284 remarks eri '^huKderprooj''s efsays. Oct. 24, 

 ^Jon, must make an efsential part. Excepting reli- 

 gion, all the other principles of human conduct, ha- 

 ving for their objects things which daily change, must, 

 like them, be subject to perpetual variations, and the 

 conduct founded upon them, mutable and uncertain. 

 Upon men thus unstable as water, what wise man 

 can depend ? Whereas the principle of religion, ha- 

 ving God for its object, as he is unchangeable, must, 

 in some degree, be immutable also ; or to say the 

 least, it is fixed and steady. Besides, religion, having 

 for its object God, who is the supreme beauty, must 

 render a man truly amiable. Whom do we wilh for 

 a companion or friend whom we can heartily love ? 

 or a counsellor upon wkose integrity and faithfulnefs 

 we can without suspicion depend ? The man wlio 

 fears God, and sets him continually before him. 



Wherever piety is, it Ihows itself, not only by- 

 equity and beneficence to men, but by external acts 

 of wor(hip or devotion ; where these then are want- 

 ing, we can neither love nor trust so much as we 

 would wifh. The conclusion of the whole is, that 

 real piety is the finest ornament of the human cha- 

 racter. J am, Sir, 



Yours, ts'c. Amicus. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee, 



In your last Bee, I observe a reply from Mr Thun- 

 derproof, to my observations on his '* remarks." 

 Mr T. wisely avoids entering into any particular dfs- 

 cufsion of the subject, and contents himself with ma- 



