ponsibility of appropriating it, was left to me, I took the liberty of giving $100 of the sum to the American Board of Com. for Foreign Missions. Rev. A. McIver, for 1 year Missionary Agent, supported by the Presbytery of Fayetteville, N. C. within their own bounds. NEW AUXILIARIES. Bull Creek, Pa. Rutger's street Church, I would, in addition, merely say, that I have no doubt that the unknown contributor to the Missionary cause, would be gratified, if the money should be ap-N. Y. Jamaica, L. I. New Providence, Va. propriated to the supply of the destitute of this State. With earnest desires for the success of your Board, which unites the friendly feelings of all in this quarter, I am, dear sir, yours very truly, GEORGE POTTS. A Mantuamaker's Christmas Gift. On the last Christmas day, a pious mantuamaker in this city, presented to her Pastor, the Rev. Wм. L. M'CALLA, a donation of one hundred dollars, for the use of the Board of Missions. This mu nificent offering is the fruit of personal industry and self denial.-The same bene volent individual, a short time since, presented twenty dollars to the Board of Education, and she assists another sister who keeps a little store, in the support of an aged widowed mother. Reader! pause and ask of God" Lord what wilt thou have me to do?" APPOINTMENTS. Mr. A. Scovel, for 3 months to Columbiaville, Columbia co. N. Y. Rev. J. C. Campbell, for 1 year to New Hope, Vigo co. Inda. and New Providence, Edgar co. Ills. Rev. Isaac Bard, for 1 year to Greenville, Mt. Zion and Mt. Pleasant and vicinity, Ky. Rev. W. C. Blair, for 1 year to Pinkneyville and Fort Adams, Miss. RE-APPOINTMENTS. Rev. E. D. Andrews, for 1 year to Men don, Monroe co. N.Y. Rev. Geo. G. Sill, for 1 year to West Mendon, N. Y. Rev. J. Spicer, for 1 year to Andover and Rev. S. Sturgeon, for 1 year to Middle Rev. J. Kemper, for 3 months in Ohio. Lexington, Va. Fairfield and Timber Ridge, LETTERS RECEIVED, From 20th December to 20th January. Burke, O. R. Young, O. H. Davis, N. Y. J. Account of Cash received by the Board of Missions of the General Assembly, from the 20th of December, 1830, to the 20th of January, 1831. Bethel, Pa. From aux. Miss. soc. per S. Thompson, Treasurer, Burr Creek, Pa. do. Bangor, N. Y. do. per Do. do. Donation from a friend per do. do. 5 75 13 50 621 1124 25 Baltimore, Md. Donation from R. L. Colt, Esq. per Rev. J. K. Burch, 50 00 7 00 1 25 10 00 Cash, From Rev. E. Macurdy, M. M. Soc. per J. Thompson, Tr. Easton, Pa. From Aux. Society per Rev. J. Gray, Hopewell, Chester Co. Pa. Coll. at monthly concert per Rev. E. Dickey, D.D. Hagerstown, Md. Collection at monthly concert of prayer, in Rev. Mr. Fullerton's congregation, per J. and W. Robertson, 80 00 40 00 7 00 13 50 Do. do. Auxiliary Missionary Society per do. 27 25 Jamaica, L. I. From Thos. Napier, Esq. of the 3d Presbyterian church, Charles ton, S. C. subscription for 1831, per Rev. J. T. Russell, 100 00 Do. do. Eliphalet Wickes, Esq. subscription for 1831 per do. 50 00 Do. do. Auxiliary Society in part per do. 11 66 Kishacoquillas Valley, From the Churches per Dr. Ely, 28 75 Licking Cong. Pa. Auxiliary Miss. Society per S. Thompson, Tr. Knowlesville, N. Y. From ladies of the congregation per Rev. D. Page, Lansingburgh, N. Y. Collections at the monthly concert of prayer in Presbyterian church per Mr. Seth Seely, 4 14 5 32 50 00 Mendon, Monroe Co. N. Y. Auxiliary Society per Rev. E. D. Andrews, 25 00 130 00 New Geneva, Pa. George' Creek congregation aux. society, per J. W. Nichol son, Jr. 10 00 New Lexington, Preble Co. Ohio, Aux. Society per Rev. S. J. Miller, 5 80 45 90 Neshamony, Pa. Auxiliary Society per Rev. Mr. Belville, 46 25 New York City, Aux. society Rutger's-st. cong, per Rev. J. T. Russell, Do. A female friend of Murray-street cong. per Rev. J. T. Russel, Oxford Chester. Co. Pa. Cong. amt. collected per Rev. E. Dickey, D. D. Do. Donation from Theological Students, per do. Poland, Ohio. From aux. society 1829-30, in part per Rev. T. Barr, Do. Amount subscriptions, 1830, Do. Additional Do. Amount subscriptions, 4th Pr. Church, Racoon Cong. Pa. Aux. Missionary society, per S. Thompson, Esq. Tr. per Shelby Cong. N. Y. from ladies of the congregation per Rev. D. Page, SOLOMON ALLEN, Treasurer, No. 18, S. Third street. 