The Solicitor-General, who made great fun of the amateur statistics
of the Welsh Nonconformists, pointed out that a. great many of the Nonconformist ministers have too urgent duties in their secular callings to devote themselves adequately to the moral needs of their people,—upon which an Oppositionn. Member called out, " Like St. Paul!" Sir E. Clarke replied that even St. Paul, if he had not had to work for his living, might have had more time to work for his Master ; to which Mr. Bryce, who replied to him, rejoined that evidently, in the Solicitor-General's opinion, St. Paul was but a "moderate success." Bat Mr. Bryce forgets that St. Paul himself cer- tainly agreed with the Solicitor-General, since he wrote to the Corinthians : " If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly things P"
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