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The town of Zofingen is in Argovie, and is Protestant; it contains about two thousand souls. A house was destroyed by lightning, in the storm of Wednesday night. The women in Lucern wear, not caps, but immense straw hats, with very small flat crowns, and four bows of ribbon, two green and two red, with sometimes a bunch of flowers. Our voiturier (for we were obliged to hire one at Lucern to take us back to Bern) feeds his horses with bread; when we stopped yesterday, we saw 1 boy with a loaf of bread, (of the same sort as we had ourselves,) cutting it with a knife, and giving irst one horse a slice, and then another, which they seemed to eat with much pleasure.

Herzogenbuchs, seventeen miles from Zofingen, twelve at noon.-We have had a pleasing drive of four hours through a fruitful country. The village is neat and clean, and the whole place is crowded with men and women who have been attending a funeral, and are now going to dinner. We are in a Protestant canton, and within seven leagues of Bern. The village contains about five hundred inhabitants; two or three hundred of whom are dining, or about to dine, at this funeral.

always do,) but heard the glorious Gospel of the blessed God," as St. Paul expressed it, from the lips of his ministers. The difference between a cold harangue on ethics, and the gracious message of peace and joy in Christ Jesus, is immense. Duty must follow, not precede, much less exclude, salvation by faith. The morning subject was John, v. 44. "How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?"-the afternoon, Heb. x. The church was crowded in the morning, and the attention of the congregation most pleasing. Notice was given of a public fast for Sept. 11, "On account of the sins of the people, and in order to render thanks to God for his benefits." The language of the notice was very pious and appropriate. After recounting the various public blessings of Almighty God to the republic of Bern, it proceeded to mention "the most excellent of all God's gifts, the holy religion of Jesus, which is an inexhaustible source of truth, virtue, and consolation, to so many thousands of souls." It then dwelt on the ingratitude and sins of the people, and exhorted them "to fly to the grace of God in Jesus Christ, Bern, Saturday evening, half-past seven.—Thank | and seek from Him the pardon of their sins by unGod, I find myself again with my dear Ann; and thank God also she is remarkably well. The fortnight's entire quiet, though dull to her in some respecte, has restored her to wonderful health and strength. She has also now become accustomed to the food and place, and knows better what she is about, and how to manage the people and things in Switzerland. How great a blessing is this! We had a beautiful ride from Herzogenbuchs to Bern, twenty-one miles. Almost all the country from Lucern to Bern is well cultivated, the views beautifully mild, herds of cattle feeding in different spots, the meadows yielding four or five crops a year, the farming buildings large and convenientthe whole reminding us of beloved Englandwhich could not, of course, be the case in the mountain regions we have left. As we approached Bern, a noble range of Alps stretched themselves before us. We passed Hofwyl, the celebrated spot where M. Fellenberg has his school and his establishment for agriculturists; but it was too late to stop.

We have been, in this Oberland tour, three hundred and fifteen miles in twelve days, and above two hundred of it on mules. Never did I derive so much benefit to my health, as by these mountain rides. We propose now to go on to Lausanne on Monday. We shall set off for Paris (please God) by the 1st of October, at latest; stay there till the 23d, and be at home on Friday the 31st. I had the particular pleasure of finding a letter from you, dated August 6th, and received August 21st, on my return here. Your account of our dear relative grieves me to the heart. My prayers shall be united with yours, that these severe and repeated afflictions may become real blessings to him, by awakening him to more seriousness, determination, and earnestness, in seeking the salvation of his soul, which is the grand concern of man, and without which we are lost and miserable, though in the utmost outward prosperity.

Bern, Sunday evening, August 24, 1823.-We have had to-day a delightful Sunday; twice have I not only attended public worship, (which we

feigned repentance, a lively faith, and a true conversion." It ordered, lastly, that all the shops should be shut after three o'clock the preceding day.

