MOOB,E’S KURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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BY L. WE THE II EL I, 
LIBBJVSIE3 IN' BOSTON AND VICINITY. 
Thk following facts were obfcuned from 
Dearborn’s “Boston Notions, ” and the Bi¬ 
bliotheca Sacra: 
Thk Boston AxiiKNi^iUM;—Instituted in 
IbOL; incorporated 1807. This library nuw 
contains 50,000 bound volumes; 20,000 
piimphlots; about 500 volumes of engrav- 
ino-s; and a valuable collection of ancient 
coins. One fourth of the Broomfield fund, 
Avhich is $25,000, is added to the principal; 
and the balanoc is expended in purchasing 
books, ’fhe institution has another fund of 
$25,000, whose income goes to defray the 
contingent expenses. Annual subscribers 
are charged $10; a ticket for life can be 
had for $100; and a share in the property 
can be bought for $300 —this entitles the* 
holder to three tickets of admission. The 
whole property is vauled at about $500,000. 
Thk Massachusktts State Lirkauy.— 
This library, designed for the use of the 
General Court, contains about 7,000 vol¬ 
umes : among these are many valuable man¬ 
uscripts. The State makes an annual ap¬ 
propriation of $300, to purchase such works 
as tend to develop the means and re.sources 
of Home Improvement 
dhiE Boston Libkary : incorporated 1794; 
and contains 12,000 volumes, designed for 
popular use. About 250 volumes are add¬ 
ed annually. 'I.'he number of proprietora is 
170—these have the exclusive use of the 
library. 
The Library of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society: incorporated in 1794. 
The design of tliis Society is to collect and 
presen'e materials for the history of the 
country. The library contains 9,000 bound 
volumes; 2,000 pamphlets; and 450 bound 
manuscripts. It also contains the MSS. of 
riunUAKD, Gov. WlNTIIROP, GoV. IIuTClIIN 
SON and others of noted memory. The 
Society has published 30 volumes of collec¬ 
tions in three series, consisting of ten vol¬ 
umes each. 
Libr.ary of the Mercantile Associa¬ 
tion; founded in 1820, for the mutual ben¬ 
efit of young men, under 21 years of age, 
engaged in the mercantile business. This 
libraiy contains 7,000 volumes, adapted to 
the wants of the aforesaid class. There is 
a Rcaihng Room also, containing 89 news¬ 
papers and 21 magazines and reviews.— 
The number of members is about 1,150.— 
The conditions of membership are tlie pre¬ 
sentation of some useful volume to the As¬ 
sociation and to pay $2 a year. 
The Bow'ditch Library: founded in 
1839, containing about 3,000 volumes: it 
is kept at Dr. Bowditch’s house, and is a 
free public institution. 
The Prince Library. —This is a valuable 
collection of books and private papers re¬ 
lating to the civil and religious liistory of 
New England for more than half a centuiy, 
beginning in l703. This collection was be¬ 
queathed by Mr. Prince to the Old South 
Church. 
The Library of Harvard College.— 
This College was founded in 1G38,18 years 
after the landing of the Pilgrims. The li¬ 
brary contains 56,000 bound volumes, in¬ 
cluding manuscripts; also, about 25,000 un¬ 
bound pamphlets and serial works. This 
library contains 4,400 volumes relating to 
American History. This is the largest li¬ 
brary in our country. 
The Library of the American Anti¬ 
quarian Society at Worcester. —This in¬ 
stitution was founded in 1812, by Isaiah 
Thomas, a'venerable printer. The library 
contains more than 18,000 volumes, besides 
manuscripts and pamphlets. Th^ Society 
has a permanent fund of nearly $30,000. 
Library of the Andover Theological 
Seminary. This library contains nearly 
17,000 volumes. About $700 are annual¬ 
ly expended in the purchase of books. A 
collection of about 3,000 small bcxilis and 
pamphlets relating to, or written by, the 
Puritans and published in England, in the 
times of Charles I, the Commonwealth, and 
Charles II, has been ordered 
Select and Valuable Private Libra¬ 
ries. —Tl'.e library of Mr. Ticknor, the au¬ 
thor of Spanish Tfiterature, contains about 
12,000 volumes, relating mostly to English 
and Spanish literature. Mr. Prescott, Mr. 
