Ninth annual report of the St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Church of England District Visiting Society: with some account of the different societies subordinate or affiliated to it — John Shaqi
Ninth annual report of the St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Church of England District Visiting Society: with some account of the different societies subordinate or affiliated to itAnonymous
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Ninth annual report of the St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Church of England District Visiting Society: with some account of the different societies subordinate or affiliated to it
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Charities -- England -- London; Visitations (Church work) -- England -- London
To all who, in watching over the helplessness and innocence of infancy,
have learnt how delicate is the constitution, how difficult is the
rearing of a child, the Committee hopefully commend the cause of these
babes of toil. To rescue them from the evils of a careless tending; to
preserve them from disease engendered by deleterious cordials,
administered by ignorant and impatient guardians to hush their cries; to
insure them the common blessings of light and air, of cleanliness and
warmth, is essentially a mother’s charity. Nor will the lady, surveying
with a grateful heart, the commodious arrangement of the apartments of
her little ones, have her sense of gratification, in bending over the
cradle of her son and heir, diminished by the recollection that she has
been instrumental in procuring for the offspring of others, some amongst
those comforts so abundantly bestowed upon her own. And if, as is
presumed, our boys and girls are taught, in advancing youth, to set
apart, on principle, a certain percentage of their allowances for
purposes of Christian love, where will they find an object for their
sympathies more in unison with their age and feelings than one devoted to
the reception of children far younger and more feeble than themselves?
At the age of two years, the infants are transferred to one of the three
Schools of the District. Of these, that in Church Court, which, as the
feeder of the central National School, has enrolled upon its books about
one hundred and fifty scholars between the ages of two and seven years,
receives the great proportion. The rest, for the most part, are absorbed
by either the Jennings’ Buildings or the Gore Lane School, each of which
possess a prescriptive right to mention in these pages, not only from the
grants they have severally obtained, but from the position they hold in
the Parochial organization.
JENNINGS’ BUILDINGS,
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