x.30 ON nIGH PROFESSION !-Ilaster, so it must be with the servant. It is well, however, if attack makes even them more -discreet, and reproach more humble. In short, the religion of the phrasea- ,logists is easy, their acquisitions cheap, their sacrifices few, their stock small, but always ready for production. This stock is -rather drawn from the memory than the mind ; it consists in terms rather than in ideas =; in opinions rather than in principles': and is brought out on all oc- casions, without regard to time, place, :person, or circumstance. It has been triumphantly asserted, but 'probably with more confidence than truth, that the Children :of pious persons are not, in general, piously educated. We have known too many instances to the contrary to admit the charge. Though a good man's religion Cannot be always transmitted with his estate, yet much has been done, and is actually doing towards this transmission : and if it is sometimes found that the fact is as
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