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    late for themselves , and have preachers from among their own ranks . In the mean time something may be done , and that more effectually than hy any other means , by ministers and congregations making each their chapel a centre from which to send forth the salutary truths of the gospel . It

    would be strange if each minister ( speaking generally ) could not furnish and prepare for the work of preaching * to the poor , one individual , and every other member of his church , provided he felt the power and the value of the gospel , might , without difficulty , become a missionary to ten poor families , making it a duty to visit each at stated times , to read the Holy Scriptures to them , to converse with them on things relating to their eternal peace , inducing them to send their children to the Sunday-school , and drawing the

    parents themselves to the house of prayer . The members of the Church of England are , we are glad to see , coming more prominently forward to aid in the great work to which , in various ways , so many great men are now giving their labours , of diffusing useful knowledge amongst the people . A sermon lately published by Dr . Coppleston , with a few exceptions , merits the warmest approbation , as recommending the Teligious education of the people , while it approves also of their being informed in scientific subjects . This is the proper method . There are no two branches of education incompatible with each other ; least of all , the study of the word of God and the study of the works of God . They both teach the same great truths , and the lessons of the one confirm those of the other . Wishful , and properly so , to give a right direction to the intellectual activity that prevails among the working classes , the clergy of the Establishment have undertaken the publication of a Library of Religious

    Knowledge , which is to comprise treatises on the evidences of revelation , the history of the church , the lives of eminent individuals , &c . It is almost too much to hope that the dogmas of their sect may be kept to themselves , safely locked up in their creeds and litanies . We have taken a cursory view of one number , on the subject which Paley has handled in so masterly a manner , viz . Natural Theology , and on which an able piece may be found among the numbers of the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge , entitled , " Animal Mechanics . " As far as a cursory view could enable us to judge , we have reason to recommend to general attention the treatise of which the number we saw was the commencement . In addition to these tokens of growing activity among the clergy of the Church of England , we

    have to record the formation of an Episcopal Home Mission for Ireland . Of this Society , " the especial object is to bring the gospel to the hearing of our Roman Catholic brethren ; " and its members wish it to be understood that their ' * missionaries are expected not only to address them from the pulpits of the Established Church , but also in all places where it is possible to collect a congregation . " A change from the Church of Rome to the Church of England , though they are both of the same family , will , in most cases , prove a change for the better—and a change which is rather to be welcomed as a promise of something better , than rested in as the attainment of undefiled religion . If , as we trust they will not , the King ' s ministers are not defeated in their present endeavours to do to Ireland an act of ^ tardy justice—if the Catholics are emancipated , and we hope in God they will be—this Episcopal Society has begun its operations at a favourable season , and may hope to reap some reward of its labours . The readers of the Repository * may remember that the Rev . R . Hall , late

    * Mon . Repos . for 1824 , p . 229 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/36/