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erintundance of our parisb echools, and you take away thd grave parochial importance of our echoolmaeiers ; wbosc dignity before the people is not Irom theif wealth, for Ihey are generally very poor, but fro their Atation, their truM, their sacred and religioutC tniat, of the Question of the children. Tbo schoolmaster is a parish dignitary^ not a money- making crafbman. lie is looked tip to with re- spect by the highest in the pamhes ; and by the people he is treated with a rcTcrencc, aecond only to that with which they treat their minUter. Take from htm Uuk hold which lie hath upon the' spiritual and religious feelings of the people, atid-^ you will not restore him tc the same place though you should ^ive bim tbonsauds by the year;— money is a corrupter ; it is principle that cnobles. Money rusU aiid tarnishes tbe presont lustre of m character, but religion makes it shine rcApIcndentJ That U the true nobility which f^pring^ from w is not seen atid caniiut be calculated. IV. Now you know, my dear brctlircn, that in the Highlands and the Islands of Scotland, thero arepari&hea extending over wide muuntain iracia/, intersected with arms of the sea, and often divided^ t) OV BDUCATIOH. 880 into separftto puns by the oceaa ; so tbtit the mi- nister ii&th to pass by boats from cae part of his parish (o Hnotticr. The;^ pnmhes have but the provuiaii of oac parish school, tike the rest, which beiDg slationftry, sh«da its influence only over thft place in its oeigbbourhooJ, The Scotch eveji of the low countries and the borders are not slack to venture far to schou), olh 1 know well ; many of my cla-tft^felloWA being Mfint to travel »ix and fi<rven miles to (he Hchnol, and om many to their home, every day, wiih their fla*k of milk upon their shoulder, and their morsel of dry bread ia their pocket. Bot when parishes aic thirty, forty, and even hfty miles in extent, with no highways cor bye waya. across heathy mountains and misty lakes, thi&isimpoftsi hie: and yet LhcscCeltic people are ft gallant people, who have playe<l their part ri^hl well in the strugfi^les of the country, whose martial drc££ hath waved triumphant over many a bard-foug:ht tield ; whoee qmetne&s and peace abiencs4 at home cost the country Ittde for justice or pohcc; whose religion is their chief wealth and corisotation. Tn the help of ihe&e brave and wor- thy men, their brethem of the South have rcisolred to come, and to bnn^ it in that which they pri^e ino«t, and mo«t do need*-in education. And to that end this ancient Society^ incorporated bjr Koya