtensively engaged in the management of the Rochdale canal and the coal-works connected with it , But , though compelled to leave his original profession , he carried with him la to bis other pursuits the spirit of a Chribtiaii m ' mhstvr . He continued a
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364 OHtwtry . —Rev . W . HassaL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/58/
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