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his whole attention to the class placed under his care by the Superintendent, the sole management of which belongs to the Teacher; it is also his duty to keep a regular list of his class, in a book provided for the purpose, and therein note the proficiency, or delinquency, of each scholar; to visit the absentees, and report, quarterly, on the state of his class, to the Superintendent, in such manner as to ena ble him to make his general report to the Board of Directors. The School is divid ed into classes in the following manner: --The first class consists of all those who cannot spell words of more than one syllable; the second, of those beyond the first class, and who can spell words of two syllables; the third, of those who read imperfectly; and the fourth, of those who read without hesitation; which class, when too numerous, are divided into as many sections as the Superintendent shall think proper. Each Teacher is allowed to make such regulations as he may deen most expedient in the class or sections entrusted to him, in order to excite diligence and emulation among his scholars, provided such regulations do not interfere with the rules of the School. No scholar is, on any account, to be dismissed without the concurrence of both the Teacher and Superintendent. The first School is opened, and the last closed with a form of devotion appointed by the Bishop of the Diocess. The second School 4s opened with singing.

Rewards of two kinds-Red and Blue Tickets, are distributed in the following manner for being present at the opening of the School, for committing to memory any lesson in spelling, in reading, or in the catechism, &c. for being head of the class, or for good behaviour during Divine Service, entitles the scholar to a Blue Ticket for each exercise, 10 of which are to be exchanged for one of Rted; 10 red ones entitle the holder to a Bible, 5 to a Testament, Prayer Book, or the value thereof in other books.

The following is the mode of rewarding the scholars in the Female Sunday School of Trinity Church.

At a stated hour the roll is called, when every scholar present is rewarded with a ticket; these tickets are of two kinds, Blue and Red. For learning and reciting correctly three verses from the New Testament a Blue Ticket, six answers in the Catechism a Blue one, proper behaviour during Divine Service a Blue one also; four of those entitle the possessor to a Red one: ten Red ones to a small premium of a book; twenty and upwards to one of more value; forty to a Bible. These tickets, by being constantly returned, will not, after the first cost, be as expensive as

the class-papers. Another benefit derived from them is, that the children having the rewards immediately, are more anxious to deserve it than when they are told their good behaviour will meet with a reward a some future period. Another ad vantage resulting from this method is, that most parents of the kind of children who form a Sunday School, would be more likely to make them attend when they bring home those little tokens of their diligence.

The first meeting of the General Board of Managers was held in the month of July last, when it appeared that Schools in union with the Society, were established in the congregations of Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, St. John's Chapel, Grace Church, St. Mark's Church, and St. James' Church, each comprising both a male and female branch. Of these, the School containing the greatest number of scholars, was that attached to the congregation of St. John's Chapel; in which it appeared that the number of scholars regularly attending, amounted, on an average, to 120 males, and 110 females. In the School of St. Paul's Chapel, there were reported, as regular attendants, about 100 male, and 65 female scholars. In that of St. Mark's Church, 55 male, and 75 female. The part of the city in which Trinity and Grace Churches stand, does not fur. nish a very large portion of those classes of the community for whose benefit Sunday Schools are principally designed; and several had been established in that vicinity previously to those in those Churches. For these reasons, although very laudable exertions have been made, the number of scholars in those schools is but small. At the time of the meeting they were reported to contain, each about 50 males, and between 30 and 40 females. From the School of St. James' Church no report was received.

Of the above scholars, à portion in each school, and of cach sex, were coloured. There were also many adults (some of whom had seen more than half a century) who gladly availed themselves of the proferred aid, to enable them to read the Holy Scriptures, and bear their humble and grateful part in the animating services of the sanctuary. Great pains have been taken by the Teachers to instruct the scholars in the order of divine service, and the use of the Prayer Book. And the benefit of this is already wit-nessed, by the correct and interesting manner in which the pupils (many of whom were but lately profane violators of the sanctity of the Holy Day) conform to the edifying prescriptions of the Liturgy, in posture, responses, and praises.

