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    828 Sunday-Schooi Hgnim

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    Sunday-School Hymns.F

    Bpes ^ ftftv WiHiam ! BanseV diocesan approve o £ th »?; ii < We suppose be woafdifci ^ bly corr & mepd Endeavours to explain the doctrif &§ ofp ti ^ fr'SaUr ^ : bu & would iie go so ifar asritaimake the babes of Shoreiditeh and ^ tB ^ viot n ^ p iaG " cuss ; tbdq * selv &> of ' i » eu » ap the authors and originators of tk ^ so flfeinimaB of the is 5

    brute rcr ^ Ltion ^ ; The re scarcely a Hyran in Mr . Barre 8 , collect ran iwhjeh wotdd be folly k & elhpble to the children of an Iftfent School , ibuti there , are some far more objectionable tfean others . Is it rt ^ t ^ for tnstaKee ^ x ^ ery wrong to put into ^ the mouths of infan ts expressions of deep : andb ia & desit feeling , Jike the following ? [ ;

    s < Hqw I love to join , the throng , > Bending jound the Ihrone of grace I Wrestling-,, all the Sabbath lottg ^ For a sight of Jesus * face ! *

    Let it not be thought that in noticing what appears objectionable in the instruction given in Infant Schools , we design to condemn them as institutions themselves . We have no sympathy with those who ridicule the idea of such assemblages of little ones ; they may be made eminently useful ; but we do feel that the number of well-conducted schools of this kind is

    likely to be but few , because a particularly well-prepared state of the affections , and 5 in some respects , a high order of mind is required in those who have the superintendence of them ,. The public views of the qualifications necessary for a schoolmaster or mistress have been 5 we fear ., lowered by the ILancasterian and National systems ; this remark is made with no inyi & otas feeling towards them , for instrumental they are and faave been to the eom > munication of a vast quantity of elementary instruction , which , perhaps ,

    would never have been conveyed through society , at any rate not so rafwdiy without their aid ; but the misfortune is 5 that the degree of information ina ~ parted by them being so superficial , and the mode pursued so easy and mechanical , few mental resources are required In the master . The whole plan of his government is formed for him ; what he is to teach is settled in a Committee , and when he has gone the round of spelling , reading , writing and ciphering , he has done what be was required to do . Of individual

    character he , mostly , knows very little . General knowledge is not expected from him ; nay , more , it might sometimes stand in his way , as he is merely the servant of a committee , whose peculiar views he must meet , or lose his situation .. All this , the product of this companionable and society-forming age , tends , of course , to lower the character of the sehoolmastero And , though an the first formation of Infant Schools it seemed plain thai their

    constitution required an independence of rule and system widely remote from thai expected in National and Lancasterian schools , we see that the matter has been accomplished- ^—the thing has beem systematized- —consequently , for in this case the result was really inevitable , the teachers are not now required ! to be possessed of any very peculiar qualifications ; they , fcoo s have their work carved out for them * and it is of no very difficult kind-It is because we feel the result to be bad that we cannot advocate the Infant

    School systdniy as it is a system ; but Infant Schools , themselves ^ do not * therefore , fall under condemnation—we see no good 5 but , on the contrary , a great ideal -off ? harm * to aticnie ^ from ^ e i y ; but the encouragement of schools under the ^ anageffient of well-informed ^ well-qualified individuals isay be of gyeat benefit ; Set not , then , those who are displeased with the former hastily condemn the latter « It is no light labour which a scrupulous conscience hais to- p & 'fforoi * in our day , in separating the good and bad * ,

    828 Sunday-Schooi Hgnim

    828 Sunday-Schooi Hgnim

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 828, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/28/