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George Herbert, speaking of parochial inquiries into the spiritual economy of the house, decides—‘If the parson were ashamed of particularizing in these things, he were not fit to be a parson,’ Ch. xiv. It would be well to furnish our people, and especially the poor, with a system of family worship. Sixteen short sermons; Short prayers for every day in the week; Cottager’s Companion (from the Religious Tract Society), stitched together in a cover, would form a complete manual for a family at a trifling cost. Scripture Reading must always, however, be inculcated as an essential part of their worship.