which commerce, or which literature, commends, for practical acquirement; and brings all talents and attainments within the reach of daily use, by their continual adaptation to the practices of popular assemblies, and to the exigencies of common life. It requires, in all its elementary provisions, the strict exactness of the most efficient drill; and, in its higher ranges, gives the widest scope for all the fulness, and for all the freedom, which the utmost reach of fancy can attempt. To combine the thoroughly scholastic, with the entirely practical, is, in a single word, its clear and constant aim.

ii. It shrinks not from the full avowal of the Ancient Discipline. It has no favour for the modern theories of self-government in children. It has as little for the hazardous experiment of admitting infancy and inexperience to what is called "a knowledge of the world." It counts on seclusion, and serenity, as the appropriate atmosphere for childhood, and for youth. It holds to the primitive practice in the moral training of the young. With these convictions it isolates its pupils from the world. It closes to them the avenues of temptation, and the opportunities for extravagance. And, it relies on years, and study, and a wholesome atmosphere, and holy influences, and virtuous examples, to establish, in them, the habit of sobriety, and self-control; and, with the principles of grace, to arm and to accomplish them, as soldiers of the Cross, to endure the hardness of the warfare of the world.

iii. And, chiefly, it relies, for the attainment of its Ends, upon continual Prayer, and the Blessing pledged to

Worship. All human means are ineffectual. The seed, however freely sown; the soil, however tilled and cultivated, yield nothing, if the sun withhold his shining, and the rains refuse to fall. The grace of God, assured to prayer, and promised in the sacraments, alone, can reach the heart; and soften it, in penitence, or lift it up, in piety. In vain, Paul plants. In vain, Apollos waters. It is God, alone, that can bestow the increase.

It will be seen, at once, that, to carry out the plans, and to attain the ends, proposed, there must be human elements and influences, proportioned to the enterprise. The College needs pecuniary aid; it requires efficient men; it relies upon the confidence of parents.

1. To furnish grounds, adapted to our purposes, in beauty, as in magnitude; to supply buildings, for use, for taste, and for devotion; to provide the teachers, and the instruments, for thorough, high, extensive, teaching, must, of course, be far beyond the reach of ordinary academic income. Endowments are demanded, to do jus tice to the case. Provision should be made, for an increased, and still increasing, patronage. Foundations, broad and deep, should now be laid, to be built up, by grateful generations, in the years to come; and be an honour to the State, and a blessing to the land. Four years have never done so much, for any College. It is for those, whom God has made trustees, for Him, of His unbounded treasures, to determine, if the points, thus reached, shall be secured; and the toil, and self-denial, and self-sacrifice, encountered, in their attainment, be made the sources of perennial blessings.

2. A Work, like this, so large, so constant, and so comprehensive, requires strong-handed and warm-hearted Men. It cannot be task-work. It must enlist the soul. No salary can pay the watching, and the labour, which are thus required. The loving heart makes its own over-payment. While the Great Teacher was on earth, He had no place where to lay His head. And the Apostles went, upon their errand, of instruction, and salvation, without a scrip, or shoes. Men, of the mould of the Apostles; men, that follow them, as they did Christ, are needed for our work. Such men are hard to find. We have to thank God, for some such; and to pray to Him, for more.

3. The perfect Confidence of Parents is of indispensable Necessity to such a College. To be what it proposes, it must come into their place. They must confide in it. They must sustain it. They must co-operate with it. Failing in this, they waste their own responsibility, while they defeat and deaden ours. half-devotion, and we are contented with no half-reliance. We ask the unreserve of confidence, as but the just equivalent for unreserve of effort.

We undertake no

For four years, we have pursued, with constancy, and carefulness, the path of earnest duty. God's favour has been with us. And, to-day, He crowns us with His blessing. Shall I be pardoned, if, merging, for a moment, the President, in the man, I express the feelings, which now burst my heart, in David's touching words: "He that now goeth on his way, weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall, doubtless, come again, with joy,

and bring his sheaves with him."

To the gracious

God, by Whom the tears, that fell, in secret, were all noted, be the glory of these golden sheaves!

Beloved Children, whom we bring, to-day, with melting heart, for God to own and bless, you are the first fruits, as we trust, of annual harvests, which shall wave and ripen here, till seed-time shall return to earth, no more. Fondly, and fervently, do we commend you to the gracious favour of the God, from Whom all goodness comes. Passing, to-day, the line which terminates your pupilage, may you be filled, with all the graces, and enriched, with all the gifts, of perfect men in Jesus Christ. May you go out, into the world, strong in Hist strength, to conquer in His Cross; and, faithful through your lives, and joyful in your death, may you be crowned, for conquests, not your own, through the unbounded and immortal riches of redeeming love! God of the spirits of all flesh, by whom Thy servant has been honoured to suffer, for Thy name, accept the cheerful sacrifice; and, for the dear sake of Thy beloved, suffering, Son, return it, in the gracious dew of countless and eternal blessings, upon these dear children; upon all who shall succeed them here; upon this Christian College; and upon Thy Holy Church, the Spouse and purchase of His perfect and perpetual love: and, unto Thee, with Him, and the divine and Holy Spirit, shall be given, through everlasting ages, the honour, and the glory, and the praise.

VOL. IV.-2

II.

THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS,

AT THE

* SECOND ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF BURLINGTON COLLEGE.

THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRACTICAL, IN SUBORDINATION TO THE SPIRITUAL; THE TRUE END OF ACADEMIC EDUCATION.

Two prejudices prevail, which greatly hinder the just estimate of Academic Education. That it is not practical; and, that it involves the risk of virtue. I set myself against them, both. I deny, that they are, at all, inherent, in the case. THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRACTICAL, IN SUBORDINATION TO THE SPIRITUAL, IS THE TRUE IDEA OF ACADEMIC EDUCATION. I do not say, that the Practical has not been overlooked, in many systems; which have claimed the name. I do not say, that morals have not often been corrupted, and many souls been lost; in places, where its name is set. But, I maintain that it has been, from the abuse; not, from the use. I

*St. Michael and All Angels, A. D. 1851.