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See the difference between the impression a man makes on you when you walk by his side in faure he makes when seen from a lofty historical level, or even in the eyes of a critical neighbour who thinks of him as an embodied syste preacher" stationed at Treddleston, had included Mr Irwine in a general state district, whoiven up to the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life; hunting and shooting, and adorning their own houses; asking what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and ithal shall we be clothed?--careless of dispensing the bread of life to their flocks, preaching at best but a carnal and soul-benu in the souls ofthe pastoral office in parishes where they did not so much as look on the faces of the people more than once a-year The ecclesiastical historian, too, looking into parliamentary reports of that period, finds honourable members zealous for the Church, and untainted with any sy statements scarcely less melancholy than that of Mr Roe And it is iether belied by the generic classification assigned hiical enthusiased to confess that he felt no serious alarht it ae the blacks theoretically, he would perhaps have said that the only healthy forion could take in suchthe influence over the faht the custom of baptisious benefits the peasant drew from the church where his fathers worshipped and the sacred piece of turf where they lay buried were but slightly dependent on a clear understanding of the Liturgy or the sermon Clearly the rector was not what is called in these days an "earnest" man: he was fonder of church history than of divinity, and had ht into men's characters than interest in their opinions; he was neither laborious, nor obviously self-denying, nor very copious in aly, you perceive, was lax His an, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent fro setter on raw flesh, how can you wonder at its retaining a relish for uncooked partridge in after-life? And Mr Irwine's recollections of young enthusiasm and ambition were all associated with poetry and ethics that lay aloof from the Bible