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When we book we will attend to your sugge This Day is Published, price Two Shillings, The Case of the Manchester Educationist A REVIEW of the Evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Comm relation to the State of Education in Manchester and Salford. By JOHN H HINTON, M.A. Prepared and published under the direction of a Committee for London for opposing the Manchester Education Bills. London: JOHN SNOW, 35, Paternoster Row. Manchester: Messrs. FLETCHER & T M Education. KEGWORTH, LEICESTERSHIRE. RS. TAYLOR receives into her house a limited number of Young Ladies to and Educate, for Twenty Guineas per annum. French, Music, Drawing THE PTIST REPORTER. JANUARY, 1853. HE BAPTIST"-HIS NAME AND ANTIQUITY. A BAPTIST ?" Among cidents of the late Duke on, there was one which the public prints a few s decease, which naturally ar notice. It was this, ote of the Duke was told, ormed, from the Weighit on Sunday week, in lustration of the lesson for A baptist minister had write to the Duke, and himself as such. F. M. of Wellington' was inthe wiiter's description of d courteously expressed Several letters passed d; but the correspondence e Duke's utter incapacity nd 'what is a baptist.' are not at all surprised at it be one. We say if it it requires authentication ptist minister," if he is yet y his friends, if he too, as = Duke, has gone the way arth. Certainly if the cirwas mentioned "from the se pulpit" there is good e evidence of its correctwe do not always believe , for, like tombstones, they made to tell tales not true. 3, then, the report to be that the great Duke was puzzled to know what a baptist is. He was not likely to hear of them or meet with them when a youth in Ireland, or England, or France, or when in active service in the Netherlands, or in India, Portugal, or Spain. Neither do we much wonder, that during the nearly forty years that he dwelt in his own land in peace, he was not brought into acquaintance with them. Some may think this strange, but to understand how such a thing could be, we should first be acquainted with the habits and intercourse of such men as the late Duke. "About court" the common epithet for evangelical dissenters is "the methodists;" and the idea formed of them is that they may be respectable persons and loyal citizens, but very puritanical and almost fanatical. Be this as it might, the Duke of Wellington did not stand alone in his ignorance of the baptists. William Knibb told a humorous tale of an incident which took place when he was examined before the House of Lords on the slavery question. We write from memory, and do not at this moment recollect the exact facts, but they amounted to a remarkable display of ignorance on scriptural matters by a noble lord who examined the more noble missionary more ignorance than s willing to allow. Whe ago, we were permitte favour, to join this pe tion respecting them wa this led us forthwith t propose certain plans fo Our first desire was to o and this being secured, tracts were soon print lated, and in a short tim cal, though with anoth peared-first quarterly monthly. Dr. Campbe the honour-for we rega to say, that we have do any one to spread bapti through the land. It may not, for we are r this matter. But we d other of our brethren w to imitate our example now no scarcity of ba ammunition. What we active agents to distribu what is provided and re We have only one fu To this ignorant class we confess ourselves to have once belonged. Brought up in "the church," christened by the parson in due time, saying the catechism to "godfather," (a generous-hearted man, who handed over a silver shilling for the performance), repeating it again to the vicar, and confirmed by the bishop; all was done that could be done by our anxious parents to make their child what he ought to be according to their notions of religion. And although we could read the bible from childhood, we had no idea of baptism at all, except that which we repeated-what we have done, w from the catechism. We read, to be as it were, single-hand sure, of John and Jesus going down we have not had any fu into Jordan, and thought it somewhat by the public to aid us strange, but we had no proper idea on than this, we have not ha the subject; for although born and patronage of either Un brought up in an ancient town of tion, or Conference. N several thousand inhabitants, there often had to make our were no baptists among them, and in tain our position agains the days of our boyhood we never so prejudice, or the expres much as heard of them. It was not of some men in high pla until we had reached our "teens" us. But we have not that we heard or saw anything of and shall not be, from ou them; and even then our notions of diffusing, in a cheap f them were ludicrous enough. We language adapted to th heard that they had much to do with better knowledge of our water; and when, for the first time, discipline. Let our 1 we entered into one of their very brethren who need a hig ancient places of worship in a neigh- literature seek it and pay bouring town, we took care to find a we ask of them is to 1 sitting near to the door that we might that we may do our own make a rapid escape when they, as we We think they ought als supposed they would, began to splash good speed. But if they the water about among the people! this, we beg them to let u Certainly this was some forty years humble path in peace. ago, and though the baptists are not hesitate to claim there vot grounds of |