| Show nie HIE E D ar E B A 6 bla bia 1 it must be admitted with great regret that people who make a considerable profession of religion have succeeded in making themselves more d than almost any other human beings have ever made themselves you will fi d people who claim not to 0 o be merely pious and Chri christian Alan dlan people but to be very much more pious and Clitia tian than others who are ex extremely uncharitable repulsive T u and narrow darrow minded and arid inte intensely opinionated and elt self elf satisfied we know from a very high ligh authority that a christian ought to be an epistle in commendation of the blessed faith he be holds JB it t it is beyond question that many people who to be christians christiana are like grim goggons gor gons heads warning people off having baying anything to do with christianity g why should a middle aged clergyman walk about a the a with a malignant and sullen scowl always ays on his bis face which at the beat would be a very ugly one why should another walk with his bis nose in the air and his his bis eyes rolled I 1 up till they seem seera likely to io rol roi out and why shy should a efa eha rd be always dabbled over wito wita a eirma clammy y pre and prolong all his life vowels to tw twice ice tile the usual length it is indeed a most roost woeful that people who evince a spirit in every respect the direct contrary of that of our blessed redeemer should tancy fancy that they are christians of singular attainments and it ia is more woeful still that many young people should be scare scared d away into irre faglon or unbelief by the wre ched delusion that these creature creatures as wickedly caricaturing turing christianity are fairly representing it I 1 have beheld more deliberate malice lying and cheating more backbiting back biting and denser stupidity and greater self sufficiency among badbear bad heart beart ted eif eti wrongheaded religionists than among any other ord r of human beings I 1 have lown hown known more malignity malig maill nily my and bander sander conveyed in the to fo m of a prayer than should have consigned any ordinary libeler to the pillory I 1 have known a person who made evening prayer a means of 0 infuriating and st stabbing abbin the servants berv ints under the pretext of coi confessing tessing teasing their sins thou knowe kno west qt lord how my servants have been occupied this day with these words did the blasphemous mockery of prayer begin one sunday evening in a house I 1 aoud easily indicate a ad d then the man under the pretext of addressing the almighty raked up all the misdoings mis doings of the servants they being present of co course urBe in a fashion which if it be he had ventured on at any other time would have probably led some of them to ass assault atilt him country parson |
