Be their minds is still greater, Need I tell you without teaching them the word of God. as a revelation from God; was one Jour children coming in said, "I wonder at understanding some of the excellencies Of blessed rule, let them read it instead o tions, and impossibilities. When that catechisms which abound with written, it was as far as the people vanced from popery: but shall we ke minds of our children back to the attai of two or three hundred years past there is so much greater light in the day? This is not doing them a i Teach them the fear of the Lord, and To Children.-Dear Children AGE OF ENQUIRY, Christian's Pocket Companion AND DAILY ASSISTANT; CALCULATED ALSO FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RISING GENERATION, IN LEADING THEM INTO TRUTH. BY ELIAS SMITH, Him shall ye hear in all things.-Peter. EXETER: PUBLISHED BY ABEL BROWN, AND SOLD AT HIS BOOKSTORE: SOLD ALSO BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN BOSTON. ........ INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS TO MINISTERS, SAINTS OF EVERY DENOMINA TION, PARENTS AND CHILDREN. HISTORIANS mention the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brass age, the Iron age, besides these, we have had, the Popish age, the Episcopal age, the Presbyterian age, the Congregational age, the Baptist age, the Methodist age, and the Hopkinsian age. There has been times, when some one of these have for a while triumphed over all the rest; either by ruling the others, or in boasting that their arguments were best supported from scripture. Among the rest, one age, improperly called, "the age of reason," has, in swift succession passed by those of the present generation, with the other ages. These ages are behind all of the present day; excepting those who have the disadvantage of having their eyes the back side of their heads, instead of having them below their foreheads. At such a time as this, when multitudes are looking forward for something better than can |