Part 5 of Early Guides to the English Lake District This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Extract from a six-month tour through the north of England by Arthur Young. Now, sir, for the glory of Keswick, its lake so famous all over England. Let me first inform you that it is by computation ten miles round of an oblong figure and enclosed by a prodigious range of formidable mountains of such a height that they are cloud-topped for several months in the year. The best way of viewing it is to row round the lake and land now and then for catching the varieties of the prospect. You walk from the town first down to Cockshut Hill, a small rising ground within the amphitheatre of mountains and has been lately planted. The view of the lake from hence is very beautiful. You have a most elegant sheet of water at your feet of the finest colour imaginable, spotted with islands of which you see five and are high enough to command the water around them. One is in the middle of about five acres of grassland with a house under a clump of trees on one side of it, the whole object beautifully picturesque. You look also upon another planted with scotch furs and also upon three others more distant. This is the view of the floor of this noble amphitheatre. The walls are in different style, sublime. To the left you look first on a hilly rock partly covered with shrubby wood and further on upon a chain of tremendous rocks near four hundred yards high. Their feet are spread with hanging woods but their heads bear broken and irregular. Following the line the lake seems to lose itself among a wood of rocks and mountains, the tops rising one above another in the wildest manner imaginable. The opposite shore presents you a full view of a vast range of hills and behind you look upon the prince of the surrounding mountains, Skiddo, whose tremendous head rears above the clouds. Leaving this hill you walk down to your boat and are struck with the limpid transparency of the water, which almost exceeds belief. The bottom is quite paved with stones and the white ones glitter through the tremulous curl of the surface like so many diamonds. You road to the left pass a variety of shore, here rocky and projecting, there low and retiring, coast a planted island and coming under Wallow Crag, one of the immense rocks before mentioned, you have from its foot a very fine view. The surrounding rocks and mountains are truly noble, the Crag above you fringed about a third of its height with pendant woods. The lake at your feet breaks beautifully into a bay behind a promontory called Stable Hills. Against it is Brampe's home island belonging to Greenwich Hospital and over the low part of the promontory you catch the wood on Lord's Island in a very pleasing manner.  Taking your boat again and rowing till you are opposite the opening between Wallow and Barrow Crags, the noise of a waterfall unseen will induce you to land again. Walking onto a little ruinous bridge, you look upon a romantic hollow of rocks and woods with a stream pouring down the clefts in many sheets and seen among the trees in the most picturesque manner, a romantic scene of rock and wood and water 30 feet high. Rowing from hence under Barrow Crag, the shore is rocky and various. Passing some low ground and landing on a rising one, the view is exquisite. The water breaks in the most beautiful manner imaginable into bays and sheets, stretching away from the eye most gloriously between the Stable Hills, Lord's Island and Vickers Island. Brampe's home cuts in the middle and St. Albans Isle presents his broad side to your full view. At the other end of the lake, the Rising Hills, part of cultivated, waving enclosures and part of hanging woods, all scattered with white houses and the whole crowned with the lofty mountains are beautifully picturesque and contrast finely with the view of the south end of the lake, around which the rocks and the mountains are tremendously bold, pendent and threatening. Following the coast, the shore is thinly fringed with wood. Then you row around a projecting land, containing several enclosures and come under a fine, thick, hanging wood, with a raging torrent breaking through it over rocks just seen between the wood and Barrow Side, but heard in the most romantic manner. You next anchor in a bay, the environs of which are dreadful. You are under a monstrous, craggy rock, a throng crag, scattered with shrubby wood to the very edge and almost perpendicular and are moving the eye from the formidable object. You find this end of the lake, surrounded with a chain of them, in the boldest and abruptest style imaginable. The opposite shore of mountains very great and noise of distant waterfalls heard most gloriously. From hence you coast a dreadful shore of fragments, which time has broken from the towering rocks, many of them of a terrible size. Some stopped on the land by larger than themselves and others rolled into the lake through a path of desolation, sweeping trees, hillocks and everything to the water. The very idea of a small shiver against the boat strikes with horror. Advancing you catch the view of a most beautiful waterfall within the wave of a gentle bend of the rocks. But to enjoy the full luxuriance of this exquisite landscape it is necessary to land and walk to an opening in the grove from whence it is seen in surprising beauty. You look up a tremendous wall of rock, perpendicular to the top, scattered with wood that seems to hang in the air. A large stream rushes out of a cliff near the top and falls in the most broken and romantic manner several hundred feet. It falls in one gush for several yards. The projecting part of the rock breaks it then into three streams which are presently quite lost behind hanging woods. Lower down you again catch it in a single bright sheet among the surrounding dark wood in the most elegantly picturesque manner that fancy can conceive. Losing itself again behind the intervening trees it breaks to the view in various scattered streams half seen glittering in the sunbeams among the branches of the trees in the most bewitching colours of nature's clear obscure. Lower still you again catch it united in one bright rushing fall in the dark bosom of a fine hollow wood which finishes the scene. The surrounding hills, rocks and scattered pendant woods are all romantic and sublime and tend nobly to set off this most exquisite touch of rural elegance. Following the coast you sail round a sweet little island a clump of wood growing out of the lake but it is joined to the mainland when the water is very low. From hence pursuing the voyage you come into the narrow part of the lake and have a full view of most romantic terrible craggy rocks in closing a most grand and beautiful cascade. It is a view that must astonish the spectator. You look up to two dreadful pointed rocks of a vast height which almost hang over your head partly scattered with shrubby wood in the wildest taste of nature. Between them is a dreadful precipice of broken craggy rock over which a raging torrent foams down in one vast sheet of water several yards wide just broken into ebullitions by the points of the rocks unseen. At another time I saw it when the craggy rock appeared and the stream was broken by it into several gushing torrents which seemed to issue distinctly from clefts in the rock in the most picturesque manner imaginable. The water is lost in one spot caught again in another foaming out of this cleft with rushing in petuosity and trickling down that gushing elegance. Nothing can be fancied more grand more beautiful or romantic. Taking a winding walk through the wood it leads down to a rapid stream which you cross and presently come to a new and most delicious scene. To the right you catch a side view of the fall just described in a new direction most beautifully embosomed in rock and hanging wood. Full in front you look upon another cascade out as it were from the rotten stump of an old tree and falling down an irregular surface of rock its breaks into larger and more sheets some full, others thin and trickling a most sweet variety. After this its breaks again and falls into the stream in fresh beauty elegantly romantic. Following the shore into fleet water you come into a region of most dupendous rocks and irregularly pointed in the most abrupt and wild manner imaginable with monstrous fragments large as a house that have tumbled from their heads dreadful in the idea. Pursuing the water to its point you come into a new and the most glorious amphitheater of rocks and mountains. On one side craggy broken and wildly irregular and on the other a vast range of mountainside sufficiently great. Going up the river to Grange Bridge under Grange Crag the lake is lost the prospect new and terrible a whole sweep of rocks, crags, mountains and dreadful chasms. Leaving the boat and walking up to the village you gain a view of a cone like rocky woody hill rising in the midst of a hollow of mountains most nobly romantic from hence following the road to the lake under Brandelo Hill you have the noblest view of rocks and hills in the world. Grange Crag and Crown Head appear in full view surrounded by an immense wall of rock and mountain the effect astonishingly great. Taking boat again you row round a prodigious fine promontory, beautifully wooded and upon turning it you tack about round a most exquisite little island in the bay and if the water is very high there are two more very fine woody islands around which you may row. This little archipelago will entertain a person of the least taste nor is the view of the lake's environs unworthy of admiration the crags and cliffs to the right are tremendous. Skidow fronts you in the sublimist style saddleback on one side of him rears his head in the boldest manner. To the left you look upon an exceeding fine hanging wood beautifully spread over a waving hill advancing with the coast you next land at the lead mines which, if you have a taste for grotto