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FMtker ExUnf dona Weld'e Heport'eoa
The ex perif oc . of ercry day (kmoQ
tratc& that the body -and mind are vndotr
ed with such mutual auscjrpubiJUiet, that
ejch is ilive to the alightett iuflueuce of
the ether. What fa the common sense
inference from this fact Manifestly this:
that the boJyanJ ifee mind $hiUd tat tit
xitl tostlhtr. Thesatts of the body are
infiiiiuly rariom. All these diflervat
sute s djflV rently affect the mind. They
are rsuss, and their flVcts have all the!
varK'ty wh:ch mark the causes that pro- ru.01 ine -uscal Institution of Thiladel
dace. them. If then different conduious! phi. President Fisk of the Wi-sleyun Uni
of the bv)dy difletemly affect the mind, j verity, Professor Hitchcock of Amherst
ime electrifying, and oihcrj par.ilyzing j College, the late Mr. Cornelius, and many
its energies, what duty can be pi tiuer than , others, have publicly cnl w ith &o!emn tor-
energies what duty can be pi ti
topre.irre t he body in that condition which '
trUl most favorably aftet the nind. If 1
the Maker of both was' infinitely wise
thn the highest ttrmnent perfection of
iuc mma can oe louaa onsy in connection
vith the most heahhful state of the body.
Has infinite wijdom cstr.blished laws by
which the best condition of the mind is
permanently connected with any other
. 1 .... . . .
than the best condition of th hodvf
"When all the bodily functions are perfect! 0ave heen engaged cn the theory
tj peifomied, the mind must be in a bet-. nd practice of education minds, too,
Tcr state than, when -these functions are I which were deeply interest d in the re-iropeTfectly-
performed. And now.loak,M'ls f 4hcir labors, it is surelynot a lit
is not mat ayatrra Of education fundamen-
tally defective, which makes no pTori"o
for putting the tody in its best condition,
nd or keeping it "in that condition? a
Remind alone, and surrenders the body
either to the irregular prtfmptmgs of per-
erted instinct, or to the hap-hatard im-
pulses of chance cr necessity? a wra
system ucirn-expend .its energies upon
which aims solely at the derehspement oi ,
, imna.ana veioTeriooKsiirose very oriwci
pies which are indispensable to produce
"y xhzl dcreopement and ' transgress those
very laws which -constitute the only
groundwork of rational education I
Such a system sunders what God hss
joined together, and impeaches the wis
dom which pronounced that union good.
It destroys tne symmetry of homan pro
portion, "nod makes man ; monster. It
reveries the order of the constitution com
' jnita oarage nponits prmciples ; breaks
up ws rrciprobiuca , maara ur nuae np
Hn physical health and intellectaal energy,
lirijnj man against himself; STmtng
wdt and mind in mutual hostility, and
prolonging the conflict until each fills a
prey to the other, and loth surrender to
fuin.
Ve repeat the assertion ; the best con
dition of the mental powers cannot be
found permanently connected with any
fcther than th best condition of the bodily
cowers, and this both as a matter of phi
losophy sad fact If this be true, the sys
ent of education which is generally par-
aueu m iae unitea estates ts unphilosophi-
surd. - The hl?h erf11ni tfi.
P W V V
99f rCiatfd. - MaisTn . mA UP itinrv m Ir -
f iwe wwul ICaiCV. KCC IUIJV
deed srhie
ed things for names, experiment for hy
pothesis, 15m principles for arbitrary rules.
It has simplified processes stripped
Icnoirledge of its abstraction, and thrown
t mf r sr i t-v? t m mAA vw a jeal a 1 ea
av IIIOUO l SlSit St liSUIIi
vainer (nan mystery tne stanaara by wnicn
to measure the' value1 of attainment,. and
facts rather than conjecture Its circulating
xneaium. ' ' .
