unnecessary, is the knowledge of the plainest and most essential doctrines to be instilled. If in every parish there were a kind of tacit agreement among the better informed families, to assist the efforts of the minister, by their personal attendance at the schools, the benefit would, I am persuaded, be incalculable. It would tend to urge the masters to diligence, and would inspire the children with emulation, when they saw themselves noticed and regarded by their superiors. They would give their minds in a more attentive manner to such instructors, than they do to the unimpressive lessons of the parish-master. In one case their attention and their inclination would be excited by pleasure and gratitude, in the other they would be dragged to their task by discipline and compulsion. But this is not all, what opportunites would be given to visitors, who are at the same time kind and conscientious, and who place themselves in the situation of pa

rents to those poor children, because their own parents have been too little instructed to be able to act that part themselves, of making impressions on their tender minds, which may be beneficial through life, and lead them to happiness in eternity! Encouragement might be given by trifling rewards for merit, by soothing attentions to their temporary wants. These will open their hearts, and render them more willing to receive, and more desirous of understanding spiritual instruction; teach them not only to read the Scriptures and the Liturgy, but earnestly inculcate, that idleness is not happiness, and licentiousness is not liberty; teach them that true liberty consists in restraining rather than in indulging our passions, that "the service of God," if cheerfully undertaken, is the only "perfect freedom.". Point out to them the words of the Psalmist, “and I will walk at liberty," not because I defy the laws of man, and neglect my duty to God,

but the Psalmist adds, "because I keep thy commandments." These are the modes of assisting the efforts of the clergy and the labour of the teachers, so as incalculably to increase the benefit, and to prevent the good, which ought naturally to arise from education, from being converted into evil; to meet the miserable ribaldry that is disseminated, place in their hands, in addition to the small scriptural pamphlets distributed by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, such other small pamphlets, as "The Tales of the cheap Repository," "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor," and talk to them of the subjects which they contain. Their minds will be relieved by the change from the regular routine of instruction. Amusement will produce attention; by such means may be checked the increase of juvenile depravity, if the corrupted are beyond the reach of amendment. The temple of Satan, which has so long disgusted the eye of every well-disposed

person, who has passed through the city, may be closed, If the subject of these latter pages should be deemed inconsiderable, and the observations made upon it be deemed trite and trifling, I deny that any thing is trifling which is calculated to do good. No one can expect that education is to effect miracles; no one can hope that in every instance good effects will arise from the instruction of the poor; no one will assert, that they always arise from the education of the rich it was, however, proved some time ago, that not one of those unhappy children, who were convicted of crimes, had ever attended the parish schools. This circumstance is at least consolatory, and ought to encourage the manifestation of that zeal which I am recommendingBe it, then, the inclination, as it certainly is the duty, of all the well-disposed among the laity, to promote, by personal attendance as well as by pecuniary contributions, the instruction of all

around them, to be the instruments, under the blessing of God, of pouring the light of the Gospel into the darkened minds of their poorer brethren, as well as into those of their own children. Let them bear their parts towards the fulfilling the prophecy, which gloriously declares, that " shall go many Ito and fro, and knowledge shall increase." If parents hope for a blessing on their own children, let them confer the best of blessings on the children of the poor. Let all who value the peace and hap piness of the rising generation, and of society in general, promote the instruction of their fellow-creatures. Let them

open the Bible to the ignorant, and cause the praises of God to issue from the mouths of "babes and sucklings" in the persons of the poor. I will conclude the subject by adding the beautiful words of Bishop Horne: "Grateful surely must it be, to angels as well as men, to behold those children behaving with reverence