work, will entertain as a boat may be loaded with spar of various glittering and beautiful kinds. Here also are two curiosities of an uncommon kind vis two salt springs sailing along the shore it leads you under a noble hill most beautifully spread with wood it is covered thick with young timber trees which grow in the most picturesque manner down to the very water's edge you next enter a little bay and look upon a most elegant small round hill covered with wood inimitably beautiful this you also coast nor can anything be more truly exquisite than these two slopes of wood with beautiful enclosures between them contrasting the sublimity of the rocks and mountains in the noblest style. Nor should you here forget to remark three or four enclosures on the other side of the lake down to the water's edge under Agnes fell they are exquisite sailing by some very beautiful grass enclosures you catch a white house romantically situated and then skirting more enclosures turn round a small but most exquisite promontory with a sweet clump of trees on it. This leads into a very fine landlocked bay which commands a beautiful sloping hanging wood the scene enlivened by a white house quite in the spot of taste from hence you look over the lake upon castle head crag a fine round of rocky wood rising out of a veil and backed with waving enclosures the shore from hence is most beautifully indented and irregular running up among little hills finely fringed with wood from hence you wind in and out of several bays and creeks commanding very picturesque views of the land and around a most noble hill of shrubby wood covered to the very top from hence around the town the shore is flat your next view of Keswick must be from land by walking up the vast rocks and crags thus described this is a journey which will terrify those who have been only used to flat countries the walk to the highest rock is a mile and half up and almost perpendicular horribly rugged and tremendous it is rather a climbing crawl than a walk the path crossed the stream which forms the first mentioned cascade in the midst of dreadful cliffs and romantic hollows the torrent roars beneath you in some places seen in others hid by rock and wood from hence you climb through a slope of underwood to the edge of a precipice from which you look down upon the lake and islands in a most beautiful manner for coming at once upon them after leaving a thick dark wood the emotions of surprise and admiration are very great following the path if it may be so called you pass many romantic spots and come to a projection of the hill from which you look down not only upon the lake as before but also upon a semicircular veil of enclosures of a most beautiful verdure which gives a fine curve into the lake one of the fields is scattered over with trees which from hence have the most truly picturesque effect imaginable advancing further yet you come to the head of Crustigfall which is a vast opening among these immense rocky mountains which lets in between them a view across the lake catching two of the islands etc in a most beautiful manner nor can anything be more horribly romantic than the adjoining ground where you command this sweet view at last we gain the top of the crag and from it the prospect is truly noble you look down upon the lake spotted with its islands so far below as to appear in another region the lower hills rise most picturesquely to the view to the right you look down upon a beautiful veil of cultivated enclosures whose verdure is painting itself the town presents its scattered houses among woods and spreading trees above it rises Skidow cloud topped in the most sublime magnitude descending to the town we took our leave of this enchanting region of landscape by scaling the formidable walls of Skidow himself it is five miles to the top but the immensity of the view fully repays for the labour of gaining it you look upon the lake which here appears no more than a little basin and its islands but to so many spots it is surrounded by a prodigious range of rocks and mountains wild as the waves sublimely romantic these dreadful sweeps the sport of nature in the most violent moments are the most striking objects seen from Skidow but in mere extent the view is prodigious you see the hills in Scotland plainly you view a fine reach of fen command the Isle of Man and see part of an object which I take to be an island in Ireland besides prodigious tracks of adjacent country Keswick upon the whole contains a variety that cannot fail of astonishing the spectator the islands, the hanging woods the waving enclosures and the cascades are almost superlatively elegant and beautiful while the rocks, cliffs, crags and the mountains are equally terrifying and sublime they cannot be a finer contrast but it is much to be regretted that art does not yield more of her assistance, not in decoration for the lake wants it not but in enabling the spectator to command with greater ease brilliant beauties and striking views which to so many travellers are hitherto quite unknown there are a vast many edges of precipices bold projections of rock pendant cliffs and wild romantic spots which command the most delicious scenes but which cannot be reached without the most perilous difficulty to such point of view winding path should be cut in the rock and resting place is made for the weary traveller many of these paths must necessarily lead through the hanging woods openings might be made to let in views of the lake where the objects such as islands etc were peculiarly beautiful at the bottoms of the rocks also something of the same nature should be executed for better viewing the romantic cascades which might be exhibited with a little art in a variety that would astonish it is amusing to think of the pains and expense with which the environs of several seats have been ornamented to produce pretty scenes it is true but how very far short of the wonders that might here be held up to the eye in all the rich luxuriance of nature's painting what are the effects of a Louise magnificence to the sportive play of nature in the Vale of Keswick how trifling the labours of art to the mere pranks of nature returning to Penrith our next expedition was to Hullswater a very fine lake about 6 miles from that town the approach to it is very beautiful the most advantageous way of seeing it is to take the road up Dunmanlet Hill for you rise up a very beautiful planted hill and see nothing of the water till you gain the summit when the view is uncommonly beautiful you look down at once upon a sheet of the lake which appears prodigiously fine it is an oblong water that runs 3 miles long and a mile and a half broad in some places in others a mile it is enclosed within an amphitheater of hills in front at the end of the reach projecting down to the water edge but retiring from it on each side so as to leave a space of cultivated enclosures between the feet and the lake the hedges that divide them are scattered with trees and the fields of both grass and corn waving in beautiful slopes from the water intersected by hedges in the most picturesque manner upon the right a bold swelling hill of turf rises with a fine air of grandeur another view from off this hill is onto a mountain side which presents to the eye a swelling slope of turf and over it saddleback rises in a noble style another view from this hill is down upon a beautiful veil of cultivated enclosures Mr. Hassel's house at Delmayne in one part almost encompassed with a plantation here you likewise catch some meanders of the river through the trees and hear the roar of a waterfall this hill itself is a very fine object viewed every way but the simplicity of its effect is destroyed by being cut by a double stripe of scotch furs across it which varies the colour of the verdure and consequently breaks the unity of the view another point of view from which this part of the lake is seen to good advantage is from off Solbifel you look down upon the water which spreads very finely to the view bounded to the right by the hills which rise from the very water at the other by Dunmanlet hill in front by a fine range of enclosures rising most beautifully to the view and the water's edge skirted by trees in a most picturesque manner directing your course under the lake and landing at Swarthfell the next business should be to mount its height the lake winds at your feet like a noble river the opposite banks beautiful enclosures exquisitely fringed with trees and some little narrow slips like promontories jet into it with the most picturesque effect imaginable and at the same time hear the noise of a waterfall beneath but on scene taking boat again and sailing with the course of the lake you turn with its bend and come into a very fine sheet of water which appears like a lake of itself it is under Howtown and Hawlingfell the environs here are very striking cultivated enclosures on one side crowned with the tops of hills and on the other a woody craggy hill down to the very water's edge the effect fine next you double Hawlingfell had come again into a new sheet of water under Martindalefell which is a prodigious fine hill of a bold abrupt form and between that and Howlingfell a little rising wave of cultivated enclosures skirted with trees the fields of the finest verdure and the picturesque appearance of the whole most exquisitely pleasing it is a most delicious spot within an amphitheater of rugged hills following the bend of the water under New Crag the views are more romantic than in any part hitherto seen New Crag to the right rears a bold abrupt head in a style truly sublime and passing it a little the opposite shore is very noble Martindalefell rises steep from the water's edge and presents a bold wall of mountain really glorious in front the hills are craggy broken and irregular in shape not tight like those of Keswick they project so boldly to the very water that the outlet or wind of the water is shut by them from