because the man happens not to be fully cured of his complaint as soon as he puts himself under the doctor's care. Nor ought we to say that christianity is a persecuting system, because some who have placed themselves under its authority, have not yet completely learned its loving lessons. If any professor of religion is intolerant, it is because he is not fully instructed in his system, or because he is not sincere. A true and perfect christian never persecutes. It is opposite to all his views and feelings to persecute. And as the religion of the gospel spreads, and christians multiply, persecution will die away. Wherever christianity has fairly established itself, it has brought persecution to a close. And it will always do so. It is rapidly extinguishing persecution amongst us; and it has almost extinguished it in the United States of America. It has already quenched the bigot's fires, and blunted his axe; it has almost shut up his prisons and broken his chains. It will soon soften and calm his raging heart, and smooth his fiery countenance, and make him a loving and peaceful creature. It will cast out the demon of persecution from every breast, and restore the race of men to harmony and peace and joy.

Let all who profess the religion of Christ, take care to show a loving spirit. All intolerance and bigotry are opposite to the gospel, and every appearance of them in professors of christianity will dishonour Christ, and hinder the triumph of his cause. We are appointed to conquer the world; but the only weapons we are appointed to use in our warfare are truth and charity. Let us use these weapons well, and let us take care to use no other, and we shall soon put to flight all the powers of hell, and deliver the nations from the bondage of error and sin, and spread through all the habitations of men, the peace and the joy of heaven.

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of a brother, never attempt to bring him into disrepute without some sufficient and pious motive. It is a wicked thing to amuse ourselves and others with the failings of our fellows. It is sinful and it is cruel, and altogether becoming a fiend rather than a human being, Our characters are precious, and more evil be done to a man by depriving him of the good opinion of others, than by robbing him of all his worldly possessions. We should learn to level the arrow of keen reproach more against the sin than against the sinner. We cannot deal too severely with vice, we cannot too vehemently set forth the horrors of sin and whatever custom or disposition tends to degrade the human character; but we should deal tenderly with persons. It is true we may sometimes be under the necessity of exposing the faults of another, our own character may require it, or the peace and safety of others may demand it; but whenever we are under the necessity of doing it, it should be to us a painful necessity. A truly christian and benevolent mind will mourn over the faults of men and cannot think about them but with pity. But if the mind be not under the influence of christian charity the faults of others will be published not only without reluctance or pity, or abatement of the real evils existing, or even a regard to the just statement of facts; but with every thing that can aggravate or highly colour the faults. Every circumstance is collected and every consideration is employed, that can strikingly set forth the sin and folly of the defamed. Oh how desirable it is that true charity should reign in every heart and govern every tongue, even that charity which hopeth all things, believeth all things and endureth all things, and which hideth the multitude of sins.

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THE death of the body does not argue the annihilation of the soul, as the destruction of an instrument does not argue the destruction of the agent. If the of a man be destroyed, it does not prevent the active mind from reflecting, it only destroys its connection with such outward objects as can be familiarized only

by vision. And if any other of its organs were to be destroyed, the only result would be its incapability of acting by those organs. Its existence still continues. And when all the organs of the body are deetroyed and all its parts dissolved, it is no proof that the living, acting principle, which once employed them, is no more; but we may reasonably suppose that it still exists and acts, though in a way altogether new and unknown to us. THOMAS SMITH.

NORTH AMERICA, NEW HAVEN. The state of society in this town is, I think, remarkably happy. The inhabitants, taken together, are not inferior to those of any town with which I am acquainted, in intelligence, refinement, morals, or religion, Both sexes are, to a great extent, well informed, and much less ceremonious, and a general spirit of good neighbourhood prevails among all classes, An extensive revival of religion, within a few years past, has added not a little to the pleasures of society in New Haven. The churches are regularly full, and an interest is apparently felt in the concerns of religion, which cannot fail of being grateful to a good man. Few places in the world present a fairer example of peace and good order. Disturbances are unknown, even private contentions scarcely exist. I recollect but a single instance of a shop, and not one in which a house has been broken open during the fifteen years, in which I have resided in this town. This good order of the inhabitants is the more creditable to them, as the police of the town is far from being either vigorous or exact, Take it for all in all, I have never seen the place where I would so willingly spend my life. [But christians should choose to live, not where they can be most pleasantly accommodated, but where they can do most good.-ED.]

