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him the reverend; and, it often sadly occurs 

 that no two things can be wider from each other 

 in this quality. Some writer has said, that he 

 would willingly leave to the clergy every thing 

 ahove the tops of the chimneys; which, perhaps, 

 was making their possessions rather too ethe- 

 real; but, since our law calls them " spiritual 

 "persons;" since they profess, that "their king- 

 " dom is not of this world," and, since those of 

 our church have solemnly declared, that they 

 believed themselves to be called to the ministry 

 " by the Holy Ghost :" it is, I think, a little out 

 of character for them to come poking and 

 grunting and grumbling about after our eggs, 

 potatoes, and sucking pigs. 



442. However, upon the general question of 

 the utility or non-utility of paid religious 

 teachers, let men decide for themselves ; but if 

 teachers be to be paid, it seems a clear point, 

 in my mind, that they should be paid upon the 

 American plan : and this, I think, must be ob 

 vious to every one, who is able to take a view 

 of the English Clergy. They are appointed by 

 the absolute will of the Boroughmongers. They 

 care nothing for the good will of their congre 

 gation or parish. It is as good to them to be 

 hated by their parishioners as to be loved by 

 them. They very frequently never even see their 

 parish more than once in four or five years. 



