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l Charter, hath laboured for more than a century, l>y scho«)lmaBt«^rs to teach, and mission* arie« to preach, in the remote and unviicitecl dis* trict«: and now, by the happy invention of circu- lating schools which move quarterty from place to place, they hope to be able to bring in sufficient help. The&e schools arc under the clergy, like other schooU, and are regularly examined by Utt OK £DC'CATlOK. ilXs; Pieafcjrter; of the boundift, whose Reporta ate re< gularlf published* Now* my bretbrco, you kj tbc %d>'aDta^-s of a rcligiouis educAtioo. or, haply yi: know iLeiu not, jelainenl ihcwuntoT Extend your liberality to others: they are yoai comilrymeo ; they are haply your kinsmen ; the; arc your fellow- ChrUtians ; forget them ooi Tour superfluities arc raaay ; contribute a portion I CTitreat you ; each according to bis abiUty, coa- trib<it« a |>oniuii, and th« I^rd will bte^s the re< maioder of your store. I pray you tu n^frr-xh (h< cold and barren north with the droppings of youi liberality. They will blew you ; they will ros your prayers to ascend for you ; aud the Loi will reward you. And here I may apeak a word to the operators with thi^ mo^t ancient of our ScottG Societies, that if your Gcboois had cootcm plated] DO more than tbe culture of the intellect, I should Dot have been here this day to plead for tbei tliough they had taught all the science of the lix$X'k tutc of France, and all the philoftophy of a ^k:olti university. It \% hecauste you diligently appi; yourselves to the ctiltWation of the spirits of thi children by the word of God, that I have boldm to aolieit this Christiaa conj^egation most DCfttlytobclp you; — not only reading it in tl daya of tbe week, but on the Sabbath dayjs thcring together bolS parents and children undcr^ catcchiKtA and leacheni, or otherwise instructing them from the lipfi of tbe mo«^t pious of the con-^ gregation and church. Contiaue faithful in thia. and watch unto prayer, and you dliall reap tb9^ blessing abundantly. Make known unto Xh\ children the way of eternal life, a^ the catechinl I.] 0!r £DUCATIOX. M\ of the primitive church wore wont tu do to the children of the Chmtian churcheE ; and let me tei) you, that these children with whom you have to do are all niicnibCTs of the Chnatioii church b^ baptism, to be blessed with alt the blcssmga of a belie^u) Gfis[H;l. or tu he ciirxc-d with nil the curses of a rujecled Gudpol. Give unto theite Little ones cupsful of cold water, aod you 9>haU uot lose your reward: but ^ivc unto thorn of the bread