the eye it seems enclosed by a shore of steep hills and crags from hence to the edge of the lake which there is sprinkled by three or four small islands the views are in the same style very wild and romantic it is an exceedingly pleasing entertainment to sail about this fine lake which is nineteen miles round and presents to the eye several very fine sheets of water and abounds for other amusements with noble fish pike to thirty pounds perch to six pounds trout to six pounds besides many other sorts the water is of a most beautiful colour and admirably transparent I took the opportunity of being at chap to ride a horse water a lake some miles to the westward the road thither leads for some distance along the side of a hill which commands an exceeding fine view of Pont and Vale to the left it is several miles in length of an oblong figure all cut into enclosures of a charming verdeur and scattered in the most picturesque manner with villages clumps of wood, houses bridges, trees etc a fine river takes the most beautiful serpentine course in the world through it the opposite bank is a large ridge of mountain it is a sweet landscape which brings to one's imagination the idea of an Arcadian paradise the approach to the lake is very picturesque you pass between two high ridges of mountain the banks finally spread with enclosures upon the right two small beautiful hills one of them covered with wood they are most pleasingly elegant the lake is a small one about three miles long half a mile over in some places and a quarter in others almost divided in the middle by a promontory of enclosures joining only by a straight so that it consists of two sheets of water the upper end of it is fine quite enclosed with bold steep craggy rocks and mountains and in the centre of the end a few little enclosures at their feet waving upwards in a very beautiful manner the south side of the lake is a noble ridge of mountain very bold and prominent down to the water's edge they bulge out in the centre in a fine bold pendants broad head that is venerably magnificent and the view of the first sheet of the lake losing itself into the second among hills rocks, woods etc. is picturesque the opposite shore consists of enclosures rising one above another and crowned with craggy rocks 12 of the 15 miles from Shaft to Kendall are a continued chain of mountainous moors totally uncultivated one dreary prospect that makes one melancholy to behold for the soil itself is highly capable of cultivation and of profitable uses much of it is of a good depth and the spontaneous growth proves that the very nature of the land is equal to many valuable uses after crossing this dreary track the first appearance of good country is most exquisitely fine about three miles from Kendall you at once look down from off this desolate country upon one of the finest landscapes in the world a noble range of fertile enclosures richly enameled with the most beautiful verdure and coming to the brow of the hill have a most elegantly picturesque view of a very gated track of waving enclosures spreading over hills and hanging to the eye in the most picturesque and pleasing manner that fancy can conceive three hills in particular are overlooked cut into enclosures in a charming style of themselves forming a most elegant landscape and worthy the imitation of those who would give the embellishments of art to the simplicity of nature Kendall is a very plentiful and cheap place fat stubble geese are sold at one shillings and fourpence each fat fowls at one shilling a couple fat ducks the same price wildfowl and game in great plenty woodcocks often at tuppence apiece partridges are sold common in the market and very cheap fishing great plenty trout often times at a penny a pound besides many other sorts it is a neat well built town from hence we viewed the famous lake called Winandamere 10 miles west of Kendall by much the longest water of the kind in England it is 15 miles long and from 2 miles to half a mile broad it gives gentle bends so as to present to the eye several noble sheets of water and is in many places beautifully scattered with islands the shores are nobly varied consisting in some places of fine ridges of hills in others of craggy rocks in some of the waving enclosures and in others of the finest hanging woods several villages and one market town are situated on its banks and a ferry crosses it to another there is some business carried on upon it so this is not uncommon to see barges with spreading sails all these circumstances give it a very cheerful appearance at the same time that they add to its beauty I would advise those who view this lake not to take the common road down to the village of Bones where the boats are kept but for reasons which I shall hear after add to go live around almost by the ferry the landlord at the inn at that village keeps a boat and can always provide rows for any company that comes the extreme beauty of the lake induced me to explore every part of it with attention but as I have already troubled you with several recitals of these water expeditions I shall only mention a few of the principal points of view and to which I should particularly recommend any traveller to row if he had not time to view the whole lake but no scheme of this sort can be more amusing than two or three days spent here in rowing, sailing fishing and wild duck shooting all which are here to be had in great perfection and I should add that the end of May or the beginning of June is the proper time for such an expedition taking boats at the village you row first to the island so called by way of preeminence being by much the largest in the lake it contains between 30 and 40 acres of land and I cannot but think at the sweetest spot and full of the greatest capabilities of any 40 acres in the king's dominions the view from the south end is very fine the lake presents the most noble sheet of water stretching away for several miles and bounded in front by distant mountains the shores beautifully indented by promontories covered with wood and jetting into the water in the most picturesque style imaginable particularly the ferry points on both sides it is broke by barcha island an elegant spot finally wooded in one part and by craw island almost covered in another and just hides a house on the mainland the eastern shore is spread forth with the most beautiful variety in some places waving enclosures of corn and grass rise one above another and present to the eye a scenery beyond the brightest ideas of painting itself in others, shrubby spots and dependent woods hang down to the very water's edge in some places these woods are broke by a few small grass enclosures of the sweetest verdure and in others run around large circuits of them and rising to the higher grounds lose themselves in the wilds above here you see slips of land running into the lake and covered with trees which seem to rise from the water there, a boldly indented shore swelling into fine bays and skirted with spreading trees an edging as elegant as ever fancied by Claude himself the village is caught among some scattered trees in a sweet situation on the bank of a bay followed by a promontory of wood the background a sweep of enclosures rising one above another following this line of shore towards the north you command Bannerig and Orest Head two hills all cut into enclosures to the very top to the north you look upon a noble and ordinary regular mountains which contrast finally with the other more beautiful shores the western is a fine sweep of craggy rocks here and there fringed with wood advancing to the very farthest point of land these objects are varied and new ones appear that are truly beautiful the Lancashire fairy point and the woody island join and seem one prodigious fine promontory of wood in a picturesque manner they form the boundary in front of a fine bay walled into the right by a noble rocky cliff and in the middle of it a sweet little woody island over the low part of the promontory the distant hills are seen finally the shore to the left here appears peculiarly beautiful for half a dozen enclosures of the most elegant verdure rise from the water's edge among sloping woods the beauty of colours of the most picturesque hues from hence likewise you look back on Bannerig a fine cultivated hill rising from the lake in a most pleasing manner moving from this end of the island along the west coast of it the view is extremely picturesque the strait is broke by three islands two of them thickly covered with wood the other a long slit scattered with tall upright trees through the stems of which and under the thick shade of their spreading tops the water is seen glittering with the sunbeams a landscape truly delicious from the north end of this isle so happy in the beauties of prospect the views are various and some of them exquisite looking towards the south you command a prodigious fine view of the lake spreading to the right and left behind promontories one beyond another in a gloriously irregular sheet of water encircled by an amphitheater of hills in the noblest style to the north you look upon another sheet different from the first it is broke by a cluster of four small but beautiful islands full in front you look upon a noble sweep of mountains and on one in particular that is very curious it is of a circular form rising out of a vast hollow among the rest and is overtopped by them romantic in the highest degree a little to the right of it you command one of the most noble of cultivated hills it is intersected by hedges, trees and scattered woods into a vast sweep of enclosures which reach the very top a view beautifully magnificent more to the right the eye is delighted with the most elegant waves of cultivated enclosures that can be conceived to the view in the most picturesque varieties of landscape and forcing admiration from the most tasteless of mortals to the left a vast range of rocks and mountains form the boundary