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inee , a knowledge of their relation to their fellow-creatures ,, their respective duties , and individual responsibilities , and the means of obtaining the greatest comfort and happiness in their several stations and relations in _ sojciejy _ ___
The Chairman said , 4 here was no subject in which he felt a deeper interest than in the moral education of the poorer and depraved classes in this country , and especially in our large towns . He need not stop to describe what they knew , the
wretchedness of large masses . The question was , how came they into this condition ? and the yet more important question was , how can we extricate them from It . ? . He thought they had been brought into it mainly by false views of the causes , and
therefore of the cure , of poverty . The causes had / been deemed physical , and therefore physical remedies had teen sought . The chief causes of poverty in his opinion were of a moral nature , and therefore it should "be sought to be femoved by a moral instrumentality . - ' " "
Mr . John Ashworth , minister to the poor in Manchester , addressed the meeting at some length . He recommended that measures shciuld be taken to remove the temptations arising' from the numerous dram and
beer-shops , and the cruel sports of bull and bear-baiting , dog and cocfcfightiDg , &c . After all , he was of opinion that the education of the rising race was the most effectual way of producing a national regene ration in morals .
The Chairman in next acknowledging the services of Dr . Hutton to the Sunday School onlbis occasion , and to the cause of Christianity in general , and connecting his name with the sentiment , « The advocacy of gospel truth in the gospel spirit , ' remarked , that he had frequently heard a tone taken in deprecation of controversy , which as a lover of truth , to which controversy conduced , he could not iwidersi&nd , and
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jn which "he certainly did iibt sy mpathize . Controversy , indeed , is not an atmosphere in which the Christian graces best flourish , and , for himself , he would rather be the humblest labourer in the church of Christ than commaiider-Hij-chief in the ctoTch ™ mrlitant 7—Still—there—mightbe circumstances , both in relation to
the state of society and of particular neighbourhoods , in which the avoid * , ance of controversy would be a derer liction of duty , and in which he was the . best Christian who contended most earnestly for the faith .. And when , as in the case to which he
would now particularly refer , persons , who to a native pride of heart added the pride of a dominant orthodoxy , came forward to- assail rudely , if not maliciously , the ti \ uth of God in Christ , of what value was it that someone should be found to oppose the Goliath in the spirit of a sound mind—in ^ a sp irit of- ppwer , because of meekness anS love " iH 5 liig 3 e 3 I
** Dr . Hutton , after expressing Irta pleasure ifi a meeting held for such £ urposps , said that the " subject of education was one in which he felt the deepest interest , and he felt it to be of the utmost importance , particularly in the present dajrv The truth was , that so iriuch knowledge
was now enjoyed by the- lower classes that it was in the highest degree desirable that they should have more , His maxim was not , ' t ) rihk deejp or taste not the Pierian spring , ' hht—< taste , that eventually you may drink deeper ; for the more you drink , the more desirable it would be that you should drink more . The people
were now beginning to / feel their power and their rigWyand it -was therefore also of the utmost importance that they should fully comprehend their duties ; arid it was in this most important respect tha ^ t he agreed with Mr , Ashworth tljat the
education of the young was the most efficient instrument that coulfl possibly be employe ^ . Even hx Bund ^ y SciiotiJis , though of course a great
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/22/
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