feek for the wide fpread of Christian knowledge, and Christian practice, among the youth around themselves, where all fuch attempts must begin.

But, independently of these vaft projects, which to fome may appear too high for human aim, and for which, the age we live in may not be thought fully ripe; it furely will be denied by none, that there is at this era, when fentiments are generally gone forth, congenial to Christian education, an imperious call for cherishing and fostering those charitable feminaries, which are now amongst us, and giving to them that general usefulness and extenfion which the state of fociety and of the world requires, and for which the economical fyftem of education, lately brought forward, furnishes every facility; and thereby supplying a shield, which may protect us in the day of our danger and calamity, and rescue us from the fate of lefs favoured nations.

With what peculiar ftrength do these arguments apply to the charity school, who, to the credit of their able and diligent master,

*This fchool is now thriving under the Madras fyftem.

have made fo gratifying an exhibition before you this day; and in behalf of whom, I must now conclude this address; the subject of which, fo interesting to my mind, will be my apology for having detained you fo very long:

In fine, when we confider the foundation on which the Gospel refts, and the principles, which are built on that foundation, are we not filled with the entire conviction of its fupreme excellence, and divine perfection? Then let not this fentiment languish and die away for want of exercife: let not this impreffion prove barren and unfruitful! Is our admiration and veneration of its holy doctrines, and moral precepts, fincere and ardent; and will they not incline us to " go and do likewife," to ingraft its holy spirit not only into our own heart, but also into that of those about us, and display its fruits in our practice? What a generous mind prizes itfelf, it will teach others to prize. It is the effence of Chriftian charity, which grows by exercise, and increafes its ftore by communicating its treasures to others, by "going about and doing good:-it is the very effence of

Christian charity to feek its own improvement, where only it is to be found, in improving others; and to seek its own happiness, where only it is to be found, in making others happy. Have we ourselves perceived the ineffable beauty of "the truth, as it is in Jesus,” and felt the power of the constraining love of Chrift; and are we not irresistibly led to spread abroad these bleffings, and to communicate to all around us that comfort, peace, and joy, which pass all understanding, which the world cannot give, which the world cannot take away?

It is thus we shall fulfil the commandment, and "do to others as we would they should do to us." It is thus we are "to love our neighbours as ourselves." It is thus, and thus only, we can " love one another, as Chrift alfo hath loved us.' It is thus, too, through the mercy of our Creator, and the merits of our Redeemer, fhall be opened unto us the portals of that everlasting "city, which hath foundations, whofe builder and maker is God:" where we shall experience that high reward, that only true praise, "Well done thou good and faithful fervant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord;" where "they that be wife shall

shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the ftars for ever and ever."

Now to God the Father, who created us, and God the Son, who redeemed us, and God the Holy Ghoft, who enlightens and fanctifies us, be afcribed all praise, thanksgiving, honour, and dominion, now and for ever. Amen, and Amen,

"-ne vulgarem viam ingreffus, alienis demum veftigiis infifterem."-QUIN.

HAVING ended the expofition of the system of tuition by the scholars themselves, and the detail of the fubordinate practices, engrafted on that system, and confidered its political, moral, and religious tendency, I have now to produce in a separate compartment, and in their original form, the proofs by which the efficacy of this fyftem and the result of these practices are demonstrated.

These proofs confift of the records of the Asylum, and other authentic documents, tranfmitted by the government of Madras to the honourable Eaft India Company, to the fu