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Bickersteth’s Christian Hearer, pp. 243, 244. The whole chapter is replete with valuable thought upon Christian study. ‘How few read enough to stock their minds? And the mind is no widow’s cruse, which fills with knowledge as fast as we empty it. Why should a clergyman labour less than a barrister, since in spiritual things as well as temporal, it is “the hand of the diligent which makes rich”? Does the conscience, in fact, never whisper upon any topic in theology—“Are you a master in Israel, and do not know these things?”‘ Christian Observer, 1828, p. 420.