At half-past four we had our private service. Three English families joined us; so that we were eighteen in all. I was not in the least acquainted even with the names of my auditory; but an opportunity occurring, I had just mentioned to two families, at the table-d'hôte, that I was about to have English service; and, as we were beginning, a third family, a clergyman's, begged permission to come in. They all seemed intensely attentive. My subject was from 1 Thess. i. 5, "For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance." I hope some good was done. One family was, at the least, better employed than on the preceding Sunday, when they were at a play at Lausanne.

This the father of it had told me with perfect sangfroid; adding, that he had been properly punished; for they were late, and could obtain no good sittings. It was this conversation which led me to propose to them to join our English service. How lamentable is it that British travellers have so slight a sense of the obligation of keeping holy the Sabbath!

So far as I can learn, there is much of true religion in this important canton. It quite delights me to be able to say this. I have so often had to give you unfavorable accounts, that I have a double pleasure, when truth allows me to unite with charity in my reports. The education of the children is strictly attended to-indeed every parent is compelled to send his children to school and catechism. In this respect the Swiss governments possess a real moral power. In the police of the towns; the suppression of vice; the prohibition of theatres; the banishing of bad persons at once, and without ceremony; the laws against luxury, &c.; it is amazing what a salutary influence some of these states exercise over their comparatively diminutive territories.

The town of Bern contains about a ninth part

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I am your affectionate brother,

D. W.

of the population of Liverpool or Manchester; and Christian nations and churches, yea, on all manall the canton not a fourth part of the population kind! of London-indeed the twenty-two Swiss cantons are not much more populous than that one immense city. Every thing therefore falls immediately under the notice of the magistrates, and may be checked at its first appearance. And this sort of paternal, though perhaps somewhat arbitrary, restraint, being connected generally with the faithful preaching of the Gospel, all seems to be done, that any government can do, for the suppression of public immorality and the encouragement of piety and virtue.

P. S. As I have been speaking on the subject of strangers' books, I cannot close my letter without mentioning the two ingenious sentences which were written in the time of our James I. by the celebrated Sir Henry Wotton, whose advice to Milton I noticed in a former letter.

The first is a keen satire; and would have been more complete if the ambiguity of the English word, lie, could have been expressed in the Latin :

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."-" Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum republicæ causâ,"

The other is more grave, but not without a touch of humor; for I suppress the long solemn list of Sir Henry's titles, and of his various embassies, which precedes it:

"Henricus Wottonius, &c. &c. &c. tandem hoc didicit, Animas fieri sapientiores quiescendo.""Henry Wotton, &c, &c. &c. at length learned this, That souls are made wiser by being quiet."

as English Ambassador. The other was the cool and weighty result of experience, after a long life spent in diplomatic services.

I wish all the sentences written now were as well worth remembering.

Whereas in England things are on a very different footing. The overgrown population of the metropolis, the extent of the other commercial towns and cities, the jealousy of their civil rights which pervades all ranks, the measure of political and religious liberty which they claim and enjoy, the influence of public opinion on parliament and ministers of state, the tone of religious sentiment given by the bishops and clergy, all combine to prevent the interference of an arbitrary discipline, and to leave things at the disposal of law and the general feelings of the nation. Undoubtedly this has degenerated too often into negligence and disorder, especially in the permission of blasphemous The first was written early in Sir Henry's life, and seditious publications, in the neglect of the and was printed from the Latin copy, eight years education of our poor, and the inadequate provision afterwards, and maliciously transcribed on several for the public worship of God. Nor has the faith-glass windows at Venice, where he then resided ful preaching of the reformed doctrines in their simplicity and vigor, been always so general with us, as it seems to have been in the Swiss churches. Still, in England there is a principle of renovation implanted, and concealed, as it were, in all our free institutions, which revives whenever the mercy of God visits our country, and which was never, perhaps, more powerfully at work than at present. The standard of religious sentiment is rapidly advancing, our clergy are rising from their torpor, and are preaching and living according to the Gospel; the influence of public sentiment is turned, in a considerable degree, to the side of piety and good morals; our government favors the progress of this mighty change; Parliament itself begins to move; our Bible and missionary institutions are in some proportion to our wealth and commercial greatness. Now, in the small governments of Switzerland, I suspect that much more must depend on the personal character of the members of the government, and much less on public opinion. And if a spirit of negligence as to morals, or of persecution as to religion, should pervade the minds of the chief persons in a canton, there would be far less hope of a recovery than in England.

