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deal of the time must be devoted to the communication of the mere elements of feeding and writing , opportunities would occur of which intelligent teachers ( such as many of those whom he saw around him ) would avail themselves to inculcate moral- -knowledge-onT-the ^ nTndg ^ of
the children , and to give them ideas and feelings which might be of use to them through the whole of life . He thought it of the utmost importance for instruction , that benevolent feelings should be cherished in the bosoms of the poor towards each other and towards the rich . He had
been lately struck with the spirit of hostility toward the rich displayed in the rules and resolutions of a trades * union # t Leeds , a hostility which he feared prevailed too generally in the minds of the poor . It was most desirable that both rich and poor should learn to think of each other as men who , exposed to similar
influences , would act in a similar way , and to feel that all possess one common , nature ; , and tfrat if they act wrong in any respect , it is owing to causes which would have led the persons who themselves object , to act wrong had they been exposed to
them . Let not the rich speak of the poor but with the-utmpst charity and friendly feeling ; and he would also say , let riot the poor take it for granted that the rich have not in their breasts those luridly feelings ' which swell up so abundantly in their own . ' The diffusion tff a truly
benevolent spirit amongst the poor must be the result of those exertions which he rejoiced to think his friends pre » sent were making for the diffusion of education . The plain and simple
parts of the gpspei narratives , could not be often read flyer ( which he trusted was done in this school , for he thought it a most important thing ) -to the young without doing them material good . The teachers should take care to make use of every opportunity they could to exrplain" what had been read , and en *
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deajour if tliey could hy illiiStratioii and example to enforce the simple lessons of the gospel upon the minis of their charge . Referring jo liis own controversy with the itev . M . ft . Hamilton of JLeeds , ( to which Mr . Beard had alluded , ) the doctor sajj th ~ a"rtrR ^*^ iTh ^ grea ¥ l ) ain that he
had entered into it , as he had been previously on terms of friendship with his opponent ; but his friendly feelings were of necessity cooled by the manner in which he had been treated . However , he felt that it
was his duty to engage in it , for * much as he prized harmony and love , he prized truth still more , because he was persuaded that ifc was by the g-eneral prevalence of truth that harmony and love could alone be
universally diffused . Whenever a similar opportunity should arise , he hoped tobe found willing , to come forward as the advocate of those views which he believed to bathe true views of the gospel , and which he was sure tended greatly to disseminate a spirit of
love and benevolence amongst mankind . If there was any one thing which tTnitarianism ought to do , it was this—to make those , who em * brace it think benevolently and kindly of all their fellow Christians , however widely they may differ from them .
The Jlev . Samuel Wood next rose , hisname | ... % yfeg n .. ; bej ! . wi jpp . q . pied ~ .-with an expression of the Meeting ' s best wishes for the extension of the usefulness of the Christian Tract Society . As one of the Committee of that Society , he felt grateful for the kindly
feelings expressed by the meeting , to many of whom it would be gratis fying to learnthat the"C 6 jfin 5 itfieeTp ? t % e Soc \ ehy had it in contemplation to introduce a little variety into its publications , by producing a volume of Cottage . Sermons , and by adopting sQme of the tracts of other So * cietfes . The Chairman said he would recommend to p ^ rjents to procure a copy pi : the tracts of the Society as
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/23/
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