Now, if celibacy is the highest condition of life, how is it that Adam and Eve came together while they were yet in Paradise? Their union, according to Mr Ward, ought to have taken place after they both fell. Matrimony should have followed as a punishment for the apple. And then, when it was commanded, “Increase and multiply,” was it supposed that those who obeyed the command would not be in so “high a condition” as those who neglected it? But men read their Bibles through strange spectacles! However, grandmother, as you like to hear all the chat about the Church, you must know that last week I took up a fare near the oyster-shop in Covent Garden--a very respectable sort of person--in fact, I’m sure one of the Established Church. When he had left the cab, I found that the _Ecclesiastical Gazette_ (No. 18) had dropt from his pocket. I’ve gone through it, and found parts of it--I mean the Church advertisements--very odd indeed. You can’t think how strange they read after the New Testament. If you wouldn’t think the pulpit-cushion was a counter, after reading ’em. Look here, now:-- “A curate wanted in a large market-town forty miles from London, near a railroad, population _five thousand_, where the incumbent resides and takes his full share of the duty. He must be in Priest’s Orders, have a voice sufficiently _loud_ for a very large church, and whilst holding _moderately High Church views_, be chiefly anxious to _seek and save the lost_ by preaching Christ and Him crucified. Stipend _one hundred pounds_ a year. The advertiser does not pledge himself to answer every letter.”