melancholy and elevating; but I will not deprive you of
the pleasure you will derive from first impressions, by
stripping them of their novelty. You will be pleased with
the Scotch; they are a frugal, industrious, moral and
intellectual people. I should like to see their agriculture,
I am told it is by far the best in Europe.

"But, Squire, I shall hope to see you soon, for I sometimes
think duty calls me home again. Although my little flock
has chosen other shepherds and quitted my fold, some of
them may have seen their error, and wish to return. And
ought I not to be there to receive them? It is true, I
am no longer a labourer in the vineyard, but my heart is
there. I should like to walk round and round the wall
that encloses it, and climb up, and look into it, and
talk to them that are at work there. I might give some
advice that would be valuable to them. The blossoms
require shelter, and the fruit requires heat, and the
roots need covering in Winter. The vine too is luxuriant,
and must be pruned, or it will produce nothing but wood.
It demands constant care and constant labour; I had
decorated the little place with flowers too, to make it
attractive and pleasant.

"But, ah me! dissent will pull all these up like weeds,
and throw them out; and scepticism will raise nothing
but gaudy annuals. The perennials will not flourish
without cultivating and enriching the ground; _their
roots are in the heart_. The religion of our Church,
which is the same as this of England, is a religion which