side of religion, it is a day of assured triumph to all that is good.

3. You can do great good in Sabbath Schools. These have become important moral nurseries. The character and direction of coming generations are to be determined in a great measure, by these institutions. "Son, go work to-day in my vineyard." It is yours to help mould these young minds to useful innocence and everlasting glory. The obligation is upon you; nor can you throw it off, or innocently reject it. You must put your hand to this work and help forward the redemption of the world, or lie down under the sluggard's rebuke. Every young man ought, if possible, to be a teacher in a Sabbath School.

But how are you to do your duty to these scholars, unless you are pious yourself? How will you realize the worth of their souls, unless you have felt the worth of your own? How can you speak of the Saviour's love with that sincerity which moves the heart, unless your own heart has felt it? How can you pray for them, without an interest at the throne of grace? I do not say that you ought not to be a teacher in the Sabbath school, unless you are a Christian; but that you ought to be a Christian, in order to do your duty faithfully as a teacher.

Now here is an opportunity for you to bring

your mind into immediate contact with a class of children and youth, in the most interesting and important period of their lives; to impart to them the most valuable of all knowledge; to give to them their first and deepest impressions of divine truth; to mould their hearts and form their characters for eternity; to become as it were their spiritual father; to insert them as jewels in the crown of your rejoicing, there to shine when all the wealth and splendor of the world shall have vanished away. If you can become instrumental of moral good to one pupil, that individual may do good to others, and they again to others; thus will the blessing go on accumulating till the end of time, to be your exceeding great reward in the final day. Will you then suffer such a privilege to pass unimproved?

In order to render the duty pleasant and profitable to yourself, as well as beneficial to your scholars, observe the following rules.

First. Rise as early on Sabbath mornings as on any other.

Secondly. Have the lesson to be taught previously well studied and thought upon. Gather all the important instruction into it from your reading and experience which you can collect. Do not expect to interest others in what your own mind is not interested, nor to teach them what you do not know yourself.

Thirdly. Consider well the material on which you operate. It is intelligent. Nothing therefore but intellect, illumined with truth and kindling with thought, is an appropriate and effectual instrument to act upon it. It is moral. It requires a heart of keen and pure sensibilities, alive to moral discriminations, to impress the living character of goodness upon it. It is immortal! Does the sculptor endeavor to do his best, when he operates upon the finest and most enduring marble, to form a monument of his skill that will long perpetuate his glory upon earth? How then ought you to do, when operating upon a material that is to endure as a monument of your moral skill the finest and most excellent of human arts-long, long after all earthly monuments shall have perished and been forgotten!

Fourthly. Love your pupils. Love them not only or mainly as pleasant and pretty children, but as moral beings, and as what they are in prospect. Love them as sinners needing a Saviour. Love them as the future strength and glory of our nation. Love them as the agents called to bear forward to its consummation the divine purpose of redeeming mercy, in the most important and decisive age the -world has ever seen. Love them as angelic minds, striking with you the golden harps of Heaven by the side of Gabriel.

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expect too much in a day. "In due time you shall reap, if you faint not." Statuaries have sometimes labored patiently five or ten years upon a single block of marble, to make it seem to breathe and speak for a few centuries. And can you not labor as long and patiently upon an immortal mind, to enkindle it with the life of heaven and cause it to speak with angelic voices the praises of God forever?

Sixthly. Yet seek for the immediate conversion of your scholars. Endeavor to lead them directly to "the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world;" to Him who has said, "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." Consider how many children die. Are your scholars prepared for that event? Many teachers have witnesses of their fidelity, monuments of their faith and love, already with the shining ones in heaven.

Seventhly. Visit your scholars at their homes. This will awaken or increase parental interest in their behalf; it will also give you access to the hearts of irreligious parents, by which you may become instrumental of their salvation. It will moreover serve to secure the punctual and uniform attendance of your scholars upon your instructions.

Eighthly. Be faithful and constant in your attendance at the school, and also at the teachers' meetings. Let no slight excuse ever detain you.

Your absence once, will be an apology for the absence of your pupil many times; your cheering presence at the teachers' meeting will always encourage, your absence will always tend to discourage, the whole company of teachers with which you are associated.

Ninthly. Pray for your scholars. Commit them often and fervently to God. Remember your entire dependence upon his grace for any fruit of your labors. Consider the promises; believe them; take hold of them; be filled with the faith and power of the gospel.

If you will thus go forth to the duties of this moral vineyard, success will not be wanting, your reward cannot fail. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall DOUBTLESS come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."

4. You can render essential service to your pastor.

Think for a moment of the situation and employment of one set apart to the work of the Christian ministry. Ease, fame, wealth, pleasure, the pursuits of all that the world gives or values, he has relinquished for the sake of confering moral benefit upon his fellow-men He was

a young man of as much of the talent and industry requisite to acquire wealth, or at least to place him