New Subscriptions. The following Contributions from Parochial Associations, and Collections after Sermons, together with payments from new Subscribers and Donors, have been remitted to the Society during the past month. The Committee thankfully acknowledge these contributions, and trust that further support may be obtained for the Society in other localities by an extension of parochial efforts. Most parishes afford some evidence of the operations of the Society, and therefore its claims might with good effect be advocated, and additional means placed at the disposal of the Committee to carry on the work in which the Society has long been successfully engaged. The List is made up to the 20th December. Appleby, Brigg, one-sixth of Parochial Association Funds, per Rev.J. E. Cross Bampton, Devon, collected in Parish of, by Mrs. Troyte Durham, St. Mary the Less,collection at Southminster, collection at, by Rev. "Anonymous" Executors of late Miss Clerke Bennett, T. R. Esq. Temple (increased to) Lea, Rev.T.S. Trinity Chapel, Stepney a. Burnett, Stuart, Rev. J. Coseley Scott, Rev. F. B. Lynn. Seppings, W. Esq. ditto. Watson, Miss, Ambleside 1 16 0 001 10 10 0 10000 Norman, Rev. J. Whittlesey Evesham Girls' National School Pryce, J. B.Esq. Duffryn(increased to) a. 2 a. Collard, Mr.H.National School, Bibury a. Edwards, Rev. J. Pittington. DIOCESE OF EXETER. Kensington, Miss Shore, Miss C. "A. B.". James, Mrs. Plymouth .. 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 . a. 0 10 0 Sidmouth. Dawson, Miss J. K. a. 0 10 6 Butcher, Mr. E. a. 0 5 Hunt, Mrs. R. a. 0 10 Contributions may be paid to Messrs. DRUMMOND, Bankers, Charing Cross; to Mr. HENRY STRETTON, the Society's Receiver, 67 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to whom all Remittances should be made; or they will be received at the National Society's Office, Sanctuary, Westminster, or by any of the Local Treasurers to the Society, or by the Society's Travelling Agents. Organising Schools. The following is a farewell address from Mr. Flint (lately one of the Society's Organising Masters, and now Assistant Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Lichfield) to the several Masters and Mistresses whose schools he organised in Guernsey. It contains a variety of practical suggestions which may be found useful in other localities. December 1st, 1855. MY DEAR FELLOW-LABOURERS,-The season has again returned in which, in obedience to instructions received from the Rev. the Secretary of the National Society and the President of the States Committee of Education in Guernsey, I have usually paid iny annual visit to the schools under your care. This visit has always been to me a source of great pleasure. We have known each other for a considerable time, and I believe have had in view one object and one end. In meeting you all I have never failed to remember, that I was renewing my friendship with a body of teachers charged with the Christian education of nearly two thousand children. You are now perhaps aware that my labours with and among you have ceased. To another will probably be committed the duty which I have discharged. Be assured that I shall always look back upon our intercourse with feelings of sincere pleasure. It has not been of an ordinary kind. Seconded and cemented by the States Committee, it has enabled us to establish many useful plans; in fact, to mature a system. It is probable, that in the main features of this system, as connected with the management of the schools, their periodical examination, their course of studies, the examination of the pupil-assistants, and their stipends, the States Committee will not make any material alteration unless circumstances seem to demand it. You will thus be able to work with that persistency and fixedness of purpose which are so essential to progress and ultimate success. As it is likely this will be the last opportunity I shall have of addressing you collectively, I venture to make here a few parting remarks on the work in which we are all engaged. I have less hesitation in doing this, as I had intended to bring them before your notice at our usual Christmas gatherings. I. Religious Teaching.-Those who are confined year after year to one school are not so likely to be conscious of the existence of defects as those persons are who are daily brought into contact with different schools. These defects seem to suggest two points for consideration: 1. The necessity of adapting religious instruction to the future requirements of our pupils; and 2. The great importance of a reverent, quiet, and deliberate manner in a teacher at all times, but especially in the school. As to the first point, we must remember that we have to teach principles and motives, as well as facts. We are perhaps too apt to be satisfied if our pupils show an extensive and accurate knowledge of the facts of Old and New Testament history. This kind of knowledge tells most in an examination. Now we must not for one momont undeŭrolue por omit the facts of Scrinture history. |