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"He went down with them … and was subject unto them … and … increased in wisdom." S. Luke ii, 51, 52.

T falls to me this morning to ask you to give your help liberally towards the burthen of the cost of the Schools in this Parish. You do not need, I am sure, to be reminded that a good School, well ordered, and well taught, is an immense blessing to a place. You see the proof of it in your children. Those of you who have ever lived where there were not Schools, or where they were bad, will see it doubly by the contrast. From what I hear of this Parish, with its eight or nine Schools under one management, you seem to be singularly favoured in this respect: and the fact which the Rector mentioned to me this morning, that in the last few years £5,000 had been spent upon Schools in building and enlarging alone, apart from all other outlay, does seem to me a strong call to you, to make the most of so good a provision as you have, and to do all that you can for the maintenance and efficiency of that which has been so provided. Nor will you doubt that your Schools should be Christian Schools, through which the Church's little ones shall be trained