the antiquity, the sacred character of the institution from which we sprung; known and excellent as are these attributes, we will not found on them our claims to your support; we will give you a sensible demonstration; we bid you come and see" the good things that are come out of Nazareth."

We have provided for you every security that can be given by any corporation to its constituents, that your offerings at the blessed shrine of charity shall be perverted to no alien purpose; while a proportion of our funds is dedicated to the general designs of the Parent Society, a very large majority of them, as you well know, is devoted to the education of the children of this

colony. It may not be given to you to ascertain all the good which one portion of your bounty is operating in the common cause of humanity; it may not be given to you to see the improved condition of the distant tribes to whom your donations may extend; it may not be given to you to hear the grateful thanks of millions whom you have helped to redeem from perishing, and directed into the narrow road which leadeth unto life. In vain, however, shall time and distance separate you from the objects of your benevolence; in vain shall the mountain rise, and the desert spread, and the ocean roll, between you and them. Their prayers like your generosity shall be acknowledged where they are more

availing than in mortal ears. A voice from the remotest quarter of the globe which your Scriptures shall have visited; a voice from Africa, from America, and " from farthest Ind;" a voice from the sea, and from the wilderness; a voice from savage and from cultivated man, shall arise in your behalf to heaven, and return like the benignant dew which it exhales in ten thousand blessings on you and your posterity.

But here, My Brethren, on this spot, in your own home, will be erected the perpetual monuments of your pious care. Here shall you behold the children of your native soil bringing up in habits of discipline, sobriety, and religion; here shall you see the sacred tree of knowledge planted and expand, while the young shall eat its fruit of joy, of life, and of immortality. Hence at the approach of Christian education shall idleness, and beggary, and drunkenness, forsake your land, and leave their haunts to be filled by honest industry, and manly labour; mercy and truth shall have met together; righteousness and peace shall have kissed each other." The proofs of your benevolence shall accumulate before your eyes; the virtues of the orphan, and the gratitude of the widow, shall be eloquent of your praise; through you the hungry shall be fed, the sick be comforted, and the ignorant be taught; and in the hour of death

and at the day of judgment, the eternal words shall cheer you; “Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

availing than in mortal ears. A voice from the remotest quarter of the globe which your Scrip-. tures shall have visited; a voice from Africa, from America, and "from farthest Ind;" a voice from the sea, and from the wilderness; a voice from savage and from cultivated man, shall arise in your behalf to heaven, and return like the benignant dew which it exhales in ten thousand blessings on you and your posterity.

But here, My Brethren, on this spot, in your own home, will be erected the perpetual monuments of your pious care. Here shall you behold the children of your native soil bringing up in habits of discipline, sobriety, and religion; here shall you see the sacred tree of knowledge planted and expand, while the young shall eat its fruit of joy, of life, and of immortality. Hence at the approach of Christian education shall idleness, and beggary, and drunkenness, forsake your land, and leave their haunts to be filled by honest industry, and manly labour; "mercy and truth shall have met together; righteousness and peace shall have kissed each other." The proofs of your benevolence shall accumulate before your eyes; the virtues of the orphan, and the gratitude of the widow, shall be eloquent of your praise; through you the hungry shall be fed, the sick be comforted, and the ignorant be taught; and in the hour of death

and at the day of judgment, the eternal words shall cheer you; “Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."