Sodor and Man

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893 - Church and state - 276 pages

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Page 270 - The time or times during which any religious observance is practised or instruction in religious subjects is given at any meeting of the school shall be either at the beginning or at the end or at the beginning and the end of such meeting...
Page 189 - For the more effectual discouragement of vice, if any person shall incur the censures of the Church, and, having done penance, shall afterwards incur the same censures, he shall not be admitted to do penance again (as has been formerly accustomed) until the Church be fully satisfied of his sincere repentance ; during which time he shall not presume to come within the church, but be obliged to stand in a decent manner at the church door every Sunday and...
Page 270 - It shall not be required, as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship...
Page 188 - We, the bishop, archdeacon, vicars-general, and clergy of this isle, who do subscribe these articles, that we may not stand charged with the scandals which wicked men bring upon religion, while they are admitted to, and reputed members of, Christ's Church; and that we may by all laudable means promote the conversion of sinners, and oblige men to submit to the discipline of the Gospel; and, lastly, that we may provide for the instruction of the growing age in Christian learning and good manners...
Page 215 - And for the further encouragement of the schoolmasters, they shall respectively receive, over and above the salaries already allowed them, six-pence quarterly from the parents of every child that shall be taught by them to read English, and nine-pence quarterly from such as shall be taught to write ; which sums being refused, the...
Page 226 - That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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