APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXTRACTS OF CORRESPONDENCE, &c. FORM OF THE QUERIES, To be answered by Applicants on behalf of Sunday Schools, as far as they may be able to do so. N. B.— It is requested that the Answers may be written in a fair and very legible manner, and with good ink. 1. What is the name of the Sunday School? 2. Has the name of the School at any time been changed? If so, state the former name. 3. In what Parish is the School? 4. In what part of the Parish is the School situated? 5. In what County is the School? 6. What is the nearest Post Town? 7. In what year and month was the School established? 8. How many Male Teachers are acting gratuitously? 9. How many Female Teachers are acting gratuitously? 10. How many Male Scholars are receiving instruction? 11. How many Female Scholars are receiving instruction? 12. What proportion of the above Male and Female Scholars attend Daily Schools? State the number as accurately as you can. 13. How many Male and Female Scholars usually attend? 14. How many of both of these are grown-up persons, above the age of fifteen? 15. Is there any probability of the School being increased? By what means, and to what number? 16. Has the number of Scholars increased or decreased within the last few months, or since your last Report to the Society? If so, state the causes. 17. On what hours during Sunday is the School held? 18. Under whose direction is the School placed; of an individual or a Committee? State their names. 19. How many Scholars are reading in the Bible and Testament? A 20. How many of the undermentioned Books are at present in the School? 21. How many of the undermentioned Books are wanted? State where 22. Who in Dublin can be referred to, as knowing the School, its Conductors, or any of the persons who sign this Application? the person lives. 23. What is the probable Annual Income? State how it arises, and the sums. 24. What are the probable Annual expenses? State them under their several heads. 25. Are the Scholars or Parents called upon to pay any sum for the Books received from this Society, as recommended in the Book of "Hints for Conducting Sunday Schools ?" Do State 26. To what person shall the parcel of Books be addressed ?* 27. Are there any Nobility, or Gentry, or Clergymen, or Ministers, in your neighbourhood, concerned in promoting Religious Education? they, or is it probable, would they countenance your School? their Names, Residences, and Post Towns. Are any steps taken by you to interest them and the public on behalf of your School, or of this Society? 28. Are there any other Sunday Schools in your neighbourhood, or Societies, or Sunday School Associations, formed for their support or extension? If so, state their names, the places in which they are situated, and their nearest Post Towns; together with the name and address of their Treasurer or Secretary. 29. Is it probable that any other Sunday Schools, even of the smallest description, could be established in your neighbourhood, by holding out the encouragement of assistance from this Society? If so, state the means which you conceive best calculated to produce this effect. 30. What effect does your Sunday School appear to have produced upon the habits and conduct of your Scholars, their families, or neighbours? 31. Are there any causes impeding the progress of Sunday School Instruction in your neighbourhood? If so, of what nature are they, and what means may be used to remove or diminish them? Books granted gratuitously remain in the Depository of the Society until sent for: and the person authorised to call for them, must produce a written order from some of the Conductors of the School, known to the Committee of the Society. 32. Is your Sunday School broken up during the winter months? If so, has any provision been made by the Committee or Teachers to bring the Scholars together on Sundays, in their own or in neighbours' houses, in separate or mixed classes? Signed this day of 18 Residence. We, the undersigned, believe the Statements made in this Application, to be correct: Describe underneath the state of your neighbourhood with respect to the Education of the Poor. State also the mode of Teaching in your Schoolyour mode of keeping its Account and other Books; the Rules of your School; the description of the House in which your School is held; with any other observations which you may deem interesting; and detail the progress of the Scholars. QUERIES, To be answered by Applicants on behalf of Sunday Schools, for Bibles at the Reduced Price, 1. What is the name of the Sunday School? 2. Has the name of the School at any time been changed? If so, state the former name. 3. In what Parish is the School? 4. In what County is the School? 5. What is the nearest Post Town? 6. How many Scholars are receiving instruction in the School? 7. How many Scholars are reading in the Bible? kind. 12mo.} at 1s. each. State the number of each 11. Who in Dublin can be referred to as knowing the School, its Conductors, or the person who signs this Application? State where the person lives. 