All this is cheerfully sdraitted. But
what has bren done meanwhile for the
body ? What j)iflrJsIon hss been . made
;for the d-iUr Avanti of iti muscles and
merrest .' what aids have been furnished
no the organs of digestion, secretion, and
circuuuoal '.What nvans hare been pro-
wide4 lor preserringlha body in its best
. Condition, tni thus not onl v oirintr hkrfth-
Jul energy to its functions, hut upmrinor to
mlod thai permanent Vigor which re-f
fsults from -such a condition of the bodity.
..orirans.! Vhat recognition has been made'
ifor those irrepealable laws which connect
tthe mind with the physical organintioh,
.ftrtd .which graduate its states by the con
v diti$ cflbat organixatipn In fine:, how
, inas moacra aucaxion oc-n.5''
a ' . " ' .. s a aU m in ie Am.
teal testimony, to xae j.ic m
tornor
momentaVvimerWfrom the. contingeb
1-eies of chance l . Has Jt beett y Rtrtng
-fcirtu ta an. or'derf -of things in which a
,T2ci mind with a sound body Is already
rra unicn, and is fcst .becoming .ta
. aaamalvt ' I.rtv.p?'arB its wilneeses. the
worU is ful cfL.cri; sad tha cUcrsocecf
their 'Utiiaony jj ts lis rcycai of ta&fff
twain. cuTtivatinff one half with unremU. the fottaer practically useful. If the pre- It mustalso be recollectedht Alaria ;laurcnd impostures, by the complimeo- T from him,
tinffcare and leaving the other to'stag- en system oes oof undergo some change Monk has been a resident of New York tary language in which they sneak of the a, thal moment when he passed the line oi
s'lV"." rf 'Vkn I ranch aroreheod we shall see a degene- nearly sixteen months, and during that , Roman priesthood ! It is high time that drcuravallation: and. thomrh in the neizh-
dub in I n u Liirrxjr oi iiiaiiiww. v " i
waters. The prevailing neglect of the
wujr m uq picsrut eit-m vi cuuvuuuii, in op a in. r. rarre 0 notion on
ta' adefect for which no excellence ran Physical Vulture."
atones: Thb U not a recent discovety. We ore batisfitd hy intimate experi-
Th centuries ago, Milton wiotea paraph ence, and we may add by personal sufler-
Irt upen litis fubject addresstd to Samuel ing, that sad injustice is done to human
Haiti.b, Esxj., of London, in which he clo- nature ki the common systems of education
qorntly urged the connection of physical by a negktt of suiwble'and tegul'ar pfeysi-
witb mental education in literary institu- cal exercisf." Joural of Health.
tiontv Locke iawigha against it in noj "Education is the proper develope-
m.asu red terms. Since that time, Jjhn, rncnt of the pote, sot both body and mini.
Acker man, Sal?man, and Franck, in Ger- and no: as it is now practically defined, the
many, Tissot, Routieau, and Loi.de, in culture of the mind to the neg'ket and per-
France, feare all written largely upon the raanent injury of the body." Healih Al
subject. To these may be added the cele-1 nanac for 1833.
I .J 1 1 I .1 . r j I J
uruiru r cuenotrrg, me veteran owiss eau-
Cator,mdtheapo3iIe of modern education.
In ourotfncoimtry the mrftiotis of
nvj ax rerrgin, recflmmenaing tne eon
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nrction 0! agricultural and mnrhanrcaHa.
m ... . w .
oor wan i.wrary lnrtuuuona. ana saying, t
-the student srmuld wo.k nitli h mvn
hands i-.h, !twl nftdt-.
. ....4.. excuemeni ana over actniiy. nan 01 our
s of Uidv. More . .l u l
u imost proms:ng youths hae tneir physi
en written upon the , . , 6 , M , , 13
j. r.L xt ' 1 cal and often their intellectual powers
irdslev of the Iash-! , , . r . . c K .
r ur.i. ibroktn down, or enfeebled, before they
recen:ly,tnuh has Wen
subject. President L
tille UniveraXv, Profersor Mite hell, of the
Medical College of Ohio. Piofessor Har- j
neatness.
borne their testimony
against
lha feature c.t the preai ing syetem, and
hareexhort.d the cotnmunitv to cast about
in earnest for the arpiopriate r medy.