But I am indulging too much in this sort of reflections, for a stranger; the state of things in the canton of Bern is at present delightful; and, after all, under every form of government, the extent of real spiritual religion in the heart and life, must ever depend on a higher cause-the pure preaching of the doctrine of Christ, and the grace of God's blessed Spirit. May that grace descend more and more on our own happy country and all

NOTICE OF THE PUBLIC FAST AT BERN.

This public religious service is annual in the Swiss churches, and is attended to with much solemnity by all classes. Surely other churches might do well to imitate so good an example.— What cause have we in England, at the time I am writing this, (February, 1825) for thanksgiving as well as for humiliation-for thanksgiving on account of the unnumbered blessings which God has vouchsafed to us; blessings almost unparalleled in the history of nations-for humiliation on account of our, alas! too flagrant and aggravated national sins. Surely the growing sense of religious obligation which marks the general body of people in England, would support the venerable heads of our church in so seasonable an appointment. The highest pitch of public prosperity always touches on the most fearful reverses, by leading to pride, luxury, vice, and forgetfulness of God. I insert the whole of the valuable document from which I have given a passage or two above. I never saw a copy of it in this country.

Nous avoyer et conseil de la ville et republique de Bern, assurons nos chers et fidéles ressortissans de notre gracieuse bienveillance, et leur faisons savoir:

Que, de concert avec les autres Etats réformés de la Confédération, nous avons arrêté de faire cé

* Switzerland contains 1,750,000 inhabitants London, 1,274,800; Bern 13,340; Liverpool, 118,972; | lébrer, Jeudi 11 Septembre prochain,u n jour sothe canton of Bern, 215,000

lennel d'actions de grâces, de jeûne et de prière.

Mais pour prévenir autant que possible tout ce qui pourrait troubler la dévotion pendant ce jour solennel de jeûne, nous ordonnons enfin sérieusement, que durant tout ce saint jour, et la veille depuis les trois heures de l'après-dîner, toutes les auberges et pintes soient fermées pour chacun, excepté pour les voyageurs étrangers; nous défendons en même temps les courses indécentes d'une paroisse dans une autre, et entendons que chacun fréquente l'église de sa paroisse.

Veuille l'Auteur de toute grâce lui-même faire servir cette institution à sa sainte gloire, á la prospérité de la patrie, et à l'avancement du bonheur Donné le 18 Août, 1823.

Et qui de nous, chers et fidèles ressortissans, ne se sentirait avec nous porté à remercier Dieu publiquement, et du fond d'un cœur touché, en réfléchissant à tous les bienfaits qu'il a répandus sur nous pendant cette année si pleine d'évenemens? Une paix profonde régne au sein de notre patrie, et dans les contrées qui nous avoisinent; tandis que dans d'autres pays plus éloignés le fléau de la guerre trouble la prospérité des peuples: et de cette tranquillité découlent pour la vie domestique et publique d'inombrables bénédictions qui s'étendent sur tous les états et sur tous les âges. La terre a été fertile au-de là de toute espérance, et par ses riches productions a confondu les inquié-de chacun en particulier. tudes de ceux, auxquels la température variable et pluvieuse de l'été faisait craindre le retour de la disette. Et si par-ci par-là des orages ont occasionné quelque perte, que ce dommage est peu de chose en comparaison de tout le bien que nous avons reçue de la main du Seigneur! ce n'a été en quelque sorte qu'un avertissement pour nous rappeler pu'il est en sa puissance de nous donner ou de nous enlever ce qui nous est le plus nécessaire. Et pourquoi ne ferions-nous pas mention du plus excellent de tous les dons de Dieu, de la sainte religion de Jésus, qui est enseignee purement dans les églises et dans les écoles, et qui est une source intarissable de vérité, de vertu, et de consolation pour tant de milliers d'ames?

