52 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



than the common drugging, and that we afterwards met one, 

 a near relative of one of the most distinguished noblemen and 

 statesmen . of Great Britain, who had retired from a highly 

 honourable and lucrative official position, from a desire to live 

 more in accordance with his religious aspirations than his 

 duties in it permitted him to. I shall omit to narrate what 

 more we saw of them, as we proceeded further on our jour 

 ney ; but must say, to conclude, that if, in letting no man 

 judge them in meat or in drink, or in respect of a holy day 

 if, in teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and 

 hymns and spiritual songs if, in bowels of mercy, kindness, 

 humbleness of mind, meekness, self-sacrifice, and zealous 

 readiness to every good work if, especially, in real genuine 

 hospitality to strangers, there be any thing of &quot; primitive Chris 

 tianity,&quot; our entertainers seemed to us to have had very great 

 success in their purpose to return to it. They certainly were 

 not without their share of bigotry and self-confidence in such 

 matters of creed as they happened to hold in common ; but 

 this did not seem to have the effect upon them of destroying 

 geniality and good fellowship, nor of cramping the spirit of 

 practical, material, and unromantic benevolence. They were 

 quite different, too, in their way of talking upon those subjects 

 on which they conceived their minds to be &quot; at rest,&quot; from 



the theological students at , whom describes as 



studying as if they had bought tickets for the night-train to 

 heaven, and, having requested the conductor to call them 

 when they got there, were trying to get into the most com 

 fortable position to sleep it through. 



