precisely commensurate to the power with which christanity is made to reach the soul of man, wherever it is imploring in its ignorance, its guilt, and its woe, the light and forgiveness and blessedness of God. Thus history takes off all its mystery from the prediction of a future age better than the fabled age of gold. The people that walked in darkness have seen great light, they that dwell in the region and shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall become seven-fold, as the light of seven days.

Your iudulgence, already sought too long, is requested to a single practical suggestion. That the course which has been recommended may come into practice, there must be not only higher attainments on the part of instructers, but, what is at least of equal importance, better habits of mental discipline in parents, in society at large. Our censures have been dealt out too much, at least too exclusively, on the former; forgetting that nothing is justly expected from the teacher beyond the demand of his employers, and that his folly in assuming a task to which he is unequal, is not an individual error, but the expression and the measure of prevalent ignorance, or of what is worse, of indifference to youthful improvement. If history deserves the place which we have assigned it, it must be acknowledged in the family sooner than in the school. There let it begin. There it will spread; it will reach the school; it will go through society. The instructer will be compelled to learn and teach it; then the more advanced in all our schools will acquire it; and finally it will become the ennobling study of the mind from the moment when it first prompts the infant request for story after story.