THE CLAPHAM SECT.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—I think your readers may be interested to see the wording of the Memorial Tablet on the Parish Church at Clapham which records the work and names of the so-called " Clapham Sect." It is as follows :- " Let us Praise God for the memory and example of all the faithful departed who have worshipped in this Church and especially for the undernamed Servants of Christ, sometime called THE CLAPHAM SECT who in the latter part of the XVIHth and early part of the XIXth Centuries, laboured so abundantly for National Righteousness, and the Conversion of the Heathen, and rested not until the Curse of Slavery was swept away from all parts of the British Dominions.
Charles Grant Henry Thornton Zachary Macaulay John Thornton Granville Sharp Henry Venn, Curate of Clapham John Shore (Lord Teignmouth) John Venn, Rector of Clapham James Stephen William Wilberforce.
' 0 God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days and in the old time before them.' "
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