Dowse, and Dr. Sears, the Secretary of the 
Board of Education, have each very large 
and valuable collections of rare works. Dr. 
Sears has probably one of the best, if not 
the best collection of works on German lit¬ 
erature in this country. 
The Library-of the College of the 
Holy Cross, in Worcester, contains a very 
good collection of the works of the Christian 
Fathers. 
This gives one a view of the advantages 
and resources which a literary man enjoys 
residing in Boston, or its vicinity, d'he sons 
and daughters of Tllassacluiseils l;a\e great 
reason to rejoice in the resources that they 
enjoy for moral and intellectual culture, se¬ 
cured to them by the wise educational poli¬ 
cy of the settleisoF the Massachusetts colony. 
ABSTRACT OF THE REPORT OF THE MAS¬ 
SACHUSETTS BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
We copy the following interesting ab¬ 
stract from the Spring-field Republican, from 
which the reader will get a very good idea 
of the working of the school system of the 
Old Bay State. Each town has a School 
Committee, and every School District a 
Prudential Committee—or Committee-man 
as he is called. The School Committee is 
appointed annually by the town, and con¬ 
sists usually of three, five, or seven persons. 
Their duties are to examine applicants for 
schools within the town, to give certificates 
of approbation to such as they deem pos¬ 
sessed of the requisite qualifications for 
teachers; to prepare a list of text-books for 
the schools under their supervision, and to 
visit the aforesaid schools, in order to ascer¬ 
tain from personal observation whether they 
are fulfilling the end designed. The Pru¬ 
dential Committee, consisting of one, has 
generally selected the teacher or teachei-s 
if more than one. An objection is made, 
as Avill be seen below, to this way of pro¬ 
curing teachers. The Town Committees 
possess the power to employ all the •teach¬ 
ers, but have not generally exercised it, be¬ 
cause deemed less democratic than the old 
way: 
“ The thirteenth Annual Report of the Board 
of F]ducation, just .submitteed to the Ivegislature, 
represents that the question of the utility of Nor¬ 
mal Schools is regarded as settled, and that hence¬ 
forward they will be* placed among the established 
agencies in the work of education. Mr. Pierce, 
of the West Newton Normal School, has resigned 
his situation on account of ill health, and Eben S. 
Stearns of Bedford, in this State, has been ap¬ 
pointed in his place. New regulations for the gov¬ 
ernment of the Normal Schools have been adopted 
by the Board, the prominent one of which is that 
requiring candidates for admission at the West 
Newton Normal School to remain four consecu¬ 
tive term.s, and ut other Normal Schools three con¬ 
secutive terms. The reason for this is found in 
the fact that, on account of the vicinity of Boston 
and other largo towns, the YVest Newton school is 
filled with younger pupils who have had no expe¬ 
rience in teaching. 
Six Teachers’ Institutes havfc been held in as 
many ditlerent parts of the State during the past 
year, each of six day’s duration. It is believed that 
they have accomplished much good,.and the Board 
propose twelve to bo liolden during the present year. 
The practice of allowing the Prudential Commit¬ 
tee of school districts to select and contract with 
the teachers is made a subject of complaint, as 
leading to the employment of incompetent persons. 
The Board recommend the employment of teach¬ 
ers in all ca.ses by the School Committee of the 
town. 
On the 1st of December, 1849, the Ma.ssachu- 
setts School Fund amounted to $876,082 26. On 
the 1st of Januarj', 1849, it was $848,276 17. Of 
the present amount, .$155,007 20 is in laUd notes, 
on which interest accumulates until the maturity 
of the principal, and $721,075 06 is in funded prop¬ 
erty of various kinds, yielding an income of about 
,$39,000. This amount is distributed to the towns 
for the support of schools. Appropriations for the 
support of Teachers’ Institutes, Normal Shools 
and for sundry expenses of the Board, amounting 
to $17,217 57, from the sales of public lands, set 
apart for the increase of the School F'und, have 
been made by authoritiy of the statute of 1846. 
It will bo seen that notwithstanding these appro¬ 
priations, the School I'kind has increased ,$27,- 
815 09. The late Henry Todd, of Boston, has 
left, by will, the sum of .$10,000 to be applied in 
aid of the Normal Schools. 
