itously with what they needed. When they were, by Divine Providence, brought completely into his power, he took no vengeance on them, but treated them kindly, even as an affectionate brother.

Joseph possessed one of the purest and most noble of characters, in which skill and wisdom, industry and generosity, charity and fidelity, were very prominent features. Even after he became great and powerful, he was still meek, still humane, forbearing, and benevolent. In most severe temptations to do wrong, he had moral principle and moral courage enough to resist and say, "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" Here is an example for all young people; and let them resist all temptations with this question,—this mighty weapon of Joseph.

I would now exhort and persuade all children, and young people, like Joseph, to begin early to love, to serve, and trust the Lord-to be industrious and faithful in their various callings and business-content with the allotments of a wise and good Providencekind towards friends-forgiving and compassionate to.. wards enemies. O how I delight to see such youth as Joseph growing up, and coming forward among us and around us! I delight also to see them, in due season, elevated and honored in the world, and raised to stations of power and trust. They that rule our men should be just, ruling in the fear of the Lord."

There is a striking resemblance in the character and life of Joseph and Daniel, two possessed of the most pure and admirable characters found among men on earth. Both began early, with independent principle, and strong moral courage, to serve the Lord, and to overcome evil with good. Vastly more happy and honorable was the pious, amiable, and

faithful Joseph, in slavery and in prison, with a peace. ful and approving conscience, and the enjoyment of God's presence and smiles, than the gay and thoughtless youth in all their hilarity and vain merriment ; and just so of Daniel, in the midst of severe persecutions, and in the lion's den. God, and his holy and mighty angels, loved Joseph and Daniel most tenderly and dearly. Daniel was saluted by a heavenly messenger in these words, "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved."

Let all our dear children and youth be early found imitating such excellent and valuable characters. I beseech you, most kindly and strongly, that you would seek to be like Joseph and Daniel, that you may be sure to go at last where they are gone, to be holy and happy for ever at God's right hand, where are plea. sures and fulness of joy for evermore.

LESSON 16--XVI.

MR. RICH'S THIRTY-SIX RULES.

[These Rules are designed to aid in the education of Children and youth, in the general concerns of good manners, Christian morals' and worldly wisdom; sixty-four hundred of which, in two editions, were printed at Rochester, N. Y., April 1845, most of which were soon sold.-THIRD EDITION, with some corrections and improvements.]

These Rules were recommended in substance as follows:

"We have examined with much interest the 36 rules, prepared by the Rev. Ezekiel Rich, and we regard them as a short but full summary of Christian morals, adapted to juvenile minds; and also as affording parents, and other teachers, great facilities for the training of the rising generation in the ways of wisdom

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and usefulness, honor and happiness. C. DEWEY,
Prin. of Roch. Col. Institute. N. BRITTAN, Asso.
Prin. of Ditto. L. WETHERELL, Tutor in Ditto.
E. ROCHESTER, late Superintendent Com. Schools, Co.
Monroe. I. F. MACK, Supt. Ditto, City of Rochester.
J. S. DENMAN, Supt. Do., Co. Wyoming. DAVID
NAY, Supt. Ditto, Co. Genesee.-State of New York,
Feb., 1845."

These Rules were also recommended by A. MAnn, Esq., Editor of the American, and Supt. Com. Schools Co. Monroe, now President of the City Board of Education, in a more lengthy separate article.

The substance of the following rules was, in the course of some 40 years of my life, drawn from the instructions of nature, Divine Providence, the Bible, observation, and experience; and prepared, with much concern, for parents and other teachers to explain to their children at the proper age; and by all suitable means to impress upon their minds and feelings, their moral senses and their hearts, one each week or each month, as an essential part of a good and available general education; and finally to present to each child or pupil, in the form of a kind and faithful pa. rental letter, to be preserved as a remembrancer and future monitor.

To

MY DEAR CHILD,

As your dutiful and affectionate friend, I request you to observe, with care and constancy, the following plain counsels for your future benefit:

1. Never, by any misconduct, hurt the heart that loves you, or the kind and sacred feelings of a friend,

especially those of a parent, or other teacher. If you have any humanity, or noble, generous sentiment, surely you cannot avoid the force of this rule.

3. Treat yourself-treat all other creatures, nnd treat your God, as you should; for this is the sum of all true, and good, and productive civility, morality, and religion. For this purpose you should cultivate your sense of consistency, of propriety, of honor, and of right and wrong.

LESSON 17-XVII.

The next fourteen of said Rules.

3. As all others have dear rights and interests, as well as yourself; therefore, treat them always as you would be treated. Hence, you should show special kindness to the aged, the afflicted, the more feeble and delicate sex, to the unfortunate, and the oppressed. Cultivate much, and regulate well, your social nature. 4. Endeavor to make yourself worthy of all just confidence, by never disappointing it. Would you have the honor and privilege of being trusted, you must improve your faculties, your disposition, your habits, and judgment; and, with all, carefully avoid negligence, unfaithfulness, and every occasion of suspicion. General and lasting suspicion, however misapplied and unjust, and of course unfortunate, is, in view of the world, about half as bad for you in this life as conviction.

5. Be patient amidst afflictions and injuries; forgive, as you would be forgiven; and return good for evil. This would raise you to the height of human excellence and glory. If you ever conquer any thing, let it be yourself. An envious, complaining, jealous,

and revengeful person, is both mean and miserable, and abhorred of both God and man. Therefore be a peace-maker, and you shall have peace.

6. If you would restore a maniac, tame a savage, or make a friend of a foe, then undertake this good work by the molifying influence of loving-kindness and Christian beneficence..

7. Be not so base and fraudulent as to desire the property of others, or unnecessarily to live on their earnings. Try to do, some way, quite as much for the world as that does for you. Never part with your honor, and a good conscience, for either office, wealth, or pleasure.

8. In every place and condition, study to do good to others, as well as to yourself. Be generous, as well as just. This would be wise, manly, and even Godlike.

9. Never sport with the natural and involuntary deficiencies or conditions of others; nor with their feelings or comfort, their reputation or happiness. For you well know, that this would be neither wise, honorable, nor just.

10. Endeavor to make the world wiser, better, and happier for your being now once, a little while, in it, that it may have occasion to mourn when you leave it.

11. Make it an object to be something in the world, and something really good, useful, and lovely. In this way alone can you honor the dignity of your own nature, and, in any measure, make suitable returns for what has been done for you by both God and man.

12. The Most High is a being of order, and so should you be.. Therefore, cultivate much your sense of order, and exercise it in all your affairs; especially in having a place for every article, and a time for ev.