Permit mp, gentlemen, to call your at
tention to the folfowing extract, ail going
to show that the evils resulting fiom this
defect in the present system are felt to be
well nih intoleralle:
"When we consider how many minds
tie remarkable, that for ages they should
Ua-vflt tTerlooke4 th Tery firat and most
essential condition of sun ess ; I mean the
necessity of cultivating the body. Thus.
M' we except ifce'Brat ouarfer of'ihe nrea-
century, noth.ng worth rimming has
heen done for the body, since the days of
antiquity. Our surprise on this uljct
the striking r.dvantag.s
" "'s w
strafed to us of old, end reco.dtxi for our
instruction; our mrptise would be hss,
too, if We had ever succedtd in educa'ion
without this training, and if for cen urits
past we had not ben constantly failing in
our efforts to perfect human beings with
out it." Am.- Jour, of Ed.
, It seems to rhe .o be a settled point,
that some change must be effected in our
colleges m respect to the time alio ted ro
exercise I cannot believe that the guar
dians of these institutions will res: satisfied
wilh the present system mch longeT.
Almost any system' that can be proposed,
has fewer difficulties and objections than
that which prevails in our Nw-Lngland
colleges generally ; and therefore my con
science would not rtt easy until I had
borne my testimony agtinst it.' Prof.
Hitchtock on Physical Culture.
' Colleges and universities have long
been fconsec rated to literary easts indul
gence, and refinement. In them, mtnd
only is attempted to be cu.tivated, to tne
entire nlect of the bodily faculties.
This is a radical defect, so obvious and
strikms too, as to admit of no apology or
defence." President Lindsletfs Jniugu-
ral Address.
m The truth is. that the founders an 1
governors of most seminaries of learning
nave made no positive provisions wnai-
ever for taking exercise. Tneir laws an
regulations are silent in regard to it. 11
he student is disposed to exercise tnrc-e
hours 'a djy, and can contrive to gain time
fcy stealth,1 or in some other way, he can
enjoy the privilege ; but ft a derives nine
or no encouragement either irom tne au
thority or the example of his surprise, and
nence be is easily discouraged from mak
ing ariy systematic attempts. The.emust
he chdpge in this respect. Instructors
snd overseers of literary and professional
schools must give to exercise a prominent
place in their arrangements ; ttrey must
make room for it in tne regular employ
ments of each day, and throw the weight
of their whole influence into the scale in
favor of it or it is to be feared that system-
Affc exercise can never be associated per
manently with the studies of those who
are Disced unaer meir care. rwr-
'Address before the Mechanical Associa
tion in Adot er.
Lttme conclude by intrtating your
attention to a revision of ihe existing plan$
of education, in what relates to the preser
vation fhafth. Too much of the time
of the better educated part of young per
sons is in ny hurbb'.e opinion devoted to
literacy pursuits and. tedentary occuFu
- - - . T . 1 . . S" t..SA.n
raten4 siokin? race, su"h" as came to
exist amonc the fcijrher classes in France
before the
etherero'.utioanJ suchaS nowde-
i
fiesJ-SketeW.ernofffl.rV
i . -.-a i.a . . I a . s ina .rniiiiiiuu ui if fUAi. nr jpaxz. n I mum M j n il M a wwitm inipi ifrpnrniDn irnn innti.nr.nnniif nnin. i .
foims a lare part of the noblest families j
..when we remember the de-
ttructioof htih that is so frequent an
accomtaniroent of study, it behoves us. as
n:t.
r
w miiiKC. m iutiiHt m Aitit
Sf..j,i,
a w ajiiauLie
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u.1uuu huF ,
(excitement and over actiuiy
rial I 01 our ,
airie at manhood." Judge Story of the.
