Excerpt from Christianity the Light of the Moral World: A Poem The fpacious field Of erudition lies Open before you, and invites you with a wonderful variety of inftrue'tive and entertaining fcenes. Happy you, who have leifure and liberty to expatiate in it, wherever fancy or genius lead you, without check or confinement! The feeming dulnefs and narrownefs of the avenues need not weaken your inclinations, nor difcourage your entrance. At every Prep you take, the profpeei: will gradually enlarge and brighten upon you and infpire warmer defires and bolder refolutions to proceed. I cannot indeed flatter you, that you ihall meet with nothing to interrupt or retard you in your progrefs. Some little difficulties will Un avoidably fall in your way. But thefe, like the obfiacles you meet with in a lively chace, will be infenfibly overcome, when you are animated and fired with a brisk and vigorous purfuit. Your bufinefs is only to gather fome of the fairefi flow ersas you pafs along; to reach Out your hand to the tree Of knowledge, which is molt flourifhing and fruitful in the two great nurferies Of learning, and feleet from its branches a laning itore of its choiceft product. The arts and fciences are truly liberal, and will abundantly reward your indultry, by fupplying you with fuch feeds of wifdom, and furnifhin g you with futh excellent truths, as mayferve to regu late every part of your future conduct. They will refine andelevate your tafte above every unbe coming amufement, and enrich your imagination With'a treafure Of noble ideas, which will infallibly feture you from that molt vulgar and irkfom of all wants, the want of thought. All the little fears and follies Of inconfiderate youth, will fly, like Ihadows, before the rifin g funof knowledge, and we fhall foon fee nothing of that feafon remaining, but its vivacity and innocence. May chefe ever remain, untainted by vicious habits, and unimpair ed by years! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.