18 00 10.00 31 00 do. 55 00 9 25 per do. 50 7 50 86 46 per do. 100 00 38 32 do. do. do. 72 25 200 12.00 24.00 23 25 5 00 3 50 EDITED BY WILLIAM NEILL, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. EDUCATION REGISTER. SUGGESTIONS ADVISORY TO CANDIDATES FOR THE GOSPEL MINISTRY. (Continued from page 78.) III. Another topic, on which we would submit a few thoughts, is the attention due to the preservation of health. This is a matter of so much importance that all teachers find it necessary to counsel their pupils frequently and seriously on the subject. Yet young men, particularly those who feel themselves under religious obligations to make the best use of their time and opportunities, are very apt, in the ardor of their zeal, to neglect the voice of experience, in this respect until their constitutions become radically impaired, and the adoption of preventive measures is either impracticable or useless. Hence many young men of unequivocal piety and high promise, are consigned to an early grave; and a prejudice is, thus, fostered against a thorough course of study, not a little injurious to the cause of sound learning. principles of our holy religion, but as inimical to peace of mind and, of consevarious and delicate organs of our animal quence, to the healthful operation of the system. in promoting good health and having But, as means of more direct influence, strong claims to the attentiou of students, like system, in the taking of food, sleep, we may mention regularity, or something and exercise. In regard to the first of these, we have only to remark, that it should be nutritious, and be taken frequently, rather than in large quantities at once. This, to some, may appear to be of sedentary habits, it is found, by expea matter of little moment; but to persons rience, to be of real consequence. As to drink-pure water is the best, the safest, and the most healthful. It is nature's beverage, the grand diluter-the very article which the beneficent Creator has provided, in rich profusion, for the use of man and beast. Distilled, and ordinarily fermented liquors, are not only needless, but pernicious. All artificial stimulants when taken as a medical prescription, produce indirect debility; and except ought to be discarded. Every student should regard the care of his health as a religious duty. The connection between mind and body, in man, is so intimate, that the one cannot sleep is, that a certain portion of time What we mean by regularity in taking be affected, injuriously, without impair- should be allotted to this demand of naing in some degree, the free action and ture; and, that the season appropriated healthful vigor of the other. Let your to it, should not, ordinarily, be invaded, muscular powers become enfeebled, and either by business, or the attractions of your nervous system acquire a morbid society. The practice of intruding upon sensitiveness, and what, of comfort or the hours of sleep, is too common espeusefulness, can you reasonably count up-cially, with those who are fitly called on? The body is the apparatus of the mind, as well in the acquisition, as in the communication of knowledge. bodily disease, invariably checks profiHence ciency in study, and renders the vigorous and effective discharge of professional duty impossible. hard students; and the mischiefs, which it produces, are the more scrupulously to nerally, so insidious as to be be guarded against, because they are geby the patient, until he finds himself a unsuspected confirmed valetudinarian. To say noThe means of maintaining and promo- upon the eyes, which are often ruined thing of the ill effects of this practice ting good health are various. We shall by it-all experience proves, that close notice a few, very briefly. And, in the study, continued to a late hour in the first place, we remark, that a peaceful evening, unfits the human system for and benevolent state of mind, is favour- quiet and refreshing repose. Every deable, if not essential to the full enjoy-votee of the midnight lamp, knows somement of this inestimable blessing. All thing about the difficulty of coaxing himharrassing solicitude, arising out of en- self to sleep, after having been intensely gagements entered into without a reason- engaged, for hours in succession, on subable prospect of being able to fulfil them; jects of a recondite, or highly interesting -gloomy forebodings, in relation to character. The writer, taught by painevents over which we have no controul; ful and perilous experiment, would warn -fearful anticipations of evil, in refer- his yong brethren of shoals and quickence to ourselves, or others, for whom sands, on which his own constitution was we feel deeply interested;-all malevo- well nigh wrecked. Often have wakelent emotions, such as anger, envy, jea-ful restlessness, distressing dreams, exlousy, hatred, and revenge, are to be haustion, lassitude, languor, and strong deprecated and scrupulously guarded temptation to encroach, by way of repriagainst, not only as incompatible with the "sal, on the active duties of the following day, admonished him that he was doing violence to nature, by carrying his studies into the season of rest; and he records it, not without some feeling of selfreproach, that he was so slow to take the alarm: Had he persisted a little