Si l'expérience journalière de cette grâce du Seigneur qui se multiplie sur nous de tant de manières, doit à juste titre nous animer à la célébrer avec joie; nous ne saurions cependant vous le cacher, un regard jeté sur l'état religieux et moral de notre peuple, dèvoile une grande corruption, qui en vérité nous rend indignes d'une telle grâce. Une légèreté sans bornes se manifeste dans les villes et à la compagne sous une multitude de formes; dans l'indifference thouchant la connaissance et l'adoration de Dieu, chez plusieurs dans un total abandon des temples du Seigneur, dans l'oisiveté, le goût du luxe, et une vie déréglée, qui entraînent la ruine de familles entières, comme aussi des individus en particulier. Et à côte de cette déplorable et criminelle légèreté, n'avonsnous pas la douleur de voir dans quelques contrées des hommes pervers continuer à faire un horrible abus des choses divines, de tout ce qu'il y a de plus saint, pour tromper les simples, pour séduire les faibles, et se livrer à la plus grossière immoralité? Des iniquités aussi graves ayant lieu, ainsi que tant d'autres transgressions qui minent insensiblement la prospéerité publique et domestique; le soin paternel que nous devons prendre du salut de nos reFortissans nous oblige à les exhorter sérieusement, de recourir à la grace de Dieu en Jésus Christ, et de chercher auprès de lui le pardon des péchés par une repentance non feinte, une foi vive, et une conversion véritable, se rappelant soigneusement qu'il ne faut pas s'en tenir à la simple promesse de s'amender, mais que le sacrifice agréable au Très-Haut, c'est une vie Chrétienne selon la vérité, la pureté, et la charité,

Nous attendons avec confiance, que quiconque desire le bien de la patrie, et son propre avantage, ne manquera pas au jour de jeûne prochain, d'implorer pour cet effect de l'amour éternel le secours d'enhaut, et la conservation des biens précieux dont nous jouissons.

Chancellerie de Berne.

LETTER X.

Morat, August 25.-Lausanne, August 31, 1823.
Battle of Morat-Avenche-Payerne-Lausanne-
Reformation-Translation of Scott-Lake of Ge-
neva- Lodgings-Calvinism-Nion-Coppet-
M. Neckar-Madam de Stael-Geneva-Rhonc
-Steam Boat-Death of Missionaries Johnson
and Palmer-The Pope-Ferney-Voltaire-
Sunday at Lausanne-Preachers-Persecution-
Calvin's Will-Arrete at Lausanne.

Morat, canton of Friburg, 15 miles from
Bern, Monday, August 25, 1823.

MY DEAREST SISTER,-At length we have left Bern, eighteen days after our arrival. We have been driving to-day through a sweet_country, though of necessity less striking than the Oberland, which still captivates my imagination. On reflection, I feel more and more gratified at having had health and strength to visit it. The Jungfrau, the Avalanches, the Giessbach, the Giacier of the Rhone, and the valley of the Reuss, seem quite to fill and overwhelm my mind. Even the Righi, bad as the weather was, has left a strong impression on my recollection. Next to a perfectly clear day, I conceive nothing could have been finer than the beholding the tremendous storm gathering in the horizon, hours before it burst upon us, contrasted with the sweet sunshine on the opposite side. I must tell you, that good old Mr. Wyttenbach called on us before we left Bern, and gave us his blessing: and that three young ladies out of our congregation yesterday, seemed a good deal affected with the discourse; they spoke to us this morning with evident interest and anxiety. It is impossible to reckon on the impressions made by a single sermon; but attention to truth is always a hopeful sign, and may lead on to consideration, repentance, conversion; -"faith cometh by hearing."

