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Ib. 12. This point is powerfully argued by Professor Campbell, Lecture iii on the Pastoral Character, and by Archbishop Seeker; Sermons, vol. iii. A respectable body of Christians (the Society of Friends) find it easy to deny themselves such recreations. Ought then a minister of the Gospel, whose character should embody the principles of self-denial, complain of these restrictions which many tender as well as scrupulous consciences deem necessary to maintain the consecrated sanctity of our office? How paltry, after all, is this sacrifice compared with the worldling’s daily exercise of self-denial—“rising up early, sitting up late, to eat the bread of sorrows;” in pursuit of a shadow—a bubble—a nothing!