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might love him — talk of ^ucatiug our people vritboQt respect to these the high functions of our people, educate them merely in truth mochaaical and thiags visihle ; then 1 any, let these speco- lators go to the people to be a little iostructed, before (hey pretend t<:i instruct the people, who are more wise and iioble'-minded than tliey. Therefore, seeing our people are not regarded aa mere serfs of the soil, or adjuncts of the ma- chinery, but men who arc the nerves and smews of the state, who choose lavrgiTers and judgtt causes betwei^ msn and man, between the king and the subjects; spiritual men who hav^j a priest* hood appointed over ihem, to teach them from Sabbath to Sabbath the principles of the doctrine of Christ, and the obligations which, as Christiana, ley Are under ; seeing wc arc a nation of Chns- tiana, a belieTing nation, who. for the sake of God, and God s righteous eaiue, have nnistered [in the 6eld of battle, and triumphed over the up- , holders of despotism and superstition, yea have torn the eccptre out of the hands of those who urould have ruled us in the spirit of despotism ,ftnd fiupenttition; shall the children of our peoplo !be trained in the igunrance of those principles ts^bieh their fathers wrote upon the tablets of their :lieartflt and placed as a frontlet before their eyes, and in ^hich they became a separate people from the rest of the nations, nud have not bi-en made partakera of their jitagues? No, this must not 820 0}t EDUCATIOIV* [/Jtf. be, or else the Lord hath utterly forsaken ii». if vra have a Cbmtian priastbood, and a Christian frame*work of society, and a Cliri&lian Atatiite* bouk^ Uiifit must wc alEK> haw a ClirtKtian educa- tion, else our children will grow up, Dot to improve and perfect the works of their fathers, but to fight against and overthrow tbcm ; to root out, not to [iruiic the vine ai>d tlie fig-tree, tiiider the shade of which we have so long aiUen without any to make us afraid. When we become an infidel and parricidal people like France, we may bethink us of mere scientific education ; but while we are a bclieTiug people, we must have an cducatioo of principles first, along with our education of know- ledge : and if both cannot go together as hereto* fore, then, 1 say, let the education of pnuciples stand first, as the palludium of the land, and the education of knowledge leora to bow and reve- rence that which was before it, and which wo prize abov6 iL They have got the idea into their heads, that if you do but exclude all creeds and peculia