of the lake and project into it in the boldest manner sailing from this noble island to that of Barksha a little hilly wood of scattered trees the views are various, rich and truly picturesque from the north side of it on a fine sheet of water to the great island etc and abounded by a noble variety of shore to the left and in front high ridges of hills and mountains to the right most beautiful waving hills of enclosures some just rising enough to show their hedges distinctly and others hanging full to the eye beneath a boundary of rough hills and wild uncultivated ground to the left you see a crow island which appears fine and the fairy house beneath a clump of trees on the point of a promontory jetting into the water with an effect really exquisite to the east you look against a very fine bank of enclosures most elegantly scattered with trees to the south the lake is lost between two promontories projecting into it against each other and leaving a fine straits between one is high and rocky the other a line of waving wood and enclosures and catch beyond it the distant hills which complete the view the western prospect is on to a range of craggy hills some most beautifully fringed with hanging woods and cut in the middle by a cultivated wave of enclosures broken by woods, hedges, clumps and scattered trees and rising one above the other in the most picturesque regularity that fancy can suppose at the top of farmhouse under a clump of trees the whole forming a bird's eye landscape of the most delicious kind nor can anything be finer than the hanging woods on this side of the lake broken by grass enclosures of a beautiful verdure sailing across the lake from Barksha to the shore under these enclosures which are called round table nothing in nature can be more exquisite than the view as you move through this enclosure at the water's edge on the opposite shore bounded by fine woods except to the lake edged with some spreading trees through which the view of the grass is truly picturesque other waving slopes of enclosures to the right hang to the lake under the shade of a rough wild hill and down to a skirting of wood on the water's edge in the finest manner behind the rocky cliff of furnace fells a beautiful appearance crowned with a sweep of wood sailing under the western shore you command most beautiful landscapes on the opposite one consisting of the finest banks of cultivated enclosures scattered with trees, clumps of wood farmhouses etc and hanging to the water's edge in the most charming variety of situation the fields in some places dipping in the very lake in others thick woods scenes which call for the pencil of a genius to catch graces from nature beyond the reach of the most elaborate art coming to Ling Holm a small rocky island with a few trees on it you have a double view of the two shores finely contrasted the western spread with noble hanging woods and the eastern one cultivated hills waving to the eye in the finest inequalities of surface the distant hills are also seen in a bold style over the low enclosures of Rawlinson's Nab a promontory to the south landing on the point of that promontory the view is very noble it commands two glorious sheets of water north and south each of four or five miles in length that to the south is bounded in general by rough woody hills broken in a few spots by little enclosures in front of the promontory several very beautiful ones cut by irregular sweeps of wood and hanging to the water's edge in the finest manner the whole crowned with craggy tops of hills but the view to the north is much the most beautiful Barkshire Island breaks the sheet of water in one place and adds to the picturesque variety of the scene without injuring its noble simplicity Common Nab a promontory from the east shore projects into it in another place elegantly variegated with wood and enclosures waving over sloping hills and crowned with rough uncultivated ground one enclosure in particular breaks into the wood in the most picturesque manner imaginable this end of the lake is bounded by the noble hills of cultivated enclosures already mentioned which are viewed from hence to much advantage they rise from the shore with great magnificence to the left a ridge of hanging woods spread over wild romantic ground that breaks into bold projections abrupt and spirited contrasting the elegance of the opposite's beautiful shore in the finest manner having thus viewed the most pleasing objects from these points let me next conduct you to a spot where at one glance you command them all in fresh situations and all assuming a new appearance for this purpose you return to the village and taking the byroad to the turnpike not that by which you came mount the hill without turning your head if I were your guide I would conduct you behind a small hill that you might come at once upon the view till you almost gain the top when you will be struck with astonishment at the prospect spread forth at your feet which if not the most superlative view that nature can exhibit she is more fertile in butis each of my imagination will allow me to conceive it would be mere vanity to attempt to describe a scene which beggars all description but that you may have some faint idea of the outlines of this wonderful picture I will just give the particulars of which it consists the point on which you stand as the side of a large ridge of hills that form the eastern boundaries of the lake and the situation high enough to look down upon all the objects a circumstance of great importance and which painting cannot imitate in landscapes you are either on a level with the objects or look up to them the painter cannot give you the declivity at your feet which lessens the objects as much in the perpendicular line as in his horizontal one you look down upon a noble winding valley of about 12 miles long everywhere enclosed with grounds which rise in a very bold and various manner in some places bulging into mountains abrupt wild and uncultivated in others breaking into rocks craggy pointed and irregular here rising into hills covered with the noblest woods presenting a gloomy brownness of shade almost from the clouds to the reflection of the trees in the limpid water they so beautifully skirt there waving in glorious slopes of cultivated enclosures adorned in the sweetest manner with every object that can give variety to art or elegance to nature trees, woods, villages houses, farms scattered with picturesque confusion and waving to the eye in the most romantic landscapes that nature can exhibit this valley so beautifully enclosed is floated by the lake which spreads forth to the right and left in one vast but irregular expanse of transparent water a more noble object can hardly be imagined its immediate shore is traced in every variety of line that fancy can imagine sometimes contracting the lake into the appearance of a noble winding river at others retiring from it and opening large swelling bays as if a nave is to anchor in promontories spread with woods or scattered with trees and enclosures projecting into the water in the most picturesque style imaginable rocky points breaking the shore and rearing their bold heads above the water in a word a variety that amazes the beholder but what finishes the scene with an elegance too delicious to be imagined is this beautiful sheet of water being dotted with no less than 10 islands distinctly commanded by the eye all of the most bewitching beauty the large one presents a waving various line which rises from the water in the most picturesque inequalities of surface high land in one place low in another clumps of trees in this spot scattered ones in that adorned by a farmhouse on the water's edge and backed with a little wood vying in simple elegance with Borromean palaces some of the smaller aisles rising from the lake like little hills of wood some only scattered with trees and others of grass of the finest Virdior a more beautiful variety nowhere to be seen strain your imagination to command the idea of so noble an expanse of water thus gloriously environed spotted with islands more beautiful than would have issued from the pencil of the happiest painter picture the mountains rearing their majestic heads with native sublimity the vast rocks boldly projecting their terrible craggy points and in the path of beauty the variegated enclosures of the most charming Virdior hanging to the eye in every picturesque form that can grace a landscape with the most exquisite touches of la belle nature if you raise your fancy to something infinitely beyond this assemblage of rural elegances you may have a faint notion of the unexampled beauties of this ravishing landscape end of part 5 part 6 of early guise to the English late district this Librivoct recording is in the public domain an extract from a tour in Scotland 1769 by Thomas Pennant the country near Carlisle consists of small enclosures but a little farther on towards Penrith changes into course downs on the east at a distance high hills running parallel to the road with a good enclosed country in the intervening space above Penrith is a rich enclosed tract mixed with hedgerow trees and woods on the south west a prospect of high and craggy mountains after I left Lockerbie nature as if exhausted with her labours in the lofty hills of Scotland seem to have lain down and reposed herself for a considerable space here began to rise again with all the sublimity of Alpine majesty Penrith is an ancient town seated at the foot of a hill is a great thoroughfare for travellers but has little other trade except a small one of cheques the church is very neat the gallery supported by large columns each formed of a single stone in the churchyard is a monument of great antiquity consisting of two stone pillars six inches high and five in circumference in the lower part which is rounded the upper is square and tapers to a point in the square part is some fretwork and the relief over cross both these stones