It refuses to believe in mysteries and deals in rhetoric and sophistry, and flatters the vanity, by exalting human reason.

My poor lost flock will see the change, and I fear, feel it too.
Besides, absence is a temporary death.

Now I am gone from them, they will forget my frailties and infirmities, and dwell on what little good might have been in me, and, perhaps, yearn towards me.
"If I was to return, perhaps I could make an impression on the minds of some, and recall two or three, if not more, to a sense of duty.

What a great thing that would be, wouldn't it?
And if I did, I would get our bishop to send me a pious, zealous, humble-minded, affectionate, able young man, as a successor; and I would leave my farm, and orchard, and little matters, as a glebe for the Church.

And who knows but the Lord may yet rescue Slickville from the inroads of ignorant fanatics, political dissenters, and wicked infidels?
"And besides, my good friend, I have much to say to you, relative to the present condition and future prospects of this great country.