A WORD TO ALL.
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(FTOn the Esse1 Sabbath-schOOI Report. )

 No matter where we stand, whether in church or state-no matter what par:icu- lar relations we sustainin society-no mat ter whether our rank be high or low--one .''hy IS cer'aan; we have something to do n tns work. Our children will be edu- cated' live do not educate them ourselves. others will educate them for us. five do not train them up under our hands. for hap- pIness and usefulness, the enemies of reii- g'on will train them up for for us-for mis- cry and destruction. If we do not see to It that our children be religiotsly educated ri we do not see to it that. they are early taught to reverence the holy Sabbath, to reverence the pure word of God, and to 'mO'be its purifying spirit-if we do not see to It that their minds, at an early age Oe 'mooed with just such principles. and directed by just such influences, as it is the very nature and end of Sabbath school in- struction 10 set home upon the hear,-what will, what must inevitably be the result? What, in future, is to become of our reli- g'ous institutions our privileges, our laws, our t'oerties-what the next generation will be--what is%to be the tone of public senei- ment-who will sway the minds of the peo- pie, who are soon to stand in our places. and give laws~to our land-depends very much, as this audience scarcely need be told. on the interest we now feel for the yonng-on tlle kind and amount of labor we bestow on those institutions which are now making our children what thcy will be when we are gone.

 It has been thought and said by some that Sabbath schools are not important-- that this is q small cause---that the value and benefits of those institutions have been overraied. But what intelligent Chris tian cannot see that this is agreat mistake [, Sabba.h-schools are vastlg importaas.--- This is not small cause. Tho institu- ti"n has not been ovcrrated, at least by us, as our past experience has abundantiy pro- we'd, and as our future experience will still more clearly demonstrate, if we fully s0s- tain our Sabbalh-school cause as we ought to do, either as patriots, philanthropists, or Christians. Our children and youth, let it be repeated, must be religiously educa- ted or sho next generation will be gen. eration of Sabbath-breakers aud infdels. For the religious education of our children we cannot depend on our primsry or clas- sical schools. But on our Sabbath-schools, properly directed, and fully sustained, we may and must depend, in connection with kindred influences, for the moral training. which can alone prepare the young to Do blessings to our country and the world in coming time.