are mortified at their lower part into a round one they are about 15 feet asunder the space between them is enclosed on each side with two very large but thin semicircular stones there is left a walk between pillar and pillar of two feet in breadth two of these lesser stones are plain the other two have certain figures at present scarce intelligible cross the emot a small river and soon after the lauher over yeoman's bridge near which i enter west meland about four miles further cross clifton moor where the rebels made a short stand in 1745 and sacrificed a few men to save the rest of their army pass over chap fells more black dreary and melancholy than any of the highland hills being not only very barren but destitute of every picturesque beauty this barren scene continued to within a small distance of kendall a large town on the river kent in a rich and beautiful veil well cultivated and prettily wooded here is a very great trade in knit wusted stockings some linsers and a coarse sort of cloth called cottons for the guinea trade near Burton enter Lancashire reach its capital Lancaster after a large and well built town seated on the loon a river navigable for ships of 250 tons as high as the bridge the custom house is a small but most elegant building with a portico supported by four ionic pillars on a beautiful plain pediment there is a double flight of steps a rustic service and coins a work that does much credit to Mr. Gillow the architect an inhabitant of this town the church is seated on an eminence and commands an extensive but not a pleasing view the castle is entire the courts of justice are held in it and it is also the county jail the front is very handsome consists of two large angular towers with a handsome gateway between end of part six part seven of early guise to the English late district this Librivox recording is in the public domain O to the sun by Mr. Cumberland 1776 soul of the world refulgent sun O take not from my ravished sight those golden beams of living light nor ere thy daily course be run precipitate the night low where the ruffian clouds arise usurp the abdicated skies and seize the ethereal throne sullen sad the scene appears huge hell velling streams with tears hark to his giant skidaws groan I hear terrific lodor roar the sabbath of thy reign is o'er the anarch is begun father of light return break forth refulgent sun what if the rebel blast shall rend these nodding horrors from the mountains brow hither thy glad deliverance send and save the voterist and accept the vow and say through thy diurnal round where great spectator has thou found such solemn soul inviting shades ghostly delves religious glades where penitents may plant its meek abode and hermit's meditation meet its god now by the margin of yon glassy deep my pensive vigils let me keep there by force of runic spells shake the grots where nature dwells and in the witching hour of night whilst thy pale sister lends her shadowy light summon the naked wood nymphs trembling now with giddy tread press the moss on Gouda's head but lo where sits the bird of Jove couched in his airy far above oh lend thine eye thy pinion lend higher yet higher let me still ascend tis done my forehead smites the skies to the last summits of the cliff I rise I touch the sacred ground where step of man was never found I see all nature's rude domain around peace to thy empire queen of calm desires health crown thy hills and plenty robe thy veils may thy groves wave untouched by wasteful fires nor commerce crowd thy lakes with sordid sails press not so fast upon my aching sight gigantic shapes nor rear your head so high as if ye meant a war against the sky sons of old chaos and primeval knights such were the heights enshrined brunotrod when on the cliff he hung his towering cell amongst the clouds aspired to dwell and half ascended to his god the prim canal the level green the close clipped hedge that bounds the flourished scene what rapture can such forms with all the spruce impertinence of art ye pageant streams that roll in state by the vain windows of the great rest on your muddy ooze and sea old majestic derwent force his independent course and learn of him and nature to be free and you triumphal arches shrink ye temples tremble and ye columns sink one nod from wallows craggy brow shall crush the dome of saccadotal Rome and lay her glittering gilded trophies low now downward as I bend my eye what is that atom I aspire that speck in nature's plan great heaven is that a man and hath that little wretch its cares its freaks its follies and its airs and do I hear the insects say my lakes my mountains my domain oh weak contemptible and vain the tenance of a day say to old skidor change thy place heave hell vellum from his base or bid in petuous derwent stand at the proud waving of a master's hand now with silent step and slow descend but first for bear to blow ye felon wins let discord cease and nature seal an elemental peace hush not a whisper here beware but echo on the watch sits with erect and listening ear the secrets of the scene to catch then swelling as she rolls around the horse reverberated sound with loud repeated shocks she beats the loose impending rocks tears down the fragments big with death and hurls it thundering on the wretch beneath not so the nyad she defies the faithless echo and with yelling cries howls on the summits of rude lodars brow then with a desperate leap springs from the rocky steep and runs an amour to the lake below so the Cambrian minstrel stood bending o'er old Conway's flood white as foam his silver beard and loud in shrill his voice was heard all the while down Snowden's side winding slow in dread array he saw the victor king pursue his way then fearless rushed into the foaming tide cursed him by all his idle gods and died ah where is he that swept the founding liar and while he touched the master string bad ruin sees the ruthless king with all the prophets fire mourn him ye nyads and ye would nymphs mourn but chiefly ye who rule o'er Keswick's Vale your visitor bewail and pluck fresh laurels for his hallowed urn he saw your scenes in harmony divine on him indulgent sons could shine me turbid skies and threatening clouds await emblems alas of my ignoble fate but see the embattled vapours break disperse and fly posting like couriers down the sky the grey rock glitters in the glassy lake and now the mountaintops are seen frowning amidst the blue serene the variegated groves appear decked in the colours of the waning year and as new beauties they unfold dip their skirts in beaming gold thee savage wyburn now I hail delicious grass mers calm retreat and stately windermere I greet and Keswick's sweet fantastic Vale but let her nyads yield to thee and lowly bend the subject knee imperial lake of Patrick's Dale for neither Scottish Lowman's pride nor smooth Killarney's silver tide nor aught that learned Pusan drew or dashing Rosa flung upon my view shall shake thy sovereign undisturbed right great scene of wonder and sublime delights Hail to thy beams, O son for this display what glorious orb can I repay not Memnon's costly shrine nor the white courses of imperial Rome nor the rich smoke of Persia's heccatome such proud oblations are not mine nor thou my simple tribute I'll refuse the thanks of an unprostituted muse and may no length of still returning day strike from thy forehead one refulgent ray but let each tuneful each attendant sphere to latest time thy stated labours cheer and with new peons crown the finished year End of Part 7 End of Early Guides to the English Lake District


Hi, and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question. Rule that the greatest integer function defined by fx is equal to x. 0 is less than x, x is less than 3, is not differentiable at x is equal to 1 and at x is equal to 2. So let's start the solution. x is equal to 1, limit x to 1 minus fx is equal to limit x to 1 minus, greatest integer function of x is equal to 0. Because from the definition of greatest integer function equal to, greater function of x is equal to 0 for 0 is less than equal to x, x is less than 1. Therefore limit x tends to 1 minus fx is equal to limit x tends to 1 minus, greatest integer function of x is equal to 0. Now limit x tends to 1 plus f of x is equal to limit x tends to 1 plus, greatest integer function of x this is equal to 1. Again from the definition of greatest integer function of x, this is equal to 1 for 1 is less than equal to x, x is less than 2. Therefore limit x tends to 1 plus fx is equal to limit x tends to 1 plus, greatest integer function of x is equal to 1. This implies limit x tends to 1 minus fx is not equal to limit x tends to 1 plus fx. Therefore, therefore limit x tends to 1 does not exist f is not continuous x is equal to 1. And since f is not continuous at x is equal to 1, not differentiable at x is equal to 1. One function is differentiable at x is equal to 2 or not. At x is equal to 2 limit x tends to 2 minus fx is equal to limit x tends to 2 minus, greatest integer function of x is equal to 1. Again this is by the definition of greatest integer function of x, because greatest integer function of x is equal to 1 for 1 is less than equal to x, x is less than equal to 2. And again limit x tends to 2 plus fx is equal to limit x tends to 2 plus, greatest integer function of x and this is equal to 2. This is again because by the definition of greatest integer function of x, greatest integer function of x is equal to 2 for 2 is less than equal to x, x is less than 3. Now limit 2 minus is not equal to limit x tends to 2 plus fx, therefore limit x tends to 2 does not exist, is not continuous x is equal to 2. Since f is not continuous at x is equal to 2, therefore f is not differentiable at x is equal to 2. This is equal to greatest integer function of x, 0 is less than x, x is less than 3, is not differentiable equal to 1, x is equal to 2, hence proved. I hope the question is clear to you, why and take care.


