used to convey voters to the poll. It was very amusing to see some of
the men riding in state, in the custody of the owner of the carriage! It
was good to tell they had not been used to it, and felt that they were on
their good behaviour. What struck some of us was the readiness of ladies
and gentlemen to lend their vehicles for this purpose. We can have no
possible objection to this, but we wonder what would be said to us if we
counselled them to send their carriages to bring the aged and feeble to
the house of God? We should be told that we had no idea of the fitness
of things. This would be true if heaven were less than earth, and
politics of more importance than religion.
It is a queer world, and we wonder sometimes if the time will ever come
when men shall believe their Bibles as much as their newspapers? As we
have seen during the last few days, professing Christians of the most
apathetic order, going half wild about Whigs and Tories, we have said to
ourselves,