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Rh With more to the same effect, to which the other replies— This world, which clouds thy soul with doubt Is but a carpet inside out; As when we view these shreds and ends, We know not what the whole intends; So, when on earth things look but odd, They're working out some scheme of God. What now seem random strokes will there In order and design appear, Then shall we praise what here we spurn'd, For then the carpet shall be turn'd.

When it was shown to Bishop Porteous, he said, laughing, "Here you have Bishop Butler's Analogy, all for a halfpenny."

A committee was formed, with Archbishop Moore at the head of it, for promoting the circulation of the tracts, and undertaking part of the expense. During this absence from home, however, a great loss befell the sisters in Mrs. Baker, that first school-mistress, whom the sisters had been wont playfully to term among themselves "Bishop Baker," for all their other mistresses had been trained by helping in her model school, and she had besides been a perfect evangelist to Cheddar, with Sunday-evening teachings under the sanction and guidance of the clergy, and by the care of the clubs which promoted among the women virtue, thrift, and decency.

She was not well enough to be present at the Mendip Feast of '95, from which also Hannah was