olid instruction, like this we have mentioned, werful remedy against superstition. "Nothing st ever be suffered, says the same M. de Fenelon, e mingled with the faith or the practice of piety, ch is not taken from the gospel, or authorised a constant approbation of the church. The dren must be discreetly guarded against certain ses, which some are tempted to look upon as nts of discipline, who are not well instructed. cannot entirely avoid it, unless we go back to original, search into the institution of things, the use which the saints have made of them. Accustom then the children, who are naturally credulous, not lightly to give into certain sto, which want authority, nor to practise certain otions, which an indiscreet zeal has introduced, out waiting for the approbation of the church." see by what I have just mentioned the manner ng youth solid instruction, and the necessity of ying the time spent in college, in teaching them to know Christ, his precepts, principles and relies; in thoroughly explaining the gospel; in ing them acquainted with the worth of man, om God alone can make happy, with his fall misery, for which the incarnation and death of od were alone capable of providing a remedy. › corruption of his own heart, which is subdued self-love, and an affection for sensible objects; inability to do any good of himself, and withthe grace of Jesus Christ; and the continual ger he is exposed to by concupiscence, which subsists though conquered.-It is also very imtant to inculcate into them the great and effica ruct. sur la Man. d'élever les Nov. tom. 1. des Lettres de Piété. "cious truths of religion; how terrible God is judgments; how different we shall find the stat "death from our present notions; how great sery it is to lose God irrevocably; how bla are which are committed after baptism; of "weight the life and death of Christ are to "which we must give an account; how grea "there is in despising eternal happiness; wha "ness the grace of the new law requires in tho are dead and buried with Christ, washed "blood, consecrated by the infusion of his nourished by his flesh, and united in so inti "manner to his divinity." There is no person, in my opinion, but upor ing what I have here laid down, must agree th is doubtless the only method of rightly instruct boys in matters of religion. This method r time and care, but we are sufficiently recom for all our pains, by the fruit we have reason pect from it. Let us now enquire when w give these instructions, Sundays and holidays are the natural time These days, by their institution, are set apart vine worship, of which the word of God and in tion are a principal part. We know that they ar us what the sabbath was amongst the Jews, a know likewise under how severe a punishmen required it to be kept holy. [c] Whoever do work on the sabbath day he shall surely be death. He gave up the Jews the six other d their own works, but reserved the seventh for h [d] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all the hast to do, but the seventh day is the sabbath Lord thy God. It was a day favoured by hi certain privileges, consecrated only to his wo and over which he was jealous as of a day th longed to him in a peculiar manner. [e] Ye therefore keep the sabbath. He would not them to walk abroad upon that day, but re [c] Exod. xxxi. 15. [d] Ibid. xx. 9, 10. [e] Ibid. xx mumder OI verses repeats and mcuncates unis ot, and with what force he recommends the vation of it. It is very plain that God no less es of us the sanctification of Sundays and holiand consequently we see of what importance it accustom the boys early to the observation of and the rather, as this precept is almost geneproken by all conditions, and especially among as of quality. Thus it is a wise rule laid down eral colleges, not to let the pensioners go abroad ndays and holidays, but to employ the greatest of those days in giving them instructions about on. Parents have no cause to be displeased the principal, who is exact and inflexible upon oint; at least they cannot suspect him of conhis own interest in it. ave found by experience, how useful M. de Fes maxim is of teaching the boys religion by hisl facts, and at the same time how agreeable to ge. The greatest part of the instructions I gave lege turned upon the Old Testament. All the truths of religion, either in point of doctrine or ity, are to be found there; and laid down in this er, they make an impression on the mind of g people, which is the more strong and lasting, ey are joined to historical facts, which are not ily erased out of their memory. Exod. xvi. 29. any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath,to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever. Exod. xxxi. 13-17. To these instructions, which I regularly gave morning and evening service, I joined another w was still more useful. When their recreation was en which upon those days should be very long, for dren stand in need of rest and refreshment, the retired to their chambers. Then the biggest spent an hour in reading in their closets three or historical chapters in the Old Testament, of w they came afterwards to give me an account tow the evening in the chapel. I asked the scholars, out observing any order, what they had taken n of in their reading, and have often been surprise their sensible and judicious reflections, which I va the more, as they came from themselves, and not suggested to them. It is easy to comprehend useful this sort of exercise may be to boys, not to instruct them in religion, but likewise for the provement of their understanding and judgmen Besides these instructions there must be one in the week set apart for the explanation of the chism, and this is usually practised in all college have elsewhere spoken of the manner of catechi whilst I was discoursing upon the eloquence of the pit, which must be different according to the differ of ages. I shall here make but one observation n which I have seen practised with a great deal of suc The instructions which are given to scholars of a advanced age, as in the class of rhetoric and phi phy, must be more emphatical and sublime, and nerally turn upon a continual plan of religion. In: colleges the scholars are obliged to set down in w what they have understood, and give a summa the catechism which has been explained to them, several will do it with such an exactness, as is surpr to the masters. The same thing is practised in se parishes of Paris, and I have known some y girls succeed in it very well. I shall say but one word more concerning th structions relating to servants. It is one of the es tial duties of the principal. He owes them thi servants have another master besides themselves, n they ought to serve, and consequently know, that for this reason it is their indispensible duty e them instructed in religion, to watch over their uct, to allow them time, to procure them means lfilling the duties of Christianity; that they owe these spiritual assistances still more than their and raiment; that they must answer to God for salvation of those that serve them no less than - own, and that they are included in the number hose whom St. Paul recommends the care of in terms as should make all Christian masters able; [] But if any provide not for his - especially for those of his own house, he hath ed the faith, and is worse than an infidel. There erefore an absolute necessity of instructing youth his duty, and giving them an example of it, by the et care taken in the instruction of servants. - might be of use to give servants now and then ■books as are proper to instruct them in religion, increase their piety, a New Testament, the imitaof Jesus Christ, and other books of like nature. expence is not very great, and may draw down essing upon the college. The principal, masters parents, may all contribute something towards it; it would be neither indifferent or difficult to acom the boys to give something out of their pocketey for the use of these pious liberalities. 2. Of the Use of Sacraments. as the sacraments are the ordinary channels by ch God communicates to us the assistance we ad in need of to live and die like Christians, it is [b] i Tim. v. 8, |