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    Sir * WILL you allow me room to address a few lines to your correspondent in the April Repository ,

    ( pp . 201 , 202 , ) with whom , as a zealous friend to Sunday-Schools , I am happy to olaim much warm sympathy of feeling , but from whom , on one material point , I cannot but essentially differ .

    He expresses an earnest desire that the children should not receive a " Unitarian education "—which , it appears to me , would be denying them the greatest blessing that it is in the power of one human being to be the instrument of bestowing upon another ! A truly scriptural , pious and rational view of his duties and his

    expectations?—of thp dealings of an infinitely holy and benevolent God with his creatures , and of what , on their part , he requires to be done—is a boon of more value than any other which , in this state of our existence , can be conferred . We believe that our doctrines were

    those delivered by Christ and his apostles ; and shall we not endeavour to give them pure and uncorrupted to the young minds whose tuition we undertake ? If , as your correspondent wishes , they are merely to be taught to read , as in what are now called the

    " British and Foreign Schools / ' without the inculcation of any particular system of belief , it is nearly certain that ninety-nine out of a hundred will hold the same opinions with their parents and the world around them ,

    opposite as these may be in many material points from what we esteem those of the New Testament , and demoralizing as the , present state of every Christian country proves them to be .

    All other sects carefully implant in the minds of their young pupils what they believe to be Christian truth ; and are . they not most commendable for so doing ? It is surely a sacred

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    duty , to infuse sentiments of ipiety and scriptural knowledge into every heart that is accessible to us , as early as it is capable of receiving" theml I acknowledge , with regret , that from what I esteem a most mistaken idea

    of liberality , this is with tei ^ Ct to our Sunday-Schools , in some instances left undone by Unitarians ) nor £ air ; J wonder that for the € Ay cMllmg coldness" with which we are too justly charged in respect to spreading what we profess to believe " the truth as it

    is in Jesus /* we are reproached and undervalued by every other denomination . When they see large congregations carrying on ? their schools exactly on the neutral pfenwMcEyout ^ correspondent recommends to all , they

    can hardly persuade themselves that we are sincere in our professions 9 and those who are disposed to judge most charitably , must conclude that we set a small value on our principles * and hold them to be of little or no

    practical importance . That the conduct of Unitarian congregations should in any instances fully justify these conclusions , is deeply to be lamented . It is the heaviest charge which can fairly be brought against us , and it more than any , or

    perhaps than all other causes united , gives the zealous and serious of other sects , an unfavourable idea of the effects which our system produces upon the mind , and by that means they are in numberless instances deterred from inquiring into our

    opinions * . I should rejoice to know that what I have here stated had raised a doubt in the mind of your correspondent with respect to the plan which he has recommended . MARY HUGHES .

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    Unitarian Education in Swiday-Schools .-r-Remarhs oh Matt . xix . 28 . 391

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    July 5 , 1824 . Remarks on Matt . xix . 28 . THE actual state of the text in this verse , may serve to prove the fallibility of conjectural criticism , and to illustrate what I may term the discretionary nature of punctuation .

    H . Owen ( Rowyer ' s Conjectures , &c ., in loc . ) suspects , that the words «* raj < watXtyy £ v $ < ri < p were at fi ^ st inserted in the margin " to denote tjie time when the apostles were to enioy these blessings and privileges * And they

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    lations . which he has laufcbefbre your readers . Whether those speculations are in accordance with reason and ' with scripture rightly understood , is ; I am aware , another questioa—a question , the discussion of which I would gladly commit to those who are-better qualified for the task * G . B . W .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/7/