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AMERICA, NORTHFORD.

This parish is excellent land, it is almost universally

fertile, and is happily fitted for every kind of cultivation and product. Here it is well cultivated, and produces an abundance of the necessaries and comforts of life. The houses are generally good, and their owners ob viously in easy circumstances. I say their owners, for every man in this country, almost without an exception, lives on his own ground. The lands are al! holden in fee simple; and descend by law to all the children in equal shares. Every farmer in Connecticut, and throughout New England, is therefore dependent for his enjoyments on none but himself, his government, and his God. Every one is a little monarch of a dominion, sufficiently large to furnish all the supplies of competence, with a number of subjects as great as he is able to govern. In the cultivation of his farm he gratifies his reason, his taste, and his hopes. Here he can do every thiug which is right, and no man can with impunity do any thing to him which is wrong. If he is not in debt, (and except in case of sickness or decrepitude he need not be,) he is absolutely his own master, and the master of all his possessions. There is something to me in the sight of this independence, and the eujoyments by which it is accompanied, more interesting, and more congenial to the relish of nature, than in all the melancholy grandeur of the decayed castles and ruined abbeys with which some parts of Europe are so plentifully stocked.

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NORTH AMERICA, NEW ENGLANDERS. Their love of science and learning is amply evinced by the fact, that they have established parochial schools at such near distances as to give every child in this country, except in very recent settlements, an ample opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of reading, writing, aud arithmetic. Grammar schools also they established in all their towns, containing one hundred families. In 1638, they founded a College at Cambridge, and since that period their descendants have founded seven others. In addition to this, they have

established a great number of Academies, where Students receive an English education of a higher cast than that which can be obtained at the parochial schools. These things, it is presumed, cannot be said of any country of the same wealth and population.

The morality of these people may be fairly estimated from the following facts. There have been fewer capital crimes committed in New England since its settlement, than in any other country on the globe, (Scotland perhaps excepted,) in proportion to the number of its inhabitants. One half, or two thirds of the inhabitants sleep, at the present time, without locking or barring their doors. Not more than five duels have been fought here since the landing of the Plymouth colony, near two hundred years since. During the last fourteen years I have travelled not far from twelve thousand miles, chiefly in New England and New York, and have never seen two men fighting.

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CARDINAL WOOLSEY, the most absolute and wealthy minister of state this kingdom ever had, that in his time seemed to govern Europe as well as England, when come to the close of his life, left the world with this close reflection upon himself. Had I been as diligent to serve my God, as I have been to please my king, he would not have left me now in my gray hairs. A dismal reflection for worldly minded men, especially for those who have more than ordinary means of doing good in the world, and yet do it not. Cardinal

Woolsey had had great means of doing good, but instead of spending himself for the good of others, he gave himself to the humours of the king. The king at last suspected him, or pretended to suspect him of evil designs, and stripped him of his wealth and power and greatness. It was when stripped and humbled that he felt and acknowledged his folly in preferring the service of his earthly king, to the service of the king of heaven.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, a great favourite of Queen Eli. zabeth, whom the Prince of Orange deigned to call hts master, and whose friendship Lord Brooks was so proud of, that he would have it part of his Epitaph, Here lies Sir Philip Sidney's friend: and whose death was lamented in verse, by the then kings of France and Scotland, and the two Universities of England-this great and learned and famous man left this farewell among his friends; Above all, govern your will and affections by the will and word of your Creator. In ne behold the end of this world, and all its vanities.