V. S. Supreme Court.
'i have iong been so deeply impressed
with reffard to the necessi:y of some :
niaii'Tf in niir svsipm 11 1 puMraiinn pnt.
cia iv of ministei la education, that I have!
betn thankful for every attempt to throw!
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into it something in the shape of physical
cu'ture." Ree. Dr. Tyng, Philadelphia.
"Most of our present systems are di
rected to the intellectual faculties, without
any reference to the fact that the mind is
incased in a body, through which is com
municated every impression it receives."
Dr. James C. Bliss, New York.
" The almost entire neglect of physical
education in this country threatens dan-
gerous and lasting consiq iences." " In-!
fuence of Mental Cultivation on Health," I
ty Dr. A. Brigham, Hartford.
" I nave long entertained a persuasion,
which grows stronger and stronger every
day. that there has been an essential error
in the system of education in this country
mi regard to tbeeubject in question physi
cal education I had hoped that the
visit of Spurzeim to this countiy, who was j
accustomed to speik with great feeling
and e'oquence on this point, and often de
plored the mistake committed in this coun
try of doing tco little for the bodily vig
or of our youth, would have had a saluti
rv influence. I trust that what he said
will not be whjlly lost, and that your so
ciety will effect the d. si red good.1' Prof.
irx-e, Cambridge University, Mass.
Our Si'h.o:s for the most part pay not
the smallest attention to the formatron of
the body. But that it is not a part of their
plan, is an unpardonable; fault." Prof.
Sa'zman, Germany.
"For many centuries, education has
b.en exclusively directed to the develope
mnt of the mental faculties, while the
bodily powers have been entirely neglect
ed." Prof. Voelkc, Germany.
AZTTX.2lOSXA.2rZ8XX.
From the American Protettant Vindirator.
HOTEL DIEU MJWKJIY AT MOMEAL.
An old friend in Canada has written me
a letter which contains the following re
marks. "MaTia Monk work in my
opinion, is full of far fetched lits; and a
complete catch penny ; where she can
gull fools. Some gentleman here sol
emnly declare, that Maria Monk ii a well
knotvn infamous character."
It ii astonishing, after all the discus
sion upon this subject, that any peisons
can thus so completely misapprehend the
true question. The character of Maria
Monk has not the most remote connection
with this investigation nor has any per
son ever brought it up, either as testimony
or for scrutiny, except the Roman priets.
Maria, Monk has been a Nun! That fact
alone determines her character in my es
timate, and according to my acquaintance
with Canadian Convents.
No greater proof of infatuation can be
adduced, than the conduct of many nomi
nal Protestants upon this topic. One com
mon adage in courts of law is this " the
greatest rogue always turns evidence for
the public." But is his testimony inval
idated by the fact ? Not at all. " On the
contrary aie not large rewards given,
ana ts not complete exemption from pun-
s
ishnern guaranteed to any criminal who the belief of the priest's assertion, that they : other limit against the extending of a man's
will impeach his accomplices in wicked- only enjoy the benefit of his massing ser-j encroachments, in a terror 4" discovery,
nessf 'vices. If the priest did not make that or in a sense of interest, or evea in the re-
BesUe. in what way could the "secrets' crafty exclusion, all the people in thedis-: lentings of a kindly or a compunctious feel
of FemaL Convents" be divulged, if nor trict might imagine that their cattle hid ' g .towards h.m who is the victim of in-
by on? of the residents! The Roman the benefit of t hi mass ; which wtu'd di-i t Lt I'J Tth
J. . - . i . . , . . I which the question ot a mans troth, or a
priests are in a i great Jesuitical uproar i re-, min.sh the priestly income which isde-;man,s honest v, has to do. These have al
spect.ng Maria Monks characu rj but j rived from this nefarious traffic. This is ready been given up. He may only be a
wh.i maJe her whit she confesses that she; the cause of the ' close communion" , little way wiibia the margin of the unlaw
was ? Themselves. After all that can j which the priests have established for their ful territory, but still he is upon it; and the
be said upon the affair Maria Monk is congregation of cattle. God who bads him there will reckon with
iust Ai ;io And rlrtirus as nine Hnw rnlv i ii tn K UmpntH ib-it him, and deal with him accordingly. Other
f. i . r i . im.i-' r-li? . . " i ? n i . i nrinciDlt and olhpr rnnsiripTalinn rnav
j whole period, has been residinsr inchris
tian families, under the most searching in-
spection pf nrtfons, whose piety and dis-
prrtmn'iiiirt rfnmm 4ro 1 mi.
