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'It's going to the dogs, I think;--about as fast as it can go'

'We build churches much faster than we used to do'

'Do we say our prayers in them e have built them?' asked the Squire

'It is very hard to see into the minds of men,' said the Bishop; 'but we can see the results of their minds' work I think that men on the whole do live better lives than they did a hundred years ago There is a wider spirit of justice abroad, more of mercy froious enthusiaso to heaven, Mr Carbury, by following forms only because their fathers followed the sao to heaven,as they would be done by'

'There can be no safer lesson But we must hope that some may be saved even if they have not practised at all ti? Do you not wish for, nay, almost demand, instant pardon for any trespass that you may commit,--of temper, or ive in that way yourself? Do you not writhe with indignation at being wrongly judged by others who conde your actions or the causes of thee others after that fashion?'

'I do not put ise for the personal foret that he is not in the pulpit Of course I speak ofand the little, the rich and the poor, I think that it grows better frorue is worse than its forerunner, look only at the snore the course of the world at large'

'But Ros when Horace wrote'

'But Christ was about to be born, and ence for Christ's teaching And as for freedorown, almost every year, fro just such men as this Melmotte Do you rehts and scoured the Via Sacra with his toga, though he had been scourged from pillar to post for his villainies? I always think of that man when I hear Melmotte's name mentioned Hoc, hoc tribuno militum! Is this the man to be Conservative member for Westminster?'