The West Newton Normal School had, at its 
first term last year, 73 pupils; 2d, 92; 3d, 103. — 
The Bridgewater Normal School has given in¬ 
struction to 65 pupils during tlie same period. — 
The Westfield Normal School has been attended 
with much .success. During the winter term, it 
had 56 students; summer, 71; fall, 110. Whole 
number, 148; of whom 100 were females, and 48 
males. Average age, 21 years. The number of 
pupils is represented by the Board of visitors to be 
constantly increasing. The total expense of these 
three schools amount to $5,968 01; divided as fol¬ 
lows: Newton, $1,616 97; Westfield, $2,063 63; 
Bridgewater, ,$2,287 41. 
The first Report to the Board of the new Sec¬ 
retary, Dr. Sears, considers certain changes rela¬ 
ting to the duties of his otllco. The preparatory- 
and foundation work of the Public School system 
of the State having been completed by his prede¬ 
cessor, his eftbrts will be directed chiefly to the 
practical application of details. It is expedient to 
lot the system remain for the present, unaltered in 
its main featuro-s, and make systematic, energetic, 
and persevering eflbrts to bring the state of the 
schools to correspond with the facihlies already 
provided by law for their improvement. Improve¬ 
ment in the administration of a system is a surer 
mark of progress than improvement in the system 
itself. The most of the Secretary’s time for the 
past year has been spent in observation in ditlerent 
parts of the State, and he declares that the difi’er- 
cnce between the best schools and the poorest is as 
great ns that seen among men in dift’erent stages 
of civilization. The Report, though brief, con¬ 
tains som?! valuable suggestions to which wo may 
hereafter have occasion to refer. 
The table showing the comparative amount of 
money appropriated by the diflbrent towns in the 
Slate, for the education of each child between the 
ages of four and sixteen, exhibits the fact that 
Springfield is the 25th in the scale. Boston, which 
stands at the head of the list, pays $10 65; Brook¬ 
line, .$7 39; Cambridge, $5 48; Roxburv, .$5 43; 
Medford, $5 17; New Braintree, ,$4 67; Waltham, 
,$4 54; and Springfield $4 48. Chicopee pays 
.$4 35; Worcester, .$4 13; Northamjiton, ,$3 89. 
Boston raised by taxes for the simport of public 
schools, $2.32,800; Salem, $180^3 75; I.ynn, 
$10,000; Chiirlestown, ,$24,955; Cambridge, 
,$18,2''19 62 ; Lowell, ,$30,492 62 ; Worcester, 
$13,300; Northampton, $4,600; Springfield,,$9,- 
ti30; Chicopee, ,$7,400; 1’itl.sfiold, $2,800; Rox- 
hury, ,$19,877 27; New Bedford, $16,600. 
The entire nnmher of children in the State, be¬ 
tween tlie ages of four and sixteen, is 215,926; 
mean average attendance at scliool, 134,734. There 
were l,a.st year 3,749 public schools in the Com¬ 
monwealth, and 1,047 incorporated academies.— 
The number of children in Springfield, of the 
proper ago for schools, was, last year, 2,146; mean 
average attendance, 1,340; number in Chicopee, 
1,698; average attendance, 1,008; Westfield, 932; 
average attendance, 570; Northampton, 1,108; 
average attendance, 746. The ratio of attendance 
in the State is to the whole number of children 
sixty-two one liundredths. 
The number of scholars of all ages, in all the 
schools of the Comnionwcalth, was, in summer, 
173,659; in winter, 191,712. Average attend¬ 
ance in summer, 120,512; in winter, 142,967.— 
The number of children in the State under four 
years of age who attended school was 3,326; over 
16 years, 10,452. The average length of the 
schools in the State was seven months and twenty- 
four days. The length in Suffolk Co., was ll 
months and 27 days; in E.ssex, 9.22; Hampshire, 
6.15; Hampden, 6.22; F''ranklin, 5.25; Berkshire, 
7.12. The number of teachers, including sum¬ 
mer and winter terms, was: males 2,426; females 
5,737. Average wages paid to males, including 
value of board, per month, ,$34,02; females, .$9,- 
00. The number of public schools in Hampden 
was 2-^19; Hampshire, 226; Franklin, 260; Berk¬ 
shire, 283. 
