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    bergate Sttnclay-Scliool was conime * morated on Tuesday , January * 24 th . The business of the day commenced at half-past two o'clock , with an Address to the children , by the Kev . C , Wellbeloved , at the Chapel in St . Saviourgate , in the presence of a considerable number of the members of

    the Gongregation ,-and—the parents of the children . The Address wasmarked by that plain , kind , and affectionate tone and language which are so powerfully calculated to arrest the attention , and impress the hearts of the young . Towards the conclusion , the Rev . Gentleman addressed the parents

    in a forcible and impressive manner , exhorting them to work together with the teachers in promoting the moral and religious improvement of their children , —by sending them regularly to school , —by feeling the solemn responsibility of their charge , —and by the all-important influence of a

    parental example of holiness and virtue , without which , the kindest and best efforts of others would prove fruitless and unavailing . Appropriate hymns were sung by the children , in a manner which was highly creditable to themselves , and gratifying to the friends and teachers , a

    few of whom kindly devote one evening in the week to the children ' s instruction in this delightfully interesting part of religious service . A suitable prayer having concluded the business at the Chapel , the scholars , accompanied by their teachers and friends , proceeded to the Merchants '

    Hall , Fossgate , where they partook of tea ; after which , several prizes , consisting of Bibles , Testaments , Wood's Bible Stories , &c , were distributed by the Rev . W . Hiocks , among those children who had been conspicuous for regularity of attendance , and general

    good conduct during the past year . Singing and prayer concluded this part of the business about half-past five o ' clock , when the children returned home to their respective friends . The teachers and friends , of both sexes , to the number of ninety-two

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    then sat dowri to . tea ; at the conclusion of which , Mr . Maurice was called to the Chair ; and the evening was devoted to the consideration of sub < -

    jects connected with Sunday-Schools , City Missions , the Progress of Free Inquiry in England , on the Continent , in America , &c . ; the Abolition of Colonial ~ SlaveryT-and- ~ Civil-and-Religious Liberty throughout the World .

    Several gentlemen addressed the Meeting at considerable length ; and the company separated about ten , highly gratified with the rational and religious enjoyment of the evening . The report of the Sunday-School was highly satisfactory and interesting . Many of the children have

    entered into voluntary subscriptions , ( of Id . per week , ) for the purchase of Bibles , Testaments , and other books . The school library has continued gradually improving , both in its stock of books , and in interest among the children and their parents ; and , through its means , lessons of morality and

    religion are introduced into the cot * tages of the poor . Effecting , as it does , to a certain extent , the objects of a Tract Society , it has afforded , in many instances , plain and solid answers to the objections of gainsayers , and the misrepresentations of prejudice . A * Scholars' Benefit Society' was established in November last . A

    great proportion of the children have already become Members ; and , from the regularity of the payments ( of ] A per week ) , and the lively interest it has excited among the parents , it is

    confidently anticipated to answer the objects contemplated by its promoters . We think that Sunday-School Clubs are eminently calculated to inculcate that foresight and provident calculation of consequences , the neglect of which is one' of the chief causes of all

    the miseries of the poor . By affording , too , practical lessons of economy and self-denial , —of kindness and benevolence , at a period of life when the mind is most susceptible of impressions , they tend to effect the moral improvement of their membere , and to

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    $ 8 UNITARIAN CHRONICtE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1832, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1807/page/12/