NEVER TREAT RELIGION LIGHTLY.
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Impress your minds with reverence for all that is sacred. Let no wantonness of youthful spirits, no compliance with the in- temperate mirth of others, ever betray you into profane sallies. Besides the guilt which is thereby incurred, nothing gives a more odious appearance of petulance and presumption to youth, than the affectation oftreating religion with levity. Instead of being an evidence of superior understand ing, it discovers pert and shallow mind which, vain of the first smatterings of knowledge, presumes to make light ot what the rest of mankind revere. At the same time, you are not to imagine, that when ex- horted to be religious, you are called upon to be more formal and solemn in your man. ners than others of the same years; or to erect yourselves into supercilious reprovers of those around you. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability. Itis social, kind, and cheerful far remov- ed from that gloomy and illiberal supersti- tion which clouds the brows, sharpens the tempers, dejects the spirit, and teaches men to fit themselves for another world, by neg lecting the concerns of this. Let your re- ligion, on the contrary, connect prepara- ton for heaven with an honorable dis charge of the duties of active life. Ofsuch religion, discover, on every proper occa- sion, that you are not ashamed but avoid making any unnecessary ostentatlon of it before the world.-Bzair.