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setts Quarterly Review.

THE dear friends in his parish joyfully welcomed him back to
his work, which he reassumed with equal joy, and a longing for
an undisturbed pursuit of his favourite objects.

I thank you heartily for the cordial greeting with which you welcome
me back to my home; for your expressions respecting my past labours,
and your generous hopes for my future works. The pen you are so
good as to send me is almost too beautiful to be used. I shall always
prize it highly for the associations connected with it, and as a token of
your esteem and friendship. I trust I shall never use it badly, nor in
a bad cause. Gratefully and respectfully yours, T. P.

He immediately began to discharge the obligations which he
felt had been incurred by this year of enjoyment and repose.
Three lectures were prepared for delivery during the winter. Of
these, one upon the "Signs of the Times," filled with warm
anticipations and a too honest criticism, excited afresh the public
interest in him. It also aroused, of course, the old opposition,
which had gone to sleep, thinking that his influence ended with
his departure for Europe.

FROM THE JOURNAL.

I have, now-a-days, some few struggles with myself to repress indig-
nation at insults, real or fanciful. I must outgrow this.

My real troubles are, that I am short of my own ideals of goodness
and usefulness. I feel that I ought to do more for what I receive; but
I feel, too, that my head is clay, and requires to be treated as any other
earthenware--with carefulness and discretion. I rejoice to write a few
lectures; would that I could do more!

In October he received a letter from Mr. Martineau, acknow-
ledging the "Discourse of Religion" and some other publications

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