study of the arts of pleasing, their immoderate taste for novel-reading, for dress, and frivolities of every description, are added to the above causes, there will be no longer reason to wonder at the perverted state of our morals, both in public and private life nor shall we have any right to complain if nervous diseases, and especially insanity, are rapidly increasing; so indubitably true is it, that whatever appertains to man's moral good, has the most intimate connexion with his corporeal well-being, and the preservation of his health. It is therefore of the greatest importance to avoid matrimonial unions between individuals born of insane parents; to adopt a system of education more religious in its character; children must be better trained to bear opposition to their caprices; their moral and intellectual feelings should not be excited and overexerted by the too early application of their faculties to study; errors of diet must be strictly avoided; and their passions should be controlled and judiciously directed."

EGYPT.

M. Champollion writes with enthusiastic animation of the ruins of Thebes; he views all European edifices as but the work of pigmies, in comparison with these gigantic structures; he discovers the portraits of the most ancient Pharaohs represented hundreds of times in bas reliefs; the campaigns of Sesostris ; and the name of Judea among those of thirty conquered nations; with a sculptured commentary on the expedition of Shishak, king of Egypt, against Jerusalem, related 1 Kings xiv. We must think our learned traveller somewhat sanguine in some of his conclusions.

UNITED STATES.

In an address delivered to the graduates of the Columbian College, at Washington, by T. Sewell, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, the following admirable rules of conduct are strongly urged :

"1. Maintain a scrupulous regard to truth. Although there are many cases in which it is highly proper for the physician to encourage the hopes of his patient and dissipate his fears, there is no case in which it is justifiable to do it at the expense of truth. To conceal from a dying man his situation, not only involves a sacrifice of truth, but is a violation of the highest principles of honour and justice. 2. Be attentive to the sufferings of the poor. 3. In your professional intercourse, assiduously cultivate a pure and

elevated style of conversation, urbanity and gentleness of manner, and kindness of heart. 4. Maintain a due observance of the Sabbath. The observance of the Sabbath, and an attendance on such devotional exercises as are within your reach, is a duty you are bound to perform as far as is compatible with the urgency of the cases committed to your care; and it will seldom happen that your cases are so urgent, or your practice so extensive, as not to be disposed of during the interval of public worship. Dr. Rush used to say that he never knew a time when his professional business in Philadelphia did not admit of his attendance on public worship at least half of the day, and he never failed to inculcate the importance of this duty on his pupils. Another custom, recommended and practised by this distinguished philanthropist and physician, will be equally worthy of your imitation as soon as your circumstances will admit; that of bestowing all Sabbath fees on objects of charity. 5. Guard against infidel sentiments. Whatever may have been the moral and religious state of the profession in other times, and in other countries, its present condition, and particularly in the United States, shews us that there is no necessary connexion between the science of medicine and scepticism; and it must be gratifying to the profession to recognize the fact, that all the most eminent physicians of our country openly espouse the Christian religion, defend its doctrines, and give the whole weight of their influ ence in support of moral and religious institutions. Remember that the way of infidelity is downward, and that when you once enter it, every succeeding step will urge you onward with increasing celerity. Few have trod this dark and fearful path, and returned to warn others of its fatal termination. 6. Observe strict temperance in the use of ardent spirits. 7. Abstain from all games of chance, as a practice alike degrading to you as men, and inconsistent with the dignity, and the high and important duties of your profession. 8. Discountenance and abstain from the practice of duelling. 9. Keep constantly in view the moral obligations you are under to your patients and to the community. The moral and religious influence of sickness is, no doubt, highly beneficial to the best interests of man, and of society. At this time the stoutest heart is softened, old animosities are forgotten, the mind looks back with regret upon the errors of past times, and extends itself forward with new and better reso»

and I now stand before you delegated by my native country to seek her interest, to labour for her respectability, and by my public efforts to assist in raising her to an equal standing with other nations of the earth.”

lutions to the future. Old vices are broken off, and the mind then, if ever, is open to the convictions of truth. The frequent opportunities you will enjoy of promoting and strengthening the good resolutions of your patients, and especially if suffering under the consequences of vicious conduct, ought never to be neglected. Your counsel and reproof will be listened to with respect, and received as tokens of friendship, whenever they are imparted at proper seasons, and evince a sincere interest in the welfare of the individual to whom they are addressed."

