_A faithful copy of the Verses, lately fastened upon the pulpit of S. Paul's Choir._ TO THE ARCHITECT UPON HIS HAPPY INVENTION OF A PULPIT ON WHEELS FOR THE USE OF S. PAUL'S CHOIR. This little Structure (Excellent Sir Kit) _Holds forth to us_ that You bestowed more Wit In Building it than on all Paul's beside; _This_ shows the _Principles_, that but the _Pride_ Of its _Inhabitants_; True Sons of _Saul_, For he (Good Man) _became All things to All, That by all Sorts of Means he might gain some_. _They_ too for _Gain_ would follow him to _Rome_, This _Passively Obedient_ thing will go as They'd have it, or to _Mecca_, _Rome_, or _Troas_; All one to it, if forward Hawl'd or back, 'Twill run a Holy Stage for _Will_ or _Jack_; And truckle to and fro' 'twixt Cause and Cause, Just as Strongest Pull of _Interest_ draws. But if the Pulpit be a Vital Part O' th' _Church_, or as the Doctors say her Heart, Why don't you fix _that_ also on a Rock And let the Steeple Roost the _Weather-Cock_? Where if a Puff of Strong Temptations blow, It might remind the Staggering Saints and _Crow_. _Improve the Thought, Dear Sir, and let_ St. Paul's _Wise Fane be this new_ Going Cart _for Souls_.[215] It hardly needs the hint that these lines were affixed to 'the _Dean's_ side of the pulpit,' to read in them a bitter satire on Dean Sherlock, whose sudden change of front relative to the non-jurors, and acceptance of the Deanery of S. Paul's, laid him open to the grave suspicion of having acted from interested motives, and stirred up much vehement animosity. A spirited, if not an impartial, account of this controversy, is given by Lord Macaulay.[216] Sir Christopher's remarkable invention appears to have survived the laughter against it, and to have remained in the Cathedral until 1803. The vaults of S. Paul's were opened shortly after this thanksgiving to receive the body of Dr. White, the non-juring Bishop of Peterborough, whose funeral was attended by Bishop Turner, Bishop Lloyd and forty nonjuring clergymen. [_A FOREIGN TOUR._]