would ask us where we intend to go ourselves, that believe all this, and are such wicked fellows as we indeed are?

Why, sir; ‘tis enough to give them a surfeit of religion at first hearing; folks must have some religion themselves before they begin to teach other people.” — ”Will Atkins,” said I to him, “though I am afraid that what you say has too much truth in it, yet can you not tell your wife she is in the wrong; that there is a God and a religion better than her own; that her gods are idols; that they can neither hear nor speak; that there is a great Being that made all things, and that can destroy all that He has made; that He rewards the good and punishes the bad; and that we are to be judged by Him at last for all we do here? You are not so ignorant but even nature itself will