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Aufonii
Sapientes.
Cleobulus.

about Mufic as a part of Education." It is time, however, to cut fhort these remarks.

"Fandi, tacendi, fomni, vigiliæ eft modus,

Beneficiorum, gratiarum, injuriæ,

Studii, laborum. Vita in omni quidquid eft,
Iftum requirit optimæ paufæ modum.

Dixi: recedam: ut fit modus."

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"The whole world is God's fmithy, in which he forges his elect."

"Say as a holy man did, who fat and wept, and faid, when he was told that one of his brethren had fallen into mortal fin, Ille hodie, ego cras! Alas! he was ftrongly tempted before he thus fell,to-day, fo,' quoth he, 'I may to-morrow.''

-as he fell

"They that cry down moral honefty, cry down that which is a great part of religion-my duty towards God and my duty towards man. What care I to fee a man run after a fermon, if he cozens and cheats

as foon as he comes home."

"Lo! how he ftrives in vain that ftrives with God!"

HAVE obferved before, in the
earlier part of these Papers, that
within a quarter of a century

there has been a great advance in

the morals of our people. Outward decorum, at leaft, is not fo outrageously tranfgreffed as it used to be. Better education has had a great deal to do with this, and with better F f

VOL. II.

Ant. and Cleop.,
Act i. Sc. ii.

The Ancren
Rewle, p. 285.

Ibid. p. 227.

Selden's Table
Talk, p. 132.
Singer.

Gascoigne's
Voyage, &c.

Park's Heliconia, Vol. i. Part ii. 23.

education increase of good also in the hearts of many. And without preffing the force of example for the present,

"Let this alone fuffice, that in few words I fay,

Who can beware by others' harms, thrice bleft and happy they!"

"One day last summer," faid the Old Vicar, "as I was mufing on these things, and on others relating to my Parish and vocation, I was fuddenly accofted by Elfric Hayward, 'I'm going to take the pledge,' faid he. Some years ago Elfric broke his leg, and I watched over him carefully, and helped him. A wild carelefs fellow was Elfric,-fix feet high and more, with, at that time, a striking countenance. When he lay fick he talked about the pledge, but I rather diffuaded him from it then, calling to mind fome old lines well known to most Englishmen, from Gammer Gurton downwards. Indeed, my constant reply to many was, when preffed upon fuch fubjects, that I was made a member of a Temperance Society at my Baptism,—but people must follow their own convictions, and act for the best.' And I was used in those days to make this fort of reply, because I obferved that many who denied the Doctrines of the Church,-fuch, for example, as Bap

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tifmal Regeneration,-were the aptest to resort to mere worldly Societies, which, in themfelves, convey no grace;-whereas in the Sacraments, God worketh all in all. I used to think also that such paffages as this deserved much confideration, Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is fan&tified by the word of God, and prayer'. Such a paffage is clearly oppofed to vows of total abstinence. It may be on the safe side, as is often faid, to take no wine,-no, not even for the ftomach's fake, and often infirmities,' but 1 Tim. v. 23. it is not neceffary according to the word of God, but rather repugnant to it, as may be inferred from the words in Luke v. 39, and on an authority which cannot be contravened. Total abstinence is, in fact, the word of man, and only implies his great weakness and fallibility."

I was thus mentally profing and mufing when Elfric repeated his words, with what the Irish call and about it. "I'm going to take the pledge, parfon! for though the beer's bad, -mixed with falt, fugar, an' 'dulterated,-ever

1 1 Tim. iv. 4, 5. I am glad to fee Dr. C. Wordsworth, in his note on this paffage, confirming my view.

fince the time old Harry Dawson's leg got bad and he could brew no more, there isn't a drop of good beer in the Parish,-yet, how'mfoiver, I can't help drinking it, and it makes me bad,

fick, and swimy-like, all-over-ways. Sam Brown fays that's along of the Coclus Indigo, -but I don't know;-all I knows is that all the beer now's next to pifon. The smuggled fpirits ifn't wus, and I gave that up long ago.

For the life o' me I can't think what becomes of all the barley and 'ops,—the brewers, I'm fure, ufe precious little. Jim Anffield says he can't get enough grains for his pig." And fure enough my Friend Elfric did take the pledge, and became a very refpectable man, and more than one cafe has come to my knowledge in which the pledge has been of service'. At the fame time those who are temperate in all things from higher motives fhow a deeper sense of Christian refponsibility, as I think. Certainly use and abuse are very different things. But I must recover all from their evil courses by every means in my power.

1 This is well illuftrated in Mr. Paul Kane's anecdote of the Chief Sigennok, in his Wanderings of an Artist. For twenty-three years he had never been known to violate the promise he had made, when, having come like the prodigal to himfelf, he difcovered the degraded pofition to which drunkennefs had brought him. See p. 12.

2 The following paffage has just been pointed out to me in a number of the Quarterly Review, in which the matter is well put. ["The

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