To mispend that time which can never be recalled is to "lay up in store for ourselves," against the days to come, a heavy load of bitterness. To contrast what might have been done with what has been done, the duties required with the duties performed, and to find that the compliances are lamentably out of proportion to the demands,— these are reflections that never fail to bring their own punishments with them.

Thus far, in common with my fellow collegians, I cannot but feel that I have much to answer for, and my earliest act of reparation shall be to raise the warning voice for you. The errors of a college life are neither calculated to profit nor to please; nor should they ever be recorded, save as a timely caution to the youthful student.

There will be a certain portion of time which the discipline of your college will

claim at your hands. But the advantages to be derived from the public lecture must be improved by private study; and by study I would be understood to speak of hours set apart for various readings. By way of illustration ;—in the morning, one hour for the classics, a second for the mathématics, a third, for other college exercises. The same system for the evening, with the understanding that some portion of every day be devoted to serious reading for that profession to which you are more immediately destined. Remember, of the remaining hours of the twenty-four, how few are required for the recruiting of nature, and how many may then be given to recreation-even to innocent amusement, and cheerful and reputable society; these contributing to make your return to stated duties a pleasure instead of a toil.

There is one great disadvantage under

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which, in common with your father, you will enter upon the studies of a college life. I much regret that my circumstances will not enable me to give you the benefit of a public education. Not originally intended for the profession of which I am now a member, I had much lost time to recover, and some new languages to learn, while a preparatory student in the family of a clergyman, who toiled most conscientiously to put me on a par with my cotemporaries at the University. His kind labours were but partially successful. Though, I believe, I read to greater advantage with him than I have ever done since, I painfully felt my inferiority to the men from public schools. There are many little essentials of classical knowledge taught at those public seminaries which are not attended to by the private tutor. I am aware that this is not universally the case; indeed, I well remember one young man at the University who

furnished a brilliant exception to this general rule. Nor would I by any means be understood to undervalue the advantages of private instruction-it is as valuable an introduction to the sacred duties of the clerical profession as is the other to the studies at the University. If the head be more the province of the public mode of instruction, the heart is more the study of that which is private. The first aims at the accomplishments of the scholar,-the second, at the moral and religious character of the man. The school arms the young adventurer with weapons for his literary warfare-the home of the clergyman heals the wounds of the battle, and sobers the spirit of the conqueror for a calmer duty in the paths of peace. There are unavoidable mischiefs resulting to the individual from the multitudinous intercourse of the school, which are never attendant upon the limited establishment of the country curate. If the

one tend more to the developement of talent, the other watches more sedulously over its progress towards maturity. Emulation is the growth of the first, perseverance is the fruit of the second. Thus each has its peculiar advantages, and, united, they furnish a most valuable testimonial to the aspirant after that good reputation which, begun at the University, follows the student through every path of life.

You will commence your young career of duty with a heart prepared, I trust, for trial, and resolved to overcome. I have endeavoured to make my instructions both religious and moral; to fix, not less the respectability of the man than the peculiar character of the Christian clergyman; to prevail with you to consider the duties of the minister as manifold and serious in their nature, his recreations as comparatively few. But the society, the new world, which opens