THD BORDERERS. Q59 sinful reluctance to say anything which might seem revolting to these pleasing characters who have shown some dispo- sition to religion, who love its disciples, without having courage to imitate them. But real concern for their best interests will not allow those who assume to advo- cate the cause of Christianity, to conceal the distance at which they at present appear to stand from its constraining power, and from its practical conse- quences. Perhaps your creed is not very erro- neous. Probably the rectitude of your religious friends, whose doctrines are sound, and the .indifference of your fashionable friends, who " care for none of these things," have preserved you pretty clear from errors of opinion. Whilst the occasional societyof the pious has kept your sentiments in order, the amusements of the worldly have indem- nified you for the severities of the other quarter. But opinions do little till they are ripened into principles. It is re-
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