their certificates of merit, are considered by their lordships to be the more essential, may be learnt from observing the distinction made between the subjects in Schedule A and Schedule B of the broad sheet. Their lordships would not, of course, be understood to imply, that all the subjects in Schedule A, must necessarily be taught in such schools; but, at least, such of them as may be considered the groundwork of the rest.

I am to add, that it is an essential condition, in order that schools may receive

annual aid from the Committee of Council, that a portion of the entire Bible, in the authorized version, should form part of the daily instruction.

Managers of schools which have received grants in augmentation of the teachers' salary, may, at any time, withdraw their schools from inspection, with the simple consequence of no longer receiving the grant.-I have the honour to be, reverend Sir, your obedient servant,

ROBERT LINGUS, Acting Assistant Secretary.

Extracts.

"BE IN EARNEST." "PERHAPS there is scarcely one single phrase more frequently employed in the sphere of human activity, or better understood than this,-BE IN EARNEST. What distinctness of aim-what fixedness of purpose-what resoluteness of will-what diligence, patience, and perseverance of action, are implied or expressed in these three words. He who would stimulate indolence, quicken activity, and inspire hope; he who would breathe his own soul into the soul of another, and kindle the enthusiasm which glows in his own bosom, says to his fellow, Be in earnest;' and that short sentence, uttered by his lips, has often been like a scintillation flying off from his own ardent mind, which, lighting upon the spirit of the individual whom he was anxious to move to some great enterprize, has lighted up the flames of enthusiasm there also. And what else, or what less, does Jesus Christ say to every one whom He sends into the work of the Christian ministry, than Be in earnest ?'"

AN EARNEST MINISTRY. "This-this is what we want, and must have, if the ends of the Gospel are ever to be extensively accomplished-an EARNEST ministry.

any truth, bearing upon this subject, be more momentous; for of all the curses which God ever pours from the vials of His wrath upon a nation which He intends to scourge, there is not one so fearful as giving them up to an unholy ministry. I trust our churches will ever consider piety as the first and most essential qualification in their pastors, for which talents, genius, learning, and eloquence, would, and could be no substitutes. It will be a dark and evil day when personal godliness shall be placed second to anything else in those who serve at the altar of God; but still there is something else wanted in addition to natural talent, to academic training, and even to the most fervent, evangelical piety, and that is intense devotedness. This is the one thing, more than any, or all other things that is wanting in the modern pulpit, and that has been wanting in most ages of the Christian Church. In a valuable article in a late number of the British Quarterly Review, the following sentence occurs:- No ministry will be really effective, whatever may be its intelligence, which is not a ministry of strong faith, true spirituality, and deep earnestness.' ANGEL JAMES's Earnest Ministry.

Extract from a Letter, dated Adelaide, South Australia, 15th December, 1848. "We have heard much of late about a "Stone masons are not wanted, because learned ministry, and God forbid we should there is no stone in the country; mechanever be afflicted by so great an evil as an ics are not needed, for there is no machinery unlearned one. We have been often re-used, except for farming purposes, and minded of the necessity of an educated ministry; and, in this case, as in every other, men must be educated for their vocation; but, then, that education must be strictly appropriate and specific. We are very properly told from many quarters, we can do nothing without a pious ministry. This is very true; nor can

they are very rude machines they use; but brick-setters, carpenters, joiners, shoemakers, tailors, blacksmiths-who can shoe horses-wheelwrights, brickmakers, plasterers, painters; all of whom get from six to eight shillings per day, are much wanted; and farming men, in any quantity, will find employment; but

persons who have not a trade on their
fingers, of some sort, find no employ.
Indeed, book-keepers' places are so taken
up with men that have education, but
have been unfortunate in their business,
that they seem a sufficient supply; and
heaps of magistrates and squires are now
sheep-tenters, bullock-drivers, and occu-
pying very inferior stations, though, at
the same time, they get a good living.
"Sheep-sheering is now in full operation;
but sheep-farmers are suffering extremely
from the low price of wool in England.
Hay harvest is just concluding. Corn
comes next, and the crops were never
more promising.

"We have now resided more than six months in this fine country, whose climate is fit for all useful productions, and many of luxurious character; and I should not be surprised if the best wine in the world be made here."

PEACE AND PROSPERITY OF BRITAIN.

"In consequence, partly of our geographical, and partly of our moral position, we have, during several generations, been exempt from evils which have elsewhere impeded the efforts, and destroyed the fruits of industry. While every part of the Continent, from Moscow to Lisbon, has been the theatre of bloody and devas

tating wars, no hostile standard has been set up here as a trophy. While revolutions have taken place all around us, our Government has never once been subverted by violence. During a hundred years, there has been in our island no tumult of sufficient importance to be called an insurrection. The law has never been borne down, either by popular fury, or by legal tyranny. Public credit has been held sacred. The administration of justice has been pure. Even in times which might, by Englishmen, be justly called evil times, we have enjoyed what almost every other nation in the world never considered as an ample measure of civil religious freedom. Every man has felt entire confidence that the State would protect him in the possession of what had been earned by his diligence, and hoarded by his selfdenial. Under the benignant influence of peace and liberty, science has flourished, and has been applied to practical purposes, on a scale never before known. The consequence is, that a change-to which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel-has taken place in our country. Could the England of 1685, be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in one hundred, or one building in ten thousand."-Macaulay's History of England, Vol. i., p. 280.