It is, perhaps, scarcely worth adding to what I have said about Bern, that the founder of the town was a duke of Zehringen. He is represented over one of the gates, in a colassal form, twenty feet or more high. In all these towns and cantons, you should know, that the walks and varied beauties of nature are opened to the public, and you are sure to find shady paths and convenient

seats for your repose; nothing is usurped as of remarkably confirms this historical fact. It is an private use. I forgot to say, that at Lucern, all epitaph, most simple and touching, on this very the dogs in the town are secured with muzzles of daughter, and supposed to be written by herself. brass or iron, placed loosely over the mouth; no-"I, Julia Alpinula, here lie, the unhappy offspring thing could be more curious, than to meet ten or of an unhappy father. I could not avert by my twelve of these poor animals in every street, thus entreaties the death of my father; the fates had deprived of liberty. appointed him an evil death. I lived XXIII. years."* It is thus that incidental circumstances corroborate the truth of history. The Scripture annals have been confirmed a thousand times in a similar manner; and though they embrace a period of several thousand years, and touch on the history of all countries, and have lain open to the misrepresentations of unbelievers in every age, nothing has ever been established to weaken their authenticity.

Morat, where we now are dining, is beautifully situated on the lake of that name; it is one thousand four hundred and sixty feet above the sea, and has a thousand inhabitants. It is celebrated for one of those great battles, by which a small number of Swiss heroes overcame France and Austria, and established their independence. The battle of Morat was fought June 22, 1476, against Charles duke of Burgundy. Two thousand heroes kept an army of seventy thousand French in check, at Morat, till the Swiss confederates could arrive Couriers were despatched in all directions to hasten their march-In three weeks thirty-five thousand men were collected-They at once resolved to attack the enemy's camp, and they gained a complete victory. Three-and-twenty thousand of Charles's army perished on that day; and the duke escaped with difficulty, with three thousand cavalry, to Morges. The Swiss loss was four hundred killed, and six hundred wounded. The lake of Morat, is only six miles long, and two broad; but abounds in a fish called sabet, said to be the largest of all the fresh water kinds. We have had a fearfully hot ride of four hours and a half. This is the fourth fine day we have had in succession.

Payerne, Canton de Vaud, half-past nine, Monday night. We left Morat at half-past six, and soon came to the spot where the battle of Morat was fought. A building formerly stood there, forty-four feet by fourteen, containing the bones of the Burgundians who fell, with this truly Swiss inscription: "The army of Charles, duke of Burgundy, besieging Morat, was slain by the Swiss, and left behind them this monument, in 1476”"hoc sui monumentum reliquit." The building was destroyed by the French, in 1798. A new and simple column was erected last year, with this inscription, "Victoriam, 22 Jun. 1476, patrum concordia partam, novo signat lapide Republica Fribourg, 1822." "The victory obtained by the union of their forefathers, 22d June, 1476, is marked with a new column by the Republic of Fribourg, 1822-a simple and sublime record!

About half-past seven we passed through Avenche, the ancient Aventicum, founded 589 years before Christ, and a most flourishing city and a capital of Helvetia, under the emperor Vespasian, from A. D. 69-77. It was destroyed by Attila in the fifth century. We saw the ruins of the Roman tower, walls, amphitheatre, altars, temples; and drove for a mile over what formerly constituted Aventicum. An inconsiderable village is all that now remains of what was once the metropolis of Switzerland. Thus the glory of cities passes away. The spot abounds with ancient inscriptions; one is too curious to be omitted. Tacitus relates, that Julius Alpinus, chief magistrate of Aventicum, was massacred by order of Aulus Cæcina, in the year 69; in spite of the prayers of his daughter. An inscription has been found in the antiquities of the town, which

