trembling frame of his wife. But do we cite these as rare instances of preaching versus practising? Would it be difficult to select from the most approved of the social lawgivers, and sapient teachers of the present day, luxurious Senecas, who trumpet all the charms of penury; double-seeing Steeles, who wreathe with laurel the brows of Sobriety; and brutal Sternes, who move the multitude to weep over the wrongs of the brute creation?
We halloo to each other of reform,
And make the shouts suffice."
Assuredly it is not difficult to be a saint in words. Heaven would be abundantly peopled if its crystal gates flew open at the blast of righteoussounding breaths!
Perhaps we are very presumptuous, yet we dare to cherish the conviction that there exists a more attolent influence than all
"The full-voiced rhetoric of these master minds;"
one which hourly, but silently, lifts up the hearts of men. We hold to the belief that the most persuasive, impressive, effectual preachers are those whose daily lives are sermons, though we hear no homilies from their lips. In their own persons they exemplify the grandeur of pure aspirations,
