inculcates love: filial love towards God; paternal love
to those committed to our care; brotherly love, to our
neighbour, nay, something more than is known by that term
in its common acceptation, for we are instructed to love
our neighbour as ourselves.

"We are directed to commence our prayer with "Our Father."
How much of love, of tenderness, of forbearance, of
kindness, of liberality, is embodied in that word--
children: of the same father, members of the same great
human family I Love is the bond of union--love dwelleth
in the heart; and the heart must be cultivated, that the
seeds of affection may germinate in it.

"Dissent is cold and sour; it never appeals to the
affections, but it scatters denunciations, and rules by
terror. Scepticism is proud and self-sufficient. It
refuses to believe in mysteries and deals in rhetoric
and sophistry, and flatters the vanity, by exalting human
reason. My poor lost flock will see the change, and I
fear, feel it too. Besides, absence is a temporary death.
Now I am gone from them, they will forget my frailties
and infirmities, and dwell on what little good might have
been in me, and, perhaps, yearn towards me.

"If I was to return, perhaps I could make an impression
on the minds of some, and recall two or three, if not
more, to a sense of duty. What a great thing that would
be, wouldn't it? And if I did, I would get our bishop to
send me a pious, zealous, humble-minded, affectionate,