Transcribed from the [1850?] James Nisbet and Co. edition by David Price A REPLY TO DR. VAUGHAN’S “LETTER ON THE LATE POST-OFFICE AGITATION.” * * * * * BY JAMES ROBERT PEARS, M.A., MASTER OF THE BATH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AND LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. BATH: BINNS AND GOODWIN. * * * * * _Price Sixpence_. * * * * * BATH: PRINTED BY BINNS AND GOODWIN. * * * * * A REPLY, &c. REV. SIR, Three years ago the Hon. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY published a letter to the Postmaster-General in opposition “to the attempt (as he wrote) which was making in Bath and its vicinity to prevent the delivery of letters on a Sunday.” And we were taught by this publication that there were men, and perhaps many men, among our legislators, who were uninformed as to the origin, nature, and moral effects of that precious ordinance of a day of rest. Such men needed to be instructed with kindness, and patience, and compassion. We must, indeed, be fearfully devoid of the best gift of God to man, if we do not feel compassion for men who, in a land of open bibles, and professed obedience to the Gospel, have been deprived, by a vicious education, a life of excitement, and the cold indifference of those about them, of the vast enjoyment realized by the spirit of man when it rests in communion with the Almighty. But when I undertook the easy and pleasant task of replying to that opponent, I certainly thought that the sentiments of that gentleman were confined to men whose education had been so unhappily restricted.