TOHU-VA-VOHU 5 was a great deal better than our modern ideas, but fell far short of the Christian gentleman. People should be very careful about urging on others to leave a Church. Iam sure I[ would rather, so long as [ could, keep even a bad tooth than—not to speak of the pain of the pullmg—have an empty gum or a false tooth. The Dissenters very liberally offer to present to us a set of new teeth, gratis, free for nothing, if we will only part with the old. These teeth, we are told, have many advantages: you do not require to clean them; they never cause an ache; you can take them out and in at will; and you can improve on their appearance and substance. Never- theless, I prefer keeping my old case, though many of them are far gone! This, however, is not to say that it may not under any circumstances be duty to leave a Church. People who are very particular about secondary matters are never very earnest about primary. The greatest prude is not generally the most modest woman ; I distrust the generalship of the soldier who is a martinet, and I doubt the reality of those theo- logians who are so rabid about smaller points. As for