The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

ANNIVERSARY OP ST. DAVID'S DAY

Yesterday,. being the anniversary of the patron saint of
the ancient Britons, the usual observances were kept up
by our Welsh brethren, and with a degree of eclat cor-
roborative of their increasing numbers and respectability
in the town. More especially is to be admired their per-
severing ( and happily highly successful) efforts to afford
It sound Scriptural and useful education to the children
of the poor.
The children belonging to the Welsh School, in Bus-
tell-street, accompanied by many of the clergy, and their
biends and teachers, walked in procession, with flags and
banners, from tire school house to St. David's Church,
iirownlow-hill, Where the usual prayers of the Church
were read by the Rev. Mr. Hughes, Incumbent.
, The sermon on the occasion was preached in the Welsh
lauguage by the Rev. John Griffith, Vicar of Llangeler,
Carmarthen shire, who selected for his text that well-
known and'appropriate passage--" Train up a child in the
ray he shtMld go, and when he is old, lie will not depart
rem it.":—Prov. xxii: 6. After a few introductory remarks
tit the peculiarity of style and detached meaning of the
n'overbs •of Solomon, the:rev. gentleman proceeded to a
ilengthened
T explanation of The important duty of educating
YOurig and training them in the practice of religious
and Moral duties. Numerous passages of scripture were
that Almighty God has required this at
,mat the duty cannot be neglected without
111,..1;aillifwe,,s_t violation of ' great injustice to the

aildhdtd to ahoy
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The

rre4 of the poor. ,dvintages of scriptural
,I?truction as the handmain -a religion, and its bene-
acial effects to the world nt large were ably pointed
°tit- But .as the cultivation of the field, the garden,
and the vineyard, would prove of no avail unless
4ecoMpanied by the .dew nTul the rain from heaven :
the blessing of God aborre, who alone can give the in-
ereatse, must ever be suaght in earnest prayer by these
wao are engaged in the instruction of children. The pfa--
ues upon whom this duty more immediately devolves ate
Parents, guarifians, and-executors, paid schoolmasters-and
schoohnistresses;volurrary teachers in Sabbath schools and
Ministers ef'the Gospel. The several eireurnstm s and
considerations whi6ll coml)ine to render childhood the most
suitable period fdrataking a favourable impression on the
heart, and.airecting the feelings and affections 'into the
right chttnnel-were examined one by one' -
and the wcsult-aintal at by the preach"-

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