TRAINING THE YOUNG.

(Monthly Paper supplied by the Edinburgh Society of Juvenile Abstainers.—ED.) THE meaning, extent, and obligation of the Scripture injunction contained in these words, "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it," (Proverbs xxii. 6,) is surely but imperfectly understood and believed; or why have we such multitudes of parents, who, so far from training up their children in the way they should go, scarcely even tell them of the way they should go, and, certainly, do not shew them, or walk with them in that way. As the obligation to train up a child, is not simply to tell a child the way, and leave it to find it out; but is to lead it in the way to shew it the way-to learn it the way, by walking with it in the way,-doubtless, the obligation to do this is most fittingly and appropriately bind ing upon the parents of the child; yet if they neglect, if they fail to train up their child in the way it should go, their

neglect and failure to discharge their duty, will not absolve us from the obligation we are under to see that the child is trained up in the way it should go; and hence the duty of every Christian is, to see that children are not left untrained in the ways of God; for if they are, they will not be untrained in the ways of sin, and will wander further and further in the evil ways of their own hearts, till they finally and forever perish.

What momentous consequences depend upon the training of the young!-what fearful results follow their being left untrained in good! It was, probably, the consideration of these consequences, or results, which prompted the devoted founders of Missionary Sabbath Schools, to pity the untaught and untrained thousands of little ones who crowd the streets and lanes of our large and populous cities. and to gather them together on the sacred

day, to speak to them of the love of God, | great cause of parental neglect, is beyond and of their never-dying souls, and to urge all doubt; and its bearing upon youthful them to seek to be reconciled to God, training has been of the most painful and through the blood of the Saviour of sin- distressing kind. But for it, we believe, ners; that they might walk with God three-fourths of the untrained and unedupon earth, and be with him forever in ucated children of our country had been heaven; and who can number the parent- trained in the way they should go; and neglected, untaught, and untrained child- the Church would have been rejoicing in ren, who, through the instrumentality of the necessity of lengthening her cords, and the Sabbath School, have been trained to strengthening her stakes; but for this, walk in the way they should go-who Ragged Schools, at least, would not have have glorified God in their walk and con- been needed; and parental training would versation in the world-and finally de- have been followed by its richest reward, parted this life in the blessed assurance--the consistency and exemplary fruits of of going to be with Christ, which is far children walking in the fear of the Lord. better?

Doubtless, it was a deep sympathy with the untrained thousands of ragged, destitute, begging, stealing, children, and an apprehension of the fearful consequences which would result from permitting them to remain untrained, which prompted the founders of Ragged, or Industrial Schools, to gather together these outcasts of parents and of society, and bring them under a system of training, to enable them to earn their daily bread, and lead them to choose the ways of wisdom and the paths of

peace.

And if the Christian community, by forming of Sabbath Schools, and by instituting Ragged Schools, thereby recognize or admit themselves to be the guardians of the untrained young, and of the parentneglected children of our country, they will not fail to see, that, as respects intoxicants, the prolific source from which flows the large proportion of that neglect and want of training, they ought also to prove themselves the guardians of the young, and not leave generation after generation to fall into the same untrained condition as respects intoxicants, until, from the progressive increase of the evils that flow from the use of these intoxicants, the great proportion of the juvenile population fall to be trained and reared by Sabbath and Ragged School associations, instead of by their own parents,--the parties designed by the Almighty to perform that duty.

That, next to the depravity-the native, innate depravity of the human heart-the using of intoxicants has been proved the

Surely it is not enough to admit, that there has been some mighty cause at work, blighting the sensibilities of the soul to its obligations to God and men. When the cause is discoverable, and the remedy at hand, the question of abstinence from these intoxicating liquors, which have so long proved the bane of our youth, and which have caused many thousands, and tens of thousands, nay, millions of them to be untrained in the ways of God, is not merely to be looked at at a distance, or the consideration of it as a remedy, adequate, under the Divine blessing, to remove the crying evil of our day, postponed till a more convenient season; but it ought to be adopted by the parents, and taught to the children and youth of our land as such a remedy.

Children must be taught every duty. They must be trained to adopt and practice every good thing, and abstain from every evil thing. And if parents neglect, or leave them untrained to abstain from intoxicants, then those who believe that abstinence is a good thing, must not fail to perform that duty, which these parents fail to discharge. No one can expect that intoxication can be removed from our land, while our children and youth are trained to partake by precept and example, and are not trained not to partake. To do something to train the young and rising generation to abstain, not merely by telling them, but by setting them the example, is, we believe, the incumbent duty of every Christian.

How often has the Christian parent had to lament over the blighted prospects of

Religious Entelligence.