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all se bvecomaten in the arts of life, which 
“are consequent on the Laan of men of 
seience.. 
XI. 
"He should prove the value of his 
enets by exhibiting in his own exam- 
pletheir happy results ; and he should bear 
with charity the Hecaucnal heresies, or 
variances of opinion, which, owing to the 
freedom of thought, may sometimes be 
honestly and conscientiously cherished 
by some of his parishioners, If they can- 
not be corrected by gentle means, they 
will be confirmed in their errors should 
violence, or denuiciation, be resorted: to, 
Above all things, he should be tolerant: 
towards sectaries, and forbearing pote 
enthusiasts and visionaries. 
XIE 
He should be punctual in the hours 
of public service, and should perform all 
the rites of religion with devotional feeling 
and unvarying solemnity. Nothing in 
his canduct should be indifferent; and 
even at a feast he should remember 
that. he 1s looked upon as the minister of 
a holy religion; and that his Jevities or 
sensualitres will sanction greater vices in 
those who reverence his character, and 
guste him as their example. 
NIU, 
He will find little difficulty in col- 
lecting his dues and tythes, if he has suc- 
ceeded in ‘impressing his parishioners 
with a well-founded respect for his office 
and personal character: but, in all cases 
_of dispute, he should convince them be- 
fore he attempts to force them; he should 
_ appeal to arbitration rather than to law ; 
and he should endeavour to bring over 
the refractory by the influence of the 
_Siberal and well- disposed. 
. XLV. 
He should render himself the organ 
of the bensralnce of his parishioners, 
by recommending frequent collections for 
; particular ) ects of compassion,. and by 
superintending their distributiog. 
should, in performing this duty, encrease 
the comfort and the number of cottages; 
encourage habits of cleanliness, sobriety, — 
humanity, and industry; promote mar- 
riages and the séttlement of young per- 
sons; countenance moderate hilarity on | 
festive days; distribute :periodical pub- 
lic rewards to those who afford in. 
stances of peculiar good conduct; create 
provisions for the sick and aged; and 
signalize eminent industry and ‘domestic 
virtue in the bumblest stations, even after 
death, 
XV. } 
Being considered by the great as a 
On the Duties of the Office of Parish Priest. 
He. 
(yan. 1, 
constant seeker af sentemuebe: he should 
be scrupulously modest and aelicate in. 
his advances to them, or he will exposé 
himself to their ridicule, and defeat his 
purpose, besides degrading the religion 
of self-denial and humility. 
XVI. 
He should never meddle with the 
political parties of the state; and in elec 
tions,’ or local questions of a mere poli- 
tical tendency, he should avoid commit- 
ting the infallibility. of his sacred cha- 
racter, by joining in the errors and pas- 
sionate ebullitions of partizans. He 
ought in such matters to withhold his in- 
terference, except in favour of those 
only who are eminent for their personal 
virtues ; and he ought never to become a 
partizan, except when evident virtueis op- 
posed to, or oppressed by, notovious vice, 
His only criterion of decision should 
be the balance of vice or virtue in the 
objects. 
- XVII. A 
His station, character, and inde 
pendent provision, whether it be great or 
small, render him an object of envy to 
other classes of society, and eminently 
qualify him to pass through life with re- 
spect, usefulness, and happiness ; and 
whatever may be the outward pomp 
and show of other stations of the commu- 
nity, there is no social condition which 
“unites so much placid enjoyment, and. so 
many objects for the gratification of those 
‘passions which lead to self-satisfaction, 
with so permanent a prospect of com- 
petency and comfort, and so great a cer- 
tainty of preserving health, and attaining 
Tong Tife-and fature felicity, as that of 
THE PARISH PRIEST. 
bea ComMon SENSE. 
Dec. 8, 1810. : 
——_ aa ’ 
To the Editor of. ‘the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PERMIT me, through the ninkiaes of; your 
valuable Miscellany, to enquire of some 
of your learned correspondents, whether the 
Phenicopter, mentioned by Pliny, Martial, 
and Juvenal, may not be something of the 
same species as the bird called, **Sya,” By 
the inhabitants of the Levant, and neighbour | 
ing parts, and used by them as rare and deli- 
cate food. The Phzenicopter is so called 
from otyszeoz crimson, and wreov a wing, a 
bird having its wings of a crimson colour. 
Now the Sya, or Seea, isa bird nearly the 
size of a pigeon, having the inside of the wings 
of a reddish colour, the rest of the body light 
brown, intermingled with white feathers. If 
_ you could spare, in your next publication, a 
corner for the insertion of this, you would 
much oblige, © AConstanT Reaper. 
Pog spe eee, Oe, aes 
