Excerpt from Discourses to Young Persons So' much depends on the religious character of the rifing' generation that they cann ot too often be called to a con fideration of their duty. Of what confe quence are the graces ufually acquired by genteel education, compared with rech tude of heart What avails it, that one youth has fancy, that another is profound m meditation, and that the qualities of genius are combined in a third? The unlettered and unpoliihed chrifiian, who, like his Mafier, goes about doing good, is vaftly their fuperiour, tla to their pow ers of imagination wit, and fcience, they add benevolence and piety.

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