Hello, children! It's story time again! Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman Once there was a snowman, tall, tall, tall In the sun it melted, melted, melted In the sun it melted Small, small, small Yes! You guessed it right! Today I'm going to tell you a story about a snowman Once there was a beautiful snowman made out of snow One day there came a beautiful red bird And the red bird started laughing Ha ha ha ha ha!  Well, said the bird, you should be red like me Red is such a bright and happy color Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet So that night the snowman got some red tie And turned himself red The next day there came a yellow duck Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack And the duck started laughing too Ha ha ha ha ha!  Well, said the yellow duck You should be yellow like me Yellow is such a bright, happy color Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack So that night the snowman got some yellow tie And turned himself yellow The next day there came a long, a green frog Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit Ha ha ha ha!  Ribbit, ribbit, well, said the frog You should be green like me Green is such a bright and happy color Ribbit, ribbit So that night the snowman got some green tie And turned himself green The next day there came a beard He started laughing too The snowman said, oh, dear, oh, dear Why am I the funniest snowman you ever did see? Said the butterfly, you should be blue like me Blue is such a bright and happy color That night the snowman got some blue tie And turned himself blue The snowman was feeling rather sad Just then came along a little girl She said, why are you so sad? The snowman said, I had dyed myself red Yellow, green and blue too And I just don't feel like myself The little girl said, you are wonderful Just the way you are Always be yourself So the snowman blinked his eyes And he once again changed to the color of snow From then on he was happy just being himself And that's why you always see snowman With happy smiles on your face So children, I hope you like the story Well, always be you You are the best and you are special Thank you


So the most incredible thing happened to me the other day and I just have to tell you guys about it I am well, I received a client gift and actually a few months back. I did a blog post about Creating the perfect client gift Actually, in fact, I may have done a video as well and if I find it, I'll just put it up in the corner here So anyways, I got a client gift the other day and it's really left an Impression so much of an impression that here. I am talking about it on this week's blog post. So This envelope arrives, right? It's a large envelope from a hotel could be anything now. I've done business with this hotel. In fact We just signed a contract actually two contracts with this particular hotel So it could be copies assigned contracts. Yes hotels still do that Could be a brochure who knows no idea. So open up the envelope did a terrible job of opening up Sorry about that Laurie and anyway inside is Two more envelopes. So this little brown envelope. This is Leanne. Open me first. Okay, so already I'm intrigued and I'm like, do I really open this one first or Do I jump to the second one that says can you read that? I'll tell you what it says. It says open second All right, so I open up the first one every Every ounce of my body says you should open the second one first kind of like Christmas, right? Let's cheat and see what's in the second one, but no I open the first card first and here's what's inside So it's a thank-you card From my friend. You Laurie. Yeah on this ski. She's the sales manager at the Delta Bezboro in Saskatoon where this envelope of goodies came from and the hotel where I just recently Signed two contracts or rather I two clients signed contracts with this property. So here's the note from Laurie Leanne, I wanted to send something to say thank you for all the business you have done for me and the hotel I truly appreciate working with you and your clients. I have to tell my clients that too my friend and old boss Doug works at Cedar Creek Winery and said for you to call him directly on his personal phone as he will do the tour for you Laurie and she's got Doug's phone number on here and then her card So then I open this second envelope Because I already think I know what's coming and when she know it it is a gift certificate for complimentary tour and tasting at Cedar Creek winery in Kelowna With a gift card for a bottle of wine at Cedar Creek So to back up I don't live in Saskatoon. I live in Kelowna, BC It's a horrible place. It's God forsaken place where you're surrounded by Lakes and wineries and orchards and it's terrible, but I took one for the team and moved my Family out here a couple years ago. I love wine. I'm sure Laurie knows this We probably had a few too many glasses of wine when we were doing the site tours of her hotel So she sends me this gift which is incredibly creative for one She created suspense by pairing these two envelopes together She made it so incredibly personal. She knows how much I love wine She knows I'm gonna go apeshit over this So it's so personal and then I think the final touch which really kind of sent it over the edge for me Was the exclusivity of it, right? I've got this Winery jam's phone number and I just it just makes made me feel so special and Anyways, there's a thousand of things that Laurie could have done To say thank you for the business And I'll be honest There's probably a ton of ideas that would have been just as impactful It could have been something from her hotel even something from the destination of Saskatoon There could have been a plethora of things that would have made me feel equally as warm inside but I just had to share with you how Incredibly thoughtful and creative and individual This particular client gift was and to say, you know what this is actually possible. We can as Friends of our meeting planner clients. We can appreciate the business they they give to us by providing them with Simple experience like this that is just so personal and lets them know how much we appreciate Their partnership in this meetings industry. So anyways, that's my story for today Laurie you probably didn't expect this to turn into a blog post and a video, but I can't thank you enough It was just it really is one of the sweetest things that anyone's ever given to me in this business And I can't thank you enough. So for those of you who are looking for ideas for client gifts I'm gonna leave my Blog post from a few months below in this post and then of course I've added a new Blog post today with some new content and ideas based on my experience this past week So you can also find a couple client gift tips and tricks on my free download How to attract a meeting planner's business and you can find that over on my website at Leanne Calderwood calm So I hope you enjoy check those posts out and I'll see you next time. Bye for now


Hey everyone welcome back to another undead world hero survival episode today will be featuring the top heroes in zombie express this is actually based on the ranking that I actually extracted from the game itself so just to give you a you know a kind of information on how I came up with the top heroes I actually take a look took a look at the rankings and as you can see here it's one two this is actually a long ranking I only extracted up to 30 so what I'm saying is this is the top 30 teams and these are the teams these are the heroes that they're actually bringing in terms of the top teams I couldn't see any significant team that is actually contributing with the top tier teams but again these are the top heroes that you will be seeing from this video and also why are we you know why are we ranking high in this in zombie express because of this one the material this is your I think this is your energy drink so we need this in terms of leveling up our heroes there is a certain level in your in leveling up where in sometimes you get stuck so this is the material that you need so that is why we need to farm this and we need to rank for that so that we could get a lot of this energy drinks so just to you know just to show you guys what it looks like in terms of the battle-submarine report so this is actually what I see in terms of the equipment it usually just reflects the level of what they call this the level of the heroes so what I meant to say was if you see a certain type of hero it doesn't mean that if you bring that hero that's the only win condition the other win condition would also be the hero level but here are at least a number of heroes that you should level up from the start so that you won't you know you won't waste resources in transferring your levels to another hero so more or less to start I'll show you guys from the top 30 teams I don't know if you can see it but as as the top two dictates it's going to be Murray and Brittany Murray is 22 usages out of 30 so that's a high percentage next is going to be Brittany at 22 out of the 30 next is Lita 18 out of the 30 teams are using her and also you have here rock 16 and to