is it said that the Saviour, when He supplied the
guests with first-rate wine at the marriage feast, told them to make
themselves drunk upon it. He is said to have supplied them with first-
rate wine, but He doubtless left the quantity which each should drink to
each party's reason and discretion. When you set a good dinner before
your guests, you do not expect that they should gorge themselves with the
victuals you set before them. Wine may be abused, and so may a leg of
mutton.

Second. It is lawful for any one to use his fists in his own defence, or
in the defence of others, provided they can't help themselves; but it is
not lawful to use them for purposes of tyranny or brutality. If you are
attacked by a ruffian, as the elderly individual in Lavengro is in the
inn-yard, it is quite lawful, if you can, to give him as good a thrashing
as the elderly individual gave the brutal coachman; and if you see a
helpless woman--perhaps your own sister--set upon by a drunken lord, a
drunken coachman, or a drunken coalheaver, or a brute of any description,
either drunk or sober, it is not only lawful, but laudable, to give them,
if you can, a good drubbing: but it is not lawful, because you have a
strong pair of fists, and know how to use them, to go swaggering through
a fair, jostling against unoffending individuals; should you do so, you
would be served quite right if you were to get a drubbing, more
particularly if you were served out by some one less strong, but more
skilful than yourself--even as the coachman was served out by a pupil of
the immortal Broughton--sixty years old, it is true, but possessed of
Broughton's guard and chop. Moses is not blamed in the Scripture for
taking part with the oppressed, and killing an Egyptian persecutor. We
are not told how Moses killed the Egyptian; but it is quite as creditable
to Moses to suppose that he killed the Egyptian by giving him a buffet
under the left ear, as by stabbing him with a knife. It is true, that
the Saviour in the New Testament tells his disciples to turn the left
cheek to be smitten, after they had received a blow on the right; but He
was speaking to people divinely inspired, or whom He intended divinely to
inspire--people selected by God for a particular purpose. He likewise
tells these people to part with various articles of raiment when asked
for them, and to go a-travelling without money, and to take no thought of
the morrow. Are those exhortations ca