Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-12-26

vote part of an hour every day for year
or years, to study thoroughly the chro-
nology and geography of the Bible, it
will not only lead you far deeper than
you will otherwise ever penetrate into the
knowledge of the book. but it will spread
foods of light upon every step you shall
ever afterwards take in acquiring the
knowledge of Profane History, aid upon
the local habitation of every tribe of man,
and upon the name of every nation into
which the children of Adam have been
divided
There are many other subsidiary stu
dies, to which you may devote more or
less of time. for the express purpose of
making your Bible-reading more intelli-
gible to yourselves. 1t is a book which
neither the most ignorant and weakest, nor
the most learned and intelligent mind can
read without improvement
There are other books of great worth
and of easy acquisition, which suppose
will be accessibleto you all. The Libra.
ries of Useful and Entertaining Knowl.
edge-the Family Library-the Month
| y and Quarterly Reviews and Maya !
zines, which are in continual succession
Of publication in this country as we'll as
in England, will furnish you constant
supply of profitable readin g; for the Sc
lection of which, time, inclination, and on
portunity, will be your wisest counselIors.
AS citizens of a free CONTEMPLATING an
interest in its public concerns-l am sure
| need not remind you, how strong your
impulse should be TO seek an intimate
knowledge ofthe history OF America, from
the voyage of Columbus, and even of his
supposed predecessors, Prince Madloc of
Wales, and the Mortimer, down to the
lOlymplads of Andrew Jackson aud Mar
tin Van Buren,. The American Hemis-
phere-the Continent of North America
the United States of America before and
since the acquisition of Louisiana-and
every separate State of this Union,-are
series of historical problems of which
you should systematically seek the solu-
ton. Read the Constitution of the Uni
/, TED States-the commentary of the FEEDER
allst; the Constitution and History Of
your own State; biographies, beginning
with Langhorne's Plutarch, and thence
proceeding to the History of John Smith ;
to the American biographies of BelIznap
, and Sparks; to Washington Irving's Life
OF Columbus; and TO the Articles of Penn,
: aud Calvert, and Locke, and Oglethorpe,
: which will lead you on to others in the
Encyclopedia Americana, or Converse
II tons Lexicon. Then the fashionable
: Novels and Poetry of the present times !;
}, Scott, Byron, Moore, Rogers, Coleridge
t Southey, Wordsworth, two Montgomerys
S Cooper, Paulding, Willis, Mrs. Hemans
II and Lady Blessington, Mrs. Sigourney
/ and Miss Gould, and worth them ali
. Miss Edgeworth; and lastly, the Reports
'e OF your Countrymen, travellers in foreign
:, - iands-Dr. Dwight, DR.. Sprague, DR.
y b!geiow, Lieutenant Sldell, and DR.. Fisk
~ with many others whose names do not a
~ THIS moment occur to me- Bu
' have given you more than enough-anc
II alter all, hardly know whether the cata
T. iogue will meet your inquiries, or satisf,
y your expectations. After all, 1 must con
a clude with the advice of the serving maj
re to the young student of --, in Shoks
IN peare,-" Study, what you most affect"
&C And | remain your friend and fellow
I'm student for life, J. @. ADAMS.
en- OPPOSITION TO MISSIONS. The article belo
he is an extract from Andersons charge to Abee mi
err sionary China, his late departure The ser
oil tlments should be pondered we'll by every chris
zee tianespecially every friend of christian mission
Of The physical violence which has accompanied ii
3D. carrying of the Gospel to the heather has, oeyoI
doubt, been among its greatest hndrances tt
I'VE true spirit of the Gospel peace and good will
tbs Nothing can be more presumptuous than to expe
m the blessing of God upon the labors of those w
ri trust in carnal weapons.
the The rulers of Japan, (said Dr.. Ande
say son. meet us on the shores of their cou
yer try with fierce and determined hostfiit
of The government of China is nearly
reh decided, but, more fearful of the cons
md quences Of violence, is much more mil
IN That Of Cochin China, holds the san
Tou attitude, and with barbarian rudene.
Sc The Government of Siam, toerates, wit
the out favoring, our operations, and it e'
Dry IDENTIFY has misgivings as to their ultima
nds effect upon the national condition. L
i'm papal government of the Philippine L
nee ands will not permit our labors; and t
ese Dutch rulers of Netherlands India ha
the taken the extraordinary ground, for
and Protestant Christian Government. of sh
ing ting out the missionaries of all Christi
the nations, except their own, from every p
IDLE of their dominions, save Batavia and I
,wl- Island of Borneo. 1t is only under En-
an lish power that we find full federation a
you protection for all, but their authority
dge the Indian Archipelago is limited to We
abit, small territory.
hab- s. Now it is important 10 observe. that
g. general this jealous and unfriendly d
n so indie is not rneroIy NTH reenoct IN Oh