I meant it not. I could not praise him. Men cannot. He was always above it here. How far is he beyond it now. "To mere praise" he was "constitutionally indifferent, but the love of love" was "ever a leading passion with "him. And now, what praise, what love are his! The praise and the love of God; and both in the peace, which passeth understanding, and which man taketh not away.

RIVERSIDE, August 16, 1859.

• Coleridge.

APPENDIX.

A.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

*In the great work of Christian Education, our aim attempts the highest standard. What can it be, less than this, and yet be Christian Education? No height or depth of learning makes it up. No reach or range of accomplishment fulfils it. It is not, merely, to seek pardon for all sin; or to obtain, somehow, a hope of happiness, in heaven. It must go down deeper, and spread out wider, and reach up higher, than all that. It must restore, in man, the image, which the fall defaced; God's image; and it must fit him for reunion with the Fountain, whence his being sprung; the Godhead. Can it be stated more sublimely, or more justly, than in Milton's words: "the end of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him; as we may, the nearest, by possessing our souls of the true virtue; which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection?"

Need it still be added, that, of such a work, the power and the glory must be God's. It begins in holy Baptism, which is God's ordinance; when the child of sin is new-born, and becomes the child of God. It receives its full supply of grace, in Confirmation, which is God's ordinance; when the Holy Ghost, so the young heart be meek and gentle, like the dove, which is its emblem, descends upon the brow, on which the cross was traced, to be its Guardian and its Guide, its Teacher, Comforter and Sanctifier. It is admitted to the stores of heaven in spiritual nurture and salvation, at the Holy Sup per, which is God's ordinance; when He, who gave himself, upon the cross, to ransom souls from everlasting death, again bestows himself, in Bread and Wine, which He hath blessed, and called His Body, and His Blood, to feed their souls for everlasting life. It is directed and instructed by the Holy Bible, which is God's ordinance; and which is made the rule of faith, and plan of life, and mirror of all godliness. Religious Training, The Hope and Blessing of the State.

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And it is carried on, advanced, and perfected, in the Holy Church, which is God's ordinance; a home for nurture, a school for training, and a fold for shelter, to the dear lambs, for which the shepherd gave His life. These are the outlines, and the great way-marks, of Christian Education. To fill them up, would be beyond our purpose, and your time. You, that have children, begin with them, at the beginning, the Sacred Font, in which the wave of life, from the pierced side of Jesus, ever springs; and go, from that, to follow out, by your own constant care and pains, and by the constant care and pains of those, whom you shall call in aid of such a work, the teachings of the Prayer Book: and, you shall win, from God, in answer to your prayers, and realize, in those sweet pledges of your love, dearer to you than your heart's blood, the prayer, which David offered, for the children of his care: your sons shall grow up as the young plants, and your daughters shall be as the polished corners of the temple." Leave them to themselves, unbaptized, unconfirmed, unfed, at the dear Board, which Jesus set, to do the way of their wild will; and ripen, in their souls, the seed of that old curse, which fell upon our nature, in the Fall: and briers and brambles, bound in bundles for the burning, and ruins, in which owls hoot, and bats whirl, and snakes crawl, and toads squat, will be transcendent beauties, and ineffable delights in the comparison.

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"That our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple." There is a beauty in these images of the enraptured Poet-King, far beyond that which merely meets the eye. There is a moral, there is a spiritual, there is an immortal beauty. These are not plants of earth; to fade in autumn, and to die in winter. They are trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." "Planted together with Him, in the likeness of His death," they "shall be, also, in the likeness of His resurrection." Transplanted, for a time, to the green pastures, and still waters of His Paradise, their everlasting place shall be by that "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, which proceedeth out of the throne of God, and of the Lamb." Nor, are these corner stones," however "polished," of " temples, made with hands,” that wicked men may overthrow, and desecrate, and leave no stone upon another, and sow their very place with salt. But they are "living stones," hewn from a living rock, the Rock of everlasting ages. They are built by spiritual hands, a spiritual house. They stand on Him who is the precious corner stone. They live, and grow in Him, and shall for ever live and grow in Him: a temple of the Lord, an habitation, through the Spirit, of the only and immortal God.

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*It is not in view of learning or accomplishments, beloved ones, that I speak thus. Were you ten times as learned, and hundred times as well accomplished, I should feel no certainty, that your attainments here, were for your happiness; or, for the happiness of others. The highest human graces, that a woman ever won, have but ensnared her soul, in vanity and sin; and wrought destruction, through their attractions, for the souls of others. And intellectual powers, and intellectual gifts, not subordinated to the providential

* Address to the Graduating Class, at St. Mary's Hall, March, 1854.

orderings of God, not chastened and controlled by His renewing grace, are, at this time unsexing women; and, thrusting on the astonished world, a race of monsters, in that Amazonian crew, who clamour, now, for "Woman's Rights" such as no mythology has ever dreamed of.

