The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

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ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS,
CONNECTED WITH THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH
IN LIVERPOOL.

The anniversary of the National Schools connected with
e Established Church in Liverpool took place yesterday,
id. as on former occasions, it furnished a very high degree

fication to the supporters of a sound religious educa-
['he children assembled at an early hour in the morn-
leir several schools; and being marshalled into little
ded to the yard of the Blue-
point of Concentration. From
t line, at the head of which

they pro

Coat School, which was the
thence they forme

marched the children of the Blue-coat School, and preceded
by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, the Rev. Thomas Moss, the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile and a great number of the clergy, they
proceeded along Church-street, Lord-street, and Castle-
street, to the Town-hall, and the Exchange. At the Town-
ball the procession was joined by John Shaw Leigh, Esq.,
Mayor, the officers of the corporation, and several members
of the Town-council; and returning by the same route they
proceeded to St. Peter's Church, where it had been pre-
viously announced that the Right Rev. C. H. Terrott,
D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, would preach the annual sermon
on behalf of the funds of these most excellent institutions.
Provision was made in the church for the accommodation of
a considerable number of children, by the erection of a
raised platform behind the pulpit; and the remainder re-
turned in procession to their respective schools, where they
were, in most cases, regaled with cake and wine, the expense
of which was defrayed by private subscription.
Divine service commenced a few minutes past eleven o'clock
by the children singing the 100th Psalm. Mr. M. Maybrick
presided at the organ ; and aided by the appropriate ac-
companiment of that noble instrument the infantile choir

sang the praises of their Maker with peculiar impression and
effect. Prayers were then read by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
and the " chaunts," as well as the hymn before and after the
sermon, were sung by the children.

The Right Rev.-Di-. Terrott, having ascended the pulpit to
deliver the sermon, selected for his text the 14th and 15th
verses of the 3rd chapter of St. Paul's 2nd Epistle to
Timothy :—" But continue thou in the things which thou
hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom
thou hast learned them ; and that from a child thou bast
known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise
unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

The Right Reverend Bishop commenced by saying, that
e had come from a considerable distance to address them
n, as he was totally unknown to them, and as
t.•4ctly speaking, a member of our national

on this (
he was

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before entering upon the sub-
a very few words,

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was, and by what authority he undertook, as a
hrist, to preach the word of God in that place.
for granted that they believed as he did, that

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must necessarily

firth, he must regret that

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them from joining in the service of the
portion of their fellow-creatures, and
zed that

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