310 On architectural, rural, domestic, and other Improvements. 
The other he followed from one thriftless and quarrelsome parish to 
another, till he reached the poorest and most desolate section of 
New England. He afterwards visited the first at his residence in 
Hartford, and the other in a wretched tenement, surrounded by rag- 
ged children, in a parish which could boast only of such a minister, 
with no meeting-house, no school, and scarce a single entire glass 
window. 
_ But there are other and far more important consequences to be 
looked for, than those which relate merely to temporal comfort and 
prosperity ; ; consequences which involve the intellectual and immor- 
tal interests of men. And in that improved and cultivated state of 
society which the scriptures teach us to expect, when the present 
causes and occasions of degradation and sorrow will be resisted and 
overcome, when the evils we endure will be obviated by the Divine 
blessing on a wise and proper exertion of our faculties, this reforma- 
tion will be universal and complete. 
There is then every encouragement of growing and dian success 
to.cheer those whose part it is to promote this object. And there 
surely are not wanting those in every place, who by their education 
and circumstances are qualified to take a part in it, and who by a 
common effort may soon do much for its advancement. 
Let such fancy to themselves a town or village in a location free 
from all material objections, and possessing every essential advantage, 
and laid out and built in such a manner as to secure all the objects, 
public and private, which are desirable; let it be supposed that the 
benefits of such an arrangement are appreciated by the inhabitants, 
and that they agree in their tastes and opinions on this subject; and 
can there be any more doubt of the good effect of such a state of 
things on all the interests, character and welfare of the families con- 
cerned, than of the actual difference between the worst and best 
sites, buildings and occupants, in towns as they now exist? 
Let them also consider what evils might be easily obviated, and what 
benefits secured, in their own immediate neighborhoods, by the im- 
‘provements which attention to this subject would suggest; and to 
what more useful or creditable purpose their talents, knowledge, and 
leisure can be applie 
The subject may fly be commended to the attention of Lyceums, 
and other existing institutions in different parts of the country, with 
particular reference to their respective localities. 
With great regard, I remain your obt. st. 
ELEAZAR Lorv. 
