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peril and death, is instructed to call upon God! Such is that Church's comment upon the texts, that in God's hands our breath is that his are all our waysthat without God's providence not a sparrow falleth to the ground. Such is the Papal parody upon the prayer, "Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will answer thee, and thou shalt glorify me." Is it not foul blasphemy to convert that command into, "Call upon St. Philomena in the day of trouble, and she will answer thee, and thou shalt glorify her?" Does this not involve a complete change from the worship of the true God to Paganism?

The heathens, says a convert from Popery, notwithstanding the exorbitant veneration they had for their idols, treated them with indignity as often as they miscarried in any expedition. Witness the people of Arcadia, who used to revenge their illsuccess in hunting upon their god Pan, by pelting him with onions. Sometimes, as is practised still in the East Indies, they besmeared them with filth. Images are treated in like manner in the Church of Rome. For we learn from Molanus, in his history of Holy Images, Bodinus in his Demonology, and others, that images are sometimes dragged into a river or pool of water, to oblige them to bring rain, or to punish them for not bringing fair weather; and that, on feast days, a table is spread and covered with flowers; but if it rains, they cover it with puddle.

Now so it is with this modern idol Philomena in Italy at this day, and the toys of images by which she is represented as a household god. Take the following example: This prodigy took place at Naples in 1831, and in the house of a poor washer-woman, who was suffering extremely. She was called Ann Moccia, and had married an artisan called Joseph Cagiano. To obtain relief from her pain, she proposed having a small lamp kept burning day and night before the image of the saint; all which was punctually executed as long as her savings allowed her. But one night, on finding herself without oil and without money, "My good saint," said she with much simplicity, "I have nothing either for you or for myself; now we are both in the dark; but as I must work, good-by-you must allow me to leave you;" and so she goes into the next house, to do her work by another light, after having shut the door and taken the key with her. The night was already far advanced when she regained her lodging. She opens; and what is her astonishment in seeing the lamp lighted, full of oil, and her poor residence miraculously supplied with light! She runs immediately to the window, calls her neighbours, tells them what has happened, and invites them to thank with her St. Philomena for this affecting act of goodness. It was only the prelude to many others. Shortly afterwards a child was born to her, but it was dead. The nurse who attended her had address enough to conceal this from her; and while devoting herself entirely to her, the little body lay on the stone, and when the weather was cold enough; it was the 15th of March. An hour and a half had passed. The poor mother at last came to know her loss. In the bitterness of her distress, she

is heard to give utterance to these words: "A fime favour this, indeed, that you have done me! Be gone, I will have no more of you in the house. Take that image; put it out of my sight."

Could there be grosser or more childish Paganism than this? Yet we have the episcopal imprimatur, and are told that the books in which it occurs are printed and reprinted, and sold and circulated, fast as printed, in the Roman Catholic world. After this fit of childish ill-humour with her idol doll, a miracle follows, and no less a miracle than the coming to life again of the dead child. "This miracle," we learn, "made a great noise at Naples; and several learned and zealous ecclesiastics published it in all parts in honour" not of God, be marked, but "of the celebrated Thaumaturge or wonder-worker."

1. Thou art not alone. Others of the saints have | been betrayed by friends; and when they have leaned upon them, they have been as a foot out of joint. This was true in the type, David: "It was not an enemy that reproached me; but it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took Antitype, Christ, he was betrayed by a friend; and sweet counsel together" (Ps. Iv. 12-14); and in the why should we think it strange to have the same

measure dealt out to us as Jesus Christ had? "The servant is not above his master."

2. A Christian may often read his sin in his punishment. Hath not he dealt treacherously with God? How oft hath he grieved the Comforter, broken his vows, and through unbelief sided with Satan against God! How oft hath he abused love, taking the jewels of God's mercies, and making a golden calf of them, serving his own lusts! How oft hath he made the free grace of God, which should have been a bolt to keep out sin, rather a key to open the door to it! These wounds hath the Lord received in the house of his friends. (Zech. xiii. 6.) Look upon the unkindness of thy friend, and mourn for thy unkindness against God. Shall a Christian condemn that in another which he hath been too guilty of himself?

3. Hath thy friend proved treacherous? Perhaps you did repose too much confidence in him. If you lay more weight upon a house than the pillars will bear, it must needs break. God saith, "Trust ye not in a friend." (Mic. vii. 5.) Perhaps you put more trust in him than you did dare to put in God. Friends are as brittle glasses; we may use them, but if we lean too hard upon them they will break. Behold matter of humility, but not of sullenness and dis

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4. You have a Friend in heaven who will never fail you. "There is a friend," saith Solomon, "that

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sticketh closer than a brother." (Prov. xviii. 24.) Such a Friend is God; he is the best Friend, who may give contentment in the midst of all discourtesies of friends. Consider,

(1.) He is a loving Friend.

"God is love."

(1 John iv. 16.) Hence he is said sometimes to engrave us on the palms of his hand (Isa. xlix. 16), that we may be never out of his eye, and to carry us in his bosom (Isa. xl. 11), near to his heart. There is no stop or stint in his love; but, as the River Nile, it overflows all the banks. His love is as far beyond our thoughts as it is above our deserts. O the infinite love of God, in giving the Son of his love to be made flesh, which was more than if all the angels had been made worms! God, in giving Christ to us, gave his very heart to us; here is love drawn in all its glory, and engraven as with the point of a diamond. All other love is hatred in comparison of the love of our Friend.

(2.) He is a careful Friend. "He careth for you." (1 Pet. v. 7.)

[1.1 He minds and transacts our business as his own; he accounts his people's interests and concernments as his interest.

[2.] He provides for us grace to enable us, glory to enrich us. It was David's complaint, "No man cared for my soul." (Ps. cxlii. 4.) A Christian hath a Friend that cares for him.

