tory study of ethics, they are proper guardians of the morals of others.

Men of genius would find ample room for their active minds to expatiate in tracing and aiding the developement of the human understanding. Nor will any man of sense object to the avocation, who will take the trouble to recollect that some illustrious writers have presided over youth as masters and assistants in academies.— Milton, Johnson, and Goldsmith, " poured the fresh instruction o'er the mind;" nor can we rationally consider that employment as a degradation of talents, which contributes so essentially to the diffusion of knowledge.

When the pupil has been initiated in the elements of useful science, and while the susceptible heart throbs with generous feelings, the beauty of morality should be exhibited in the most engaging garb. The simple and sublime precepts of Christ will awaken that benevolence which is the source of human felicity on earth. The tutor will have an opportunity to contrast the fanciful doctrines of the heathen with the elevated and godlike dignity of Christianity, and the unerring precept, "whatsoever ye would that all men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them," will, by making an early and permanent impression, guide the happy being in the path of justice.

Elegant literature, such as poetry, history, biography, and natural philosophy, may be studied with success.— With a mind thus imbued with divine and human knowledge, the youth when he steps into the world will feel and act up to the dignity of a rational being. He will be a column at once to adorn and strengthen the fabric of society; he will perceive his dignified situation in the order of created beings, and rejoice in the honourable privileges of a man and a Christian.

This sketch is submitted to the consideration of the middle and lower classes of the community, whose very imperfect mode of education requires improvement, especially as many of the school-masters are incompetent to a trust on which so much of the happiness of the present and future generations depends! Happy, thrice happy, would London soon be, if those miserable children who are now taught the arts of deceit and thievery, were taught to read and write, and had their minds early fortified with pious precepts, to enable them to resist the influence of evil communications.

The human soul comes pure and innocent from the hand of its holy Creator; by its union with the body it acquires propensities which, under proper regulations,

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are productive of good; while its exquisite susceptibility renders it liable to receive continual impressions from surrounding objects. Hence the vast importance of our infantine years, and the necessity of the early and gradual inculcation of the moral duties.

Parents, look around! behold the little blooming creatures whom Providence has committed to your charge. Ah, cultivate their hearts, rectify their judgments, and their grateful reverence will reward your love! Do not imagine that your duty to your offspring is confined to supplying them with mere necessaries. That is, indeed, indispensable; but their minds require a much more important kind of nutriment. Instil piety to God, and love to mankind, as the two great principles of human felicity. Teach them to regard the whole creation as the production of one great and good Being, whose wisdom is unbounded. As their faculties expand, let them be initiated in the principles of useful science, and taught some art conducive to the common good. Then shall your daughters be celebrated for their modesty and virtue, and your sons become honest, industrious, and intelligent men, the glory of their parents, and an honour to their country.

CLERGY.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm,

Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,
Coincident, exhibit lucid proof

That he is honest iu the sacred cause.

COWPER.

Long have the various opinions respecting religion, and the sanguinary persecutions of men who called themselves Christians, employed the sarcastic wit of the unbeliever. The luxury, pride, and negligence, of many of our modern clergy, has induced malignant infidels to point their ridicule against the whole clerical body; and though it must be confessed that the dissipation of some pastors is a degradation of the robe they wear, yet we can boast of many clergymen of the different, sects of Christians who are ornaments of human nature.

Several of our benefice clergymen, indeed, by employing curates at a low salary, seem to think that their proxies are like the military, better disciplined, and more attentive to their duty, in proportion to the smallness of their pay. Hence the curate is so far from being prepared for his sabbatical avocation, that he is often engaged during the week in some worldly pursuit, for the subsistence of his family; and instead of the

zeal he should feel for the happiness of his flock, he too often attends on Sunday merely as an hireling, and with a mind pre-occupied with business.

But if the Reverend Doctor himself condescends to preach, his parishioners must doubtless be much edified. And so they would, did he not substitute affectation for simplicity, and a few sweet-sounding aphorisms, equally refined and unintelligible, instead of the perspicacious and affecting doctrine of Christ.

Such pastors are well pourtrayed by the satirist in the following lines:

"The things that mount the rostrum with a skip,
And then skip down again; pronounce a text;
Cry hem; and, reading what they never wrote,
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work;
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!"

Yet even these fashionable and flimsey orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist, who combines the deceit of the hypocrite with the covetousness of the miser, while his meanness reflects an odium on our holy religion.

Some clergymen go still farther, and convert the sacred avocation into a sinecure. A recent instance,