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    arduous ^ but righteous and beneficent undertaking ! The Eev . T . Bees , LL . D ., has resigned the ministerial office in connexion with the Stamford Street congregation . We trust , that although the state of his health may be unfavourable to pulpit exertion , it will still ^ llolv ^ rr ^^ service , which , by his pen , so learned and able an advocate may render to the cause to which he is so strongly attached .

    The Rev . E . Chapman has resigned the pastorship of the General Baptist Church at Deptford , in consequence of a change in his opinion on the question of baptism .

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    Birmingham Sunday Schools . A Medal of fine goldj and weighing from two to three ounces , has lately been presented to Mr . James Luckcock by the teachers of the Old and New Meeting Schools , ( with a few contributions in aid from other friends ) containing an excellent likeness of himself , by Haiiiday , with the inscriptions : — -

    ' James Luckcock , born October 24 , 1761 . Father of Sunday-school instruction in Birmingham / And on the reverse side—* To the Author of " Moral Culture " this Medal is presented by his friends and admirers , as a record of their esteem for his successful

    exertions in the Old and New Meeting Sunday Schools , from their commencement to the present time . 4 Year of jubilee , 1831 . ' —Sundayschools' first jubilee celebrated September 14 , 1831 , being the anniversary of Raikes ' s birth-day , the founder of them /

    Another reverse dye has been prepared , with the following inscriptions : ' Sunday School jubilee , Sept . 14 , 1831 , Old and New Meeting Sunday Schools , established 1787 . 1364 pupils in the schools . 150 gratuitous teachers . 14 , 500 pupils in the town / And , with this alteration , medals have

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    been struck in white metal , and pre *> sented , in handsome morocco cases , to the teachers as above enumerated , 1 perpetual acknowledgment , that , without their zealous and unremitted co-operation , the plans so well matured could never have been realized . In addition to the above items , and as a stimulus to o > thel similaT

    eslablishments , it is pleasant to record that the Benefit Society , commenced in 1799 , for relief in cases of illness , and limited entirely to the teachers and pupils in the connexion , after having paid every demand at the general rate of 4 s . weekly for every penny subscription , has realized a capital of 1151 / . Another branch of the establishment , well deserving to be known and imitated , is what they

    denominate the * casual fund , ' and consists of small weekly subscriptions to produce the means of granting loans from bl . to 101 ., or more , should the funds increase to their wishes , to such of the members to whom they jmay be useful in the purchase of tools to commence business ^ or other emergencies , to be repaid in small weekly or monthly amounts ; and in cases of peculiar need or severity , donations are bestowed . This is a valuable

    improvement on Dr . Franklin s plan : he gave his money never to have it returned , but to be transferred from one person to another , entirely beyond his cognizance . Here the Society can trace the amount so as to secure its faithful appropriation , and witness the full and important effects intended .

    The government of the Society is the result of many years' experience , with the constant infusion of new zeal by the admission of fresh members . All of them being upon perfect equality , eligible to the various officer of the establishment , and these being

    renewed annually , and no emolument attached to any of them , the sole competition has been who shall render himself most worthy of the future good will and confidence of the Society , by his punctuality and correctness , jheir . principal regret at this

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    UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 11

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1832, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1805/page/11/