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      U ^ tnoir of Mr . Robert Razkes . AtMQTXG those who have greatly benefited nrankind by wisely occupying the .-leisure of a private station , too many are known to

      yostprity ^ Qft ly . ; by the extending kflfcenrce of tks * ir benevolentpro - - jects : the minute- circumstances of personal history , whicVcontri - bute sp . iMgdy- to the formation

      of character , wetfe seldom related bjejrpnd tbeir in | rnediate connexion ^ Such , for all that has yet appeared , will be the case respecting-that ornament of our age and country , a moral Archimedesy if we may be allowed the expression , the Inventor qi X he Sunday School . Robeet Raikes was born in 1735 , in the city of Gloucester , where his father was a printer , and publisher of the Gloucester Journal ^ To -fais business the son

      succeeded , and i * said to kave acquired a competent property . Respecting the education of < x , ur philanthropist , or the events of his earlier years , we have no information . Yet the wise and generous occupations of his manhood may satisfy lU that his youth * as neither idly , hor ill employed - At a period of life when success rarel y inspires moderation in the Pursuits of fortune , Mr . Raikes remembered : ' Ihd great law 6 f his

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      Christian profession , that no mam livetk lokim&elf . He looked around for occasions of disinterested , yet not unproductive , exertion , and found them , near at hand .

      Prevention of crimes by instruction or . rejproof , anS compassion for everi jfetly suffering ' crim i rials , were united in his idea of Christian be * nevolenc ^ ; which To every want , and every woe , To guilt itself when in distress * The balm of pity will impart ; And all relief that bounty can bestow .

      According to the European Ma ~ gaztne for 1788 , ( fciV . 315 . ) s ( The first object which demanded his notice was the miserable state of the bounty Bridewell , within the C ^ ty of Gloucester , ^ hich , being part of the County Gaol , the persons committed by the magistrate out of Sessions for petty

      offences associated , through necessity ^ with felons of the worst description , with little or no means of subsistence from labour ; with little , if any , allowance from the county ; without either meat , drink , or clothing ; dependent * chiefly , on the precaiious charity of such as Visited the prison , whether brought thither by business , curiosity or

      compassion . *« To relieve these miserable and forlorn wretches ; and to render their situation supporit ^ le at / lcast , Mr . Raikes employed both his pen , nis influence strtd his property , ro procure them the necessaries of life v and finding that ignorance was generally the principal cause of those enormities v . hkh brought them to become objects of hia notice ^

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      s : : ¦ ¦ ' THE . 4 MONTHLY REPOSITORY ¦ - * * i- . ¦ ¦ ' . . ¦ - . > ¦ ¦ / . ' *??? * ¦¦ - ¦ , O F Theology and General Literature , - > - ¦ . _ . . _ ^ ^ - —*•—*¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦ - ¦ - ¦

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      ^*?~~ 2 SSZ £ \_ - ^ T . . ' * ; , ^ .- ^ jto LXX . l - * . OCTOBER . [ Vol . VI .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/1/