ABSTRACT

W hen we look around us, with an eye of benevolence and Christian charity, to ascertain and adopt the best means of extending the blessings of education amongst poor adults, we should not neglect those public Institutions wherein are collected, either temporarily er more permanently, a number of persons under that description: such as hospitals, alms-houses, work-houses, and even prisons; in each of these there will be, DO

49 doubt, opportunities and methods foond, by the welldirected exertions of suitable persons, under the sanction of the Governors or acting' Committees of those several Institutions, for carrying this beneficial system into effect.