doing spiritual good to his people. It is an angelical conjunction, when the ministers of Christ, who do his pleasure, become also physicians and Raphaels to their people. In a more populous town, however, you will probably chuse rather to procure some religious and accomplished physician to settle in your neighbourhood, and make medical studies only your recreation; yet with a design to communicate to your Luke whatever you meet with worth his notice, and at times unite your counsels with him for the good of his patients. Thus you may save the lives of many persons, who themselves may know nothing of your care for them.

FROM the tribe of Levi, let us proceed with our proposals to the tribe of Simeon; from which there has been a frequent ascent to the former. The SCHOOLMASTER has many opportunities of doing good. God make him sensible of his obligations! We read, that "the little ones have their angels." It is hard work to keep a school; but it is God's work, and it may be so managed as to be like the work of angels: the tutors of the children may be like their " tutelar angels." Melchior Adams properly styled it" Molestissimam, sed Deo longe gratissimam functionem."-" An office most laborious, yet to God most pleasing."

Tutors! will you not regard the children under your wing, as committed to you by the glorious

Lord with such a charge as this?" Take them, and bring them up for me, and I will pay you your wages." Whenever a new scholar comes under your care, you may say-" Here, my Lord sends me another object, for whom I may do something, that he may be useful in the world." Suffer little children to come unto you, and consider what you may do, instrumentally, that of such may be the kingdom of heaven.

Sirs, let it be your grand design-to instil into their minds the documents of piety. Consider it as their chief interest, and yours also, that they may so know the Holy Scriptures as to become wise to salvation. Embrace every opportunity of dropping some honey from the rock upon them. Happy the children, and as happy the master, where they who relate the history of their conversion may say, "There was a schoolmaster who brought us to Christ." You have been told-" Certainly, it is a nobler work to make the little ones know their Saviour, than know their letters. The lessons of Jesus are nobler things than the lessons of Cato. The sanctifying transformation of their souls would be infinitely preferable to any thing in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

CATECHISING should be a frequent, at least a weekly exercise in the school; and it should be conducted in the most edifying, applicatory, and admonitory manner. In some places the magistrate permits no person to keep a school, unless he produces a testimonial of his ability and disposition to perform the work of Religious Catechising.*

* Aptitudinis ad munus illud imprimis puerorum catechisationem.

Dr. Reynolds, in a funeral sermon for an eminent schoolmaster, has the following passage, worthy to be written in letters of gold: "If grammarschools have holy and learned men set over them, not only the brains, but also the souls of the children might there be enriched, and the work both of learning and of grace be early commenced in them." In order to this, let it be proposed, that you not only pray with your scholars daily, but also take occasion, from the public sermons, and from remarkable occurrences in your neighbourhood, frequently to inculcate the lessons of piety on the children.

Tutors in the colleges may do well to converse with each of their pupils alone, with all possible solemnity and affection, concerning their internal state, concerning repentance for sin, and faith in Jesus Christ, and to bring them to express resolutions of serious piety. You may do a ts ousand things to render your pupils orthodox in sentiment, regular in practice, and qualified for public service.

I have read of a Tutor, who made it his constant practice in every recitation, to take occasion, from something or other that occurred, to drop at least one sentence that had a tendency to promote the fear of God in their hearts. This method sometimes cost him a good deal of study, but the good effect sufficiently recompenced him for it.

I should be glad to see certain authors received into the grammar schools as classical, which are not generally admitted there, such as Castalio in the Latin tongue, and Posselius in the Greek; and I could wish, with some modern writers, that" a

north-west passage" for the attainment of Latin might be discovered; that instead of a journey which might be dispatched in a few days, they might not be obliged to wander, like the children of Israel, many years in the wilderness. I might recite the complaint of Austin," that little boys are taught in the schools the filthy actions of the Pagan gods, for reciting which," said he, " I was called a boy of promise ;*" or the complaint of Luther, "that our schools are Pagan rather than Christian." I might mention what a late author says, "I knew an aged and eminent schoolmaster, who after keeping a school about fifty years, said with a sad countenance, that it was a great trouble to him that he had spent so much time in reading Pagan au, thors to his scholars; and wished it were customary to read such a book as Duport's verses on Job rather than Homer, &c.; I pray God, to put it into the hearts of a wise parliament to purge our schools; that instead of learning vain fictions, and filthy stories, they may become acquainted with the word of God, and with books containing grave sayings, and things which may make them truly wise and useful in the world."-But I presume little notice will be taken of such wishes as these. It is with despair that I mention them.

Among the occasions for promoting religion in the scholars, one in the Writing Schools deserves peculiar notice. I have read of an atrocious sinner who was converted to God, by accidentally reading the following sentence of Austin written in a window: "He who has promised Pardon to the peni tent sinner, has not promised Repentance to the

* Ab hoc bonæ spei puer appellabar.

presumptuous one." Who can tell what good may be done to the young scholar by a sentence in his copy-book? Let their copies be composed of sentences worthy to be had in everlasting remembrance -of sentences which shall contain the brightest, maxims of wisdom, worthy to be written on the fleshly tables of their hearts, to be graven with the point of a diamond there. God has blessed such sentences to many scholars; they have béen useful to them all their days.

In the Grammar School also, the scholars may be directed, for their exercises, to turn into Latin such passages as may be useful for their instruction in the principles of Christianity, and furnish them with supplies from "the tower of David." Their letters also may be on subjects which may be friendly to the interests of virtue.

I will add, it is very desirable to manage the Discipline of the school by means of rewards, rather than of punishments. Many methods of rewarding the diligent and deserving, may be invented; and a boy of an ingenious temper, by the expectation of reward, (ad palmæ cursurus honores) will do his best. You esteem Quintilian. Hear him: "Cavendum a plagis, se potius laude, au aliorum prælatione, urgendus est puer."* If a fault must be punished, let instruction, both to the delinquent and to the spectator, accompany the correction. Let the odious name of the sin which enforced the correction be declared; and let nothing be done in anger, but with every mark of tenderness and concern.

*Use stripes sparingly, rather, let the youth be stimulated by praise, and by the distinctions conferred on his classmates.