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sisted principally in their numbers. All were distinguished for the zeal, activity, and perseverance of the Superintendents and Teachers, and the rapid progress of the scholars; of which latter circumstance some very eminent proofs were particufarly adduced. In some congregations, indeed, there did not appear as great a readiness to engage in the care of the School, or instruction of the children, as in others. This is a subject on which, in most cases, delicacy forbids personal solicitation; but it cannot, for a moment, be imagined that any who have at heart the good of the community, the welfare of the Church, or the immortal interests of their fellow-men, will suffer this great and good undertaking to decline for want of the aid which it may be in their power to extend. The thanks of all are due to the gentlemen and ladies who have so faithfully and successfully, and with such honour to themselves, enlisted in the furtherance of this work and labour of love.

A meeting of the Superintendents, Teachers, and scholars of the male and female schools of St. John's Chapel, was recently held in the Church, for the purpose of conferring premiums, at which several of the congregation attended, and the Right Rev. Bishop HOBART delivered the following

ADDRESS.

The business which we are called at this time to transact, is of a peculiarly interesting nature. The young children, and others, who have been instructed in the Sunday School of this Chapel, are assembled with the Superintendents and Teachers; and premiums are to be assigned to some of the most deserving among the scholars. Our attention cant not otherwise than be drawn on the present occasion, to the nature of Sunday Schools. Their design is to convey gra tuitous instruction to the young and to the ignorant. This end alone, however important, would not justify the occupation of a great part of that sacred day which is hallowed to religious purposes, by the laborious, and, in some measure, distracting business of teaching and learning. The principal object, therefore, of Sunday Schools, to which the portion of human learning which is taught in them, is but one of the means, is the religious and moral improvement of the children. Many of them who, on the

day of sacred rest and divine worship, would be rambling in the streets, exposed to the temptations of idleness and vice, and disturbing by their disorderly beha viour, the repose of that holy day, are led to the house of God—they are taught to read and to value his holy Word-to know and to love their Maker and Redeemer; they are instructed in the great principles of their faith and duty as Christians;

their memories are stored with instructive and edifying passages of Holy Writ, and of books of piety and devotion; they are trained to decent, correct, and or derly manners and habits; and all these important objects are still further advanced by their regular attendance on public worship, and their being taught to unite, with solemnity and devotion, in the Liturgy of the Church. Thus, then, the Sunday Schools of our Church have principally in view the religious and mos ral improvement of the children-their present welfare and happiness, and their eternal salvation. All, therefore, who Institutions, and by their pecuniary conare engaged in the active duties of these tributions, or by other means patronize them, are agents in a work of the most pious and benevolent nature; and which entitles them to the gratitude of all the friends of religion, and of social happiness and order.

I should do great injustice to my feelings, if I did not, on this occasion, offer the tribute of gratitude to those who hold the stations of the Superintendents and Teachers of the Sunday School of this Chapel. Your duties are not a little laborious. By your exertions, and those of others, a large number of persons, principally children of both sexes, have been collected; of whom, in reference to their instruction, their religious improvement, their moral habits, and even their personal comfort and happiness, you consider yourselves, in some measure, the guardians. In the discharge of this responsible trust, you visit them at their houses; you devote some hours of the day of rest to the arduous duty of teachi ing many of them the first elements of learning, and all of them, their religious faith and duties; you endeavour to form..

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their principles and tempers, and to improve their manners and habits; and you even sacrifice a portion of the highest enjoyment, undisturbed intercourse with heaven in the house of prayer, to a vigilent superintendence of their deportment during the solemn exercises of this sacred place and the best means of advancing their instruction, improvement, and happiness, occupy your frequent counsels. No inconsiderable self-denial and exertion, as well as employment of mind and time, are necessary to the discharge of these duties. I see among you persons of both sexes; the young engaged in the active business of the Institution, and those of more mature age, extending to it their unceasing and wise superintendence and counsel. Responsible is your charge, and arduous your duties; but I am satisfied you are more than repaid for all your care and labour, in witnessing the improvement of your scholars-their

advancement in those elements of human learning, so necessary to their temporal welfare; and, above all, in that knowledge which makes them wise to salvation their continual progress, under your fostering attention, in decency of manners, sobriety of deportment, and piety of principle and of life. What reward, indeed, can be more grateful to you, than the consideration, that you are powerfully instrumental in promoting the instruction and improvement of those in whom, as its future members, society is deeply interested; and the religious knowledge, and the piety and virtue of those whom, as the members of his fold on earth, and the heirs of his celestial kingdom, your Redeemer regards with solicitude and affection. Need I indulge any fears that you will not persevere in a work so beneficial in its effects, and so full in its rewards?

