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lose by comparison with the best preachers that have adorned the modern pulpit."

IMPORTANCE OF CLASSICAL STUDY.

With all who are qualified to form a judgment on the subject, there is but one opinion as to the importance of classical education. Experience has shown that with the study or neglect of the Greek and Latin languages, sound learning flourishes or declines. It is now too late for ignorance, indolence, eccentricity, or infidelity to dispute what has been ratified by the seal of ages. Whoever shall deny the superiority of the ancient classics as models of finished composition, of elevated sentiment, of all that belongs to disciplined mind, will forfeit his claim to the reputation of a scholar. But when it is considered that they contribute more than any other means to expand, to strengthen, and to polish the youthful intellect; that they not only exemplify, but cherish, the most refined literary taste; that they promote the power of patient, close, and discriminating inquiry; that modern times cannot boast of a truly classical writer in his own language who was altogether unacquainted with them; and what is of still more serious concern, that, in the hands of such as know how to use them, they are of eminent service to the Christian religion, and to those invaluable social interests which depend upon it; zeal in their defence becomes a virtue, and efforts to extend the study of them, a duty.

THE LUST FOR RICHES.

The grudge with which most men part with a little pittance for the noblest purposes, is astonishing and humiliating. Mammon, Mammon, is the god of the professing world among us. The love of distinction flows in the channels of wealth, and thus creates an aristocracy the most feeble and enfeebling, the most corrupt and corrupting, the most slavish and enslaving of all aristocracies-the aristocracy of Dollars. Hence the passion for lucre is the passion of the United States. Men measure their respectability not by their deeds of goodness,

Read "Memoirs, with a portion of his Correspondence," 8vo. pp. 560, by Rev. Jacob Van Vechten; and Works, in four volumes, edited by his son, Rev. Ebenezer Mason.

but by the sums of which they are masters. In Massachusetts, there are noble exceptions. Several individuals have given from ten thousand to forty thousand dollars each to a Theological Seminary at Andover. With us, there is nothing which bears the most distant resemblance to this munificence.

POLITICS AND RELIGION.

That religion has, in fact, nothing to do with the politics of many who profess it, is a melancholy truth. But that it has, of right, no concern with political transactions is quite a new discovery. If such opinions, however, prevail, there is no longer any mystery in the character of those whose conduct in political matters violates every precept, and slanders every principle, of the religion of Christ. But what is politics? Is it not the science and the exercise of civil rights and civil duties? And what is religion? Is it not an obligation to the service of God, founded on his authority, and extending to all our relations, personal and social? Yet religion has nothing to do with politics! Where did you learn this maxim? The Bible is full of directions for your behavior as citizens. It is plain, pointed, awful in its injunctions on ruler and ruled as such: yet religion has nothing to do with politics! You are com manded “in ALL your ways to acknowledge him.” “In EVERYTHING, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, to let your requests be made known unto God.” "And WHATSOEVER YE DO, IN WORD OR DEED, to do ALL IN THE NAME of the Lord Jesus."* Yet religion has nothing to do with politics! Most astonishing! And is there any part of your conduct in which you are, or wish to be, without law to God, and not under the law of Jesus Christ? Can you persuade yourselves that political men and measures are to undergo no review in the judgment to come? That all the passion and violence, the fraud and falsehood and corruption which pervade the system of party, and burst out like a flood at the public elections, are to be blotted from the catalogue of unchristian deeds, because they are politics! Or that a minister of the gospel may see his people, in their political career, bid defiance to their God in breaking through

He might have given a still stronger text-Philippians i. 27 - "Let your polities be such as it becometh the gospel of Christ " Our translation is "conversation;" but the original is Tozziquezbi, “act as a citizen, or "act in political matters, as a Christian."

every moral restraint, and keep a guiltless silence, because. religion has nothing to do with politics? I forbear to press the argument farther; observing only that many of our difficulties and sins may be traced to this pernicious notion. Yes, if our religion had had more to do with our politics; if, in the pride of our citizenship, we had not forgotten our Christianity; if we had prayed more and wrangled less about the affairs of our country, it would have been infinitely better for us at this day.

CHARACTER OF HAMILTON.

