text: " But where are we after all to look for the source of this beautiful attribute of contentment? Is it not in the still more admirable one of their piety? It is here almost superfluous to make any close appeal to our poet's authority--to that most sublime description so familiar to you all where the old peasant on the Saturday night collects his scattered family at the close of the long week's labour around his humble but happy cottage fireside and after a few sweet but hard-earned hours of social enjoyment instils before retiring to repose from the open Word of God into their minds those lessons of Divine wisdom which were to guide them during the next week and through life in the paths of religion and virtue