n to the following articles of Advice. We
trust, they are dictated by the purest regard for your welfare,
for we view you as Friends and Brethren.

_In the first place._ We earnestly recommend to you, a regular
attention to the important duty of public worship; by which means
you will evince gratitude to your CREATOR, and, at the same
time, promote knowledge, union, friendship, and proper conduct
amongst yourselves.

_Secondly_,

_Secondly_, We advise such of you, as have not been taught
reading, writing, and the first principles of arithmetic, to
acquire them as early as possible. Carefully attend to the
instruction of your children in the same simple and useful
branches of education. Cause them, likewise, early and frequently
to read the holy Scriptures. They contain, among other great
discoveries, the precious record of the original equality of
mankind, and of the obligations of universal justice and
benevolence, which are derived from the relation of the human
race to each other in a COMMON FATHER.

_Thirdly_, Teach your children useful trades, or to labor with
their hands in cultivating the earth. These employments are
favorable to health and virtue. In the choice of masters, who are
to instruct them in the above branches of business, prefer those
who will work with them; by this means they will acquire habits
of industry, and be better preserved from vice, than if they
worked alone, or under the eye of persons less interested in
their welfare. In forming contracts, for yourselves or children,
with masters, it may be useful to consult such persons as are
capable of giving you the best advice, who are known to be your
friends, in order to prevent advantages being taken of your
ignorance of the laws and customs of our country.

_Fourthly_, Be diligent in your respective callings, and faithful
in all the relations you bear in society, whether as husbands,
wives, fathers, children or hired servants. Be just in all your
dealings. Be simple in your dress and furniture, and frugal in
your family expenses. Thus you will act like Christians as well
as freemen, and, by these means, you will provide for the
distress and wants of sickness and old age.

_Fifthly_, Refrain from the use of spiritu