longer, the effects would have been fatal. healthful, but because they may be made the means of support, in part, to those whose pecuniary circumstances are rather limited. To secure to the pupils the opportunity of productive manual labor, it were desirable that every respectable institution of learning have attached to it, But, among the means of maintaining a lot of land, or a work shop, with approand promoting health, that of regular priate implements. Without some such and systematic exercise-exercise, we provision, and the allotment of a certain mean, of the corporeal powers, in one portion of time, every week-day, to this way or other, is worthy of special regard. purpose, regularity, in the taking of Man was formed for action; and neither exercise, which is essential to its utility, body nor mind can continue long in a can scarcely be expected from young healthful state, without it. The ancients men of sedate and studious habits. We understood this principle well; and a close this article, with the testimony of useful lesson may be taken from their Captain Partridge, a gentleman of experipractice. The Persians, Greeks, and ence and accurate observation, and well Romans, whose policy it was to rear a known as a teacher of youth, particularly race of warriors, accustomed their youth with a view to a military life. After a to exposure and athletic exercises, from minute account of several pedestrian extheir early boyhood. And he who would cursions,, during the last summer and wish to be fitted to "endure hardness as autumn, in which he walked, carrying a a good soldier of Jesus Christ," should knapsack of 20 pounds weight, together subject himself voluntarily to some such with his thermometer and barometer, at discipline. One who has been used, from the rate of from 40 to 70 miles a day,— childhood, to a sedentary way of life, he remarks:-“Amongst the many imwill of course, suffer less, from the want portant advantages that I feel I have of exercise, than those who retire from derived from combining regular and, in agricultural or mechanical occupations, some instances, severe exercises with at a more advanced age; which is the study, is the enjoyment of almost unincase with a large proportion of those terrupted good health. I am now, and youth, for whose benefit these suggestions always have been, entirely free from are designed. Take a youth in his teens, those debilitating affections under which who has been used to any active employ- so many of our literary men have sunk ment, in the open air,-set him at his and are fast sinking. I know nothing of books, and let him pore over them, day that fashionable disorder called dyspepafter day, from eight to twelve hours in sia, except the name. My appetite is the twenty-four—and, as the natural and uniformly good, and I seldom enjoy less certain consequences of so great and sud-than eight hours of sound sleep, out of the den a change of habits, you may expect twenty four. I have, within twenty depression of spirits, discouragement, years, ascended and measured nearly all discontent, and in a few months or years the principal mountains and eminences at most, the utter prostration of his pow-to the north and east of the Alleghany ers, both of body and mind. Instances, such as is here supposed, are of frequent occurrence. The human constitution, flexible and capable of accommodating itself to circumstances as it is, cannot undergo extreme changes suddenly, without detriment. range-have been exposed to heat, cold and wet-not having had my clothes dry, in some instances, for six days in succession-have slept in the woods on the ground for several weeks,-have been subjected to all the varieties of living, from that which is obtained at the It is not within the scope of these re-first hotels in the U. States, down to salt marks to enumearte the varions exercises which may be advantageousla used, -or to institute comparisons, with the view of recommending those that we deem most eligible. Regard must be had, of course, to the lacation of the student, and to the varying seasons of the year. The usual sports of school-boys, are not, we suppose, suitable for young men, who have the ministry in view; though in the absence of more appropriate means of recreation, there may be no harm in the use of them. The cultivation of the ground, or, when the weather will not admit of this, the operations of the workshop are commendable, not only because pork and dry beans, cooked in the woods; and after all, my constitution was never more firm and vigorous-nor was I ever capable of enduring more fatigue or greater exertion than I am now, at the age of forty-five. If, then, our literary men were to inquire of me what they must do to preserve and enjoy health, I should readily answer-discard about