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The latest accounts from Germany announce the amicable adjustment of the differences between Austria and Bavaria.

Government are said to be in possession of authentic information, that the invasion of this country will be immediately attempted from Holland, Flanders, and the opposite shore of France. The preparations for the at tempt have certainly proceeded with unremitting assiduity, and they are said to be now nearly completed.

The following communication arrived at too late a period of the month to appear in its proper place. We are induced, however, by the consideration suggested in the first sentence of the letter, to provide for its insertion in the present number.

3. But it is urged, that "words and phrases do, in process of time, change their original meaning." We have, indeed, heard much lately of this tacit alteration, insomuch that it has been gravely intimated that the articles of our Church may now mean something very different from what the original framers of them intended; and Philalethes probably knows that the custom we are now discussing is a favourite illustration of this extraordinary theory. Surely then Christians should be careful how they adopt or countenance the perverted use of words.

4. A serious objection, I think, must arise in a conscientious mind on considering, that he who conforms to the custom under enquiry has ne cessarily to employ an agent in the business. Another must declare for him that he is not at home. There is here, to say the least of it, great

To the Editor of the Christian Observer. liberty taken with another man's con

SIR,

No answer having yet appeared in your miscellany to the Query of Philalethes, on the custom prevalent in the polite circles of denying oneself to be at home, I venture to send you the following plain thoughts, being of opinion, that an answer should appear in the same volume of your work in which the query is proposed.

1. I cannot help thinking, that there is an answer to it in a scripture quoted by Philalethes himself, viz. "Abstain from all appearances of evil:" however it may be doubted, whether the custom in question really be evil, it must surely be acknowledged that it has the appearance of it.

2. We are taught in the Word of God to form high and reverential ideas of truth, as a sacred thing which we cannot prostitute, and with which we cannot trifle with impunity. Now, if truth be an agreement between what we say and what we mean, it is cloarly violated in the case under enquiry.

science; and those who are thus employed will certainly learn to form slight ideas of truth, when they find their superiors (especially if persons of credit and respectability) thus trifling with it.

5. When a person at home is denied to be so, it must either be sup posed that he, to whom the denial is made, is likely to take the words in their literal sense, or to understand sufficiently the meaning of them, and the real state of the case. If the former is supposed, actual deception is practised; if the latter, there is a deviation from the meaning of words perfectly unnecessary, and therefore certainly unjustifiable.

In short, Sir, I cannot think that Mr. Scott has condemned the practice in too strong terms. An undue confor mity to the language and customs of the world, is, I fear, the practical heresy of Christians in Great Bri tain. I am, SIR,

Your's, &. H.

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Elphin, Bishop of, original Letter from 664
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Letters between Rev. S. Walker and
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