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that when institutions of learning and benevolenceincrease, frivolity and dissipation decrease. The following reflections were found among Mr.Eddy's papers, in his own hand writing, and showhow deeply this great cause had sunk into his heart. The formation of the American Bible Society, hasoften disposed my mind, to reflect on the past andpresent state of society in the world. In the courseof such reflections, I am naturally led to admire thegoodness and love of the divine author of our exist-ence, in preparing, in his own way, the improvementand melioration of mankind. His wisdom is dis-played, in proportioning the degree of light to ourweak and feeble state. The splendour of the sunis preceded by the dawn of day—so it is with respectto the many essential and important truths, withwhich the minds of men have been enlightened atdifferent periods of the world. Thus, formerly, aneye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or the life of an offender as an expiation for his crime, were the rudesummary laws, which then seemed to be the perfec-tion of justice. But the mild principles of the Chris-tian religion, held out an easy and simple lesson forthe instruction of men, and taught them—Whatso-ever ye would that men should do to you, do youeven so to them—love your enemies—do goodunto them that despitefully use you.—It is certain,that even many of those, who were not baptized intothe spirit of our holy religion, were considerably in-fluenced by these solemn and self-evident truths. It requires but a very slight acquaintance eitherwith the principles of human nature, or the historyof civil society, to be convinced, that until the humanmind became capable of perceiving the enormity of tolerating slavery, and the cruel injustice of holdinga portion of human beings in a state of abject bond-age, we should never have been able to discoverthe necessity of those prudent, humane, and salutary regulations, which have taken the place of sangui-