The flourishing state of your school, it is believed one of the largest in the city, is an evidence of your past exertions, and affords both a pledge and a motive for their continuation. Go on-you will be repaid in the improvement and happiness of these children-in the delightful consciousness of doing good, in the gratitude of all who are acquainted with your meritorious labours, and in the approbation of your God.

Children and others instructed in the school-one of your first duties is to be grateful to those who devote so much time and attention to you, and who seek to make you wise, and good, and happy. Their only object is your improvement, and this will be their best reward. If you do not attend to their instructions, and if you disregard their admonitions, you will not only be ungrateful to them, but you will injure yourselves. Your improvement will be prevented; and instead of growing wiser and better, you will continue in ignorance, and acquire idle and vicious habits, which will make you displeasing in the view both of man and of God. For, remember God is always present with you. He hears every thing which you say, he knows every thing which you do, and he will bring every thing into judgment. Fear him; and love him too, for he is infinitely good. He is your Father and Benefactor; and he so loved you as to give his only begotten Son to be your Saviour-to atone for your sins, and to lead you to heaven. Diligently, then, learn the lessons from the Bible, the Prayer Book, and other pious books which are assigned you, that you may know your duty to God, your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier; to yourselves and to your fellow-men. Behave well during the time of worship, and remember that then, especially, the eye of God is upon you. In all things seek to please him. He will guide and protect you while you live; and when you come to die, he will make you happy with him for ever.

MEDITATION on HELL.

(From the Pious Country Parishioner.) THE holy scriptures assure us, that the disobedient and rebellious, the haters of God and despisers of goodness, must be turned into hell. This, the fearful and unbelieving, of the O my soul, is the doleful abode of proud and angry, malicious and revengeful; qualities, which render these wretched sinners fit company for devils and reprobate sinners. Here whoremongers and adulterers, drunkards and profane swearers, are sentenced to weeping, wailing, anđ

gnashing of teeth. O could you hear them cry out in the midst of their torments, how would you fear to follow them into their sins! how would you strive against the temptations of your spiritual enemies, and try to flee from the wrath to come! the consideration of what the righteous enjoy, and what themselves might have enjoyed, had it not been their own fault, is a great addition to their misery; that there should be a heaven which they cannot enter into; that there should be a God, whose blissful sight they must be excluded from; that they should be separated from the company of their blessed Saviour, from the goodly fellowship of the prophets and apostles, from the noble army of saints, martyrs, and confessors, and all the blessed society which help to make up the happiness of heaven; what a tormenting thought is this! The scriptures describe the torments of the wicked, by all the circumstances of horror: by every thing that is frightful to the senses, and terrible to the imagination! stiling them everlasting burnings! the worm that never dies! a falling into the hands of the living God! the being cast into outer darkness, where is weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth! This is some part of the account which the word of God gives to the sinner's portion in a future state; and how dreadful is it! both body and soul, and all the faculties of them, shall be tormented. The body shall suffer because it had a share in the sins that occasioned these sorrows. Now, if the burning of a fever, if the pains of any acute disease, be so grievous to be borne, as we know they are; how terrible must it be, to be cast into a lake of fire, which the breath of the Lord, as a stream of brimstme, doth kindle but the most amazing circumstance of all is, that the torments of the damned will be endless and unchangeable, without the least respite or intermission. They, that is the damned, have no rest, says St. John, day or night, but shall be tormented for ever and ever! For ever and ever! O dreadful word, For ever! When ten thousand times ten thousand ages

are past and gone, their misery will be the same, where their worm never dieth, and the fire shall never be quenched. It is eternity which tinctures the sinner's doom with the deepest blackness. It is this that consummates the torments of hell, and makes damnation of all things most to be dreaded. If this state may seem dreadful in the description, how much more dreadful will it be in reality? Well may we then cry out, O cursed sin, whose short-lived pleasures, and momentary delights are purchased at the dear rate of never-ceasing woes! In hell, darkness fills both the place and minds of those that are banished from God's presence; blackness of darkness for ever fills the place; blackness of guilt, horror, and despair.