tboss abominations and
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of herself might have justified us to ex
pect
In ruth the whole inquiry is this. A re
Maria Monk's declarations'bf tfce Canadi
an piiests and nuns accurate? and are
those Papal ecclesiastics the inordinate
swynefrs wherm she depkflSs? All the "cun
ning craftiness," with which those Jesuits
and their minions " He in wait to deceire,"
will not avail to blind christians to that
tope which is the only genuine point of
investigation
Falsehood or truth respecting Maria
Monk personally, are equally msignifi-'
cant and irrelevant; except as they illus
trate the acts of priests and nuns. Four!
facts are incontestable. 1. Maria Monk
tbas a Nun in the Hotel Dieu Canvent;
and all the perjured testimony which the
Roman priests can purchase, will not alter
that ventv
2. Artificers of all kinds,
j
were employed for months in stopping up
the subterraneous passages between the
nrlests, residence and the nunneries in
w..
m. . 1. : - i. . u .
, ' , , . .
nues 01 tne convent ; ana in cnangin
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the passages, the position, the names, and
the uses of the various apartments which
MarLi Monk describes. 3. Messrs. Per-
kins. Curry, Esson and Holmes, were
not admitted into one fourth part of the
Hotel Dieu Nunnery and did net enter
,u iju,i ;umu,e 0ic;.,0i !
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i:nr in iiir srx. 1 .111 v ii iiaiiiut 1 j .a,iuvjiiiiv
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ol the
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mi'SIPrV OI lllltlUllV. i. UUUK I1Z
been compiled in the Hotel Dieu. Nunuery i
of Montreal, in the name o; Maiia Monk
and during several months past, every ar
tifice which the Jesuits of Canada could
devise, has bten aclojt d t-o tTepan
and kidnap that young woman, that she
might be transferred to the Hotel Dit-u
Convent, then to be made solemnly lo at
test to the truth of the fat stuwds which
have Itcn forged in her name; and im
mediately after that simulated testimony
can be obtained, she is condemned to fof-
low her sister "Saintes" into the pit of
extinction !
All these four facts, I do hereby offer
to prove at anytime, and in any place in
Canada, as Mr Lartigue, the prelate of
Montreal, may appoint. What will be
his reply? " I stand upon my character."
1 ben 1 tell all the world who choose to
know it : that Mr Lartigue, and the priests
named in Maria Monk's 44 Awful Disclos
ures," and with few exceptions all the
other Canadian Cures, have no other char
acters than thU , and I utter confidently
the appalling truth. They are the most
dissolute profligates in the parishes and
tawis which they infest ; and are no more
worthy of credit upon any topic connected
wilh their ungodly priestcraft, than to
speak in Bible language "Seducing
spirits, speaking lies in h)pocrisy, having
their conscience seared with a hot iron,
who through covetousness, with ftigntd
works, make merchandize of the souls of
men.
G. B.
From the American Protestant Vindicator.
CATTLE HEARIXQ MASS.
44 It was it fine Sabbath morning: in sum-
mer, that M'G heard the noise of
some cattle passing his house. On going
to the door, he discovered his neighbor's
son driving several cattle be.'ore him.
44 Where are you going with the cattle
at this hour?" asked M G
41 1 am driving them," said the boy with
careless gravity, "to mass."
"To mass?'' replied M'G .
