THE

VILLAGE BLACKSMITH;

OR,

Piety and Usefulness Exemplified

IN A

MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL HICK,

LATE OF MICKLEFIELD, YORKSHIRE.

BY JAMES EVERETT.

FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS,

200 MULBERRY-STREET.

1953.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
BY EXCHANGE
Nov 7,1933

That not only the maxims, but the grounds of a pure mo. rality, the mere fragments of which the 'lofty grave tragedians taught in chorus or iambic,' and that the sublime truths of the divine unity and attributes which a Plato found most hard to learn, and deemed it still more difficult to reveal; that these should have become the almost hereditary property of childhood and poverty, of the hovel and the workshop; that even to the unlettered they sound as common-place, is a phenomenon which must withhold all but minds of the most vulgar cast from undervaluing the services even of the pulpit and the reading-desk."

Coleridge's Biographia Lateraria, vol. i, p. 226.

Thus, agreeably to the above, Samuel, together with his less educated neighbours, would pray for the Lord to "wakken" the slumbering sinner.