EDUCATION OF THE POOR; BEING THE FIRST PART OF A DIGEST OF THE REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR BETTERING 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. The [The following Work is entirely selected from the TIBRYKA 110898 CONTENTS. 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. B |