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raising a flower; — wlierever the inward idea must go before 

 the outward manifestation, there man is and must be the 

 creature of faith ; and it is by faith that he procures his tem- 

 poral as well as his eternal salvation." — Rev. Mr. Withington's 

 Address, 1838. 



Some, fourteen years ago, as I was one day walking along 

 the Strand in. London, I read on a conspicuous shop-sign the 

 words, " Wenham Lake Ice." They carried me home at 

 once, and I must needs go in and have a chat with the man 

 who dealt in an article that had been produced within five 

 miles of my birth-place. After listening to a copious descant 

 on the excellent qualities of his commodity, I asked the volu- 

 ble tradesman to give me the locality of this remarkable Wen- 

 ham Lake. " Oh !" said he, " it is a very large lake — it is in 

 a very cold country — and it is a great way off." 



A.P*FEisrr)ix E. 



The consequences, direct and indirect, of the French Eevo- 

 lution, so far as they affected the ownership of land in France 

 and in England, were singularly unlike. After the murder 

 and exile of the French nobility and gentry, their confiscated 

 estates were subdivided and sold. The old laws of inheritance 

 and primogeniture were abolished, and all the children, on the 

 death of the parent, became entitled to equal shares of the 



