4 TOHU-VA-VOHU if, after so giving up ourselves unto Him, He could in the end leave us. It were such breach of plighted troth as one dares not contemplate in connection with God. ‘Oh, but,’ you say, ‘is not that to encourage the false confidence of hypocrites?’ I answer: ‘Friend, religion was never made for the hypocrites, but only for the genuine; it contains no provisions against possible abuses or fraud. The law is made ‘‘for the lawless and disobedient,’’ not the Gospel, which is ‘‘ the children’s” provision. And lastly, ‘he that is filthy, let him be filthy still.” Scripture never heeds these things : it goes on in its majestic grandeur and stately triumph, never heeding the little yelping curs that come out of every by-lane to snarl and bark.’ A gentleman is not a ponderable quantity, weighing so many pounds sterling; nor does it repre- sent so much lamp-black, in the shape of acquirements (or rather accretions, say deposits, in the shape of unburnt carbonic) ; nor yet so much polish-—whether of the furniture or the patent-leather kind ; but a man who is gentle, and being gentle is yetaman. Theold heathen Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros