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ist's death, and 'tealoriKl to ua not in full posso^ion, but in steward- I sbij) ; or you must yield to me, from the abore premises, that crcry thing in the school, as every thing in Uie faaiily, nhicU ts Uuglit smd dime to the childrcD, i^houlcl be taught and (luoe uuder the authority of Christ, anl the auspices of his church, and with a view to immortality. Is it the art of reading ? then for the end uf knowing God*B will, as it ift written in his wont, znd tn the wFitings of his wise and worthv ^ervantEi. Is it the art of writing t then for the end of recording and com- municating whatever may be for our greater wcal^ or the greater weal of others his creatures^ I& it the art and mystery of any profc^ion? then for the cad of filling to God'A contentment the duties of the same. Ik it the mechanical haiuly* crafts? then for ttu; end of winning honest bread, and being burdensome to none, but helpful to all. And for whatever other attainment oraccnmplish- tncnl of body and of mind it is that w^e go tQ school, then for the end of occupying that en-* dowmcnt of God the bett^^r in his 5crvi<:e. and the more profitably lo his creatures. Now, it is anifest, that in thus fulfilling the particulars of brifttian education, you proceed at every stop in e distinct recognition of God's propriety in tbc onth, of his glory as the chief end of their life, the church of ChriHt a^ their fippolntcid »^t3- on, and of the word of God as the priuci|jle of I doctrine and the rule of all life, and eternity the landing place of the voyage; for which yagc into the haven of eternity, all the cduca- n, whether of the family or of the school, is but, it were, the rigging and the niitfit of the vc^cl, d the consignment of her treasure unto the right- ill owner, the Father of the spirits of all flesh/ 804 OK LDt'CATlOV. Tliislalc-spruog idca^ llierefore, of having wiyj art or ecicDcc pertaioing to the roiDcl or body of] youth taught apztl from and independent (m re* ftgicn< is manifestly Dot only ^n uiicliristimi bul &Q antichriittitn idea> which gives ap the falsoj principle that thcr« are talcntg and t^ift^ which ars not to be acknovviedgcd a» of God, and may h^- used without any ricw to hift service ; and tliatj men may innocently leach deparlmcntfl of hamiia knowledge ^ilhotil uny allusiuti lo the fountain of light, and our children may, without hami, h« tai3ght the Eamc after that ungodly fashioD. Now^ 1 say, if there be antichristian, if there be athe- istical doctrine, it is this ; aod if there t>c a pr