made with a special view to the promotion of your own personal enjoyment and edification. Make the choice with care, with deliberation, and with prayer. Let there be a little circle. of three, four or five of these intimate friends. Frequently meet them, at convenient seasons, for conversation, on your studies, and especially on experimental religion; and let every in. terview be hallowed by prayer. Be inviolably faithful to these friends. Let one of the objects of your intimacy be to correct each other's faults. For this purpose, be affectionately unreserved with each other. If these peculiar connexions are properly managed, they will be the happy means of nurturing a spirit of piety; of making your studies more useful; and of preparing for after life some of the richest pleasures of christian and ministerial friendship.

8. Make a point of CULTIVATING TOWARD ALL YOUR COMPANIONS IN STUDY, A SPIRIT, AND A STYLE OF MANNERS CALCULATED TO

CONCILIATE THEIR REGARD. Any man who

becomes one of a circle of four or five score of . theological students, will, of course, find some of them less suited to his taste than others. The manners of one may not entirely please him. The natural temper of another may be occasionally revolting. The cuptious, cavilling spirit of a third, may render him somewhat un

desirable as a companion. And it may be wished that the piety of a fourth were more ardent and undoubted. But, though you may not feel prepared to be equally intimate with all as chosen companions, you may treat, and ought to treat all, with respect and kindness, as brethren in Christ, into whose society, in the Providence of God you have been cast, and with whom it is your duty to live as amicably and pleasantly as possible You are, obviously, not bound to entertain a high opinion of all. You are not even bound to be confident that all are, of course, truly pious. But you are bound, as long as you are united with them in study, and they continue in good and regular standing, as members of the Seminary,-to treat them all with uniform civility and kindness. Never allow the least approach to a contemptuous expression or look to escape you. Never permit sneer, sarcasm, ridicule, or even chilling coldness, to mark your treatment of any. Cultivate a spirit of true benevolence toward every one. And if there be any individuals by whom you feel yourself more peculiarly repelled, set a double guard over your spirit and deportment toward them Frequently pray for them. And endeavour, in the spirit of the Gospel, to contrive something . for their benefit. In short, whatever others may do, let it be your constaut aim to render

the society of the Seminary as harmonious, friendly and delightful as possible.

9. Be not TOO MUCH IN SOCIETY WITH YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS. There is such a thing as

Rely on

persons making themselves cheap even to their friends. This is always done, where they obtrude themselves into their society with undue frequency, unseasonably, and too long at a time. I have known many intimacies, once uncommonly close, first cooled, and, after a while, broken off, from causes of this kind. it, that social connexion which is not mutually pleasant, and mutually convenient, cannot last long. Carefully guard, then, against being too much in the society even of your best friends. Both you and they need much retirement, and ought to be left, at proper seasons, to enjoy it. Let your calls be seasonable, and such as you have good reason to think will not interfere with their arrangements. Indulge no undue liberties in your intercourse with them. Those friendships are likely to be most pleasant and most lasting in which christian dignity and respectfulness mark the intercourse on both. sides.

10. Be much in the habit of CONVERSING

WITH YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS RESPECTING TOUR STUDIES. Those who take exercise in company with each other, or who are frequently brought together by any cause, are some

But why

times at a loss for conversation.
should they ever be, when, not to mention
other topicks, of still more importance, their
studies perpetually furnish matter for unlimited
conversation? Half an hour's discussion, with
an intelligent companion, may sometimes do
more to enlarge, and correct your views of a
particular subject, than many hours, or even
days of solitary study. There are many minds
which are never excited to their most vigorous
and productive action, but by conversation.
Perhaps yours is of this cast. However this
may be, you may meet with some which are;
and it will be to your advantage to avail your-
self of the fact wherever it is found to exist.
It will readily occur, that you ought to seek the
conversation of which I speak, as far as conve
nient, with those who are best informed, and
most expert on the subjects which you wish to
discuss. Indeed, that man alone is wise, who,
in all cases whatsoever, when he desires instruc-
tion, resorts to the society of those who are
most competent to confer the benefit.

11. Study to exercise peculiar delicacy and respect in conversation WITH THOSE OF YOUR

FELLOW STUDENTS WITH WHOM YOU MAY DIF

FER IN OPINION. It often happens, in a Seminary so largely attended, and so liberal in its constitution as ours, that students of several different religious denominations are associated

together in its classes.

These of course, differ

from the students of our own church on a va riety of points; not to say that even the latter will often have minor points of difference among themselves. Now young men, whose knowledge of the world is small; who have not yet known much by experience of the evils of controversy; and who, in the ardour of their youthful feelings, imagine they can soon convince or silence an opponent ;-are extremely apt to be bringing up these points of difference unseasonably, to dwell upon them unduly, and, when they suppose that any advantage is gained, to indulge in language bordering on rude exultation. This is a practice not only inconsistent with good breeding, and christian delicacy, but it also ministers to evil in a variety of ways. It often leads to strife, instead of profitable discussion. Such continual attrition also chafes and alienates the minds of some whom it were desirable to win, and not unfrequently confirms them in error, or drives them still further from the truth. And, moreover, all experience proves, that when such a spirit finds its way into a circle of theological students, both the ardour and the comfort of vital piety seldom fail to decline. In conversing, therefore, with a fellow student, between whom and yourself there are points of difference in theological opinion, do not be for ever dragging