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*Quoted in Webster's works, vol. 1, pp. 170, 171. fMcOrie's Life of Knox, p. 87. gMcCrie's Life of A. Melville, p. 359, 108 A Busy Life, gie, medicine, the lawis, and all other liberal sciences. "^ The Prussian system of education, judged by the principles on which it is founded and the effects it produces, is one of the best in the world. This plan lays down on the foreground of every scheme of studies, as the leading object of every school: "First religious instruction as a means of forming the moral character according to the positive truths of Christianity. " Such too, was the basis of the system of education established by the early fathers of our own country . President Quincy, in his elaborate history of the University at Cambridge the most ancient college in the United S':ates -tells us, that the "exercises of the students had the aspect of a theological rather than a literary institution. They were practiced twice a day in reading scriptures, giving an account of their experience and proficiency in practical and spiritual truths, accompanied by theoretical observa- tion on the language and logic of the sacred writings. They were carefully to attend public worship, and be examined on their profiting; commonplacing the