in Yorkshire, partly to its own characteristic zeal and partly to the genius of the people. Yorkshiremen, for the most part, love to have religious doings unencumbered with punctilios; they are not very partial to stiffness and ceremonies. The Liturgy is no great favourite with them (though, for my own part, I rather regret this). They can put up with numerous inaccuracies in sermons; they are not "nice and particular." Some of them are excellent scholars, but their attachment to pious and laborious preachers disposes them to overlook and tolerate numerous imperfections which the mere academic would criticise and censure without mercy. I have often observed, that preachers and other public speakers of great learning and good taste, who preserve, in some southern counties, all the carefulness and decorum which the most fastidious regard to rhetorical etiquette on the part of educated hearers can require, give a loose to their feelings in Yorkshire; and, on the principle of accommodation to the Yorkshire genius, condescend to noise and extravagance. Let it be recollected, however, that it is not ignorance, but good nature, for the most part, that makes Yorkshiremen so indulgent to public speakers.

MARKET RASEN.

In this circuit I had excellent congregations and met with kindness and hospitality in every direction. For a time, however, I found trouble and sorrow, partly on account of a newspaper controversy, and partly from telling a good man of his

official negligence. Generous friends rallied round me and made me a handsome present, letters of sympathy were addressed to me, but I was removed at the end of one year. While I staid, I had frequent invitations to Missionary Meetings in neighbouring circuits, and could not but admire and commend the noble liberality of the Lincolnshire men in contributing to foreign missions.

During my sojourn here, I was summoned to Edinburgh, as a witness on a trial expected to take place, relative to some very large property, the appropriation of which was disputed. The parties came to an accommodation, and there was happily no trial. I took the opportunity, while in Edinburgh, of visiting my old friend Mr. (now Dostor) Guthrie. After taking breakfast with him, I accompanied him to the University. I saw the students and College Library; I was then introduced to Dr. Chalmers, whom I found in his professional robes, just going to give one of his official lectures to the students. The doctor was remarkably bland and affable, and invited me to breakfast with him at his residence the next morning. I went, and found a select party of learned gentlemen invited to meet us; our conversation was varied,-the Wesleyan French Mission (in which the Doctor evinced much interest), the state of religion on the continent, the Royal Institute of France, and, as a subject then agitating all Edinburgh, the projected "free church." On this subject the Doctor was excited, and full of energy. "The state," said he, "Mr. Kendall, may take from us our temporalities, but

we cannot allow it to interfere with our just and most scriptural right to appoint ministers to our parishes." He wished me to write to Dr. Bunting on the subject of our securing parliamentary influence in favour of their wishes; and said many things which the homely and familiar character as well as the limits of this little book forbid me to introduce. After much talk on these great ecclesiastic and public matters, I accompanied him in his close carriage to the University.

On the way we talked of preaching, and of his preaching. I mentioned the fact of my having once heard him in our chapel at City Road. He said, "I was afraid, Mr. Kendall, that my broad Scotch would not varry weel suit the polished metropolitans." "Doctor," said I, "permit me to say, that your Scottish accent, pronunciation and fervour, constituted a novelty and charm to the Londoners. To some, indeed, you were not quite so intelligible as an Englishman; but the critics, and especially such as have intercourse with the Scotch, admired what I myself admire,-the graceful trilling of the R, done enough by a literary Scotchman but overdone by the Scottish plebeian,—the beautiful aspirate of the h and wh in where, nicely distinguishing it from were. The educated Londoners are, for the most part, fond of Scotch preachers, and hence so many of your men become popular and eminent among us." The Doctor expressed his great pleasure at this, and we talked to our hearts' content, till we arrived at the college. He wished me to stay longer, but I was obliged to

leave. He presented me with a copy of his "Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans," writing his name and "best regards" to me, on the blank leaf. I had epistolary correspondence with him afterwards, and shall ever think of him with high and affectionate esteem.

It was in the Market Rasen circuit also, that I took a family dinner and had a very long interview with the Bishop of Lincoln, arising from the lecture that I published on "Pulpit Eloquence." The Bishop bore his candid and honourable testimony to the efficacy and serviceableness of Methodist preaching in his diocese. I left an army of hearty friends in Market Rasen circuit with extreme regret.

CHAPTER XI.

PICKERING.

I

SECTION I.

NOW inform the reader, and particularly my

friends who urged me to print this book, that originally I had intended to confine myself to the "Dales of the North and the Banks of the Severn," and therefore wrote more extensively on these parts of our country; but seeing reason to alter my plan, I decided to say a little about every circuit in which I have been stationed. But as the "Dales and Banks" were to have been the main subjects of the little work, I will introduce them without any abridgment,-simply adopting a new arrangement as to the heading of the chapters, that is, merely naming the circuits on which my observations are founded. And here I wish to bespeak the indulgence of erudite readers, should I have any. In narration and description there are many things so comparatively frivolous, that they afford but little, if any, entertainment to men of learning and to great philosophers. But I wish it to be considered that huge toleration is given by