These are three ends or uses which are now accomplished and accomplishing by man under the mediation of the Son of God. Many volumes, gentlemen, have been written on these sublime themes; yet are they still susceptible of a moral, clear, and easy intelligence. We allude to them on the present occasion only for the sake of the argument which they afford in favor of human dignity, as now promoted by the Son of God under his remedial economy. For doubtless, gentlemen, you will agree with me, that, by the incarnation of the WORD OF GOD, and the consequent advancement of humanity into intimate and eternal union with God himself, to a presidency over all the celestial hierarchies and principalities, dominions and lordships, elevates the rank and dignity of our nature, incomparably above all that was done for our father Adam and our mother Eve on the day of their espousals.

A few words on the ultimate and eternal destiny of mankind under the mediatorial institution, shall complete our premises.

We have anticipated ourselves in the preceding remarks on the high advancement and glorification of our nature in the person of the Messiah. Still we must contemplate our destiny as a distinct object of hope, and as essential to just conceptions of our proper rank in God's universe. And what, gentlemen, think you, would be a suitable destiny for one distinguished as man has been? If God's plans and works are unique-if there be consistency, unity, or congruity in creation and providence, may we not expect it in main, and pre-eminently in his destiny! Think, then, gentlemen, of one whose physical constitution is the most exquisite of all the material creations of God-that it might be a suitable machinery for the operations of a mind of the highest intellectual and moral grandeur. Think of a being whose intellectual and moral nature was made in the likest possible image of God, that he might have all the attributes requisite to the knowledge and enjoyment of his Creator, and to the dominion of a world-of one on whose natal hour the Almighty Father bestowed such honor, as to have a whole earth and heavens in waiting for his birth- -a whole material universe dressed in the most splendid livery, ready to congratulate him on his grand debut into life, and to minister to his desires in every conceivable shape:-an Eden dressed-a Paradise prepared-aerial concerts -choristers of every note, and most gaily attired, ready to fill his ears with melodies of heaven-the morning stars singing together, and all the sons of God, of angelic dignity, shouting for joy at the moment of his inspiration with life.

Think, then, gentlemen, of one whose misfortune and whose error it was to offend this benignant Father, redeemed as he has been from aberations and follies of such ruin-working tendency,

by the interposition not merely of extraordinary men, of a holier and more divine inspiration-of an embassy of angelic, cherubic, and seraphic spirits; but by the Archangel of heaven's hosts, the Eternal Word, the only begotten Son of God-God himself, manifest in human flesh. Think, I pray you on this unrivalled honor-humanity assumed by the Divinity into personal union and communion, and elevated to a throne--what shall I call it?— the throne of the universe! Take, gentlemen, the telescope of faith into your hands, and ascend into the observatory erected on the hill of Calvary, and look up through yonder celestial trains of high born hierarchies, angelic peers, lordships of the skies, powers and principalities, presidents of the immense provinces that constitute the immense empire of creation; look far above these to yonder throne, standing in the midst of the twenty-four enthroned senators of heaven, immediately surrounded by the six-winged seraphim; and behold the glorified MAN, Christ Jesus, holding in his hands the sceptre of universal dominion, amidst the hallelujahs and hosannas of these adoring hosts; and then think, O think of the destiny of man!-the destiny of a being standing in such rank, associated with such ineffable gloriescommanding all pure, and holy, and elevated intelligences-not merely their outward homage, but the spontaneous, ecstatic admiration and adoration of their hearts.

I only ask you, gentlemen, from such a view of the divine honors done to our race, whether the promises of the future glory of the Christian can possibly be exaggerated! And what are these? That he shall be raised from the dead; and, at the instant of his revival gifted with immortality in his whole person; his body shall be as fully regenerated then as his spirit is now; the same body glorified with incorruptibility, spirituality, immortality, and eternal life; made as like the Son of God as ever one brother resembled another. For him, thus glorified in his whole person-his spirit pure as the angels of light-his body a perfect. vehicle for his mind, eternal as God himself: I say, for him thus crystalized into an immortal man, by the same almighty power that raised the murdered Jesus, from the sepulchral rock of the Arimathean Senator, to the throne of heaven, a new earth shall arise out of the ashes of this one, more glorious than the sun, more blissful than ancient Eden and its garden of delights. New heavens, too, shall spread their brighter glories around that eternal earth, which shall circle round a brighter sun, and repose under more propitious stars than have presided over this.

To this new-born and glorified earth the heavenly Jerusalem shall be translated, and the tree of life transferred, under whose salutary and youth-restoring shade the perennial waters of life shall sweetly flow; from which no cherubim with flaming sword

shall drive away the ransomed sons of Adam. The Lord himself shall lead them to fountains of living water, and God himself shall wipe away the tear of sorrow from every human eye. The throne of God shall be there, and all the angels of God shall unite with glorified man in worshipping Him that sits upon the throne, and who liveth for ever and ever. Then say

"And what in this bright world above

Is ransom'd man ordain'd to be?

With honor, holiness, and love,

No angel more adorn'd than he!

Nearest the throne, and first in song,

Man shall his hallelujahs raise;

While wondering angels round him throng,

And swell the chorus of his praise,"

Such being the rank and dignity of man in this universe, I put it to you, gentlemen, to say what sort of education is suitable to one of such noble birth and high-born destiny!

