every appearance of religious sensibility-he should strive to impress strongly upon their minds, the sense of a God ever present,-infinite in Wisdom-in Power-in Love-in Justice and in Mercy, of his great love to mankind in sending the Lord Jesus Christ, his beloved Son, to die for the sins of all men, (" for that all have sinned;" Rom. v. 12.) and who, being risen from the dead, is now our Advocate with the Father, making intercession for us to teach them that He is ever present in spirit with those who love and fear him, and that it is their duty to endeavour, frequently to turn their minds to him-to think of him, and pray to him that they may be favoured with an inward evidence and comfortable feeling of his good presence and love.

The Tutor should endeavour to impress upon the minds of the children a due sense of the dreadful nature and consequences of sin, and of its extreme offensiveness in the Divine sight, 10 endeavour to make them fully aware of this great truth, that the heart of unregenerate man "is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," that as they are liable daily and hourly to be tempted to sin, and can only effectually resist these temptations in the strength afforded by "the grace of God" which bringeth salvation, and hath appeared to every man, (Titus ii. 11.) so they ought, daily and hourly to be upon the watch, and endeavour to keep their minds in such a state as to be enabled to pray for divine assistance.

To bear constantly in mind that the example

of the Tutor, will act silently, but powerfully upon the children, but let him endeavour that nothing in his conduct should give him cause of regret, if he saw it imitated by the children.

To keep a watch over his own temper and passions, and endeavour so to act, that his whole demeanour may tend to produce a beneficial influence upon the children.

To discourage every appearance of pride or haughtiness, as utterly unbecoming and unchristian; to teach the children to treat servants and those in inferior stations with respect and attention, and even to be ready to assist them upon proper occasions-to teach them to consider nothing as beneath them, that is not morally wrong. To teach them the vast importance of a close adherence to truth and sincerity, let the probable consequences of that adherence be what they may-to encourage them in a frank and open conduct-to teach them to be content with such things as they have, and never to covet those belonging to another to be strictly honest, and to dread running into debt.

To teach them to put the most favourable construction upon the conduct of others-to discourage tale-bearing and detraction, and particularly the speaking evil of absent personsto cultivate in the children kind feelings towards all, and humanity to the brute creation-to teach them the great value of time, and the duty of industry.

To make every pupil the subject of a particular study, as to his capacity, turn of mind, and disposition; and let him endeavour that the

circumstances with which the child shall be surrounded, may have a tendency, even unperceived by himself to develope the good and kind feelings in him, and to repress those of a contrary nature.

The Tutor should keep a diary in which to note any circumstance relative to particular children, which may appear to be of sufficient importance.

After breakfast every day, the Tutor should read a portion of Holy Scripture to the children, and at the conclusion let there be a suitable pause.

At the close of the school-business every day, each pupil is to be employed about a quarter of an hour in writing, as neatly as possible, an account of what he has been occupied in, or has learned in the day.

Before the children retire to rest at night, the Tutor is to read to them a portion of Holy Scripture, or some religious subject, making any remarks that may occur, the whole to conclude with a suitable pause.

JOURNAL

OF

THE LIFE AND TRAVELS

OF

JOHN WOOLMAN,

IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL.

CHAP. I.

His birth and parentage, with some account of the operation of Divine grace on his mind in his youth.-His first appearance in the ministryand his considerations, while young, on the keeping of slaves.

I HAVE often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God; and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

I was horn at Northampton in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720; and before I was seven years old I began to be acquainted with the operations of divine love. Through the care of my parents, I was taught to read nearly as soon as I was capable of it; and as I went from school one seventh-day, I

remember, while my companions went to play by the way, I went forward out of sight, and sitting down I read the 22nd chapter of the Revelations. "He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb," &c. and in reading it, my mind was drawn to seek after that pure habitation, which I then believed, God had prepared for his servants. The place where I sat, and the sweetness that attended my mind, remain fresh in my memory.

This, and the like gracious visitations, had that effect upon me, that when boys used ill language, it troubled me; and, through the continued mercies of God, I was preserved from it.

The pious instructions of my parents were often fresh in my mind when I happened to be among wicked children, and were of use to me. My parents having a large family of children, used frequently, on first days after meeting, to put us to read in the holy scriptures, or some religious books, one after another, the rest sitting by without much conversation; which, I have since often thought, was a good practice. From what I had read and heard, I believed there had been, in past ages, people who walked in uprightness before God, in a degree exceeding any that I knew or heard of, now living: and the apprehension of there being less steadiness and firmness amongst people in this age, than in past ages, often troubled me while I was a child.

A thing remarkable in my childhood was, that