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280 have craped together. No, wie in their generation, they venerate the precriptive right of poeion, as a trong hold, and till let the luggih bell tinkle to prayers, as during the days when the elevation of the hot was uppoed to atone for the ins of the people, let one reformation hould lead to another, and the pirit kill the letter. Thee Romih cutoms have the mot baneful effect on the morals of our clergy; for the idle vermin who two or three times a day perform in the mot lovenly manner a ervice which they think ueles, but call their duty, oon loe a ene of duty. At college, forced to attend or evade public worhip, they acquire an habitual contempt for the very ervice, the performance of which is to enable them to live in idlenes. It is mumbled over as an affair of buines, as a tupid boy repeats his tak, and frequently the college cant ecapes from the preacher the moment after he has left the pulpit, and even whilt he is eating the dinner which he earned in uch a dihonet manner.

Nothing, indeed, can be more irreverent than the cathedral ervice as it is now performed in this country, nor does it contain a et of weaker men than thoe who are the laves of this childih routine. A diguting keleton of the former tate is till exhibited; but all the olemnity that intereted the imagination, if it did not purify the heart, is tripped off. The performance of high mas on the continent mut impres every mind, where a park of fancy glows, with that awful melancholy, that ublime tendernes, o near akin to devotion. I do not ay that thee devotional feelings&ensp;