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College Musings.
Liturgy of our establishment recited by a drone , who did not take even common pains to open his mouth , much more feel or express the divine sentiment of the prayers he was reading . The singing , too , was all discordant , ancl the congregation very thin ; faults attributed by every one to the inefficacy of the officiating minister . O , ye elders of the evangelical church of England , when will ye take heed that the salt wherewith ye are salted hath not lost its flavour ! Are ye so wedded to
the " flesh-pots of Egypt" that ye cannot discern the " signs of the times , " and that light is illuminating even them who have long sat in the region of darkness ? Awake , awake , and trim the lamps of your sanctuary ! In other words , take heed to your flocks , and the ministers whom you set over them , though they do all declare the Holy Ghost hath culled them : a worldly-minded pastor is the greatest infliction that can be put a parishhe is the leprosy of his beneficespreading
upon ; , through all ranks , and diseasing every means of grace within his cure . I drank tea with some worthy friends in the village , to whose hospitality ancl civilities as a stranger I was most sensible , and particularly treasured their good advice , as persons who had reaped much more expeiience in the world than my years coulcl possibly possess . I must not omit an event which occurred , —my introduction to the eccentric Miss H— , a vivacious old maicl ( old style ) , and jocosely sumamed by her
acquaintance " Queen Anne ' s sixpence . " Returned to my lodgings early in the evening , and had occasion to censure the extravagant absurdity to which dress is carried in the present age by the plebeian class of females , especially servants . Surely some judicious regulations might be made in this department of social economy by the authority of ruling families . It is pitiable to contemplate the vicious result which too frequently follows this passion for the outward adorning of the person among that
serviceable class of persons . This evening was closed by my reading aloud to our family circle one of my finished orations . After closing the manuscript , and looking bashful at the effort , I listened very patiently to the shower of flattering comments poured from the lips of my partial auditors upon my " first attempt" in sermonizing , bowing modestly to the hopes expressed that I would publish these juvenile productions . The hardest task was to get off transcribing another copy for a particular
old lady by request , which I managed by faithfully promising a printed edition " when the whole were published . Oh , the troubles and pains of authorship ! But I began to see my safest retreat was my couch . Therefore , making sundry wry faces at the glowing acknowledgments of my precocious talents , I snatched up my candlestick and withdrew , praying on my knees to the Giver of all wisdom , that I might ever be preserved from the folly of sell-deception through man's praise and adulation . tTo be continneil )
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College Musings.
Liturgy of our establishment recited by a drone , who did not take even common pains to open his mouth , much more feel or express the divine sentiment of the prayers he was reading . The singing , too , was all discordant , ancl the congregation very thin ; faults attributed by every one to the inefficacy of the officiating minister . O , ye elders of the evangelical church of England , when will ye take heed that the salt wherewith ye are salted hath not lost its flavour ! Are ye so wedded to
the " flesh-pots of Egypt" that ye cannot discern the " signs of the times , " and that light is illuminating even them who have long sat in the region of darkness ? Awake , awake , and trim the lamps of your sanctuary ! In other words , take heed to your flocks , and the ministers whom you set over them , though they do all declare the Holy Ghost hath culled them : a worldly-minded pastor is the greatest infliction that can be put a parishhe is the leprosy of his beneficespreading
upon ; , through all ranks , and diseasing every means of grace within his cure . I drank tea with some worthy friends in the village , to whose hospitality ancl civilities as a stranger I was most sensible , and particularly treasured their good advice , as persons who had reaped much more expeiience in the world than my years coulcl possibly possess . I must not omit an event which occurred , —my introduction to the eccentric Miss H— , a vivacious old maicl ( old style ) , and jocosely sumamed by her
acquaintance " Queen Anne ' s sixpence . " Returned to my lodgings early in the evening , and had occasion to censure the extravagant absurdity to which dress is carried in the present age by the plebeian class of females , especially servants . Surely some judicious regulations might be made in this department of social economy by the authority of ruling families . It is pitiable to contemplate the vicious result which too frequently follows this passion for the outward adorning of the person among that
serviceable class of persons . This evening was closed by my reading aloud to our family circle one of my finished orations . After closing the manuscript , and looking bashful at the effort , I listened very patiently to the shower of flattering comments poured from the lips of my partial auditors upon my " first attempt" in sermonizing , bowing modestly to the hopes expressed that I would publish these juvenile productions . The hardest task was to get off transcribing another copy for a particular
old lady by request , which I managed by faithfully promising a printed edition " when the whole were published . Oh , the troubles and pains of authorship ! But I began to see my safest retreat was my couch . Therefore , making sundry wry faces at the glowing acknowledgments of my precocious talents , I snatched up my candlestick and withdrew , praying on my knees to the Giver of all wisdom , that I might ever be preserved from the folly of sell-deception through man's praise and adulation . tTo be continneil )