Oh, says the condemned sinner, that I had not given way to the spirit of lust and uncleanness, of luxury and wantonness, which betrayed me into innumerable miscarriages in my life! Oh, that I had not followed the dictates of malice and revenge! Oh, that I had never defiled my lips with profane swearing, cursing, and blasphemy! Oh, that I had never been unmerciful or uncharitable! that I had never injured or oppressed the poor, but had relieved their necessities, and made them partakers of my abundance! Had I done this, and instead of pursuing criminal pleasures, made the salvation of my soul my care and study, I might, instead of being tormented in these flames, have been in yonder bright and glorious mansions, singing praises and hallelujahs among the blessed saints, and with them communicating in those unspeakable pleasures, which are ever to be felt in the presence and enjoyment of God and his Christ; but from thence I am eternally banished.

As the tree falls so shall it lie; and, O my soul, how many thousands have been surprised in the midst of their sins, and hurried away to everlasting sorrows! And I, alas! how many times have I sinned against heaven? and yet my God hath spared me hitherto, according to the multitude of his mercies. No other reason can I

give, why I am not eternally miserable, but that thou, Lord, art merciful.

When, therefore, I am next tempted to commit any sin, I will say to my soul, How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God provoking his infinite justice and almighty power to punish me? O Lord most holy! who can dwell with everlasting burnings! O blessed Jesus, thou most worthy Judge eternal, let me never fall into the bitter pains of eternal death!

THE PRAYER.

O eternal and most gracious Father, who hast declared in thy holy word, that thou desirest not the death of a sinner, but that he should rather turn from his sins, and be saved; and for that end hast encouraged us to come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may find mercy in the time of need: O do thou vouchsafe to hear the prayers and cries of me, thy sinful creature, who do most earnestly implore thy mercy in the pardon of all my sins, for the sake of thy dear Son, and my Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who suffered and died once a most bitter death upon the cross, that we might not die and suffer eternally. Amen, Amen.

O God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon me a miserable sinner; and from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation, good Lord deliver

me.

Grant, O God,-that, knowing these terrors of the Lord, I may effectually be persuaded to break off my sins; for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, who is a consuming fire to all the workers of iniquity. By the assistance of thy heavenly grace, I resolve this day, O Lord, and all the days of my life, to live as becomes one that has eternity in view; that when my perishing body shall crumble into dust, my soul may be received into Abraham's bosom; and at the general resurrection in the last day, when soul and body shall be reunited, I may be acceptable in thy sight, through the alone merits and intercession of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

ORDINATION AND INSTITUTION.

On Tuesday, the 7th inst. an Ordination was held at St. Michael's Church, Trenton, by the Right Rev. Bishop CROES, when the Rev. JAMES MONTGOMERY was admitted to the holy order of Priests. Morning service was performed by the Rev. JOHN BARNWELL CAMPBELL, Rector of the Church at Beaufort, South-Carolina; and a sermon on the occasion, was delivered by the Rev. Dr. WHARTON, Rector of St.

Mary's Church, Burlington.

On Wednesday the Bishop instituted Mr. MONTGOMERY Rector of St. Michael's Church. Mr. CAMPBELL again performed the morning service; and the Rev. Lewis P. BAYARD, Rector of Trinity Church, Newark, delivered a sermon on the occasion.

In the afternoon of the same day, the holy rite of Confirmation was administering service was performed by the Rev.

ed in the Church before mentioned. Even

Mr. MONTGOMERY, and a sermon delivered by Bishop CROES.

DAVID LONGWORTH, No. 11 Park, has recently published "A concise View of the principal Points of Controversy between taining-I. A Letter to the Roman Catholics of the city of Worcester, in England. II. A Reply to the above Address, by the III. An Answer late Archbishop Carroll. to the fate Archbishop Carroll's Reply. IV. A short Answer to the Appendix to the Catholic Question decided in New-York in 1813. V. A few short Remarks on Dr. O'Gallagher's Reply to the above Answer, by the Rev. C. H. Wharton, D. D. Rector of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, (N. J.) and Member of the Philosophical Society

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of Philadelphia.

These tracts contain much valuable information on the points which they discuss. The late Archbishop Carroll was liar tenets of his own Church, and Dr. certainly competent to defend the pecu

Wharton's character has been long established as an accomplished scholar and i

vine. His remarks deserve additional interest from the circumstance of his having renounced the Roman Catholic commu

nion; in justification of which measure,

the first tract in the series was written.

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