the original or native growth. The principal streams I have crossed upon my tour through the wilderness, thus far, are the rivers Powell and Cumberland. The latter falls perpendicularly sixty feet, not far from Williamsburg.

My tour from Knoxville has been as prosperous as I could have anticipated. The weather has been unpleasant, from the long continued rains which have drenched the country. The roads, bad enough at best, have been in a shocking state, full of stones or mud, very mountainous and uneven, and exceedingly broken and rough.

"Emigrants are passing nearly all the while on the road, from North and South Carolina and from Tennessee, into Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois. I passed several wagons. The custom is to encamp in the woods, near a stream of water, every night. The families removing cook their own food, and sleep at night in the wagon, or on the ground, let the weather be what it may.

"Having supplied myself with a large number of tracts, I distributed them nearly all the way; and never did people need them more. May the Lord add his blessing, and make each tract a messenger to some soul.

"April 25.-This has been another trial of my determination not to travel on the Sabbath. My wish would have been to have spent the day at Danville, and indeed I had not yet entirely finished my inquiries. I had been told that the stage-coach proprietor would undoubtedly allow the coach to remain over Sabbath at Danville, if I wished, especially as the mail was not required on that day; but in the afternoon, I learned from the proprietor himself, that he should go through on the Sabbath to Harrodsburg, and I made up my mind as I did, leaving my testimony behind me, against the growing sin of travelling on God's holy day. Hitherto, the Lord hath helped me. I trust that my faith in him is waxing

stronger. Never yet have I regretted any sacrifice which it may have cost me to remember the Sabbath day.' "

Mr. Cornelius reached Andover in safety, on the 18th of May. In the same month, the anniversary of the society was celebrated in Boston. From the report, a few paragraphs are taken.

"There is perhaps no better way of exhibiting the growth of the society, than by comparing the number of new applicants received under patronage, in successive years. No young man can be a successful candidate for patronage, who does not exhibit satisfactory evidence of respectable talents, sincere piety, and real indigence, and who is not willing to submit to a long and severe course of discipline, both of body and mind. The following enumeration embraces a period of three years.

"In the year ending May, 1827, the number of new applicants received was thirty-five; May, 1828, ninetyone; May, 1829, two hundred and two.

"What renders this view more satisfactory is, that the increase has arisen chiefly from applications by those who were commencing a course of study for the ministry. Three years ago the whole number of persons of this description, under patronage, was less than thirty. The applications from young men in this stage, during the past year alone, were ninety-six. This advance, however, is not to be ascribed to any relaxation in the principles or requisitions of the society; it is owing to a deeper and more general interest in the Christian community.

"The early graves of thirty young men, once under the patronage of the American Education Society, who fell the victims of disease before their preparatory studies were completed, and the failure of nearly as many more to enter the ministry in consequence of a loss of health, afford melancholy proof that something should be done to render studious habits less injurious, particularly to young men who have been previously devoted to active pursuits. No method promises so effectually to guard against this evil, as a course of systematic and vigorous bodily exercise. Experiment has proved that young men may devote from two to four hours of each day to labor, either agricultural or mechanical, without retarding in the least their progress in study, and with the prospect of maintaining vigorous health, as well as of earning something to defray the necessary expenses of an education.

"The directors take great pleasure in stating, that the efforts of the young men connected with the society to assist themselves have been highly successful. The whole sum reported, as the fruit of their earnings the past year, is eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

"Many other facts, of an encouraging character, might here be introduced, were it necessary. But the day for doubting has, we trust, gone by. The demand now, is for united and persevering effort to advance an object, admitted to be of transcendant importance to the successful prosecution of every other branch of benevolent enterprize. The heralds of the cross are wanted to carry the Bible into every dark corner of the earth, and to press its truths upon the attention of men. The missionary society waits to employ a larger number of qualified preachers on the embassy of salvation, and repeats the inquiry, Whom shall we send? and who will go for us? Thousands of desolate churches look and long for pastors to break unto them the bread of life. The cause of truth, and the cause of humanity, call for advocates to enforce their claims upon the world, and gain but partial triumphs for want of them. All, all proclaim, Give us ministers of the gospel! The Spirit of God is kindling a flame of holy love in the hearts of young men and preparing them, in great numbers, for the toils and self-denials of the ministry. But among them there are many who are destitute of the means of acquiring an education. These look to the church for help. Animated by the encouragements which they have received, they rise up in greater and greater numbers every year, and say, Here we are, send us. Shall they now be told, The pledges which have been given you cannot be redeemed? The church is unable to help you? When, we may then ask, are the accumulating millions in our country to be supplied? Must other ages of darkness intervene before the dawning millennial glory shall break? No. In God is our hope and trust. Relying on his promised aid, we will go forward. Every pledge which this society has given shall be redeemed, and every youthful disciple who has a claim on the patronage of the church shall be educated for the service of Christ. The Lord of the harvest has given the word, and great shall be the company of those who publish it. Soon the song will be heard on every hill, and be echoed through every valley-How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings | of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!'"

Of the system of manual labor connected with literary institutions, Mr. Cornelius may be considered, more than any other man in this country, as the founder and uniform supporter. It was a subject which he took into frequent and anxious deliberation. The arrangements at the Andover Theological Seminary, and which have served to some extent as a model, owe their existence to his instrumentality. On this topic he conversed and corresponded with gentlemen in all portions of the country;

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and published the results of his inquiries. On one occasion he gave an able and comprehensive exposition of the whole subject in a public address. To show the spirit and tendency of his remarks, the following extracts are subjoined.

"The following, it is believed, are the most important points to be kept in view, in establishing a system of exercise, which shall be adapted to the condition and wants of young men in a course of education.

"1. The exercise should be such as to produce thorough muscular action of the chest, and limbs; and to promote gentle perspiration.

"2. It should be taken either in the open air, or in a place which admits of its free circulation. An impure, an overheated, or a confined atmosphere may prevent, or destroy, nearly all the good effects of exercise, and may become the occasion of positive injury.

"3. It should be systematic. A less amount of time devoted regularly to this purpose, will be of more service than a much longer period, employed at uncertain and distant intervals. Nature never stops in her work. He who would effectually co-operate with her, must be steady and uniform in his plans and efforts. Ordinarily, it is supposed better, that exercise should be taken a short period before meals, than that it should immediately follow them.

"4. The exercise used by students should be gentle, and should be protracted sufficiently to admit of their receiving the full benefit of it. It is the remark of a writer of great respectability, as well as of much experience on this subject, that 'Gentle exercise diffused through four hours, is much better adapted to a sedentary man, than a concentration of the same amount of motion within the space of one hour.'

"5. The hours of study should be arranged in such a