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21 uct become philosphers, such as you would be thought to be. I am going to employ myself diligently, along with my parishioners, to sift the wheat from the bran. the true from the false ; if e are not successful we shall be at least sincere. I do fear, indeed, that while I wore these vestments which we have brought you, and spoke in that large gloomy building which we have given up to you, I told my poor flock a great many idle ories. I cannot but hope, however, that the rors we have fallen into have not been very material, since the village has, in general, been sober and good: the peasants are honest, docile, and laborious; the husbands love their wives, and the wives their husbands; they are fortunately not too much to be compassionate, and they have constantly relieved the sick and fugitives of all parties whenever it hes lain in their way. I think, therefore, that I have taught them cannot be so very much. You want to extirpate priests, but will you hinder the ignorant froid applying for instruction, the unhappy for comfort and hope, the learned from looking up to the learned ? If you have not, you will have priests, by whatever name pa may order them to be called; but it is certainly not necessary they should wear a particular ess, or be appointed by state letters of ordination. Many letters of ordination are my zeal, my charity, my ardent love for my dear children of the village ; were more learned, I would add, my knowledge; it, alas! we all know very little: to man every or is pardonable but want of humility. We have a public walk, with a spreading elm-tree at the end of it, and a circle of green round it, with a convenient bench. Here I shall draw together