Clergy. It pleased God to restore him to health; and before he was well able to walk, he came to me, and related all this, and a great deal more; thanked God that he had a Testament, and that he was spared to read it, which he said he would do as long as he lived. This day read a few Chapters in the house of one D- a Roman Catholic; he was just recovering from a long and severe illness; he told me he had never read a word in the Bible or Testament, nor had he ever seen one in his father's house, nor did he think it right for such as him to read the Scriptures. April 26th.-Read in the house of M. C " a very poor man; he cannot read; his son, a boy of 10 years old, is at School with me, a Schoolbook Reader; he earnestly requested that I would give his son a Testament, that he might read to him every evening, which I have done, and am glad to know that he reads a part of it every day; he is going on to read from the beginning in regular order. April 28th.-Read in the School house to thirty-seven, of whom twenty-three were adults; some of them professing Protestants and Presbyterians, shamefully ignorant of the Word of God, although they have the Bible in their houses. In this neighbourhood I think the words are verified, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge," as I find Roman Catholic children who attend the School have as much knowledge of the Word of God as some of the neighbouring Protestant Adults who have the Bible in their houses, but, I fear, seldom read it. May 5th. Read in the School house to sixteen adults, besides children, some of whom shewed that they had, during the week, been reading the Scriptures, and now seemed anxious to have conversation on what they had read. They asked a good many questions as to the meaning of some passages of Scripture, for which I have directed them to the context, which has, for the most part, satisfied them, and they have thought it strange that they could not see it themselves. May 19th. This day the School house was nearly full; there were above forty adults from four o'clock, until we could not see to read. M. C., above alluded to, thanked me and the Society for the Testament given to his son, which he reads with great pleasure to the family; it is all new to them, he says, and some parts very beautiful. Christ's sermon on the Mount, he thinks, quite different from what is now taught and practised. June 2d. Read in the School house to forty-three, seventeen adults, eight Roman Catholics. Continued to read the Gospel of St. John, which some of the Roman Catholics seem to prefer to any other part of the Testament; for what reason they will not tell, nor do I know. One of the people present said, if they all knew, by experience, as well as he did, the benefit of the reading of the Scriptures, and of having their children at a School where the Scriptures are read, they would prize it more he has seven children, three of whom were educated at the Society's School, and are exemplary for their obedience to their parents, industry, and good conduct: the rest of them are as different from them as if they were not of the same family, which, he says, he attributes wholly to their being taught at a different School, where the Master was careless, and suffered them, as he said, to sit idle, and talk about things which were unprofitable and vain. N.B.-Donations under Ten Guineas, entered in former Reports, are omitted in this, excepting such as are at this time accompanied with an Annual Subscription. 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