The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-19 00:00:00

CHARITY SCHOOLS' aI.NN I V ERSARY.

The anniversary or assemblage of the children educated in
the schools connected with the established church in this town
took place yesterday. Between nine and ten o'clock in the
morning the several schools walked in procession from St Pe-
ter's Church through Lord-street and Castle-street, and from
thence across the Exchange, round the Town Hall, returning
to the same place by the same route, in the following order:—
(viz. ) The Workhouse Schools, 474; All Saints' Church
School, 439; St. Catherine's, 208; St. Matthias, 320; St.
Augustine's, 161; Wavertree National, 160; St. Jude's, 290;
St. John the Baptist, Toxteth, 295; St. Bride's, Windsor, 70;
St. Michael's, 160; South Corporation (Free School), 830;
North Corporation (Free School), 1,000; Welsh Charity, 260;
St. James, '218; Hunter-street (Free School), 250; St. Mi-
chael's, Toxteth, 49; St. Matthew's, 425 ; St. Mark's, 408;
Everton and Kirkdale, 488; Moorfields, 300; St. Andrew's,
283; Edgehill, 235; Female Industry, 10'2; Blue Coat Hospi-
tal, 350; making a total number of 7,775, of whom 3,618 were

Shortly after:eleven o'clock the blue coat boys and girls, who
walked in the rear of the procession, having passed round the
Town-hall, were followed by the mayor and bailiffs, the very
rev. Thomas Calvert, D.D. warden of Manchester, the rectors
and nearly all the clergy of Liverpool, and some private gentle-
men; to St. Peter's church, where divine service was performed

on the occasion. During the whole of the time the children
were passing to and from the Exchange, Church-street, Lord-
street, and Castle-street were crowded with spectators, and it
would be difficult to imagine a more interesting sight than the
healthy, cleanly, and neat appearance they presented, especi-
ally when contrasted with the ►ags and filth of some hundreds
of other boys and girls who crowded those streets to look on
as idle spectators.

Before the arrival of the mayor,' St. Peter's. church was
filled. The service was read by the Rev. Rector Brooks; Mr.
Maybrick presided at the organ, and before and during the
service the children admitted into the church sang the 100th
psalm, " Venite exultemus Domino," "Te Deum," "Jubilate
Deo," "Lord of heaven, and earth, and ocecn," and "Thy
throne, 0 God ! in righteousness." The sermon was preached
by the Rev. Dr. Calvert, from the 3d epistle of St. John, 4th
verse, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children
walk in truth." The rev. divine, in his admirable discourse,
enforced the necessity of supecadding a knowledge of "gospel
truth" to the instruction given to the youthful mind. The
church, he said, had endeavoured to secure this object by the
appoint►isent of sponsors, who, at the baptismal font, undertook
to pi ovide the necessary instruction; were the spirit .of this
solemn engagement fulfilled; if sponsors did their duty, suich
institutions as the one in whose behalf he was addressing them
would be less necessary to counteract the effects of their neg-
ligence. The church, in enjoining upon the ministry the°duty
of catechising the children of their flock, necessarily pre-sup.
posed that they had .been previously instructed elsewhere.
This defect could only be supplied by the liberality of the
public. If it were allowable to allude in that place to what had
been done by the legislature, he might say that while the tem-
poral care of the poor had been provided for, their spiritual
wants had been altogether neglected; this had been left to the
munificence and the piety of individuals. The rev. gentleman,
in speaking of the rapid spread of national schools, said that

that work of love had only begun—the mere ability to acquire
knowledge was not ennugh—these schools were not fora.ed to
make scholars and philosophers of, the poor; they were pro-
jected as a medium for the diffusiOn of christiau knowledge;
and, having taught children to read the bible, if they were de-
sirous that they should "walk in truth," they must teach them
how to apply the knowledge which they had given. The
preacher briefly adverted to the serious loss which the schools
had sustained by the death of Mr. Dobson, and urged his
hearers to follow the example which he had set them. The
collection at the doors of the church amounted to £8.5.
The number of children now attached to these schools shows
an increase over last year of about 1500. Although some new
schools have been established, still the pupils of each separate
school have considerably increased.