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probation which the scholar may have then received. The second offence is punished by expulsion from the schools.

IV. Each scholar is expected to come straight from home to the chapel, and to go directly home after Divine Service is ended, with quietness and good behaviour. All playing and rudeness in the streets on a Sunday is disgraceful and sinful. The first offence is punished by the forfeiture of all the tickets of approbation which the scholar may have then received, and for the second offence the punishment is expulsion.

V. Boys and girls are never to be seen walking together on a Sunday to or from the Chapel.

VI. They are expected to pay cheerful and constant obedience to the Superintendants, Master and Mistress, and such persons as the Master and Mistress may appoint to assist in keeping order and silence in their galleries.

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Address to the Children

ATTENDING THE

SCHOOLS FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION,

AT

ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL, BEDFORD ROW,

OCCASIONED BY THE

HAPPY DEATH OF ONE OF THEIR SCHOOLFELLOWS,

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and

hast revealed them to babes....MATT. xi, 25.

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Familiar Address,

&c. &c.

DEAR CHILDREN:

6

Your friends lately set up a school for your religious instruction: and, as they would do you good in any way, and by every method they can think of, they desire now to put another tract into your

hands. It is a short account of one of your schoolfellows. It will show you the benefit of religious instruction, as well as the blessing which God has already given to the endeavours of your friends. Above all, we publish it with a hope that it will encourage you to be followers of one of your number, who has lately through faith and patience inherited the promises.?

This little boy (whom most of you knew) was the son of Mr. James Watt, of Eyre Street; whose office it is to go continually round the chapel, to see that strangers are seated whenever there is room.

Mr. Watt has been desired to give some account of his child. and he writes as follows.-"I became a hearer at St. John's Chapel about eight years ago, and took my son, then not five years old, with me." Observe here dear children, that a parent taking his child to God's house, puts him in the way of God's blessing, for, “ them that honour him, he will honour;' 1 Sam. ii, 30.

Mr. Watt goes on to say, “I was soon surprised at the quickness with which he found out the different parts of the Church Service: he would stand on a

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