spicuous and popular objects of regard among us. But this fact speaks little for our prudence and far-sightedness. Missions, in their various branches, and other holy plans of usefulness, strike the public mind as more brilliant things than quiet and retired seminaries for the education of the ministry,—but the former depend upon the latter. In short, all that exists among us in the way of spiritual missionary action, so far as it depends on the ministry, is related to collegiate institutions, as the deeplaid and hidden roots out of which it grows. A wise generation would look to them as the first objects to be supported-to be watched over -to be prayed for. If the child be father to the man, surely the student is father to the minister; and, therefore, in securing an efficient education for students, Congregational churches are preparing for an efficient race of ministers.

On the 6th of September, 1620, there lay in Plymouth Harbour a little vessel which has since acquired a world-known fame. Not freighted with this world's wealth, but with what is incomparably richer,―true, noble, spiritual, heroic men, bent on the accomplishment

of a great enterprise. It sailed out, unnoticed and uncared for, on its far-bound voyage across the Atlantic, save by the few despised Puritans who sympathised with these brethren, and who "kindly entertained and courteously used them during their brief sojourn." In that ship were the germs, the foundation-stones, of great colonies that have since risen to a height, and breadth, and grandeur, at which the world marvels. That vessel was an instrument of preparation for wonderful results. What the "Mayflower" was to America our colleges are to our country and the world. However slighted, they bear a freightage of souls destined to build or repair those religious communities, which will prove so many spiritual colonies in the midst of the world. If our colleges contain and send forth men rightminded, sound-hearted, and well-trained, they will prove to evangelical Christendom boons of matchless value,-argosies laden with enduring wealth, to be remembered, and celebrated, and held in honour by the remotest generations.

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