" Yes !" said the boy, 14 to mass. Yon
der is the priest waiting for them."
44 The boy then pursued his way; the
covwere assembled ; and the. priest sung
mass to them
4 That circumstance U of common oc
currence in Ireland. Mr. Nolan, the
Roman priest recently converted from Po
pery to Christianity, affirms "the Irish
priests offer masses for t ie prosperity of
horses, lands, tattle, an I various other
property!" It may be asked, why are cat
tle assembled to hear mass ? riere is a
good Popish reason for this blasphemous
absurdity.
' The mass which is . offered for cattle
is callel the Mass of the Holy Ghost
and 011 account of its supposed superior
virtue, is solJ for doubfe price. The usu
al price of a common mass is two shillings
and sixpence, but a mass of the Holy
Ghost is considered a good bargain at five
shillings.
When that mass is celebrated.
I the cattle of the mass-purchaser are as
. . . . . : J
sembied in the house, in order to estab ish
christians Should free themsel vt from all
participation in that criminality, and in
; holy disregard of the censures of an un-
rmrtiw -.U lift nntk. f ltt,- -
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JIL VB. itkr iX
s m -.a
Of them.
extracted from the DubTin
Protestant Penny Mapubejcrilay IcSi
iand the llev. dw4rANafrgkv the editor
adds .We pledge our veracity for the
authenticity of ttws Story.' Query
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ivnn iihi iniAHDtnM flmorinva ivnuroAn
a congregation of bipeds and
assembled to see and hear mass
From the American Pioteatant Vindicator.
MTJRDCH OF A ROMISH PRfKST.
Before the world, I charge Jean Jacqurt
Lartigue, Roman prelate of Montreal, and
the Popish priests Dulresne, Phelan. and
n r . , 't , t j-
Bonin, with the murder of a Canadian Ro-
man priest, named L Esperance and I
charge those same four men, that on or
about the 1st October, 1834, they did put
that priest, L'Esperance. to death by poi-
son and that fact ca be prored by two
competent and unimpeachaVg witnessee,
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who personalty saw both the preparations
for the murder, and also the corpse ufcer
the poison had produced its deadly effect.
Tfce aoove tact 1 have sent to Lngiand,
express'y to induce a mandamus from the j
D.in.u s.. rA ,l ;.. ,
. . , .c. . mi y J
; aiciai mvesngauon. 1 ne witnesses are
i 1 . 0 . r 1
.ready at any time to appear before the
competent aathoniie3. U. B. j
1 1 j
HX!IiIGIOTJ3 TVHSC3BIiIAir5r .
The following sentiments, from one of
'
P.... vfDe' ..r,, ... vUtan
w uai.mi.tia cv 1 iijvujt utot. 1 ij n 1 iiil 11
1 -
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on the door post of every courting room-Mo
. . . . 7 . a. .
tn m.Hn tVi fnkl:miAi a r.ucnf ailMK-ti.
be carried in the wallet of e very itinerant
buyer and seller to be engraved on thfe
... . ' ,
mantle-piece of every yeoman-in short to
be constantly before the eyes of every man
who has dealing with his fellow men, until
the rules of ju3tice-M-tRe requirements of
God's moral law be better understood and
practiced. For temporal felicity and eternal
salvation, there is nothing like finding and
keeping before the eye the line of demarka
tion which God has drawn between right
and wrong.
The Guilt of Dishonesty not to 1 eimt
ed by th Cain of it.
11 lie that is faithful in that ivhichis least,
is faithful nlso in nxtchj and he that is
unjust in the least, is unjust also in
much." Luke xvk 10.
The great principle of the text is, that he
who has sinned though to a small amount in
respect f the fruit of his transgression
provided he has done so, by passing over a
forbidden limit which was ditH:ctly known
to him, has in ihe act of doing so, incurred a
full Annilami-uiliAn 'n -n c 1 . f t L a
of his transgression In one word, that the
gain of it may be small, while tite guilt of it
may be great; that ihe latter oiight not to be
measured by the former; but that he who is
uniaitbuuin the least, shall be dealt with in
respect'to the offence he fcas given to God,
in the same way as if he had been unfaith
ful in much.
