18 . ‘on the duties of a clergyman. Nov. 7: 
instructions and their example, virtuous, and con- 
sequently geod citizens. In order to give efficacy 
to our instructions, we are rendered independent : 
it is our own fault, therefore, if we are not respec- 
ted and happy. 
‘The world, however, seems to wna of us some- 
thing more than a bare attention to the duties of our 
office. We have many hours not necefsarily devo- 
ted to them. How ought these hours to be employ- 
ed? There are many plans which we can adopt. 
Agriculture is a pursuit in which most of us engage ; 
and I acknowledge myself favourable to it under cer- 
tain limitations. Our superior education, by enabling 
us to become acquainted with the theory of the art, 
may render this pursuit useful tv ourselves, and. to 
our parifhioners. But if it be engaged in with any 
other view than as an innocent and profitable 
amusement ; if buying and selling, and the anxieties — 
of a farm, fhall ever take the lead in our character 
and conversation, then ] think we descend below 
our rank ; and justly lose our respectability as clér- 
gymen. 1 think we ought to be farmers therefore on 
a small scale ;—that our farms ought never to belar-: 
ger than what we can manage in the course of a mor- 
ning or an evening walk, which our health would ren- 
der necefsary at any rate. Another pursuit, to 
which f am stiJl more partial, is gardening, and the 
ornamenting of our manses and glebes, This has a 
happy influence on the spirits and the temper. It 
operates on the imagination and the tastedike the 
view of a fine landscape. A neat and ornamented’ 
entry to.a manse, by means of fhrubbery, and flow- 
