The life and letters of Edward Young . nal articles of our religion,are such as human ingenuity could never have invented;therefore they must be divine. The other argument is this :If the Prophecies have been fulfilled (of which there is abundantdemonstration) the Scripture must be the word of God; andif the Scripture is the word of God, Christianity must be true. x Death was not far distant when the poet indicted his farewellto the Duchess of Portland. Ere February was spent his oldpains returned with renewed force ; on the first day of Aprilhe took to his bed for the last time, and thencefor
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The life and letters of Edward Young . nal articles of our religion, are such as human ingenuity could never have invented;therefore they must be divine. The other argument is this :If the Prophecies have been fulfilled (of which there is abundantdemonstration) the Scripture must be the word of God; andif the Scripture is the word of God, Christianity must be true. x Death was not far distant when the poet indicted his farewellto the Duchess of Portland. Ere February was spent his oldpains returned with renewed force ; on the first day of Aprilhe took to his bed for the last time, and thenceforward his twodoctors were obliged to administer frequent opiates to relievehis sufferings. As soon as the dangerous nature of Youngs illness becameapparent, Mrs. Hallows sent for his son Frederick, who, forsome undefined offence, had been denied his fathers house forseveral years. Whatever his misconduct may have been, it isclear from Crofts naive admission that it was more serious 1 Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iii, 250.. YOUNG MEMORIAL STONE, WELVVYN RECTORY GROUNDS LAST YEARS 281 than Dr. Johnsons version to the effect that the son hadreprimanded his father for resigning himself to the authority ofMrs. Hallows. Although Croft was concerned to defend thecharacter of his convivial companion, and denied that thepoets son had been ejected from his college, he confessedthat his friend had been guilty of follies which though blameable in a boy had been repented by the man. But to date back this estrangement between father and sonto the death of Lady Young, as some writers have done, isabsurd and false. It has been seen that Young made a specialjourney to Winchester in Fredericks interests in 1750, nineyears subsequent to his wifes death, and that so late as 1758he attempted to secure for that son a living in the gift of theDuke of Portland. So the variance must have been after 1758.Moreover, although Frederick was given to understand that hewould not be welcome at Wel