ascended to the upper earth, and are rampant. He that goeth by it
shall be scorched, but he that seeketh it knowingly shall be
devoured in the twinkling of an eye, and become withered as the
grass at noonday.

15. Young men do not seem to consider that houses were made to pray
in, as well as to eat and to drink in. Spiritual food is much more
easily procured and far cheaper than bodily nutriment; that,
perhaps, is the reason why many overlook it.

16. When we were children our nurses used to say, "Rock-a-bye baby
on the tree top, when the bough bends the cradle will rock." Do the
nurses intend the wind to represent temptation and the storm of
life, the tree-top ambition, and the cradle the body of the child in
which the soul traverses life's ocean? I cannot doubt all this
passes through the nurses' minds. Again, when they say, "Little Bo-
peep has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them; let
them alone and they'll come home with their tails all right behind
them," is Little Bo-peep intended for mother Church? Are the sheep
our erring selves, and our subsequent return to the fold? No doubt
of it.

17. A child will often eat of itself what no compulsion can induce
it to touch. Men are disgusted with religion if it is placed before
them at unseasonable times, in unseasonable places, and clothed in a
most unseemly dress. Let them alone, and many will perhaps seek it
for themselves, whom the world suspects not. A whited sepulchre is
a very picturesque object, and I like it immensely, and I like a Sim
too. But the whited sepulchre is an acknowledged humbug and most of
the Sims are not, in my opinion, very far different.