GLASTONBURY ABBEY. 119 
This is all that is left of the great abbey of Glas- 
tonbury, the first christian church which existed in 
these islands. Is not the sight of these mouldering 
ruins, enough to fill us with apprehension lest 
the warning of the poet— 
“ Delieta majorum immeritus lues, 
Romane, donec templa refeceris,”’ 
may be truly applicable to ourselves’—at least we 
ought to contemplate them with awe and sorrow ; for 
albeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made 
with hands, this mighty temple was raised to His 
service by the efforts of zeal, which, in one point, 
was surely according to knowledge; in that it expen- 
ded to His honour and glory, that wealth, which we 
in our days are too apt to waste in personal luxury, 
or to lavish in vainglorious ostentation. 
