Mr. C.—Mr. Spinwell, {12} let me speak one word to you before we part. Days and weeks, months and years, like your wheel, go round and round, with wonderful rapidity, but with this difference, that you can stop your wheel, whilst neither of us can stay the progress of time. The thread of life is far spun both with you and me. Let me then advise you to leave the noisy “potsherds of the earth” to “strive together,” how they may most effectually resist the payment of a few shillings a year, in support of a Church, which the wisest and best of men have maintained to be so necessary to our national welfare.—Considering how the world is passing away with all its transient concerns, let us pray for grace and strength to “press towards the mark for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” that so we may meet at last in the paradise of God, there to dwell in perfect love and everlasting peace. * * * * * * * * * * William Edward Painter, 342, Strand, London, Printer. FOOTNOTES. {6} Lambert has traced up Church-rates to the laws of King Ina, in the _seventh_ century. {7a} So considered by Dr. Gill, and other Dissenting Expositors. {7b} This was said in reference to their receiving the Royal Bounty. {9} The whole amount, including the Royal Bounty to the Dissenters of Ireland, is more than thirty thousand a year. {12} Mr. Spinwell is a rope-maker in the writer’s parish.