punished for it sooner or later. They are often punished in this world, either by their parents or masters, or by the officers of justice, who put them in prison, and at last perhaps bring them to the gallows. But even supposing that they escape in this world; we shall all die, my young friends, and after death,' as the apostle Paul saith, cometh the judgmentthat awful judgment, at which we shall be brought to an account for every wicked thing that we have either done, or thought, or said. Yes! for all that we have said; for Christ tells us particularly that Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment;' Matt. xii, 36. O! my dear children, how careful should this make you of what you say! How careful never to utter any bad words or foul names, either to your young companions, or to any one else. How respectful also should it make you to your teachers! Consider, I pray you, how much older and wiser they are than you, and of what great value the knowledge is which they are able to give you. Consider, too, how very kind it is in them, to take the trouble with you which they do, and to devote their time and attention to instruct you in the word of God. In return for this, you ought not only to come to school punctually at the hour appointed, and try to learn the tasks which are set you, but you

ought to speak to your teachers always in a respectful and thankful manner, as if you felt their kindness. This I hope that you will strive to do, and never suffer yourselves to be rude or disobedient. Live always as in the sight of Almighty God, who both sees all that you do, and hears all that you say. Strive to obey his commands, and then he will make you happy both here and hereafter.

ADDRESS II.

THE BEING OF GOD.

The Bible tells us, that all things were made by God; but we know this in another waywe know it by the reasonings of our own minds. I will endeavor to explain this to you.

When you see a table, a chair, or a bench, you know that there must have been some one to make it; you know that it must have been made by a joiner. So, when you see a house, you know that it must have been built by a bricklayer or a stonemason: that the woodwork was made by a carpenter, and that it was finished by the plasterer and the painter. So too, when you see a watch, you conclude that it was made by a watchmaker. Just in

the same way, when you consider the earth on which you live, and all that it contains, the mountains and the plains, the rivers and the woods, the men and the beasts who live upon it, you must conclude that these things were made by some one or other. They could not have made themselves any more than the chair or the table could make itself, or the house could build itself. They must have been made by some one, and that some one is God.

They could not have made themselves, nor could they have been made by men. You and I could not have made them. We can take the wood, and the stone, and the iron that we find; and form things of them for our own use, but we cannot make the wood, or the stone, or the iron itself. Who then was it that made these things? It was God—a great, and wise, and good Being, who is above us all, and who can do all things.

When you see a large palace, or a noble bridge, with many arches, you conclude that the man who built the palace or the bridge must have been a very powerful man; that he must have been a king, or a very rich man, with a great deal of money, for without this he could not have brought together all the materials which were necessary, nor have paid the workmen. You conclude too, that the workmen must have been very strong to raise up such

large stones, and to place them one on the top of another. How great and powerful then must be that Being who made the world—this vast world, that we cannot see to the end of, with all that it contains! If it requires riches or strength to build a bridge or a palace, how much greater strength must it have required to put together this solid earth on which we stand; to fix the mountains in their places, and to spread out the boundless plains; to fill the depths of the sea with water, and to make the rivers flow into it from many different sources; to plant the trees and the forests, and to fill every part with living creatures! Truly, if kings and rulers be mighty, how much mightier must be the Great King of all, the Being who made the earth,and every thing that is in it!

Again, there are some of you, no doubt, who have seen a piece of beautiful mechanism: you have probably seen the inside of a watch, and have remarked the barrel, which contains the main-spring, and the chain, which is wrapped round it, and then a number of wheels, the teeth of which fit into one another; and lastly, another beautiful and delicate spring, called the balance-spring, which regulates the whole: and perhaps you have been made to understand that it is the spring inside the box which turns it round: and that this, by means of the chain,

moves the wheels, and these move the hands, so as to tell us what o'clock it is. All this is very curious, and you cannot help thinking that he must have been a very clever man who first made a watch, who contrived all its parts, and put them together in such a manner that the hands tell us the hour, and even the minute of the day. You could not yourselves have done such a thing as make a watch; nor could you have contrived a loom to weave with, nor a mill to grind corn, nor a steam-engine, which is so useful in a number of ways. You can have no doubt that the men who contrived all these machines must have been very wise and clever men. How much wiser, then, must be that Being who contrived the world itself in which we live, and every thing that we behold around us! You know that the sun was placed in the heavens to give us light and heat by day, and the moon to give us light by night; you know that the earth turns round on its own axis, as it is called, so as to cause day and night; and that, by being turned in different directions, as it makes its journey round the sun, it brings us spring at one season and summer at another, and autumn at a third and winter at a fourth. You know, too, how excellently the clouds are contrived to shade us from the heat of the sun, and sometimes to drop down in rain upon the fields, to make the