Uomini di Mark 'twxt Tyne e Tweed . nella sua iniziale cappa), Joseph, John Lindsay, William Henry, e George Fife. GeorgeFife, il più giovane dei sette, è nato a St. Johns Lane, New-Castle, il giorno di maggio, 17S9. I colpi finali della sua educazionefurono dati alla scuola di Catterick, e all'età di quindici anni, havingdeclinò di essere fatto un avvocato, era apprendistato a suo padre. GEORGE FIFO ANGAS. 85 George Fife Angas venne nel mondo in un momento di sconvolgimenti di questioni educative, un tempo di risveglio ai pericoli dell'ignoranza, e una determinazione a rimuoverli. Il maestro di scuola era all'estero. Robert R.

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Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . in his early manhood), Joseph, John Lindsay, William Henry, and George Fife. GeorgeFife, the youngest of the seven, was born in St. Johns Lane, New-castle, on May Day, 17S9. The finishing strokes of his educationwere given at Catterick School, and at the age of fifteen, havingdeclined to be made a lawyer, he was apprenticed to his father. GEORGE FIFE ANGAS. 85 George Fife Angas came into the world at a time of upheaval inmatters of education—a time of awakening to the perils of ignorance, and a determination to remove them. The schoolmaster wasabroad. Robert Raikess Sunday-school system was taking hold ofthe public mind, and the schemes of Joseph Lancaster and Dr. Bellwere in process of development. Young Angas threw himself withardour into Sunday-school work, and with associates of like aims andsympathies, scoured the countryside, establishing, and helping tomaintain, Sunday teaching among the town and villages for manymiles round Newcastle. He and his friends were chiefly Baptists, . -^i^tf^-ex^^^l^w^^^T^:^*-/ but they did not limit their endeavours to any special denomination.Churchmen, Methodists, Independents, Presbyterians, Unitarians—all were included in the good work. At Blaydon there was a SundaySchool formed on Bells principles by Churchmen, Dissenters, Catholics, etc., each having their respective creeds taught. By theend of the year 1813 the Sunday-schools of Tyneside were suffi-ciently numerous to be joined in a Union, though there wereobstacles in the way. It took a couple of years to remove diffi-culties; but at Whitsuntide, 1816, they were all happily surmounted, and there was established, with George Fife Angas and J. B. 86 GEORGE FIFE ANGAS. Falconer as secretaries, The Sunday School Union of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Once organised, the union prospered. How much of its successwas due to the unremitting labours of its founder, the seniorsecretary, has been pleasantly told in a little volume, published on theoccasion of

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