But, gentlemen, there is one point of superlative magnitude and importance in our premises, not yet fully nor emphatically expressed, which ought to stand before us as large as life: and that is, that man's eternal destiny as to glory, honor, immortality, depends not at all upon the cultivation of his physical nature, nor upon the improvement or development of his intellectual nature; but upon the cnltivation and refinement of his moral nature. This fact alone, if there were not another, methinks decides with evidence overwhelming the second point, viz.-that, in educa· ting the infant man, supreme reference is always to be had to the cultivation and full development of his moral and religious nature, and to the formation of a character in unison with that society and state, in which he would desire to find his social enjoyments in the future and eternal world.

Seeing, then, that physical and intellectual education have respect to this present momentary and precarious tenure of life, and to a material system constantly hasting to its final catastrophe, it will require no other argument than this to convince you, gentlemen, of this transcendent truth,-that moral and religious education stand to physical and intellectual in the ratio of a universe to an atom-infinite space to a hand's breadth, or of eternal ages to a moment. Ought not, then, I would repeat, the education of youth to be conducted with constant and solemn regard to the final destiny of man?

Besides, we are so constituted that our highest enjoyments— the purest, most constant, and elevating, are moral and religious. Animal, and sometimes even intellectual gratifications, are violent, transient, and unsatisfactory, and often produce a reaction and depression painfully proportioned to their elevation. Like

the muddy and turbulent stream that rushes from the mountain, on whose summit a water-spout has fallen, compared with the clear, tranquil, and gently swelling current fed from the deep fountains concealed within its immense caverns-are the pleasures of sense in contrast with those which flow from the consciousness of living in harmony with the heaven-born principles of Christian piety and morality.

Whether, then, we regard the present or the future, the immediate or remote consequences of our actions, the rewards in hand or those in anticipation, there are arguments numerous, clear, and overwhelming, in proof of paying a sovereign regard to the full expansion and proper direction of our moral affections and dispositions, in every stage of education, from the infant school to the University itself.

In this world, and with the unthinking multitude, the splendors of wealth and of genius far outshine and eclipse the diamond lustre and unfading excellence of pure and elevated virtue. But, as fades the gorgeous landscape from our vision in the faint glimmerings of even, so vanishes the charms of every sublunary glory from the admiration and pursuit of him, whose languid pulse and feeble frame intimate his immediate transit from the shores of time to those of eternity.

Moral sentiments, moral character, moral health, and moral excellence, believe me, gentlemen, are both the true glory and the enduring bliss of man. These are the proper elements of all rational and perennial enjoyments; and while you cultivate and cherish these as the true sources of your own happiness, I trust you will ever plead the necessity, and yourselves exhibit the advantage, of uniting the cultivation of our moral nature, while we are seeking to improve our physical and intellectual powers.

Although this most important end and object of education is either totally neglected, or but slightly and very inadequately attended to in almost all the seminaries of the land-as is evinced by the almost universal rejection of the Bible from the high schools and colleges, as a text-book, and as a classic;—still, if those who are awakened and awakening to the value and importance of this subject, will combine their efforts, and be only half as zealous and indefatigable as the cause requires, we shall not despair of turning the entire current of public taste and public instruction into that channel, that will bear society onward to that happy consummation, which has so often enwrapt the soul of the Prophet, and captivated the genius of the Poet, while, through the telescope of faith, and the gildings of hope, they have anticipated that glorious era, that bright and happy day, when the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the whole earth, as the waters spread themselves over the bosom of the ocean

when man shall be emancipated, redeemed, and disenthralled from false opinions, false theories-from idle traditions, and from false religion-from ignorance, tyranny, and oppression. Then, and then only, shall man step forth on the theatre of life well furnished in his physical, intellectual, and moral nature, for the business and the enjoyments of this disciplinary state and stage of our existence; from which, after the burthen and bustle of these changing scenes are past and finished, well furnished and prepared for a brighter and a better world, he will ascend to the purer, holier, and happier scenes which are in store for all that shall be prepared to enjoy them. That such, gentlemen, may be your happy pilgrimage of life, and such its joyful consummation, is the unfeigned desire of your friend and humble servant.

In No. 30 you say

YOUR letters 30 and 32 are now before me. my "grand proposition, that 'eternal life (meaning thereby holiness and happiness) shall be the ultimate destiny of all mankind,' is not a single but a compound proposition." With all due deference to your superior learning and skill, I must take the liberty of dissenting from this statement. The proposition, in my opinion, is perfectly simple. In order to avoid ambiguity, the parenthesis is thrown in explaining the sense in which the phrase "eternal life" is meant to be used in the predicate of the proposition. But, sir, does an explanation of the terms of a proposition change a simple into a compound proposition? Your laws of logic must be peculiar to yourself if you affirm it.

2. After cutting up and dividing my simple proposition to your liking, you next accuse me and Universalists generally of stupidity in not being aware that we have several propositions to prove in order to make out the simple one of universal salvation, and of quoting texts to prove it that have no bearing on either predicate which you say I am to prove. Now, sir, waiving all further dispute about simple and compound propositions, and the several different predicates which you say I must prove, I will here simply state, that if I prove the final salvation of all mankind in a gospel sense, I thereby prove their final holiness and happiness; for holiness and happiness are necessarily implied in the gospel sense of salvation. If prove the ultimate happiness of all, it is proof of the salvation of all and the holiness of all; for we both agree that holiness is essential to true happiness; and I desire no other salvation but holiness and happiness. And if I prove the holiness of