The first reason, which we would assign I T 7 " , Wi WiC
in vindication of this is, that bj small act b? fornn themselves generally into
of injustice, the line which separates the Bible classes, and studying the scriptures 1
right from the wrong is just as effectually ! We know that these are the practices of pas
broken over as by a great act of injustice.-- tors and parents in some , d k
There is a tendency in gro and coporeal I . , .r . K . ' ""w
man to rate the criminality ol injustice by ) ,nS lne naPPy results too, wish they were
the amount of its appropriations to reduce ' more general,
it to a computation oi weight aud measure- j From tha Sabbaih Scibo, Trt
to count the man who has gained a double i 1
sum by his dishonesty, tu be doubly more aw ikteuestixo sabbath school.
dishonest than his neighborto make it aa ' Having become acquainted wilh a Sab
affair of product rather than of principle; ! bath School, which ap pears to me to fur
and thus to weigh the morality of acharac- nish an example worthy of imitation. I
lerinme same arunmeucfai oaiance wun 1 will preseut a lew fctaietnents rtspectinir it
number or with magnitude. iSiow, this is hoping some hints may thereby be suc
lXlT. gested which may be beneficial to your
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to the man who is only hall an inch within !caucia- "c f snuated
the limit of forbidden ground, in the very j !n a pocuious vihsge, ind nuralers five
sameterm3 by which he addresses the man j bundled ; including infant and adult class
who has made the farthest and the la rgest ee children, partnts, grand parents, and
incursions upon it. It is true, that he is some great giand parents from under
only a little way upon the wrong side f thiee to over sixty ytars of age These
the line of demarkation. But way is he are all gathered imo cue rocm at the
ing that line, and not in the act ol going
onwards after ha had crossed it it was
then that the contest between right and
wrong was entered upon, and then it was
decided That was the instant of time at
which principle struck her surrender The
great pull which the man had to make, was
iu ihe act of overleaping the fence oi sepa
ration and after that was done, justice had
no other barrier by which to obstruct his
progress over the whole extent of the field
uiiuii it at an 7 it n aa iu iuc uvi ui viujj-
which she had interdicted. There might
be barriers ot a different description. There
mignt
be still e revolting of humanity a-
gainst the sufferings that would be inflicted
by an act of larger fraud or depsedation.
There might be a dread of exposure, if the
dishonesty should so swell, in point of a
mcunt. as to become more noticeable.
There might, after the absolute limit be-
(ww.n i.miirp and ininstice i broken an
borbood of that line, he may hover all his
days at the petty work of pricking and pur-
i &am u fragments aa be meets witb,
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loousm ne may never vemure oimit
- nlace ounore d
SSxXSl
.i)Tiri"ninUnf inctJr tlML there isan bttpr
s Vlil uvu vr vi mum. m " - -'
nnhinrnent. And thus it 'isthal the Bar-
. iorwho knew what ttss in ciiny and who,
iherefore-knew all the springs of that mori
l machinery by which he actuated, pro-
I Peaces oi pan woo was- uuwjiuiu ui uie
t team vni ho w unfaithful also in rnuch.
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make it safe and practicable. For it is not
with justice as it is with generosity, and
some of the other virtues. There is not
1e we graduation in the former as there
tne utter, xne man wtio, otper cir-
f1'11 Trt
e sum in chanty, raav, with more pro-
priety be reckoned doubly more generous
than his neighbor, than the man who, with
the same equality of circumstante, only
' ventures on iiaJf the extent of fraudulency,
n be reckoned only one half as unjust as
hiS ei?1lor-. Eaci h" oken a tlear H06
f?,Hf,0?rCh-.fel-??gr,,ed.'
distiDct and visible limit which he knew to
forbidden. Each has knowingly forced a
hnassafre bvond his neighbor's land-mark
and that is the place where justice has laid
the mam force of her interdict. As it respects
the materiel of injustice, the questibn re-
solves itspit into a mprp mmmitntinn rf
anantitv. As it resnetts the tnnraJf nf in.
