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“...Case of the Infant School at the Rectory, St. Johns, Antigua.
The Rev. Robert Holberton, Rector of St. John’s, Antigua, has an Infant School at
the Rectory, attended daily by more than one hundred Children, who for want of a School-
house of sufficient size have assembled for instruction under the shade of a Bamboo. This
inconvenience is about being remedied by the erection of a building 50 feet by 24, the
corner-stone of which was laid on the first of June last, on which occasion the following
hymn, composed by Archdeacon Parry, was sung by 102 of the children as they sur-
rounded the site of their future School-house.
Since infants may to Thee be brought,
(Thou bid’st us come, O Lord!)
And in their earliest years be taught
To know thy gracious word ;
Look down with favour, we entreat,
On those who here would raise
A house where little ones may meet
To learn thy holy ways. . .
We build with fruitless cost unless
The Lord...”
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