ters planted in towns and populous
localities, to teach the higher branches, become so many bars
raised by herself virtually to impede and arrest her, through the
expense incurred in their maintenance, in her proper work of
enabling the previously untaught and ignorant to read the word of
God, in obedience to the divine injunction.

{18} This statement has been quoted by an antagonist as utterly
inconsistent with our general line of argument; but we think we
may safely leave the reader to determine whether it be really so.
Did we ever argue that any scheme of national education, however
perfect, could possibly supersede the proper _missionary_ labours
of the Churches, whether educational or otherwise? Assuredly not.
What we really assert is, that if the Churches waste their
energies on work not missionary, the work which, if they do it
not, cannot be done must of necessity be neglected; seeing that,
according to Bacon, 'charity will hardly water the ground where
it must first fill a pool.'

LORD BROUGHAM.

The history of Lord Brougham has no exact parallel in that of British
statesmen. Villiers Duke of Buckingham (the Duke of the times of
Charles II.) sunk quite as low, but not from such an elevation. Of him
too it was said, as of his Lordship, that 'he left not faction, but of
that was left,'--that every party learned to distrust and stand aloof
from him, and that his great parts had only the effect of rendering
his ultimate degradation the more marked and the more instructive.
Hume tells us that by his 'wild conduct, unrestrained either by
prudence or principle, he found means to render himself in the end
odious, and even insignificant.' But the Duke of Buckingham had been a
mere courtier from the beginning, and no man had ever trusted or
thought well of him.

Bolingbroke bears a nearly similar character. There was a mighty
difference between the influential and able minister of Queen Anne,
recognised by all as decidedly one of the most accomplished statesmen
of his age or country, and the same individual,--forlorn and an exile,
disliked and suspected by parties the most opposite, and who agreed in
nothing else,--a fugitive from his own country to avoid the threatened
impeachment of the Whigs for his Jacobitism, and a fugitive from
France to avoid being impeached by the Pretender for his treachery.
But Bolingbroke had never very se