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Plan Of Education.
as the foundation of the reverence and worship which we owe him . -For if we are so constituted , that we cannot help esteeming and admiring any of our fellow-creatures whom we observe to be endued with very great and very good qualities , to how much greater esteem and admiration is that Being entitled , who possesses every perfection in the Hi g hest degree ? But when we reflect , that it is to that all-perfect life itself
Being we owe , and all the blessings which attend it , howhi gh should our love , our gratitude , our veneration rise ! It is he who inspires our parents with that strong affection which is so necessary a shield for us during the thoughtless condition of childhood and youth . It is to his bounty we are indebted for the food we eat , and the raiment we wear . It is he whose handthough unseen us from those
, , preserves innumerable dangers to which our tender and delicate frame is continually exposed . It is to him we owe the hi gh rank which weholdin the creation , and all the faculties of soul and body which we possess . He has endued us with the power of speech , by which we are rendered more capable of communicating our thoughts , of extending our usefulness , and of improving our happiness . He has distinguished our
voices , as well as our countenances , by an infinite variety , and yet an amazing similarity . He has formed us for action as well as contemplation i and to temperance and industry he has graciously annexed health , arid the certainty of a comfortable subsistence . He supports the race of mankind , by that nice and wonderful proportion which he keeps up between the two sexes , and b y that strong instinct which he has implanted in them for continuing the species . From him all our
delights and all our enjpyments flow . Our pains also he has made subservient to our moral improvement and our truest and most lasting felicity . He has li ghted up a lamp within us , to direct us in the road to happiness ; he has revived and brightened it when faint , and ready to expire , and brought life and immortality clearly to light by the gospel . He has placed happiness within our reach , if we be not
wanting to ourselves , and promised his assistance to those who sincerely ask it . He has made our felicity to consist in virtuous actions , and linked our duty and happiness inseparably together . Even in the natural ^ desires and propensities of our souls , he has given us an internal conviction , that they are to exist hereafter , and that this our present state is but the nursery of our being , and , as it were , the
school of life .- And by the analagy of nature , but still more clearly by the revelation of his will in the gospel , he has assured us that we are to survive our bodies , and to be happy or miserable , according to the use we make of our talents , and of the opportunities we have of improving them . _ Already do we feel the sanctions of this law taking place within us , in the authority which conscience exercises over us ,
rewarding us with self-approbation and pleasing hope , whenwedoa good or generous action , and punishing us with remorse and fear when we neglect our duty , oract a mean and unworthy part . We find also that our constitution is founded on this law , and that the natural and regular- exercise of our powers is productive of health and happiness , while the perversion or tlie debasement of them leads to pain and misery . Is not this a clear intimation of the . divine will , and a power-
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Plan Of Education.
as the foundation of the reverence and worship which we owe him . -For if we are so constituted , that we cannot help esteeming and admiring any of our fellow-creatures whom we observe to be endued with very great and very good qualities , to how much greater esteem and admiration is that Being entitled , who possesses every perfection in the Hi g hest degree ? But when we reflect , that it is to that all-perfect life itself
Being we owe , and all the blessings which attend it , howhi gh should our love , our gratitude , our veneration rise ! It is he who inspires our parents with that strong affection which is so necessary a shield for us during the thoughtless condition of childhood and youth . It is to his bounty we are indebted for the food we eat , and the raiment we wear . It is he whose handthough unseen us from those
, , preserves innumerable dangers to which our tender and delicate frame is continually exposed . It is to him we owe the hi gh rank which weholdin the creation , and all the faculties of soul and body which we possess . He has endued us with the power of speech , by which we are rendered more capable of communicating our thoughts , of extending our usefulness , and of improving our happiness . He has distinguished our
voices , as well as our countenances , by an infinite variety , and yet an amazing similarity . He has formed us for action as well as contemplation i and to temperance and industry he has graciously annexed health , arid the certainty of a comfortable subsistence . He supports the race of mankind , by that nice and wonderful proportion which he keeps up between the two sexes , and b y that strong instinct which he has implanted in them for continuing the species . From him all our
delights and all our enjpyments flow . Our pains also he has made subservient to our moral improvement and our truest and most lasting felicity . He has li ghted up a lamp within us , to direct us in the road to happiness ; he has revived and brightened it when faint , and ready to expire , and brought life and immortality clearly to light by the gospel . He has placed happiness within our reach , if we be not
wanting to ourselves , and promised his assistance to those who sincerely ask it . He has made our felicity to consist in virtuous actions , and linked our duty and happiness inseparably together . Even in the natural ^ desires and propensities of our souls , he has given us an internal conviction , that they are to exist hereafter , and that this our present state is but the nursery of our being , and , as it were , the
school of life .- And by the analagy of nature , but still more clearly by the revelation of his will in the gospel , he has assured us that we are to survive our bodies , and to be happy or miserable , according to the use we make of our talents , and of the opportunities we have of improving them . _ Already do we feel the sanctions of this law taking place within us , in the authority which conscience exercises over us ,
rewarding us with self-approbation and pleasing hope , whenwedoa good or generous action , and punishing us with remorse and fear when we neglect our duty , oract a mean and unworthy part . We find also that our constitution is founded on this law , and that the natural and regular- exercise of our powers is productive of health and happiness , while the perversion or tlie debasement of them leads to pain and misery . Is not this a clear intimation of the . divine will , and a power-