EDUCATION OF THE POOR;

BEING THE FIRST PART OF

A DIGEST

OF THE

REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR BETTERING
THE CONDITION OF THE POOR:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW;

AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY, AND THE REST OF

THE BOOKSELLERS TO THE SOCIETY.

1809.
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The

[The following Work is entirely selected from the
Reports of the Society, with exception of the Preface,
quid of the Articles No. 8, 14, 24, 25, and 28.
last Paper (No. 28) is written with a view of giving
an example of the facility, with which some of the sug-
*•gestions, in the Reports might be adopted in the habita-
igns of the Poor. Copies of the last Paper, as a
separate publication, are added with a view to Distri-
•bution; if the Subscribers should approve it.]

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE
REFACE on the general Education of the Poor,

Selection of Observations from the Reports,

Account of Day Schools at Boldre,

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PREFACE.

THE CARE AND INSTRUCTION OF THE POOR form the peculiar and beautiful characteristic of the Christian Religion. The giving of light to those who walked in darkness, and the rescuing of the great mass of mankind from the error of Pagan Idolatry, is the favourite subject of the great evangelical prophet;* who refers with joy to that intellectual period of the Christian Church, when "all her "children should be taught of the Lord,' when "the light should break upon her as "the morning,”—and "the Gentiles should "come to her light, and Kings to the "brightness of her rising."

Isaiah.

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