Moudom, Tuesday morning, August 26.—We set off this morning at half-past eight. Before breakfast, we went to see the church of Payerne, where there is a tomb of queen Bertha, who built, in 962, the cathedral, from the ruins of Avenche; the edifice is now used as a barn. We saw also, the curious saddle which she used, made of wood cased with iron, and with a high framework, like a child's go-cart, so as to defend and fix the whole body. We are now at a small town called Moudon, twelve miles from Payerne-one thousand four hundred souls-built by the Romans, on the Broie river, which joins the lakes of Morat and Neufchâtel. The country here is much more tame than in the Oberland (indeed you must expect dull letters after the wonders of the Alps,) but still fruitful, variegated, agreeable.

Now let me answer your inquiries about the beds in the Pays Bas and Germany (for my letters are miscellanies indeed:) 1st. We were in danger of rolling out, from the inclined, shelving form of the high, thick, awkward, trebled mattresses; the beds inclined both from one side to the other, and from the head to the foot. 2d. If you kept in bed, then you were in danger of losing all the scanty clothes at once, by the slightest change of position. 3d. If you laid hold of the clothes to prevent this, then you infallibly uncovered your feet; and in rising to adjust the clothes, the whole bed became deranged. 4th. When other things were settled, you had to search about with your hands in the straw of the mattresses, and push down some of the principal bumps as well as you could. 5th. The curtains being suspended on a ring or hoop, from the top of the room (the beds having no posts,) you were in danger of pulling down the whole canopy upon you, if you drew the curtains round you. 6th. All these dangers being over, you were exposed every minute, till the house was quiet, to persons of all descriptions coming into your room; for the lock would sometimes not turn, and you had no bolts. Then, 7th. The servants knew not one word of French; and, lastly, the beds themselves were so small, and so beset with hard wooden sides and ends, that you were infallibly exposed to injuring your hands, or arms, or head, by violent blows. Now we are in Switzerland, the beds are generally better.

* "Julia Alpinula hic jaceo infelicis patris infelix proles. Exorare patris necem non potui; male mori in fatis illi erat. Vixi annos, XXIII."-Grut. Inscrip. Tac. Hist. L. 1 et 2.

Lausanne, capital of Pays de Vaud, Tuesday night.-We arrived here at eight o'clock. The drive of twelve miles was fine and beautiful. We crossed Mount Jorat, two thousand seven hundred and seventy feet above the sea. The mountains on the other side of the lake of Geneva were clearly visible; but Mount Blanc (the great popular curiosity of Switzerland, or Savoy, properly speaking) was obscured with clouds. As we approached Lausanne, the lake and adjoining country opened beautifully before us. The peasants have here a new variety of bonnets-a straw one, rising above the head in turrets, and ending in a sort of handle at the top, something like a bell. Lausanne is a town of eleven thousand souls; Protestant; one thousand six hundred and eighty feet above the sea. It is situated on three hills with their intermediate valleys, so that many of the streets are steep. It is filled with voituriers and carriages of all sorts, and claims a kind of privilege of furnishing travellers, who commonly enter Switzerland by way of France, for their Swiss tour in the summer, and their Italian in the winter. The lake of Leman, or Geneva, on which it stands, is the largest in Switzerland, after that of Constance. It is above forty miles long, and ten broad; forty small rivers, besides the Rhone, fall into it; Geneva is at the other end of it. A steam-boat has just begun to sail in it, for the first time in Switzerland.

We heard yesterday and to-day of the effects of the dreadful storm on Wednesday night, when we were on the Righi: seven houses and many heads of cattle were destroyed. What thanks do we owe to a good Providence for preservation!One stroke of lightning might have summoned the crowded guests of our inn, and us amongst them, to their eternal account! You have no idea, in England, of the storms in these warmer climates.

