seems to have given them a double dose of destructiveness. According to them, cabinets and councils, diaconates and committees, are all composed of either fools or idiots. If for one month they had the reins of power, what wonders wouldn't they perform! Meanwhile, however, they can neither rule their own temper nor govern their own household.

Grumblers are also very preciseat least, in reference to other people. The mote in another's eye gives them more pain than the beam in their own. They are not unlike Sterne, who, whilst treating his own mother with cruelty, was upbraiding others for not weeping over a dead ass.

They seldom suffer from forgetfulness except it be at quarter-day. They have a book of remembrance for all their enemies, and a psalm of complaint for all their friends. If, for a moment, repining should give place to rejoicing, yet, like a barrel-organ, they take up the old tune exactly where they left off.

They are generally victorious in their contests, and are as proud as the little dog that wags its tail because it has driven the moon behind the cloud.

They are very independent, too. "They care nothing for nobody." "They like the thing that is right, although they would do no harm to their bitterest enemy." They are staunch believers in the doctrine of infallibility, provided they themselves are the Pope.

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Grumblers are never in danger of a famine of complaints. They can gather material for their murmurings from all parts of the universe. earth and the sky, angels and men, sun, moon, and stars, fire and hail, snow and vapors, mountains and hills, trees and plants, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying fowl, kings

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of the earth and all people, princes and all judges of the earth, both young men and maidens, old men and children-all contribute to satisfy their voracious appetites. Like amphibious animals, they can live in all societies, and like ignoble insects, can feed on the fragrant rose as well as on the deadly nightshade. The vir tues of a Paul and the vices of a Ne

ro are, to them, much the same.

Thank God, they have but little power to stop the progress of his kingdom. During the night, vegetation grows even whilst dogs howl, and in the daytime the sun pursues his course even when donkeys bray.

"God's kingdom cannot fail:

He rules o'er earth and heaven:
The keys of death and hell

Are to the Saviour given:
Lift up the heart, lift up the voice,
Rejoice aloud, ye saints, rejoice."

Henceforth, this shall be my prayer:-"O Lord, use me as thou wiltmake me a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water, let me loose the latchet of thy shoe, or minister to thy meanest disciple; but save, oh save me from the spirit that actuates every grumbler."

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