round out your top 5 you have Connor 10 out of out of 30 so as you can see here most of the top 4 I'm sorry most of the top 4 are AOE damage dealers except for Murray okay but Murray skills are very unique that he's good with single target and with a bunch of you know bunch of zombies in front of him so again these these four are a must for you to level up or to play in this game especially for this content Lita here is the only I think support that I see but we have range AOE AOE and support and for Connor I think he is one of again the top tanks for this stage so Connor has 10 then for the next five we have here Tyler Abigail Meredith Sam and Gabriel so for the next five it's going to be your tanks mixed in with support which is Meredith and Sam which is AOE so Sam actually shines here so for the top 30 again Sam is going to be in your top 10 so you can't you can't really you know go wrong with the lineup with one tank and the rest would be AOE that or AOE or range and probably one support so that is why you have here Meredith you also have Lita so basically they're the top supports for your zombie express go down further the line you have Helen Lee Caddy Tanya Nadim and the others are just singles which is Mary Astra Henry Kiran and Axel so try to this list is just is just for you guys to be able to check whether you should focus that hero and using him or her in zombie express so at least now you know the formation the the usual formation that I see is going to be three AOE slash range one is going to be your support commonly used is going to be Lita of course and you have to have one tank so do not bother to put two tanks in this stage because you need a lot of AOE damage here so again and also just you know just want to revert back to what I said earlier not only the heroes are you know dependent on your success in zombie express but also their level because as you level them up up to legendary you'll be unlocking their their exclusive weapons so again it's crucial that you stick to a core and you level up them for their exclusive weapons I will be showing you guys another list here so this one on your right is going to be the top formations used in zombie express so as you can see here one is suppressing wrong spelling suppressing fire at 11 and balanced at eight so that they roughly you know take up around 66 percent of the formations so and the third one is zigzag fourth is spearhead seven seven five is z formation and the rest is one protects all and tactical so let's let's take a look on why it's interesting that we use suppressing fire and balanced here so let's go back to your formation so here it is balanced is the first formation that we usually use we have been using this so far as I can remember when we start so as you can see here one which is your usually tank is placed here then you will have here at the back your damage dealers and usually for your supports your supports are usually placed here because that one gives more hp and at the back it's going to be attack and evasion okay so that is why supports are should be in the middle but you can actually consider them in in the back as well but preferably for me I would put them in the middle so the rest are range or AOE then the next is going to be suppressing fire as you can see there is a this is built really for offense three at the back will really give you a lot of buffs in terms of attack power and evasion very good position to put your range or AOE at the back then number two is going to be your support if you have one support you can put them at number two for suppressing fire then your tank would be at number one so again these lineups are just a suggestion because they perform well in zombie express probably after a month I'll redo this this report because again this might change in a couple of weeks or months now that we know that who to focus on what is the ideal formation who are the ideal heroes but again in terms of a specific team there's really really none standing out out of the 30 there was I think only one duplicate so the rest of the lineups are very unique so nothing stand out as we progress you know further in the game as we have more heroes in the future I think this will change but for now Murray Brittany Lita rock and Connor as your tank can actually be your top five already so you can actually use this team for zombie express this is actually a very good team already um Lita is actually a very good support here so that is it guys so what I will do for um this to left inside reports I'll put them in the comment section I hope this report or this evaluation of zombie express top heroes helps you in your progress and ranking up and the only variable here that you know that changes is actually the level of the hero but the heroes itself can already you know help you climb up the rankings for zombies okay guys so thank you very much for staying this far in this video and please do consider subscribing if you haven't subscribed yet also don't forget to click that bell icon you don't miss any videos from this channel and guys please put a like to this video if you find this informative thank you guys take care stay safe this is the warden and I'm out of here


This is very disturbing, but at the same time, it is to be expected. It's what was told. It's going to happen. The world is not going to go closer to God. It's not going to grow closer to sound doctors. As a matter of fact, Paul says the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, and that's clearly here. As a matter of fact, there's an affront to sound doctrine. There is a an all and all out offensive and attack being mounted against sound doctors. I want you to hear this. We're going to look at this video, this little clip in its entirety. I'm going to come back and talk to talk about it again. But this is this professor or this class at a particular seminary that really should not be a seminary. And he's talking about his class, which is queer theology. My name is Patrick Chang, and I'm the visiting professor of Anglican Studies at Union Theological Seminary. The title of my course is Queer Theology. The single most important reason why I'm passionate about teaching this course is that I grew up being told that you can't be LGBTQ or queer and religious. And not only is that not true, you can be both. But really, queerness is at the heart of Christian theology. A large part of queer theology is learning about transgender and non-binary theologies and experiences of trans and non-binary people. One of the assignments is to create a social media project so that they create something on Instagram or do a podcast or a blog, and then they reflect upon that. And why that's important is that the students actually are able to engage in social justice in a real practical, praxis-based way. The Queer Theology class helps our students advance social justice. Join us to re... Now, you kind of see their agenda and nothing about what he said is difficult, although when you kind of put it in a nice box, a nice nice tone around it and so forth, a nice setting, and you are cordial and polite. You're a nice guy saying these things. Well, it can be inviting to someone who's unsuspecting. Somebody that doesn't know the Bible or who knows a little bit about the Bible but wants to be a good citizen, wants to be a nice person and they want to be on the right side of history, I have to say. They don't want to be ostracized. They don't want to seem bigoted or hateful or anything like that. They don't want to seem narrow-minded or outdated, antiquated. They don't want to be any of those things. They want to be accepted more than anything else and they can appreciate someone else also wanting to be accepted. And so to them, this might make sense, but this is demonic. This is the opposite of Godly. As a matter of fact, you couldn't get further away from being Godly. What it is, it's an attempt to distort the gospel, to change it into something that was never meant for. First of all, even if it was something legitimate, let's be clear. Social justice is not the aim of the Bible. It's not the aim of God. Now, in being a good follower of Christ, will you treat another person justly? Sure, that part goes without saying, but make no mistake about it. Social justice does not have that end in mind. So let's go back to this video and let's just see where he's so biblically wrong. My name is Patrick Cheng, and I'm the visiting professor of Anglican studies at Union Theological Seminary. The title. Now, let's just be clear. Union Theological Seminary is not a biblically sound. Seminary is a left-leaning seminary. So without getting into, even if you didn't know about that, even if you had no clue what they were like, the fact that they are allowing this would tell you all you need to know about that seminary. And so if you were planning to go to seminary, take that one off your list of choices. One of my courses, Queer Theology, the single most important reason why I'm passionate about teaching this course is that I grew up being told that you can't be LGBTQ or queer and religious. And not only is that not true, you can be both. The fact of the matter