Age has its claims, and rank is not without its pretensions to advise; but the counsels of Washington come recommended by additional claims to our regard. His last

address to his countrymen is the result of much wisdom, collected from experience; it was dictated by the heart, and may be viewed as the dying words of a father to his children. Cultivate union and brotherly affection, (it is thus he speaks to us,) that the sacred fire of liberty may be preserved, and the preeminence of the republican model of government exemplified, as that which secures to the people the greatest portion of liberty, prosperity, and happiness. On this union, be assured, depends your peace abroad, your safety at home.

Moderate the fury of party spirit. It is this, which disturbs your public councils, and enfeebles your administration. Banish local prejudices as well as party views. Cherish public credit, and for that end contribute to the public revenues, and cheerfully bear the public burdens.

Observe good faith and justice to all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Present to the world the example, as magnanimous as it is rare, of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

Dismiss your inveterate hatred for some nations, and your passionate attachment for others. These passions are alike destructive to your peace and independence. It would be credulity to expect, and degrading to accept, favors from any nation.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence maintain a watchful and constant jealousy. It is the deadly foe of republican government. Guard no less strenuously against the impostures of pretended patriots at home, than against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue. It is easy for the worst men to adopt the language of the virtuous, and for your greatest enemies to assume the appearance of the most disinterested zeal for your interests, and the most ardent attachment for your persons; while at the same time they are but the tools of foreign intrigue, and seeking their own

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personal aggrandizement at your expense. The means they employ to accomplish their ends, will serve to point out

to you the persons of this description. These means are no other, than the dissemination of suspicions, jealousies, and calumnies against the best and most virtuous of your citizens; and that, because they possess, what they so justly deserve, your favor and confidence.

But above all, cherish and promote the interests of knowledge, virtue, and religion. They are indispensable to the support of any free government, and in a peculiar manner to those of the popular kind. Let it never be forgotten, that there can be no genuine freedom, where there is no morality, and no sound morality where there is no religion. Morality without religion will soon lose its obligation, and religion without morality will degenerate into superstition, which will corrupt instead of ameliorating the mass, into which it is infused. Let no man have your confidence, who is destitute of either. Hesitate not a moment to believe, that the man who labors to destroy these two great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens, whatever may be his professions of patriotism, is neither a good patriot nor a good

man.

May it please the supreme ruler of the universe and sovereign arbiter of nations, to make our happy country as distinguished for the practice of piety and morality, as for the love of liberty and social order; perpetuate to our country that prosperity, which his goodness has already conferred, and verify the anticipations, that this government, instituted under the auspices of heaven, shall long continue the asylum of the oppressed, and a safeguard to human rights.

A SLEIGHING SONG.

BY J. T. FIELDS.

O SWIFT we go o'er the fleecy snow,
When moon-beams sparkle round;
When hoofs keep time to music's chime,
As merrily on we bound.

On a winter's night, when hearts are light,
And health is on the wind,

We loose the rein and sweep the plain,

And leave our care behind.

With a laugh and song, we glide along
Across the fleeting snow,

With friends beside, how swift we ride
On the beautiful track below!

O the raging sea has joy for me,

When gale and tempests roar;

But give me the speed of a foaming steed, And I'll ask for the waves no more.

THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

BY

WILLIAM COGSWELL, D. D.

THE American Education Society is calculated in its discipline to promote the corporeal, mental and spiritual interests of the young men under its care, and thus prove a blessing to the church. By inducing habits of temperance, economy and industry, it will bring forward for the ministry, men of health and of physical and mental vigor. They will, it may be hoped, possess a sound mind in a sound body be men of bone, and muscle, and nerve, who will endure hardness as good soldiers men of such entire consecration to Christ and the church, that they would go to the stake should God call them to it men of the spirit of Whitefield, who shall be instrumental in converting thousands; of Buchanan, who shall penetrate the heart of India for its sanctification; of Samuel J. Mills, who shall devise plans that shall move the world. Such physical and mental discipline as is enjoined by this Society, would, I had almost said, create a body and mind too, and preserve both. Were the beneficiaries to comply fully with its requisitions, we should no more hear of dyspepsia among them, than we should of suicide. Now

"Mine ear is pained,

My soul is sick of every day's report "

of youth in a course of education, sacrificed by premature disease and death, through inactivity and neglect of proper exercise.

The practice of pastoral supervision, by personal visita

tion and religious conference and prayer, and by epistolary correspondence, is well adapted to promote in the beneficiaries deep-toned piety — piety like that of Edwards, Brainerd, and Payson. And may it not be hoped that men thus trained, will be ministers after the model of the primitive age, such as the exigencies of the Church require — “full of the Holy Ghost and of faith," like Paul and Barnabas?

Such are the nature and effects of the American Education Society. And should not such an institution receive the cordial support of the friends of Zion? Will not the consideration of what it has already accomplished, and what it may be expected to accomplish in time to come, insure it patronage? Besides the happy influence it has had on the ministers and churches who have sustained its operations, it has assisted nearly two thousand persons in their preparation to preach the gospel of Christ. Of these, between five and six hundred have entered the ministry. Thirty or forty of them have been employed in diffusing the light of salvation amid the darkness of heathenism; one hundred and seventy have labored as missionaries in our own beloved country; and most of the others have settled in various parts of the United States. Shall I tell what ninety-two of them have done since they commenced preparation for the ministry? From particular statistical returns, it appears that they have taught schools and academies two hundred and one years; instructed twenty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-five children and youth; have been instrumental of one hundred and eighty-three revivals of religion, and of the hopeful conversion of about twenty thousand souls, each soul, according to the estimate of Jesus Christ, of more value than worlds. They have instructed in Sabbath schools, Bible and theological classes, fourteen thousand eight hundred individuals. They preach the gospel statedly to forty thousand souls. The contributions for the various benevolent purposes made in one year in their parishes, amounted to upwards of sixteen thousand dollars. ninety-two of these ministers have accomplished all this for

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