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whom society is content to see rrmain deb^ksed, and to laugh at the only uietliod^ wUich can deliver him. Now, if you inquire, what it is which ainks tlicsc people into such loathsome conditions, and surrounds them with such darkness, living and breathing iq a land of freedom and of religion, what answer hath any on« to render, but that the 1060 THE CUftie At TO BODILT LABOUB. [^ physical and senaual man hath blended tbcm percctre or feel higfaer and better tbiags ? Seeii they perceive not ; hearing, tlir y understand ni becauJ^e (heir hearts are darkened. By what their heart darkened ? By theirvray of life, • hath called upon their bodily powers, and theii bodily powers have called for refrcsbment. Am sense tikiDg the refreshment, hath called for moi And to obtaiD the means of more, the body cjilled for exlraordinary exertion, to bear which; she muiit be treal«rd with extra allowance of coi dials. And so itcometb to pass, that tbeiri^hol life U the body working for the body. They ncrate strength wjtb food ; and they expend it the mcan» of generating more. And if at an] time they wi«h for an enjoyment, it is an enjoy* mcnt to the flesh, which they purchase by meaaaj of harder labour. ~ Mow, this pitiable condition^ which, for the sake of the cure hereafter to be set forth, I thai state without any prevarication, though it be in form niOi5t apparent in the lower and labouring^ claH&es, who doth nut know that in spirit ii it^ every where present in the higher claj»ei ! Full many of whom, whoso aspect speaks another language, would exchange lives with the bcanr of burdens, could they also ercbange with bin their troubles nnd their dilficultiei. To meet which, they labour a>v many te<liou« honrs, addiog]H thereto the racking thought of the more tedioQi^^ watehes of the n^ht. And, unable to make head against the stream of adversity, which setteth in fl in alt dircctioDH, they are fain to give up, and ate ' cast, how often ! amongst the tribes of deapenle shirt-making men, whose ways they bate, and v.] THE CUIt»£ AS TO BODILY li^BOUR. JOAI hale IheiiiM-lrvH fiir being fuiiml folUiwing in tfteir Oh what labour of the heart, what labour of the head, what labour of the haod, in this rest- less city, snatches men away from the hi^er vocations of the spiritual and etemul world ! And unless the day contaiucd twice as many hours, and their body twice as much labour, their mind twice ;u mtich Kpectilation, und their »oul twice a« much endurance, there is no hop