is that isn't a lie. Worries is that you cannot be LGBTQ, a queer, whatever, and a Christian. But the fact of the matter is you can be both. No, you cannot. Now, I've stated this before. If a person is struggling with a sin and I want to be clear, struggling with a sin, not if you are embracing a sin, you pick the sin. And it's not just homosexuality. You pick it. Now, people might say, well, why do we only just deal with homosexuality or certain sins? Well, we don't just deal with certain sins. However, there are only a couple of sins that are out there that people are actually and actively promoting as though they are OK. If you come promoting homosexuality as a lifestyle that is acceptable to Christians, well, now we have a problem. The same thing if you are promoting, I don't know, murder. If there's anyone out there that's promoting any particular sin as a lifestyle that we should embrace and that it can coexist with the Word of God, with Christianity, with the Spirit, well, then we come against that. Anyone that is doing anything, if there's someone that's teaching or embracing something demonic, we naturally have to come against that. This is just one of those things. And so to say that you can be, then now we've got a problem. Why is that a problem? Well, if a person is struggling, there are going to be people who are homosexual or who are struggling with it. And they're not that needs to be understood. Because remember this, let's go to 1 John 3.9. He says, no one who is born of God practice sin because his seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By this, the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who practices righteousness is not. I'm sorry, who does not practice righteousness. That's important. Who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. So if a person is going to practice sin, go to verse 8. The one who practices sin is of the devil. And it's important, the word to practice something that this is your habit, this is your lifestyle. But what about the rest of us who do certain sins and we don't practice it or didn't look like a practice practice or maybe from the outside, it does look like it. Maybe it by all accounts, it looks like we are because I'm doing the same thing that others are as well. And so maybe I am. Well, we're going to see how we can distinguish between if a person is doing something and if a person is actually practicing something and the heart of it, Paul deals with is the heart, the will, the intent.  They want to be, they desire to be a Christian. They're struggling with their sexuality or they're struggling with their addiction. Maybe it's a drug addiction. Maybe it's it's something else. Maybe it's if they're watching, maybe it's something it could be anything. There's a struggle, but they don't want it. That's the difference. Paul makes this statement in Romans chapter seven. So in verse 18, he says, for I know that nothing good dwells in me. That is in my flesh, for the willing is present in me. And that's the key. The willing, the Greek word for there is the fellow, which is to desire. I desire to do the right thing. That's the key. And so the willing is present in me, but the doing is of the good is not the doing. That's not there. I keep doing the things that I don't want to do. He says, for the good that I want to that I want, I do not do. But I practice that there's that word again. Paul says, I practice the very evil that I do not want to do. And notice the word for want. I practice the very, the very evil that I do not desire. That word, Thalo, I don't desire to do those things. And so that's where we can kind of differentiate. And so this pastor, this preacher, this seminary professor is missing the boat and is going to cause others to miss the boat that think that you can embrace the sin and live that lifestyle, practice that lifestyle. Because if you think it's OK, then you then it will be OK for you to just desire those things. That person desires the sin and possibly not even desire Christ because I don't understand how you can desire Christ and still desire the things that are that are antithetical to Christ. You cannot desire him and desire the things that he's against. But really, queerness is at the heart of Christian theology. A large part of queer theology is learning about transgender and non-binary theologies. OK, now I'll back it up in a second. But he says. Queer theology is at the heart of Christian theology. No, it's not. By the way, there's no such thing as queer theology. There's just theology, the study of God and God proper. Now, you can break these different studies into different little subsections and categories if you want to. That's fine. But not into a queer theology.  That is outright blasphemous. It is wrong and sin is in defiance of God and the experiences of trans and non-binary people. One of the assignments is to create a social media project so that they create something on Instagram or do a podcast or a blog. And then they reflect upon that. And why that's important is that the students actually are able to engage in social justice in a real, practical, practice-based way. The queer theology class helps our students advance social justice. Join us. The Bible is not interested in advancing social justice. Certainly not in an interested in advancing sinful social justice. Does the Bible care about the feelings, the heart, the lives of people who even might be insured? God does care about them, but not so much that we want to keep them in that. That's not the point of the gospel is teaching that we have been given life because of our sin. We can get past that.  But then even after becoming believer, there is victory over that sinful lifestyle. It's natural for us to want to do the wrong thing, but it's also demonic for us to want to promote the wrong thing and to give approval. Remember, Paul also says in John, I'm sorry, John, in Romans one, verse 33 says, and although they knew verse 32, the ordinances of God that those who practice their word who practice such things are worthy of death. They not only do the same. Look, it says, but they give hearty approval to those who practice them. That's exactly what the seminary professor is doing. I don't know if he is part of that community or not. I don't know if he is or not, but he is doing what Paul says. He is giving hearty approval to those who practice those things. I understand there are more and more people that are coming out because there's more and more folks that are giving them the OK, the blessings to get involved in whatever because this didn't work out. That didn't work out. So let me try this with the alphabet community. The fact of the matter is it's a sin and no person should ever call themselves a Christian or a Christian professor if you're going to promote the opposite of Christian values. You cannot be a good Christian. You're not suffering as as Paul says. I'm sorry, as Peter says, suffering as a good Christian if you are teaching the opposite of what Christ taught and believed. Remember, he's got and so all of these different sins, they are sins and he cares about. He would not have enumerated those in the scriptures if he did not care about those things. But again, the Bible says the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. He is literally promoting a class to teach the opposite of what Paul is saying. And so we know this is going to be the case. I would simply say I don't know what you what we could do about it. I mean, this is their own seminary. But you could obviously see they're going to be more and more progressive people coming out calling themselves Christians. And I think that it'd be hard to state that a progressive Christian is actually Christian. There might be some that are in this movement that aren't totally sure. They might be new and growing. But a Christian won't be a progressive Christian for long, meaning that if they are a true Christian, they'll leave this. They'll be something that that kind of resonates in them.  My heart, you know, I want to love people. I want to do the right thing and help people. I want to be godly towards them. But being godly towards them does not mean promoting their sin, teaching them how to live in their sin, ignoring their sin, looking past their sin. That's not being godly. That's not that. Where do we see that inscription? What we do see is God helping folks to get past the sin, not to live comfortably in it. That's the person that practices sin.  But if you are progressive, if you fancy yourself as being progressive, then how do you fancy yourself being progressive? As well at the same time, fancy yourself being Christian. The two have nothing in common. What fellowship has like with darkness? What's going to happen is just like we were told the time has come and it's in here, it's been here where evil is good, good is evil. That's what we see. That's what this professor is preaching, what he's promoting. He wants more folks to come. And I understand, yeah, they'll get more money in their coffers. But what ends up happening is Satan gets more soldiers for his war. And we need to project this as often as we can. Amen.