He was born to be great. Whoever was second, HAMILTON must be first. To his stupendous and versatile mind no investigation was difficult-no subject presented which he did not illuminate. Superiority, in some particular, belongs to thousands. Pre-eminence, in whatever he chose to undertake, was the prerogative of HAMILTON. No fixed criterion could be applied to his talents. Often has their display been supposed to have reached the limit of human effort; and the judgment stood firm till set aside by himself. When a cause of new magnitude required new exertion, he rose, he towered, he soared; surpassing himself as he surpassed others. Then was nature tributary to his eloquence! Then was felt his despotism over the heart! Touching, at his pleasure, every string of pity or terror, of indignation or grief, he melted, he soothed, he roused, he agitated; alternately gentle as the dews, and awful as the thunder. Yet, great as he was in the eyes of the world, he was greater in the eyes of those with whom he was most conversant. The greatness of most men, like objects seen through a mist, diminishes with the distance; but HAMILTON, like a tower seen afar off under a clear sky, rose in grandeur and sublimity with every step of approach. Familiarity with him was the parent of veneration. Over these matchless talents, probity threw her brightest lustre. Frankness, suavity, tenderness, benevolence, breathed through their exercise. And to his family!-but he is gone-that noble heart beats no more; that eye of fire is dimmed; and sealed are those oracular lips. Americans, the serenest beam of your glory is extinguished in the tomb.

Fathers, friends, countrymen! the dying breath of HAMILTON recommended to you the Christian's hope. His single testimony outweighs all the cavils of the sciolist, and all the jeers of the profane. Who will venture to pronounce a fable that

doctrine of life and immortality which his profound and irradiating mind embraced as the truth of God? When you are to die, you will find no source of peace but in the faith of Jesus. Cultivate, for your present repose and your future consolation, what our departed friend declared to be the support of his expiring moments: "A tender reliance on the mercies of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ."

HAMILTON! we will cherish thy memory, we will embalm thy fame! Fare thee well, thou unparalleled man, farewellforever!

GOSPEL FOR THE POOR.

The Lord Jesus, who went about doing good, has left us an example that we should follow his steps. Christians, on whom he has bestowed affluence, rank, or talent, should be the last to disdain their fellow-men, or to look with indifference on indigence and grief. Pride, unseemly in all, is detestable in them who confess that by grace they are saved. Their Lord and Redeemer, who humbled himself by assuming their nature, came to deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper. And surely, an object which was not unworthy of the Son of God cannot be unworthy of any who are called by his name. Their wealth and opportunities, their talents and time, are not their own, nor to be used according to their own pleasure, but to be consecrated by their vocation as fellow-workers with God. How many hands that hang down would be lifted up! how many feeble knees confirmed! how many tears wiped away! how many victims of despondency and infamy rescued by a close imitation of Jesus Christ! Go with your opulence to the house of famine, and the retreats of disease. Go deal thy bread to the hungry; when thou seest the naked, cover him; and hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Go, and furnish means to rear the offspring of the poor, that they may at least have access to the word of your God. Go, and quicken the flight of the Angel who has the everlasting gospel to preach unto the nations. If you possess not wealth, employ your station in promoting good will toward men. Judge the fatherless; plead for the widow. Stimulate the exertions of others, who may supply what is lacking on your part. Let the beauties of holiness pour their lustre upon your distinctions, and recommend to the unhappy that peace which yourselves have found in the salvation of God. If you have neither riches

nor rank, devote your talents. Ravishing are the accents which dwell on the tongue of the learned when it speaks a word in season to him that is weary. Press your genius and your eloquence. into the service of the Lord your righteousness, to magnify his word, and display the riches of his grace. Who knoweth whether he may honor you to be the minister of joy to the disconsolate, of liberty to the captive, of life to the dead? If he has denied you wealth, and rank, and talent, consecrate your heart. Let it dissolve in sympathy. There is nothing to hinder your rejoicing with them that do rejoice, and your weeping with them that weep, nor to forbid the interchange of kind and soothing offices. A brother is born for adversity; and not only should Christian be to Christian a friend that sticketh closer than a brother, but he should exemplify the loveliness of his religion to them that are without. An action, a word, marked by the sweetness of the Gospel, has often been owned of God for producing the happiest effects. Let no man, therefore, try to excuse his inaction; for no man is too inconsiderable to augment the triumphs of the Gospel by assisting in the consolation which it yields to the miserable.

NATHANIEL H. CARTER, 1788-1830.

NATHANIEL HASELTINE CARTER, son of Joseph Carter, was born in Concord, N. H., in the year 1788. In 1811, he graduated at Dartmouth College, and afterwards studied law. In 1817, when the so-called Democratic legislature of New Hampshire created the short-lived "Dartmouth University," in order to destroy Dartmouth College, he was appointed Professor of Languages in the former, and officiated in that capacity two or three years. In 1820, he became proprietor and editor of the "Albany Register," the name of which he soon changed to that of the "New York Statesman." He removed to the city of New York in 1822; and from 1825 to 1827 travelled for his health upon the continent of Europe, enriching his paper with letters which, on his return, were published in two octavo volumes. In 1829, being in very feeble health, he went abroad again, in the hope of being benefited; but died at Marseilles a short time after he landed, January 2d, 1830.

Mr. Carter was an able editor, an upright man, and an accomplished scholar, and was a writer of very pleasing poetry as well as prose.

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