Perhaps these considerations may serve to account for the comparative silence of the Gospel upon a subject which seemed to require the expression of a direct command, whilst they will in no way obscure its universally-admitted meaning.
Alfred Gatty.
Ecclesfield.
POETICAL TAVERN SIGNS.
(Vol. ix., p. 58.)
The subjoined lines address themselves to the traveller, as he looks on the sign of "The Rodney's Pillar" inn at Criggirn, a hamlet on the borders of Montgomeryshire and this county:
"Under these trees, in sunny weather,
Just try a cup of ale, however;
And if in tempest or in storm,