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

.death.LETTERS, TRACTS, tffc;38^9- Andllowing purpofe. You , ftudent and burfarin this college, having thrown ofF all tear of God,refpe6l to religion, and reverence ,for the fciences,and the learned profeflbrs of this univerfity, did maintain,that adverfity is more favourable to virtue thanprofperity ; and in proving. that point fr#m romanceand real hiilory, you faid, that the piou§ Eneas andthe difmterefted Don Quixote ;—the fon of Sophronlfcusand the fon of Mary, triumphed in -adverfity.at' another time, when one in the club complained,that the prefent methods of teachij^g moralitywere defective, as being altogether theoretical, andnot calculated to mend the heart ', and another hadfaid, that that tiefefit was fupplied by fermons fromthe pillpit ; you did deny that it was lb fupplied,and alleged profanely, that fermons were too often'on do£l:rinal points, and on the trite fubjccls of faithand repentance, and that morality might be bettertaught by the theatre. You alio (aid, that the merchantsof Clutha were fordidly avaricious; aiid thatthe ladies, by their .reciufe way of hvir^, and by fittingup too late playing at cards, loft their bldom^ andbrought difcafes on themfelves, whicii occafioned theirNor did you flop at all this, bivt proceededto talk ig-norantly, diirefpeclfuUy, and contemptuouflyof the learned fcieiices, by faying, profanely andknpiouily, tliat the ftudent^ would be iruore improvedor better entertained at the theatre than in thedrowfy fliops of logic and nietaphyfics ; hy whichyou plainly difcovered your malignity, and your fecretcontempt of the learned and ingenious profefTorswho teach thefe fciences. All v>"hich, or any partthereof, being proved, you ought to be puniflicd withexpulnon, or otherwife cenfured.Chili. 19. The indi(Slmient conlifled of many morewords, but not of more ideas ; for I have faithfullynarrated the fuU fubftance of it. The pannel deniedit in common form, and gave in a paper containingKk 3