FOURTH WEEK. 



RTHODOXY is at a low ebb. Only 

 two clergymen accepted my offer to 

 come and help hoe my potatoes for 

 the privilege of using my vegetable total-deprav- 

 ity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass 

 as some call it ; and those two did not bring 

 hoes. There seems to be a lack of disposition to 

 hoe among our educated clergy. I am bound to 

 say that these two, however, sat and watched my 

 vigorous combats with the weeds, and talked 

 most beautifully about the application of the 

 snake-grass figure. As, for instance, when a 

 fault or sin showed on the surface of a man, 

 whether, if you dug down, you would find that it 



