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    Hoxton , Sir , July 30 , 1825 . AS the Editor of a Repository , not merely for theological controversy , but for the dissemination of right notions and correct principles

    upon every subject connected witlx the happiness of mankind and the wellbeing of society , I beg leave to trouble you " with-a short statement of an experiment now being- made at Lindfield , in the county of Sussex , relative to the education of the poor .

    Some benevolent individuals , conceiving that the labour of children might be made to pay for their education , have uiiited and built schoolrooms , at the above place , of sufficient capacity for 200 boys and 200 girls .

    During one part of the day ( from nine to twelve ) the children are to be taught reading " , writing and arithmetic . In the other part , ( from two to five , ) the boys will be instructed ( in classes ) in agricultural labour ,. when the weather permits , and in some of the most

    useful mechanical arts - > while the girls will be employed in needlework , the duties of the household and dairy , making butter , knitting , straw-plaiting , and , in short , every 3 pecies of domestic industry that will contribute to make them valuable servants . At the

    commencement , the parents or friends of each child will pay threepence a week for its education ; but the projectors of the undertaking are confident that experience will soon confirm their

    theory , that the produce of three hours' labour of each child per day , will pay the expenses of the establishment - in which case the weekly charge will altogether cease .

    This , Sir , is an undertaking worthy of the exertions of the greatest philosopher and of the most ardent philanthropist . To make the peasantry of our country virtuous , by affording them the means of an independent , economical education , to eradicate the

    root of all evil ., ignorance , is an attempt worthy of a Briton , and of a Briton , too , in the nineteenth century . H # ppy sluUH be if this undertaking

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    succeeds , but happier , still for hap . pier , if its success be proved to demonstration by men of the same reli . giou $ persuasion with tnysfelf . If Christianity , by its pure doctrines , is to have a greater efficacy than other

    systems of religion , in stimulating men to useful exertion , and in im , proving the habits and morals of the age , surely those Christians whose belief is founded wholly on the Scrip , tures , and whose form " of worship h not corrupted by superstitious

    ceremonies , should be most strenuous in the cause of virtue , and most active in their endeavours to ameliorate the general condition of the people , and remove misery , ignorance and sin from the world . May Unitarians , therefore , come forward , on the present occasion , with that z-eal which the

    importance of the subject and the interests of the country so loudly demand , and establish schools , if not in every district , at least in connexion with every chapel belonging to them , that they may be ranked amongst the benefactors of mankind , and the name Unitarian proclaimed as blessed on the earth .

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    Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repositery for August , 1824 . / CORRESPONDENCE OF BAXX ^ J TER , he . In the spring of 1825 , a haunted house attracted the attention of many inhabitants belonging to a city situated on the Atlantic shore of the United States . For

    several nights in succession , the strangest knockings were heard at the doors and windows of a particular room in the house ; the chairs were removed from their parietal stations , and huddled together in the centre of the room - y other articles of furniture were scattered about m wild and J > retcrnatural confusion . Tbe nreiuifi ^

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    460 New Experiment in Popular Education . —Query on John i . 1 .

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    their apinions are formed , a little more closely than heretofore , and they may possibly discover it to be a 3 ' sanel y" aow as it was esteemed to be by William Penn . Q .

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    JOHN SMITH , Jun . Sir , * AS the noun , word , in John i , 1 , is in our common Bibles printed with a capital W , and common readers

    attach additional consequence to it on that very account , may I ask your learned correspondents whether Xo-yoc be in any one ancient Greek MS . written with a capital A ? H . C .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 460, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/8/