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would write him a good faithful letter. I am much obliged for the "sermon" and should have been very glad to hear the whole of it.

          How I wish I could live where I could hear such sermons every Sabbath. I know it is in a great measure my own fault, that I am so little engaged in Religion - so dull and lifeless, and that I do not rightly improve the privileges which I do enjoy; but I think we here do not have enough to incite us; to stimulate. No prayer meetings, Monthly Concerts or any thing of the kind, where warm and holy feeling is called forth. We do not "speak often one to another;" and thereby, intercourse with Christians, and above all, by mutual prayer and supplication, obtain and retain in one heart, those precious influences of the life-giving Spirit, which the Christian must possess in order to be "fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." Dear Brother pray for us. We are, as a church, cold stupid and heartless.
          You must e cautious about getting prejudiced against Miss P. She is, I acknowledge, too talkative, and, as a matter of course, sometimes speaks injudiciously: yet there are very many good qualities in her. Reccollect, you see very little of her, except at meal-times etc. etc. when she is more engaged about other things, & pays less attention to children etc. She does know how to govern, and take proper care of them, but sometimes gets so much engaged talking as to entirely forget them. Are her children troublesome in school? With regard to sundry evil reports concerning your school - you must "love down slander." Is'nt that good advice?
         I have lately been reading "Paradise Lost" - and wonder that I never did the thing before. I have "read it round a little" sometimes, but never got really interested in it before. It is certainly by far the most interesting poetry I ever read. I always loved Pollock, and thought nobody could quite equal him. What a description of the "battle in heaven"!  And how ingeniously he accounts for Eve's being decieved by the serpent. I have wondered sometimes why she was not surprised by the serpent knowing how to talk. But according to Milton, he explains that in a very natural cunning manner; "That he had eaten of the tree of knowledge," and if she would do the same, her knowledge would be increased in like proportion. Charles has percieved with great apparent interest, though he says little about it, Paradise Lost, Juniry?, Heathern Gods, The Wealth etc. etc. Mr. Gilman is very much interest just now in M. Fingal. I very much fear that he does not exert a good influence over Charles, in every respect -though I like him on most accounts very well. He is a Fatalist, or very nearly so. Very frequently makes observations like this -that if a man is to have property or any thing, he will have it, whether he