of Mr. Haliburton into Latin: transcribe and repeat select portions of sacred hymns and poems.

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In the seventh class they read Mr. Law's Christian Perfection, and Archbishop Potter's Greek Antiquities: they learn Bengelii Introductio ad Chronologiam, with Marshal's Chronological Tables: read Tully's Offices and Virgil's Eneid translate Bengelius into English, and Mr. Law into Latin: learn (those who have a turn for it) to make verses, and the Short Greek Grammar: read the Epistles of St. John: transcribe and repeat select portions of Milton.

"In the eigth class they read Mr. Law's Serious Call, and Lewis's Hebrew Antiquities: they learn to make Themes and to declaim: learn Vossius's Rhetoric: read Tully's Tusculan Questions, and Selecta ex Ovidio, Virgilio, Horatio, Juvenale, Persio, Martiale: perfect themselves in the Greek Grammar; read the Gospels and Six Books of Homer's Iliad: translate Tully into English, and Mr. Law into Latin: learn the Short Hebrew Grammar, and read Genesis transcribe and repeat Selecta ex Virgilio, Horatio, Juvenale.

"It is our particular desire, That all who are educated here, may be brought up in the fear of God: and at the utmost distance as from vice in general, so in particular from idleness and effeminacy. The children therefore of tender parents, so called, have no business here: for the rules will not be broken, in favour of any person whatsoever. Nor is any child received unless his parents agree, 1. That he shall observe all the rules of the house, and 2. That they will not take him from school, no, not a day, till they take him for good and all.

The method observed in the School is this:

"The First Class.

10. Write till eleven.
4. Write till five.

Morn. 7. Read.

Aftern. 1. Read.

"The Second Class.

M. 7. Read the Manners of the Ancient Christians:

8. Learn

8. Learn the English Grammar: when that is ended, the Latin Grammar.

A.

1. Learn to construe and parse Prælectiones Pueriles : Translate into English and Latin alternately.

4.

"The Third Class.

M. 7. Read Primitive Christianity:

8. Repeat English and Latin Grammar alternately.
9. Learn Corderius, and when that is ended, Historia

10.

A. 1.

4.

M. 7.

Selecta.

Write.

Learn Corderius and Historia Selecta.
Translate.

"The Fourth Class.

Read the Pilgrim's Progress:

8. Repeat the Grammar :

9.

10.

A. 1.

4.

Learn Castellio's Kempis, and when that is ended,
Cornelius Nepos.

Write and learn Arithmetic :

Learn Kempis and Cornelius Nepos.

Translate.

"The Fifth Class.

Read Mr. Haliburton's Life.

M. 7.

8.

Repeat the Grammars:

10.

A. 1.

Paterculus:

Learn Geography:

Learn Cæsar; Terence; Paterculus:

3. Read Roman Antiquities:

4.

Translate.

"The

"The Seventh Class.

M. 7. Read Mr. Law's Christian Perfection:

M. W. F. Learn the Greek Grammar; and read the

Greek Testament;

Tu. Th. Sat. Learn Tully; afterwards Virgil:

10. Learn Chronology :

A. 1. Learn Latin and Greek alternately, as in the morn

3.

ing:

Read Grecian Antiquities:"

4. Translate and make verses alternately.

"The Eighth Class.

M. 7.

Read Mr. Law's Serious Call:

M. Th. Latin.

Tu. Frid. Greek.

W. S. Hebrew and so at one in the afternoons:

10. Learn Rhetoric:

A. 3. Read Hebrew Antiquities:

4. Mond. Thurs. Translate.

Tues. Frid. Make Verses:

Wed. Make a Theme:

Sat. Write a Declamation.

"All the other classes spend Saturday afternoon in Arithmetic, and in transcribing what they learn on Sunday, and repeat on Monday morning."

Mr. Wesley adds; "The following method may be observed, by those who design to go through a course of academical learning.

"Whoever carefully goes through this course, will be a better scholar than nine in ten of the graduates at Oxford or Cambridge."

About the time this short account was printed; Mr. Wesley asked in the Conference, "What can be done to make the Methodists sensible of the excellency of Kingswood-School ?"—The answer agreed

upon, was,

"Let every Assistant read the following account of it yearly, in every society. 1. The wisdom and love of God have now thrust out a large number of labourers into his barvest; men who desire nothing on earth but to promote the glory of God, to save their own souls, and them that hear them. And those to whom they minister spiritual things, willingly minister to them of their carnal things; so that they have food to eat and raiment to put on, and are content therewith.