Tlie statistics contained in this Report shows 
very forcibly the wisdom of the change proposed 
by the new Secretary, in the duties of his office.— 
The details of our common School system, excel¬ 
lent as the system is, and superior to that of al¬ 
most everj- other State in its practical operations, 
are manifestly far from perfection. It is stated in 
the report tliat the “ average attendance” returned 
by the Town Committees is too large. It is seen 
that nearly 14,000 scholars have been in attend¬ 
ance who were either under or over the specified 
ages. This number, of course, comes out of the 
“average attendance,” when comparing it with 
the total number of children over four and under 
.sixteen in the State, — showing that the regular 
attendance at school is but little more than half of 
the latter number. This evil is one that cries loudly 
for a remedy. The insignificant amount of money 
raised in certain comities, in comparison with the 
number of children taught, shows thatjj teachers, 
in such counties, are inadequately paid. The 
whole document is one that de.serves a careful con¬ 
sideration by all tho friends of education, that the 
wants of our Common Schools may be properly 
appreciated, and the remedies under.standingly 
applied.” 
THE HALF CENTURY CONTROVERSY. 
In a matter tliat is purely abstract it is 
not very strange that men should differ in 
opinion. But that thinking men and schol¬ 
ars should differ concerning a fact which is 
the result of counting fifty, is very strange. 
One clas.s mtiintiiins, that we have entered 
upon the hist half of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury, while the other assert.s the fact, that 
we are passing through the last year of the 
first half of the aforesaid century. 
When a person begins to read a book 
containing one hundred pages, has he com¬ 
pleted the first lialf of tlie volume when he 
has read to the bottom of the 49th page? 
or must he begin on the 50th and read to 
the bottom of the page before he has read 
the first half of the volume ? If the latter 
be not the fact, then let the objector sub¬ 
tract 49 from 100 and declare the remainder, 
Tlie New York Independent says: 
“ Fifty years ago there were some pei-sons 
in this country who thought that the eigh 
teenth century closed with the year 1799; 
and some centennial sermons were preach¬ 
ed, and some centennial balls were given, 
on tliat hypothesis. We were familiar, in 
our boyhood, with the neiv year’s verses of 
the Connecticut Courant for the year 1801, 
written by the late Theodore Dwight, Esq. 
They began thus: 
‘ Precisely twelve o’clock last night, 
The eighteenth century took its flight; 
Full many a calculating head 
Has racked its brain, its ink has shed. 
To prove by metaphysics fine, 
A hundred means but ninety-nvie: 
While at their wisdom others wondered, 
. But took one more to make a hundred. 
# 
►Strange! ut ‘ the eighteenth century’s close, 
When light in bcain.s elfulgcnt glows,’ 
When bright .Uliimination’s niy- 
1 las chased the darkness far away, 
Heads filled with mathematic lore, 
Dispute if two and two make four. 
Do on, ye scientific sages, 
Collect your light a few more ages; 
Perhaps, as swells the vast amount, 
A eentnry hence, you’ll Uarn to count.’ ” 
Forty-nine years and forty-five days of 
the first half of the present centuiy have 
passed away since these verses of Mr, Dwight 
were publislied; and still there are “ scien 
title sages,” tvho liave not yet learned to 
count fifty—not much hope that such can 
ever ''leant to count” a hundred. 
Self-Reliance. — The success of indi 
viduals in life, is greatly owing to their ear 
ly learning to depend upon their own re 
sources. Money, or the exjicetation of it by 
inheritance, htis ruined more men than the 
want of it ever did. ’reach young men to 
rely upon their own eflbi-ts, to be frugal and 
industrious, and you have furnished tliem 
with a productive capital which no man can 
evei-Avrcst from them. 
ANECDOTES OF THE GRAY FOX. 
The following tinecdotes we hope may 
interest our readers: 
Shortly after the railroad from Charles¬ 
ton to Hamburgli, tS. C., had been construct¬ 
ed, the rails for a portion of the distance 
having been laid upon timbers at a consid¬ 
erable Iieight from the ground, supported 
by strong posts, we obseiwed a fox which 
was hard pressed by a pack of hounds, 
mounting the rtiil.s, upon which he ran sev¬ 
eral hundred yards; the dogs were unable 
to pursue him, and he thus crossed a deep 
cypress swamp over which the railroad was 
in this singular manner carried, and made 
his escape on the opposite side. 
