The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

234 I-tTTBRS, TRACTS, ISft.own fyflems, we very fcon fall afleep upon them, andthis prevents or mars our fiecphig found in the nighttime.Therefore we judged it proper to deliver ourfelvesnt once from all thefe hardfhips, by buildingourfelves a chiipel. The fuperflitious part of thetown will not know whether we attend it or not j andif fome of us fhould happen to fmile or lleep in thechapel^ thofe who are prefent will have more fenfathan to blame us.2. Another reafon for this chapel is, that it will bea mark of our independency. It is not becom-ing ourSociety,that we flicuid have no place of worfliip butintone of the town-churches; This creates an imagiliationthat vre are inferior to and dependent on thecity; and in tliis there is nothing of the to K.xXov orthe TO riQi7To%, It is unfuitPible to the dignity of philofophy,or its profefibrs, to ftoop, or Iccm to floop,to burgeffes or mercantile people j it is far more properthat tliey fhould be in appearance Vihat they arsni reality, quite abswe all otii^r proftfTion.s or ranksof men. Every one of us fhould aim, like Glaucuscr Agamemnon in Homer,cr, as Pope tranflates it,—_ —_ lo v.in renown,'I'd llaud the luTt in honour and command.Or, as Cicero hath it, " O vitae philofophia dux, tuinventrix legum, tu magiftra morum et difciplinse fuiftl•," for, as Seneca fays, " Nunquam in tantum convaicfcetli^qultia:, nunquam fie contra virtutes conjurabitur,ut non philolophi:€ ncmen veiierabrle et factummaneat."' It is much more proper that femeof the citizens of Glafgow fliculd refort to a churchof ours, than that we fliould meanly trudge to achurch of theirs. The befl of them may get folidinflruclion from us, and m^ can expect none from,them..