BE it remembered, That on the eighth day of February, in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM COLLIER, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Evangelical Instructor: designed for the use of schools and families; compiled by WILLIAM COLLIER, A. M. "And thou shalt teach them (the words of the Lord) diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." DEUTERONOMY VI. 7.

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, intitled, "An act supplementary to an act intitled, An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

WM. S. SHAW,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

DEDICATION.

TO THE MASSACHUSETTS PEACE SOCIETY.

WHEN the preponderating part of the world shall cease to be proud, ambitious, envious, covetous, lovers of their ownselves, false, malignant, and intriguing; when they shall love God and one another out of a pure heart, then, and not till then, may we expect wars to cease, and the state of mankind to be essentially meliorated. While these dispositions remain they will be sure to shew themselves. If the best laws or constitution in the world stands in their way, they' will, on certain occasions, bear down all before them. But if all these evils, be they as great and as numerous as they may, can be reduced to a single cause, and that cause removed, the work is done. All the evils of which we complain, are reducible to one principle "which is interwoven into our very nature; namely, the propensity to prefer our own interest above that of the community." Christian Reader, are you not acquainted with a principle, which, like the machine of Archemedes, will remove this mighty mass of evils. The Scriptures teach' the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea; the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, idolatry, and every species of false religion, shall be no more; and art and instruments of war shall be laid aside, and exchanged for those of husbandry; the different tribes.

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of men shall be united in one common bond of brotherly love; slavery and oppression will cease; righteousness will be established in the earth and the work of righteousness shall be PEACE, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. Andrew Fuller.

There is nothing, says Dr. Fothergill, tends so much to keep alive the spirit of war as our education. We take part in all the spirit of heroism displayed with so much elegance by the Greek and Roman historians, till the spirit of Christianity, meek, humble, patient, and forgiving, is obliterated from our minds: a woful exchange for a system replete with good will to all men ! I am not censuring others, I am pleading for ourselves ; and most fervently wish the day may be fast advancing when wars will be no more. I am the brother of all mankind. I know I am writing to a Gentleman who has charity enough to enter fully into my sentiments, and to wish there was not a classic extant capable of producing, cherishing or confirming such sentiments.

Letter to a Gentleman in Massachusetts.

'The end of Learning is, to repair the ruin of our 'first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out ' of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be 'like him; as we may the nearest by possessing our 'souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."

JOHN MILTON.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Doth a fountain send forth, at the same place, sweet. water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

At the nativity of Christ, the angels sung, not the glories of war, nor a song of military triumph, but a hymn of peace: Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, and good-will towards men.

GENTLEMEN,

HEARTILY approving as I do of the design of your institution, and firmly persuaded as I am that should the Evangelical Instructor, and works of a similar character, be generally introduced and read in our public and private schools, they would aid very essentially in promoting the benevolent and honourable object of your association, I take leave to usher the second edition of this work into the world under your protection and ask for it your patronage.

I am, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient

and very hurable servant,

WILLIAM COLLIER.

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RECOMMENDATIONS.

From the Reverend Doctors Miller and Romeyn, in the City of New-York.

A JUDICIOUS, well compiled manuel, for initiating Children and Young Persons into the Elements of Evangelical Truth, is certainly a most desirable addition to the numerous and excellent Books for the use of Schools, which modern times have produced. We consider Mr. COLLIER's Evangelical Instructor, (so far as we have had an opportunity of examining it) as the best work of this kind that we have seen. It appears to be remarkably free from Sectarian peculiarities, and calculated to lead the youthful mind easily and insensibly into just views of Christian Doctrine, while, at the same time, it is interspersed with much entertaining and instructive matter of other kinds. We heartily wish him success in introducing it into Schools; and believe, that if brought into general use, it may do much good.

New-York, Jan. 6, 1812.

SAML. MILLER.
JN. B. ROMEYN.

From the Rev. Dr. Griffin of Boston.

IN the recommendation of Mr. COLLIER'S Evangelical Instructor, as expressed by Doctors MILLER and RoMEYN, I heartily coneur; and hope that this useful and entertaining Book may be generally introduced into our Schools. E. D. GRIFFIN.

Boston, Jan. 27, 1813.