A northern merchant in order to con-
ciliate his Southern customers had an
edition of the Prayer Book printed with
certain portions, which were obnoxious
to the South, omitted. Before these
books, Whittier says, " sleek oppressors
kneel to pray." These men imagine that
heaven is moved by flattering tongues,
that in the scales of Eternal Justice, sel-
fish prayers weigh more than generous
deeds, that " words intoned with graceful
unction move the Eternal Goodness more
than lives of truth and love." By them
the Lord, again, is crucified, Eternal
Goodness is clipped and shorn, his robe
of mercy is rent. The cry of the bond-
man is " prayer-smothered," " anthem-
drowned."

" No falser idol man has bowed before.
In Indian groves or islands of the sea.
