Now, remember, I warn you against their arts, their bribes, and their temptations--and if, as I said, any one of this flock shall prove so wicked as to join them--then, I say again, better for his unfortunate soul that he had never come into existence, than to come in contact with this leprous and polluted heresy." Darby having heard--for he never went to mass--that he was denounced by the priest, and feeling that his carrying into execution the heartless and oppressive proceedings of M'Clutchy had, taken together, certainly made him as unpopular a man as any individual of his contemptible standing in life could be, resolved, in the first place, to carry arms for his own protection, and, in the next, to take a step which he knew would vex the curate sorely.

Accordingly, he lost no time in circulating, and having it circulated by others, that the great Reformation Society would give, in a private way, five guineas a head to every convert, taking them either by the individual or the family, although the conversion of the latter, he said, was far more coveted than even a greater number of individuals, when they were not bound by the same ties of blood, inasmuch, as the bringing them over by families was an outpouring of grace which could not be withstood.

The consequence was, that all the profligate and unprincipled who had cold, and nakedness, and famine, in addition to their own utter want of all moral feeling to stimulate them, looked upon the new Reformation and its liberal promises as a complete windfall blown into their way by some unexpected piece of good fortune.

Five guineas a head! And all for only going to church, and gaining for ever more the heart and affections of the good and kind Lord -- ----.

There was also another class, the simple and honest poor, who had no other way of avoiding all the rigors and privations of that terrible season, than a painful compliance with the only principle which could rescue themselves and their children, from a state of things worse than death itself--and which might probably have terminated in death--we mean the principle of the new Reformation.