’The late Benjamin C. Yancey, Esq., an 
eminent lawyer, who in his youth was very 
fond of fox-hunting, relates the following: 
A fox had been pui-sued near his residence 
in Edgefield, several times; but the hounds 
always lost the track at a place where there 
was a foot-path leading down a steep hill. 
He, therefore, determined to conceal him¬ 
self near this declivity the next time the fox 
was started, in order to discover his mode 
of baffling the dogs at this place, ’riio an¬ 
imal was accordingly put up and chased, 
and first led the hounds through many bay¬ 
ous and ponds in the woods, but at length 
came running over the brow of the hill 
along the path, stopped suddenly and spread 
himself out flat and motionless onthegTOund; 
the hounds came down the hill in pursuit at 
ti dashing jiace, and the Avhole pack passed 
and did not stop until they were at the bot¬ 
tom of the hill. As soon as the immediate 
danger wtis over, the fox, casting a furtive 
glance around him, started up, and ran off 
at his greatest speed on his “ back track.” 
-Auduboti’ Quadrupeds of America. 
SENSE OF RESP ONSIBI LITY IN CAMELS. 
The camels with which I traversed that 
part of the desert were very difforent in 
their xvays and luihits from those which you 
get on a frequented route. They were nev 
er led, ’fhere w;ls not the slightest sign of 
a track in this part of the desert, but the 
camels never failed to choose the right line. 
By the direction taken at first starting, they 
knew, I suppose, the point (some encamp¬ 
ment) for which they were to make. There 
is always a leading camel, (general^', I be 
lieve, the eldest,) who mtirches foremost, and 
determines the path for the whole party.— 
If it happens that no one of the camels has 
been accustomed,to lead the others, there 
is very great difficulty in making a start 
If you force your beast forward for a mo¬ 
ment he will conlrife to wheel and draw 
hack, at the same time looking at one of the 
other camels with an expression and ges¬ 
ture exactly equivalent to “aprez vous,” 
The responsibility of finding the way is eri- 
dently assumed very unwillingly. After 
some time, however, it becomes understood 
that one of tlie beasts has reluctintly con¬ 
sented to take the lead, and he accordingly 
advances for that purpose. For a minute 
or two he goes on with much indecision, tak¬ 
ing first one line, then another, but soon, by 
the aid of some mysterious sense, he dis- 
covei'S the true direction, and follows it 
steadily from morning to night AVhen once 
the leadership is established, you cannot, by 
any force, induce a junior camel to walk one 
single step in advance of the chosen guide. 
’The Wonders of NaTuke. — There is a 
tree called the Manchaneel, in the West In¬ 
dies ; its appearance is very attractive, ‘and 
the w'ood of it peculiarly beautiful; it bears 
a kind of apple resembling a golden pippin. 
This fruit looks very tempting and smells 
very fragrant, but to eat of it is instant 
death, and its sap or juice is so poisonous, 
that if a few drops of it fall on the skin, it 
raises blisters, and occasions great pain.— 
The Inditms dip their arrows in this juice 
to poison their enemies when they wound 
them. Providence has so appointed it, that 
one of these is never found, but near it 
grows a white wood, or fig tree, the juice 
of either of which, if applied in time, is a 
remedy for tlie disease produced by the 
Manclianecl. 
The Present Year. —A German news¬ 
paper has recently published a prophecy by 
a Benedictine monk, who died in 1847, the 
purport of which is that the present yeai' 
1850 will be one of unusual prosperity.— 
’The different sects of Christianity will in 
that year accord. ’The Sultan will be poi¬ 
soned (Abdel Medjid had better take care.) 
Russia will suffer much from a warlike na¬ 
tion of the East. A German prince will 
found an eastern empire. Grain, fruit, len¬ 
tils, and other vegetables will he so plenti¬ 
ful that the barns will be unable to contain 
them. The disease of the Irish pottito will 
everywhere cetise, and old men will not re 
member such a year of fruitfulnesa The 
wine of this year will surpass that of the 
comet ye;>r. 
THE SABBATH BELLS. 
STRANZA OMITTED BY EDGAR A. 
Hear the holy Sabbath bells— 
Sacred hells 1 
Oh, what a world of peaceful rest 
Their melody foretells! 
How sweetly at the dawning 
Of a summer Sabbath morning 
Sounds the rhymir^ 
And the chiming of the helL I 
How they peal out their delight 
At the happy—happy sight 
Of the villagers’ commotion, 
As they wend to their devotion! 