nine-tenths of the rules laid down by the pedantic writers and lecturers of the present day, on that subject-walk at least ten miles each day, at the rate of four miles an hour-about three or four times a year shoulder your knapsack, and with your barometer, &c. ascend to the summits of our principal mountains in the matter. We earnestly hope and and determine their altitudes, walking request, that such will at their approachfrom thirty to eighty miles a day, according as you can bear the fatigue,do all ing meetings, previous to the next Gethese, and I will insure you firm and neral Assembly, decide whether they vigorous constitutions and an entire free- mean to unite with us, in this work of dom from those loads of debility, dispep- faith and labor of love or not. The Board sia, &c. under which so many of you are wish to know, what support they may labouring and languishing out a compa- count upon,-how far they can go, with ratively miserable and useless existence: adhere to these rules, and study, how- prudence, in pledging aid to the appliever severe, will not injure you; on the cants. It is highly desirable that every contrary, your mental vision will keep youth, of the right character, should be pace with the improvement of your phy- encouraged and assisted, as his circumsical energies. (To be continued.) stances require. Many interesting calls have been made upon the Board, within the last few months, which they have been obliged to decline, through want of means. This is a matter of deep regret; and the only remedy is united effort.— The Board have not appointed local agents, because it was thought better that that should be done by each Presbytery within its own limits. In this case, there would, it is believed, be a deeper of expense. Why cannot the agents of the Board of Missions, act also, as the agents of this Board? The two institutions are closely allied,—their aim is substantially, one. Extract from an address of the Trustees of Elkton Academy, Ky. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The only thing necessary to the success of this institution, under favour of divine Providence, is effective co-operation, on the part of our Presbyteries and Churches. This it ought to be remembered, however, is indispensable to the accomplishment of the object of its appointment. Originating with the Gene-interest excited and a considerable saving ral Assembly of our Church, and responsible to that body, for all its transactions, it surely has fair claims to the patronage of Presbyterians, unless there is something wrong in the administration of its affairs; and if this be the case, the wrong should be pointed out and measures taken to have it corrected: for the credit and prosperity of the church are intimately involved in the wisdom and results of her institutions. We make these remarks, not from despondency, or any serious apprehension of failure, in this benevolent enterprize, but to remind our friends, far and near, within the limits of our widely extended bounds that we do ex-happy effects on the general diffusion of pect and greatly need their assistance. intelligence and virtue. Such has been Since the complete organization of the of American liberty, and in this opinion the opinion of the most venerated fathers Board, something has been done-though we entirely concur. At the same time not so much as could have been wished; we believe, in common with many enowing to the tardiness with which most ed with our institution, not only that this lightened observers, entirely unconnectof the Presbyteries move in the business. A plan of co-operation was published a much neglected in the west, but that the great object has been, heretofore, too year ago, designed to secure the joint in- common system of elementary education, fluence and action of all our churches. both with respect to mental culture and -Several Presbyteries have declared A candid examination of facts would, we moral discipline, is essentially defective. themselves Auxiliary to the Board, on think, fully justify us in this opinion. We the plan submitted, and are going for- know there are many highly honorable ward with commendable zeal, and cheer- exceptions. We know also, many indiing prospects. In regard to a large num-viduals, who amidst all the usual disadber of the Presbyteries, however, we are vantages on these subjects, have, by the mere force of talents and virtue, risen sunot aware that they have done any thing|perior to circumstances, and deservedly "The influence of prevailing habits of education on the political, as well as moral destinies of a people, is too generally of our political institutions is generally admitted to require proof. The nature thought to render them more than ordinarily dependent for their stability and |