MISCELLANY.

From the Exeter Watchman.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
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Scarcely newspapers isopened from any
quarter OF the United States, that does not
record the rapid and beneficial progress of
q Sabbath School. The extensive adop-


ion ofthis plan in our country is already
welcomed in the periodical reports Of its
friends in Great British, and is. doubtless,
even now, gladdening those benevolent
hearts which first projected it, An argu


ment much used in favor.of Sabbath Schools
in Great Britain, has been found in the pau


perism which prevails, particularly in the
manufacturing districts ofthat country, and
which deprises mullitudes OF every other
source of moral and religious instruction.
Although We are comparatively safe, in
this country, from The application of an ar
gument so melancholy in lis character.
our national situation affords others equally
strong and peculiar.-Our political iDs,itu


tions, and of course, our public happiness,
depend for their security upon the diffusion
cf moral and religious principle through
the popular mass, and that this is most ef-
fectually accomplished by systematic at
tention to the instruction ofthe young, can
not be doubted. The minds which may