tion in my own family as the transfusion
into it of your spirit, and the adoption of your regulations." Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley most cheerfully acceded to the proposal.

Sir John said: "I was meditating the same request, but with an
additional clause tacked to it, that of sending our eldest girl with
Fanny, that the child also may get imbued with something of your family
spirit, and be broken into better habits than she has acquired from our
hitherto relaxed discipline." This proposal was also cordially approved.

CHAPTER XLV.

Dr. Barlow came to the Grove to take leave of our friends. He found Sir
John and I sitting in the library with Mr. Stanley. "As I came from Mr.
Tyrrel," said the Doctor, "I met Mr. Flam going to see him. He seemed so
anxious about his old friend that a wish strongly presented itself to my
mind that the awful situation of the sick man might be salutary to him.

"It is impossible to say," continued he, "what injury religion has
suffered from the opposite characters of these two men. Flam, who gives
himself no concern about the matter, is kind and generous; while Tyrrel,
who has made a high profession, is mean and sordid. It has been said, of
what use is religion when morality has made Mr. Flam a better man than
religion makes Mr. Tyrrel? Thus men of the world reason! But nothing can
be more false than their conclusions. Flam is naturally an open,
warm-hearted man, but incorrect in many respects, and rather loose in
his principles. His natural good propensities religion would have
improved into solid virtues, and would have cured the more
exceptionable parts of his character. But from religion he stands aloof.

"Tyrrel is naturally narrow and selfish. Religion has not made but found
him such. But what a religion has he adopted! A mere assumption of
terms; a dead, inoperative, uninfluencing notion, which he has taken up;
not, I hope, with a view to deceive others, but by which he has grossly
deceived himself. He had heard that religion was a cure for an uneasy
mind; but he did not attend to the means by which the cure is effected,
and it relieved not him.

"The corrupt principle whence his vices proceeded was not subdued. He
did not desire to subdue it, because in the struggle he must have parted
with what he was resolved to keep. He adopted what he believed was a
cheap and easy religion; little aware that the great fundamental
Scripture doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ was a doctrine