mentary as it here appears, and unjust as it is to rend away a small portion of the building as a type of the whole. "At the present time when all are more or less eagerly engaged in the pursuance of external advantages, and, under penalty of being cast into the fiery furnace of the world's scorn, do fall down and worship that earth-born goddess of temporal utility which opinion has set up, it would be vain enthusiasm to attempt to divert attention, but for a moment, from so favoured an idol, were it not that in the minds of all, even its most degraded votaries, there already exists a most real and bitter sense of its insufficiency and latent deformity; and until Wisdom shall have effected that internal renovation which above all things we now need, it is vainly that we seek in externals a harmony and happiness which has not been imaged there. Yet still we linger on in expectation; and with that abiding patience, which is the test of faith in a good cause, may we continue to seek on, not vaguely as heretofore, for passing excitements, but with steadfast perseverance looking within, until Wisdom reveal to us those higher objects of pursuit and truer attractions which will not suffer the mind aspiring to them to fall into dishonour; but purifying and corroborating as they draw, will, when at length they are worthily won, unite with and transmute their worshipper into that Harmony and Beauty which, in the dim beholding, he venerated and loved. Begin to-day, nor end till evil sink In its due grave; and if at once we may not "The Idea of the Good, the Pure, and the True is the alluring object which we all innerly worship-the progeny of Divine Intellect immortal and strong-even Moral Beauty which, though obscurely now, through the mists of sense and selfishness, ever shines attractively our Polar Star: "When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS, |