'What emotions fill tho breast, 
At the ringing 
And tho signing! 
And the solemn organ blending 
’With the fervent prayer ascending 
To the God who made tho Sabbath for the^weary 
pilgrims’ rest! 
What joy—what pain the bosom swells. 
O’er the happy hours of childhood, when we hear 
those village bells! 
O’er the rhyming 
And the chiming 
Of the bells! 
Of the bells, bells, bells, 
Bells, bells, bells— 
O’er the rich, melodious chiming of those holy Sab¬ 
bath bells! 
H. S. Nolen. — Americnn Courier. 
A BRIEF DISCOURSE. 
The warbling brook meanders through 
the fertile plain,— luxuriant verdure deco¬ 
rates its banks,—the weeping willow over¬ 
hangs the limped pool, and invites the herds 
of the valley to lay in the shade — the 
flocks from the mountains daily drink of its 
water, and it adds beauty and happiness to 
all around. But the toiTcnt descends, and 
floods from the mountain overflows its 
banks, and spreads devastation and ruin over 
the beautiful valley. 
And such is too frequently the case with 
human actions. Men, feeling conscious of 
a righteous cause, press forward with over¬ 
heated zeal, and overleap the hounds of 
prudence, without realizing the fatal conse¬ 
quences; believing that the end will justify 
the mean.s, they commit acts of injustice, to 
promote the happiness of mankind — sanc¬ 
tion error to promulgate truth — and tacitly 
look on crime in hopes to promote virtue, 
until they overwhelm the good they intend¬ 
ed to promote, in the labyrinth of ruin. 
“ Tlic wise man looketh hack and corrcct- 
eth the error of his ways; hut the fool 
persists in his folly.” It would he well for 
the improvement of society if some of our 
wise ones were willing to look hack and cor¬ 
rect their errors, by making reparation for 
them in future; but stubborn pride too often 
makes us persist, even when avc are conscious 
that it is wrong; and what is yet much 
worse, we too frequently attempt to retrieve >! 
the past by committing greater blundci's. 
F. 
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. 
’rEA.—The definition of this word, two 
hundred years ago, was: “ A kind of drinke 
used in China, made of hearbes, spices and 
other comfortable things very costJie; they 
drinke it warme, and with it welcora their 
dearest gueiftes and friendes.” 
It strikes me as tho most impressive of 
all sentiments, that “ It will be all the same 
a hundred yeiu’s after this! ” It is often 
used in the form of proverb, and with the 
levity of a mind that is not aware of its 
importance. A hundred years after this! 
Good Heavens! ivith what speed and with 
what certainty will those liundred years 
come to their termination! This day ivill 
draw to a close, and a number of days make 
one revolution of the season. Year follows 
year, and a number of years make a cen¬ 
tury. These little intervals of time accu¬ 
mulate and till up that mighty space which 
appears to the fancy so big and so immeas¬ 
urable. The hundred years will see the 
wreck of whole generations. Every living 
thing that moves on the face of the earth, 
will disappear from it. The infant that now 
hangs on its mother’s bosom, will only live 
in the remembrance of his grand-children, 
’rhe scene of life find of intelligence that 
is now before me, will be changed into the 
dark and loathsome form of corruption. — 
’The people who now hear me, they will 
cease to be spoken of; their meormy ivill 
perish from the face of the country; their 
flesh will be devoured by worms; the dark 
and creeping things that live in the holes 
of the earth will feed upon their bodies; 
tlieir coffins will have mouldered away, and 
their bones he thrown up in the new made 
grave. And is this the consummation of 
all things ? Is this the final end and issue 
of man ? Is this the upshot of his busy ■' 
history ? Is there nothing beyond time and 
tlie. grave to alleviate the gloomy picture ? 
— to chase away these dismal images ? — 
Must we sleep forever in the dust, and bid 
adieu to the light of Heaven?— Dr. Ohal- 
mer’s Sermotis atid Posthumous Works. 
•‘Morality without relig’ion is only a kind 
of dead-reckoning—tin endeavor to find 
our place on ti cloudy sea by measuring the 
distance we have run, but without any ob¬ 
servation of the heavenly bodies.” 
The glory of a good man is the testimony 
of a good conscience; have that, and thou 
wilt have inward peace amidst troubles. 