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justiice. the computation is upon other pnn-
Jci Jes ' It the latter that bur Savior
pronounces himself. And he gives us to un-
derstand. that a very humble desree of the
former may indicate the latter in all its atro
city. He stands on the breach between the
lawful and the unlawful; and he tells us.
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I that the man who. enters by a single footsten
, on me loroiaaen grouna, immeoiaieiy gam
1 a ,ir. Ma ,u. f.,11 l
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a i if 1 : . i . .1
, ers Upon Ws person tne mil nue and cnarac
t . .:i.:J tl- .J' .
I of the tesser acts of dishonesty. He does
not mske right pass into wrong, by a gradu-
al melting of the one into the other. He
doe3notlhug obliterate the distinctions of
morality. There is no shading off at the
j margin of guilt, but a clear and vigorous de-
lineation. It is not by a gentle transition
that a man steps over from honesty to dis
hoDestv. There is betwech them a wall
1 rising up into heaven; and the high authori
ty of heaven must be stormed ere cne inch
of entrance can be made into the region of
iniquity. The morality of the Savior never
leads him to gloss over the beginnings of
crime. His object ever i, as in the text be-1
fore us, to fortify the limit, to cast a ram
part of exclusion around the whole territory
of guilt, and to rear it before the eye of
man in such characters of strength and sa
credness, as should make them feel that it
is impregnuble.
To be Continued 3
VAT. . 1. A ...'.. If- l 1
iutih iuc Bitcuuou 01 j asiors una
church members tb the article beiow. The
attendance of the minister for the space of
five minutes at each session of the sabbath-
schol wou,d be of lnca culatte benefits-
j D parents and adult Insmbers of the church
in general, do all their duty ? How can
they spend a part of the intermission between
i sermons more to their own spiritual advah
tage saying nothing about the encourage
ment aivrn rn tho .kiU,.,. hf k. ..k.l
closing exercises, and usually cour-ttd.
miu me numoer present anncuncidlo the
school, iu order that thejr may attach
great importance to the classes being filled
out and live hundred being made com
plete every Sabbath. Every child feels
that he is missed when absent, and that he
occupies an ifnpTJttant plate, when there.
The pastor of the church uniformly visits
the school for a few moments, not so much
to lecture them as to fcWrve their num.
j her, order, &c and to speak a word of
encouragement or reproof as the case may
require. Again persons in all situations
in Hie are active members of this sthrjok
The largest proportion of its teachers are
involved, during the week, in the most
pressing avocations cf life ; but men of
business, and mothers with families of
small children do not excuse themselvtS
from legular attendance. While thte
school has been attaining its present flour
ishing condition it has had several differ
ent superiniendants, oil perhaps efficient,
but none I should think pre-eminently so.
It may be said to be biess'd with many
who are capable cf filling tL is effice accep
tably, and who in fact ail disc barge its
duties rather than with any one so pecu
liarly fitted for the station as alcne to pro
duce the order and harmony by which it
is distinguished.
Simuhaneous desire, snd united effort
to render the Sabbath School cs interest
ing and profitable as it can be made, seem
to mark ine church as a body. The Sar
bath School concert is sustained, end a
part of the evening is spent in concerting
measures which may increase the interest
of the school. The church referred to has
not only been successful in collecting &. re
taining a very large jtehyoK and in mailt .
taining order, punctuality and and uniform
progress iu Chxistiaa s3U3wiedCbul
- I miicr lae (TVusniuu is dccuiuuiisiucuj iuc
quaanjpeas nmara- ivii- rtf t.rirm ?nt ic 'rm.
r g.b., I nor! 11 nil v inint mnA riiat irrnm5fmirc
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