12. To what place in Dublin shall the Books be sent, and to whom shall the parcel be addressed? I am authorised by the Conductors of the above Sunday School, to purchase the above-mentioned Bibles, at the reduced price of the Sunday School Society for Ireland. These Bibles are to be appropriated to the use of Sunday School Scholars only, and to be used by such in the above Sunday School. Dated this Signed,† day of 182 Residence, It is requested that this Paper be either signed or certified by persons known to the Committee, or that a reference be given to some person in Dublin, as knowing the School, its Conductors, or some of the persons who sign this Application. + It is requested that this document be signed by some of the Managers of the School known to, or in correspondence with the Committee of the Sunday School Society for Ireland. FORM OF THE REMARKS, &c. Directed to the Patrons and Conductors of Schools. THE Committee of this Society, anxious to make known more fully its principles and objects, and to facilitate as much as possible the intercourse between it and the various Schools throughout Ireland, issue the following "Remarks," which, as containing much necessary information and sugges tions that may be useful to the Schools in correspondence with the Society, are recommended to the particular attention of all the Patrons and Conductors of them. PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIETY. The principles on which this Society has been instituted are, that it shall promote the establishment, and facilitate the conducting of Sunday Schools in Ireland, by disseminating the most approved plans for the management of such Schools, by supplying them with Spelling-Books, and copies of the Sacred Scriptures, or extracts therefrom, without note or comment, (the only books which the Society disseminates amongst the Scholars,) either gratuitously, or at reduced prices: and that it shall not assume to itself any control over the internal regulations of the Schools in connexion with it: nor use any other interference in their concerns than that of kind admonition and advice. GRANTS OF BOOKS. 1st. The Committee will assist a Sunday School by a gratuitous grant of Testaments, Spelling-Books, Alphabets, and Freeman's Card for Adults, (should the circumstances of the School appear to them to render such a grant necessary,) once in each year, commencing 5th January, but not oftener. The Committee, however, trust that the Conductors of Schools will feel the importance of using their utmost exertions to prevent any unnecessary expendi ture of books, that the demands on the Society, already great, may be rendered as light as possible. 2d. It is requested, when an application is made to the Society, that the name of the Sunday School or Schools to which it refers, be written at the top of the letter. 3d. A list of Queries (which are supplied by the Society upon application) must be filled up, and sent to the Secretaries of the Society, on every fresh application for Gratuitous assistance; no grant can be made until these Queries are transmitted, and laid before the Committee of the Society. The Queries should be either signed, or certified by persons known to the Committee of the Society, or a reference given to some person in Dublin, as know. ing the School, its Managers, or some of the persons who sign the Queries. 4th. Books are not granted gratuitously, except to Sunday Schools actually established; but they may be purchased at Reduced Prices for the use of Sunday Schools about to be established. 5th. The Society does not grant books gratuitously for the purpose of being given as Premiums. 6th. It is expected that Books obtained from the Society either gratuitously or at Reduced Prices, shall be used by Scholars actually attending Sunday Schools. They may be given to such gratuitously, or they may be sold to them either for the prices charged by the Society, or for less, according to circumstances; but when the Scholars of Sunday Schools use the books in Daily Schools also, they should be required to pay the price charged by the Society, 7th. It is requested that the Alphabets should be pasted on boards, on cards, or on stiff double paper pasted together; and that the Scholars be urged to repair the binding of their books, by pasting the covers afresh, or stitching them down at the corners, when it may be necessary. CARRIAGE OF BOOKS. 8th. The Committee do not pay for the carriage of any parcels of books; nor do they make any bargain on behalf of the Conductors of Schools, with carmen or others, respecting the price to be paid for the carriage of parcels. If, however, any instances of fraud, or delay, or loss should occur, on a representation being made, the Committee will assist in investigating and remedying the evil. 9th. All books granted gratuitously are kept at the Depository of the Society until called for; but books purchased at full or reduced prices, will be delivered, if required, at any place appointed within the City of Dublin. When the Conductors of Schools send to the Depository for their books, they should send also a written order by the messenger, signed by some person known to the Committee; and they should state the name of the School to which the books sent for are intended. 10th. It is suggested that the Conductors of Schools should, when circumstances permit, make arrangements for the carriage of their books by some regular carmen, to whom letters should be given to the Secretaries of the Society. This mode may often prevent much delay, and ensure safety in their transmission. 11th. Every parcel of books sent from the Depository of the Society is sealed with the Society's seal, bearing the impression of S.S. S. on or close to the knots of the cord. Should this seal be broken or defaced, so as to lead to a suspicion of the parcel having been opened, it is requested that Correspondents will immediately apprise the Secretary of the Society of the fact. BOOKS SOLD AT FULL AND REDUCED PRICES. 12th. Bibles are not granted gratuitously, but are sold to Sunday Schools at Reduced Prices. 13th. It is required that all books purchased, either at Full or Reduced Prices, shall be paid for before they are sent from the Depository. The Committee have been obliged to adopt this regulation, to prevent inconvenience and loss to the Society. 14th. The Conductors of Sunday Schools known to the Society, have, in addition to gratuitous grants, the privilege of purchasing books, for the use of their Sunday Schools, at the following Reduced Prices : --- |