ages, he was disturbed and dissatisfied. Here he
has taken up his rest. Out of this stronghold, it is not probable that
any subsequent vice will ever drive him, or true religion draw him. He
sometimes attends public worship, but as he thinks no part of it but the
sermon of much value, it is only when he likes the preacher. He has
little notion of the respect due to established institutions, and does
not heartily like any precomposed form of prayer, not even our
incomparable Liturgy. He reads such religious books only as tend to
establish his own opinions, and talks and disputes loudly on certain
doctrinal points. But an accumulating Christian, and a Christian who,
for the purpose of accumulation, is said to be uncharitable, and even
somewhat oppressive, is a paradox which I can not solve, and an anomaly
which I can not comprehend. Covetousness is, as I said, a more
creditable vice than Ned's former ones, but for that very reason more
dangerous."

"From this sober vice," said I, "proceeded the blackest crime ever
perpetrated by human wickedness; for it does not appear that Judas, in
his direful treason, was instigated by malice. It is observable, that
when our Saviour names this sin, it is with an emphatical warning, as
knowing its mischief to be greater because its scandal was less. Not
contented with a single caution, he doubles his exhortation. '_Take heed
and beware_ of covetousness.'"

After some remarks of Sir John, which I do not recollect, Mr. Stanley
said, "I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin
to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume
ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural
bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to
insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a
scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation; or, if you will allow
me the strong word, is not conversion."

Mr. Tyrrel, according to his appointment, came to dinner, and brought
with him his nephew, Mr. Edward Tyrrel, whom he had lately entered at
the university, with a design to prepare him for holy orders. He was a
well-disposed young man, but his previous education was said to have
been very much neglected, and was rather deficient in the necessary
learning. Mr. Stanley had heard that Tyrrel had two reasons for breeding
him to the church. In the first place, he fancied it was the cheapest
profession, and in the