Lausanne, Wednesday, 3 o'clock.-We have taken lodgings for a month, with liberty to quit at a fortnight. A kind, excellent Swiss friend, whom we knew in London, has been indefatigable for our comfort. We have a suite of four rooms on the first floor, looking full on the fine Lake of Geneva; a sitting room about twenty-five feet square; three bed rooms, and a cabinet; all neat, and even elegant; with an approach through a gateway and yard, from the main street; so that we have the most exquisite view imaginable on the

one side, and all the comforts of a town on the other. We have a nice little garden, to which we descend from our parlor; from this we look down upon a sweet garden belonging to another house; from which the vineyards begin still lower down the hill, and these vineyards extend to the lake itself. We pay two hundred and forty francs a month, about two pounds ten shilling a week.It is no recommendation to us, but we are informed, that Gibbon inhabited our lodgings for six weeks, before his own house was ready for his reception.*

Thursday, 6 o'clock, morning, August 28.Lausanne is by no means a fine town in itself, but it is most beautifully situated. It stands above five hundred feet above the lake, and is a fine object from a distance. There are charming walks just beyond it, on one of the hills, commanding a view of the lake, and of the part of the town which stands upon a second and nearly parallel hill. The intermediate valley is filled with vines. Noble trees and seats increase the pleasure of the promenade. It was amongst the earliest towns to embrace the Reformation in the sixteenth century. The proverbial dissoluteness of manners of the Popish clergy of that era, is still talked of in Lausanne. The church of St. Anne, and the houses of the priests, were, in fact, turned into places of the grossest and most abandoned profligacy. It was thus, that the enormity of the evil, prepared men to receive the remedy.

Never was any point of history more clearly made out than the necessity of the Reformation. Christianity was almost forgotten, both in its doctrines and duties; and a frightful code of superstition, united with manners the most corrupt, was rapidly obliterating every trace of its genuine character. Even as the Roman Catholic religion exists now, a reformation would have been indispensable. But we are to judge of the importance of that great event, not by what Popery actually is, after the tacit influence on it of three centuries of evangelical truth, in the Reformed churches; but by what it was before Martin Luther separated from it, and by what it would have been, long before the present day, if that heroic Reformer and his noble associates had not acted as they did. And we are to recollect, that besides the gross errors, both in faith and practice, which disgraced it then, and which disgrace it still, it cherishes a spirit of persecution, insists on all its absurdities as matters of faith, imposes its iron yoke on the conscience, and will hear of no remonstrance, no advice, no correction.*

The Panorama in London gives an accurate and pleasing view of the entrance to Lausanne from Geneva. In the evening, the dear children and I spent all the time in our sweet little garden, garden of four acres has been laid out by the taste of M. Deyverdun; from the garden a rich scenery lake, and the prospect far beyond the lake is crownof meadows and vineyards descends to the Leman ed by the stupendous mountains of Savoy."

of the fallen church of Rome. "We offer the PaThis tyrannical dominion is one characteristic pists every thing we ought, and more than we ought," says Luther, "we only claim to ourselves the liberty of conscience, which we have in Christ Jesus. We will not be compelled or bound in conscience to any work, so that by doing it we should be righteous, by omitting it condemned. We will willingly use the same meats with them, and observe the same feasts and fasts, if they will only permit us to keep them of our free choice, and cease from these threatening words, by which they have hitherto terrified and subjected the whole world: 'We command, we insist, we excommunicate,' &c. Here we will, and * Gibbon thus describes the situation of his house; ought to be rebels, and pertinacious; otherwise we which is quite appicable to our charming lodgings: should lose the truth of the Gospel, and our liberty, "I occupy a spacious and convenient mansion, con- which we have, not in Cæsar, in kings, in princes, nected on the north side with the city, and open on nor in the Pope, the world, and the flesh, but in the south to a beautiful and boundless horizon. A|Christ Jesus."-Comm. in Gal. p. 71. Wittenb. 1535.

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