These are, that the teaching of _the heart_ must always precede that of _the head_; that _right motives_ must be inspired before _good conduct_ can be expected, and that the Logadian plan of building houses from the tops downwards, must not be so closely imitated in rearing our edifices of education, if we wish them to answer any other than a very temporary and comparatively contemptible purpose. In other words, we must take care always to commence with _the foundations_, and have _them_ exactly as they should be, or the superstructures can never be either useful or durable to the extent they might be made. These foundations are—_not the alphabet_, nor _the arithmetical characters_, nor _grammars_, nor _dictionaries_, nor _foreign languages_, nor _sciences_—_but the love of God and man to be displayed in overt acts rather than by empty professions, and to govern, in fact, the whole life._ To make our entire work indestructible _hereafter_, as well as estimable in the highest degree _here_, the main pillars, as well as the corner stones and whole groundwork must be—aye, _must necessarily, absolutely, unconditionally be_, such as will pass inspection in the next life, as well as in the present. This brings us back to what has heretofore been so much and so earnestly insisted upon—the unqualified, the sacred obligation of all who have any thing to do, from first to last, with educating the youth of our country, to make, as far as practicable, not only _their motives_, but _the ultimate ends_ of their whole course of study, such as may bear examination at the last great and awful day of our final account before the Almighty Judge of heaven and earth. This most momentous truth of a final judgment in {620} another state of existence, for all “our deeds done in the body,” instead of being the first thing taught to our children as soon as their minds are capable of receiving truth at all, is generally left to find its way into them as it may—to be forced upon them in after life, as it rarely fails to be, by the terrors, the remorse of a guilty conscience, reproaching them for the commission of deeds against which early moral and religious instruction might effectually have guarded them. Yes, my friends, if there be any truth in God's word, such instruction _would guard_—_would save them_ from these terrors and this remorse. What awful responsibility then attaches to all those who neglect to give it! What an appalling consideration should it be, that thousands upon thousands of our youth are taught—so far as parental example _can teach_, to smother all thoughts of a final judgment in feasting; to drown them in intoxication; to forget them in the long and deadly sleep of a bestial debauch; or to banish them from the heart by the various pursuits of vanity, pride, avarice and ambition! Yet most of these very parents themselves well know, that all such sensualities