What has been aimed at chiefly, here, and what alone can be relied on, to secure your personal happiness, to make you comforts to your homes, and ornaments and blessings to your race, is your religious training; the impression of your hearts, while they are new and plastic, yet, with the principles and precepts of God's holy word; and the subjection of your lives, in youthful piety, to its divine, renewing, influences.

There is nothing more observable in Holy Scripture, than the way in which it treats the young. The fact of their inherited depravity, it everywhere admits. That without holiness no one can see the Lord, it every where proclaims. It never loses sight of the great plan of God, in their redemption and salvation, through Him, who died, for them, and rose again. Yet, it addresses them, in no harsh words. It lays upon them no hard yokes. It never overloads, it never worries, them. It approaches them, with the arguments of affection. It addresses them in the language of love. It asks of them, indeed, their all. And, yet, in words of tenderest, most engaging, love: "My child, give me thy heart!" Or, with a still, small voice of fond expostulation; serene as summer dew, and searching, like it, into every turn and tendril of their nature, "Remember, now, thy Creator in the days of thy youth; while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."

Again on the day when the College took "the water-level;" in his first Baccalaureate Address in A. D. 1858*, he said :

This is a religious College. It owes its being to the clear, and strong, conviction, that Education is a divine thing. It is from God. It is of God. It is for God. Whence can the authority, to educate a human soul proceed, if not, from God? How can the means, to educate a human soul be obtained, if not of God? What can be the motive, to educate a human soul, if not for God? Is not the soul of man the inbreathing of the God-head? Can less than God discern it? Can less

than God control it? Can less than God provide for it? As the water is, forever, struggling, towards its source, must not the healthful tendency of the human soul be, ever, upward, towards its God? Must not the play of all its pulses be, in sympathy with him? And, can it rest, until it mingles with its source?

* I cannot forbear to quote the closing words of this address, for their beauty as a prayer, and for their bearing on the instinctively devotional character of my Father's life: "God of the spirits of all flesh, by whom Thy servant has been honoured to suffer, for Thy name, accept the cheerful sacrifice; and, for the dear sake of Thy beloved, suffering, Son, return it, in the gracious dew of countless and eternal blessings, upon these dear children: upon all who shall succeed them here; upon this Christian College; and upon Thy Holy Church, the Spouse and purchase of His perfect and perpetual love; and, unto Thee, with Him, and the divine and Holy Spirit, shall be given, through everlasting ages, the honour, and the glory, and the praise."

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This is a Christian College. It has to deal with an immortal nature, fallen. It contemplates its redemption, first. Then, its renewal, in the divine image. Then, its reunion with God. Its stand-point is the cross. The channel of its influences is the Church. Its agent is the Holy Spirit. Its rule is God's most holy word. Its fountains, for the spiritual life, are the holy Sacraments. Its atmosphere is holy prayer.

This College aims to be a bulwark of the Church. It knows no other way to Jesus Christ. It knows that there is no salvation, but in Him. It proposes no controversy. It engages in no rivalry. It is a Church College. It teaches the faith of the Church. It submits to the ministry of the Church. It rejoices in the worship of the Church. It asks no questions, of the children, that are brought to it. It, simply, takes them; and teaches them, as it has, itself, been taught, the truth, as it is in Jesus: and, devoutly, seeks to fit them for the Church, in heaven, by the divine nurture, and holy admonition, of the Church, on earth.

In the fifth Baccalaureate in A. D. 1854, to whose whole argument, as the most eloquent and irresistible assertion of the rights and reasons of Christian education, I refer most proudly in the edition of his works, he writes:

The authority, to educate a human soul, must come from God. On this subject, men reason very loosely; if, at all. They take, for granted, a dominion over human thought, human desire, and human will, which, in no other realm of the Creation, is assumed. For, mark the careful wisdom of the great Creator. When He had "made the beast of the earth, after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing, that creepeth, on the earth, after his kind,” He left not man, though made in his own image, after his likeness, to assert the sovereignty, for which he was created; but, granted it, in terms express: "let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the earth." Nay, the mere lordship of creation did not give inherent right to use, even, the vegetable kingdom. But, God expressly said: "Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree, yielding seed; to you, it shall be, for meat." And, yet, the human soul, an emanation from the Lord, His likeness, photographed, in the spiritual light, which beams, forever, from His face, is unprovided for, and undisposed of! Whoever will, may, educate a child. And, a control is, thus, asserted, over human thought, human desire, and human will-since, education comprehends them, all-as the inherent right of any, who assert it, which is not claimed, over sheep or oxen; or, even in the vineyard, or the cornfield. Man shows his deed of gift, from God, to yoke the patient ox, or shear the harmless sheep. He takes no ear, from off the standing corn, no round and bursting berry, from the full and purple cluster, but, as God's gift, to him, for meat. While, the mere will, to attempt it, is claimed, as his ample and sufficient charter,