RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
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Your children arc all immortal spirits whom God hath for time intruStel to your care, that you may train than up in all holiness, and fit them for the en> joyment of God in all eternity. This is a glorious and important trust seeing one soul is of mora value than all the world beside. Every child, therefore, yoa are to watch with the utmost care, that you are called to give an account of each to the father of spirits, you may give your account with joy und not with grief

 Religious education should begin n tho dawn of childhood. The earliest ,ys, aner intelligence is fairly formed in the mind, arc inconparahly the best for this purpose. The child should bo taught as soon as he is capable of con- pretending the instructions which are 10 be communicated. Nothing should be suffered to pre>occupy the place that is destined to truth.

 If the intellect is not filled with sound instruction, as fast as it is capable of re- coiving it, the enemy who never neg lects To SOW tares, when parents are asleep, will imperrceptibly fill it with dangerous and noxious growth.

 The grsat truths of religion should be taught so early, that the mind should nev- CT remember when it began 10 ea,n, or when it was without this knowledge. - Whenever it turns retrospective view upon the proceeding periods of it's exist cnce, these truths should always seem to have been in it's possossion-to have the character of innale principles. 10 have been inwoven in its nature, and to cons siiiule part of all its current thinking.

 Dwight.