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lowing anecdote in one of his letters to Sir Dudley Carleton , from the Synod of Dort . The question of catechising was in agitation .
4 r Doubtless , " he says , in the letter of 19—2 < JT November , 1618 , " the most effectual way of all the rest to bring young persons to learn their catechism , was that which was related by one of the Helvetian deputies . For he told
us , that in his country the man . ner was , that all young persons that meant to marry , were to repair , both he and she , unto their minister , a little before they meant to marry , and by him to be
examined how well ihey had con . ned their catechism : If they had not done it perfectly to his mind , he had power to defer their marriage till they had better learned their lessons .
* ' I was much affected / ' he adds , " to this course , when I beard it ; and I thought that doubtless it was a speedy way to make all young persons ,
excepting myself , and two or three more that mean not over hastily to marry , to be skilful in their catechism . The synod shall be ill advised if they make no use of it . " Works , Glasg . ed . 1765 , Vol . III . Lett , p * 19 .
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CXXVII . Miserable State of * the Arabs . When Dr . Clarke , the Cam . bridge traveller , was at Nazareth , some of the Arabs came to con
verse with him and his party , who were surprised to hear them speak Italian , in which language they b ^ d been early instructed by the friars of the convent . Their con-* # r » $ tioja wm full of conqplfuuts
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against the rapacious tyranny of their > governors . One of them said , " Beggars in England are happier and better than we poor Arabs / ' " Why better ? " said 4
one of the party . * Happier , ' * replied the Arab who had made the observation , " in a good go * vemrtient : better , because they will not endure a bad one . "
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cxxvnr .
Fishers of men * There is a pleasant story told of him , who , from a fisherman , was made Archbishop and then Pope . While Archbishop , it was
his custom every day , after din . ner , to have a fishing net spread upon his table , by way of a memento , as he was used to say , of the meanness of his original . This
farcical ostentation of humility was what , in those days , contributed not a little to the increase of his reputation . Soon after bis exaltation to St . Peter ' s chair , one of his intimates was taking notice to him , one day * when
dinner was over , of the tables not being decked as usual . " Peace , " answered the holy father , * ' when the fish is caught , there is no occasion for the net . "
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Gleanings . 391
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No . CXXIX . Royal Bounty . The following is an extract from an authentic M . S . relative to the private expences of Edward II :- *—
" Item . —The nth . day of March * paid to James dc St . Albans , rhe King * * painter , who danced before the king on a table , and made him laugh heartily , being a gift by the king's own bands , in aid of hjjri , hu wife and children *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/35/
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