amoured; and if he loved Miss Judith Temple when he witnessed her
patience and resignation under suffering, how much more did he love her
when he found that she was playful, merry, and cheerful, without being
boisterous, when restored to her health. Mr Cophagus's attentions
could not be misunderstood. He told her uncle that he had thought
seriously of wedding cake--white favours--marriage--family--and so on;
and to the young lady he had put his cane up to his nose and prescribed,
"A dose of matrimony--to be taken immediately." To Mr Cophagus there
was no objection raised by the lady, who was not in her teens, or by the
uncle, who had always respected him as a worthy man, and a good
Christian; but to marry one who was not of her persuasion, was not to be
thought of. Her friends would not consent to it. Mr Cophagus was
therefore dismissed, with a full assurance that the only objection which
offered was that he was not of their society.

Mr Cophagus walked home discomforted. He sat down on his easy chair,
and found it excessively uneasy--he sat down to his solitary meal, and
found that his own company was unbearable--he went to bed, but found
that it was impossible to go to sleep. The next morning, therefore, Mr
Cophagus returned to Mr Temple, and stated his wish to be made
acquainted with the difference between the tenets of the Quaker
persuasion and those of the Established Church. Mr Temple gave him an
outline, which appeared to Mr Cophagus to be very satisfactory, and
then referred him to his niece for fuller particulars. When a man
enters into an argument with a full desire to be convinced, and with his
future happiness perhaps depending upon that conviction; and when,
further, those arguments are brought forward by one of the prettiest
voices, and backed by the sweetest of smiles, it is not to be wondered
at his soon becoming a proselyte. Thus it was with Mr Cophagus, who in
a week discovered that the peace, humility, and good-will, upon which
the Quaker tenets are founded, were much more congenial to the true
spirit of the Christian revelation than the Athanasian Creed, to be sung
or said in our Established Churches; and with this conviction, Mr
Cophagus requested admission into the fraternity; and shortly after his
admission, it was thought advisable by the Friends that his faith should
be confirmed and strengthened by his espousal of Miss Judith Temple,
with whom, at her request--and he could refuse her n