56 MOTIVES TO GARDENING. 



travel no small distance; and hence you are apt to 

 imagine that the inconveniency of a too sedentary 

 mode of life will be sufficiently counteracted. A 

 little attention, however to the principles of physi- 

 ology might correct this mistake. Those duties 

 discharged amongst the distant members of your 

 flock are all of a solemn kind, and many of them 

 deeply affecting keeping the mind as intent as in 

 the study, causing the heart and throat to swell 

 and tears to flow, and keeping in quick vibration all 

 those untractable cords that serve for a correspon- 

 dence between the mind and the remotest material 

 parts of our system. This modeof overworking and 

 wearying by only one sort of application, which is 

 inconsistent with the health of our frame, as it is 

 inconsistent with man's nature, soon destroys either 

 the mind or the body; and indigestion, or bilious 

 disorder, is frequently the first intimation that vio- 

 lence has been done to the laws of our constitution. 

 The great prevalence of this Protean malady 

 amongst rny clerical brethren might be attested by 

 the illustrious practice of the late Dr. Gregory, or 

 that of his successor, Dr. T., the hope of such des- 

 pondents. With great love to my brethren, and 

 perfect belief of a theory agreeing with nature's 

 designs and verified by facts, I recommend the 

 work of the garden, which effectually sets the mind 

 upon a new train of ideas, whilst it gives salutary 

 play to all the bodily functions. The long con- 

 tinued sameness of intellectual exertion, whilst 

 health remains, too nearly resembles that lamentable 



