greatest; and after all, their universal departure from Jesus when apprehended. Shew them that none of the evangelists conceal Peter's fall; nay, that Mark, who is supposed to have been under the eye of Peter, records it with additional aggravation, noticing also what the others had omitted, that warning which the first crowing of the cock should have given him. So also Luke neither conceals the contemptuous opinion which the Jewish Sanhedrim had of Peter and John, nor the still more contemptuous idea which the Athenians entertained of Paul; while, at the same time, Paul himself regards Luke as "the beloved physician," if not " the brother whose praise was in all the churches." If any man will not believe such speakers of truth as these, you can say to your Children, then there is no help for him. Greater marks of sincerity can nowhere else be found; and this which you have pointed out to them is but one of the features of sincerity— that they always tell the truth, whether it is for or against themselves. And of what advantage is that to them now that they are gone? or to the cause which they had all espoused? Why, that their character as men is unimpeachable, and that their testimony and ever will be, invulnerable. The very in is now, fidel, yes, "The infidel has shot his bolts away, Till his exhausted quiver, yielding none, but still in vain, and so it ever must be. Now, if your Children only possess this disposition, whether you leave them rich or poor, you will have implanted one of the best securities for their being respected, and respectable, whatever be their station in future life. If, however, you really wish them to possess this, or shall I say, inherit it from yourself? then will you never amuse them, as some foolish people do, by attempting to deceive them: and then will you never employ cunning, or artifice of any kind, to gain your end, or, as some strangely dream, save trouble. Artifice is detected by Children far sooner than many imagine; and once detected in you, you have given your character a stab. You will also as carefully beware of urging your Children strongly, or with violence, whether of temper or manner, to confession of any thing, even of any thing which you suspect; and should you even inadvertently, at any time, accuse a Child falsely—a mistake which inevitably tends to break the spirit, and diminish his sense of integrity-then, for such a mistake, you must make an apology to your Child. Have patience, then, and look up to the Implanter of this invaluable disposition; and the day may come, even in this life, when you will receive your reward; when you will be able, without any danger of increasing the vanity of your Child, to address him in terms such as I hope, at present, meet your warmest wish. My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine; yea, my reins shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things." Industry and Economy." Industry is the source, and economy the preservation, of all the comfortable subsistence of man. But industry, as is proverbially observed, is not natural to the human race. On the contrary, it is the result of education and habit only. Accordingly, the savages in all countries, being uneducated to industrious exertion, are lazy in the extreme, and are roused to toil only by the calls of hunger. This cannot even be begun, as the education whence it is derived cannot exist to any considerable extent, but in families; nor by any other persons except Parents; nor at any other period beside childhood. Without families, indeed, industry would not exist; and without industry, the world would be a desert. Economy is not less necessary to human comfort than industry, and is still more unnatural to man. It demands the attention of every day to those things which we are to preserve; and this attention is more irksome than labour itself. Fewer persons overcome their reluctance to it. Savages are always squanderers. Exposed as they are perpetually to want and famine, and frequently and distressingly as they suffer from these evils, such is their reluctance to this employment, that they go on from age to age, wasting, and suffering, and perishing. Early, watchful, and long-continued parental education, will therefore alone establish a habit of either industry or economy. The attention, the authority, and the example of Parents, are all equally and indispensably necessary to the creation of these habits; and without them all, they cannot, in any extensive degree, exist. Savages, indeed, have families, and are married Parents. It may, therefore, be asked, Why their Children are not educated to these habits? The answer I have already given. Neither the atten tion, the authority, nor the example of such Parents, are at all exerted for this end, so far as their male Children are concerned, and very imperfectly with regard to the other sex. Of these, however, both the industry and economy fully answer to the degree of education which they receive, and to the opportunities which they enjoy of exercising them. My position is, without a domestic education these things would never exist; not that that education, be it what it may, or that a mere domestic existence, will give them birth. Besides, savage Parents neither understand nor perform the great body of duties created by this institution: yet even they, in these, as well as in other important particulars, derive real and considerable advantages from the domestic state.”* Humanity.It is certainly a humiliating thought, that inhumanity, as the very word implies, is a vice peculiar to man; for in any species of the inferior creation we search in vain for a parallel disposition. Never do they devour and prey upon their own species; and when they do fight with each other, it is, generally, in consequence of their being teased and trained by the more savage disposition of human beings. Well then may humanity begin with initiating Children, from infancy, into the compassion which they owe to their own species. The following passages of Sacred Writ are not only so intelligible even to the young, but so beautiful and tender in themselves, that they require no comment. Only regard them as a proof of the divine will on this subject, and of the wonderful adaptation of his word, however despised, for assisting you in impressing the heart of a Child: "Ye shall not afflict any widows or fatherless child.. If thou afflict them in anywise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord." "If a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him; but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself." "If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in anywise bring them again to thy brother. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment, and with all lost thing that is thy brother's, which he hath lost and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise thou mayest not hide thyself." "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." Forget not to show them that humanity was to be cultivated, because God has so enjoined men; and you can also show them, that, for their own sakes, it was to be cultivated, as a disposition' in which God delights. 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