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EDUCATION.

THAT call not education, which decries

God and his truth, content the seed to strew Of moral maxims, and the mind imbue With elements which form the worldly wise. So call the training, which can duly prize

Such lighter lore, but chiefly holds to view What God requires us to believe and do, And notes man's end, and shapes him for the skies BISHOP MANT.

CONSCIENCE.

THE heart, they say, is wiser than the schools; And well they may. All that is great in thought, That strikes at once as with electric fire, And lifts us, as it were, from earth to heaven, Comes from the heart; and who confesses not Its voice as sacred, nay almost divine, When inly it declares on what we do, Blaming, approving? Let an erring world Judge us as it will, we care not while we stand Acquitted there; and oft when clouds on clouds Compass us round, and not a tract appears, Oft is an upright heart the surest guide,