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An address of extraordinary ability and eloquence was delivered last year to a large audience at Philadelphia, by Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee Indian. those," said he, "who are unacquainted with the habits and improvements of the aborigines of this country, the term Indian is pregnant with ideas the most repelling and degrading. But such impressions, originating as they frequently do from infant prejudices, although they hold too true when applied to some, do great injustice to manyof this raceof beings. Some there are, perhaps even in this enlightened assembly, who at the bare sight of an Indian, or at the mention of the name, would throw back their imaginations to ancient times, to the ravages of savage warfare, to the yells pronounced over the mangled bodies of women and children, thus creating an opinion, inapplicable and highly injurious to those for whose temporal interest and eternal welfare I come to plead.

"But what is an Indian ? Is he not formed of the same materials with yourself? For of one blood God created all the nations that dwell on the face of the earth.' Though it be true that he is ignorant, that he is a heathen, that he is a savage; yet he is no more than all others have been under similar circumstances. Eighteen centuries ago what were the inhabitants of Great Britain? You here behold an Indian, my kindred are Indians, and my fathers sleeping in the wilderness grave-they too were Indians. But I am not, as my fathers were-broader means and nobler influences have fallen upon me. Yet I was not born as thousands are, in a stately dome, and amid the congratulations of the great; for on a little hill, in a lonely cabin, overspread by the forest oak, I first drew my breath; and in a language unknown to learned and polished nations, I learned to lisp my fond mother's name. In after days, I have had greater advantages than most of my race;

After detailing a variety of statistical and historical facts relative to his tribe, among whom hunting as a livelihood is not now known, he added, that so great is the progress of education since the recent invention of written language among them," that in one district there are several thousand volumes of good books; and eleven different periodical papers, religious and political, are taken in and read. On the public roads there are many decent inns. Most of the schools are under the care and tuition of Christian missionaries, who have been of great service to the nation. In many places the word of God is regularly preached and explained, both by missionaries and natives. "Among no heathen people," said the speaker, "has the faithful minister of God experienced greater success, greater reward for his labour, than in this. He is surrounded by attentive hearers, the words which flow from his lips are not spent in vain." After alluding to the recent invention of letters, the translation of the New Testament into Cherokee, and the organization of a government, he added, " From what I have said, you will form but a faint opinion of the true state and prospects of the Cherokees; you will, however, be convinced that the means which have been employed for the Christianization and civilization of this tribe have been greatly blessed; that the increase of these means will meet with final success ; and that it has now become necessary that efficient and more than ordinary means should be employed. Sensible of this last point, and wishing to do something for themselves, the Cherokees have thought it advisable that there should be established a printing press, and a seminary of respectable character; and for these purposes your aid and patronage are solicited. They wish the types to be composed of English letters and Cherokee characters. Those letters have now become extensively used in the nation; their religious songs are written in them; there is an astonishing eagerness in people of all classes and ages to acquire a knowledge of them; and the New Testament has been translated into their language. In the neighbourhood in which I live, I do not recollect a male Cherokee, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, who is ignorant of this mode

of writing. When before did a nation of Indians step forward and ask for the means of civilization? The Cherokee authorities have adopted the measure already stated, with a sincere desire to make their nation an intelligent and a virtuous people, and with a full hope that those who have already pointed out to them the road of happiness, will now assist them to pursue it. Yes, methinks I view my native country, rising from the ashes of her degradation, wearing her purified and beautiful garments, and taking her seat with the nations of the earth. I behold her sons bursting the fetters of ignorance, and unshackling her from the vices of heathenism. She is at this instant risen like the first morning sun, which grows brighter and brighter, until it reaches its fulness of glory........ She asks not for greatness; she seeks not wealth; she pleads only for assistance to become respectable as nation, to enlighten and ennoble her sons, and to ornament her daughters with mo

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desty and virtue....... There is, in Indian history, something very melancholy. We have seen every where the poor aborigines melt away before the White population. I merely speak of the fact, without at all referring to the cause. We have seen one family after another, one tribe after another, nation after nation, pass away; until only a few solitary creatures are left to tell the sad story of extinction. Shall this precedent be followed? Shall Red men live, or shall they be swept from the earth? With you and the public at large the decision chiefly rests. Must they perish? They hang upon your mercy as to a garment. Will you push them from you, or will you save them?"

This address, we need not say, excited great interest, and, we are happy to add, was followed by considerable subscriptions to promote the object so powerfully pleaded for.

LORD'S-DAY.

Ir ever there was an age in which light and darkness, religion and irreligion, were visibly and boldly in opposition, it is surely the present; and we scarcely know of any illustration of this fact more CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 329.

progress in various countries for the consecration and the desecration of the Christian Sabbath. In one of our last Numbers we mentioned that strong petitions have been presented to the legislature of the United States, against the practice of 2 U