13.] He is a prudent Friend. (Dan. ii. 20.) A friend may sometimes err through ignorance or mistake, and give his friend poison instead of sugar; but God is wise in heart. (Job ix. 4.) He is skilful as well as faithful; he knows what our disease is, and what medicine is most proper to apply; he knows what will do us good, and what wind will be best to carry us to heaven.

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These considerations, methinks, in case of discourtesies and unkindnesses, are enough to charm down discontent.

THE FIFTH APOLOGY.

The next apology is—I am under great reproaches. Let not this discontent; for, "What

1. It is a sign there is some good in thee. evil have I done," saith Socrates, "that this bad man commends me?" The applause of the wicked usually denotes some evil, and their censure imports some good. (Ps. xxxviii. 20.) David wept and fasted, and that was turned to his reproach. (Ps. lxix. 10.) As we must pass to heaven through the pikes of suffering, so through the clouds of reproach.

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2. If your reproach be for God, as David's was, "For thy sake I have borne reproach (Ps. Ixix. 7), then it is rather matter of triumph than dejection. Christ doth not say, when you are reproached, Be discontented; but, Rejoice. (Matt. v. 12.) your reproach as a diadem of honour, for now a spirit of glory rests upon you. (1 Pet. iv. 14.) Put your reproaches into the inventory of your riches; so did Moses. (Heb. xi. 26.) It should be a Christian's ambition to wear his Saviour's livery, though it be sprinkled with blood, and sullied with disgrace.

3. God will do us good by reproach; as David said of Shimei's cursing, "It may be, the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day." (2 Sam. xvi. 12.) This puts us upon searching out sin. A child of God labours to read his sin in every stone of reproach that is cast at him; besides, now we have an opportunity to exercise patience and humility.

4. Jesus Christ was content to be reproached for us; he despised the shame of the cross. (Heb. xii. 2.) It may amaze us to think that he who was God could [4] He is a faithful Friend. (Deut. vii. 9.) He endure to be spat upon, to be crowned with thorns, is faithful in his promises: In hope of eternal life, in a kind of jeer; and when he was ready to bow his which God, that cannot lie, promised." (Tit. i. 2.) head upon the cross, to have the Jews in scorn wag God's people are "children that will not lie" (Isa. their heads, and say, "He saved others, himself he Ixiii. 8); but God is a God that cannot lie. He will cannot save." The shame of the cross was as much not deceive the faith of his people; nay, he cannot. as the blood of the cross; his name was crucified He is called The Truth; he can as well cease to be before his body. The sharp arrows of reproach that God as cease to be true. The Lord may sometimes the world did shoot at Christ, went deeper into his. change his promise, as when he converts a temporal heart than the spear. His suffering was so ignopromise into a spiritual; but he can never break his minious, that, as if it did blush to behold, the sun promise. withdrew its bright beams, and masked itself with a cloud; and well it might, when the Sun of Righteousness was in an eclipse. All this contumely and reproach did the God of glory endure, or rather despise O then, let us be content to have our names eclipsed for Christ; let not reproach lie at our heart, but let us bind it as a crown about our head. Alas, what is reproach? this is but small shot; how will men stand in the mouth of the cannon? Those who are discontented at a reproach, will be offended at a fagot.

[5] He is a compassionate Friend. Hence in Scripture we read of the yearnings of his bowels. (Jer. xxxi. 20.) God's friendship is nothing else but compassion; for there is naturally no affection in us to desire his friendship, and no goodness in us to deserve it; the loadstone is in himself. When we were full of sin, he was full of compassion; when we were enemies, he sent an embassy of peace; when our hearts were turned back from God, his heart was turned towards us. O the tenderness and sympathy of our Friend in heaven! We ourselves have some relentings of heart to those which are in misery; but it is God who begets all the mercies and compassions that are in us, therefore he is called "the Father of mercies." (2 Cor. i. 3.)

[6.] He is a constant Friend. "His compassions fail not." (Lam. iii. 22.) Friends do often in adversity drop off as leaves in autumn. Joab was for a time faithful to King David's house-he went not after Absalom's treason; but within a while proved false to the crown, and went after the treason of Adonijah. (1 Kings i. 7.) God is a Friend for ever. "Having loved his own, he loved them unto the end." (John xiii. 1.) What though I am despised? yet God loves me. What though my friends cast me off? yet God loves me. He loves me to the end, and there is no end of that love.

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5. Is not many a man contented to suffer reproach for maintaining his lust? and shall not we for maintaining the truth? Some glory in that which is their shame (Phil. iii. 19); and shall we be ashamed of that which is our glory? Be not troubled at these petty things. He whose heart is once divinely touched with the loadstone of God's Spirit, doth account it his honour to be dishonoured for Christ (Acts v. 41); and doth as much despise the world's censure as he doth their praise.

6. We live in an age wherein men dare reproach God himself. The Divinity of the Son of God is The blasphemously reproached by the Socinian. blessed Bible is reproached by the anti-Scripturist, as if it were but a legend of lies, and every man's faith a fable; the justice of God is called to the bar of reason by the Pelagian; the wisdom of God, in his

providential actings, is taxed by the Atheist; the ordinances of God are decried by some men as being too heavy a burden for a free-born conscience, and too low and carnal for a sublime, seraphic spirit; the ways of tiod, which have the majesty of holiness shining in them, are calumniated by the profane; the mouths of men are open against God, as if he were a hard master, and the path of religion too strict and severe. If men cannot give God a good word, shall we be discontented or troubled that they speak hardly of us? Such as labour to bury the glory of religion, shall we wonder that their throats are open sepulchres to bury our good name? (Rom. iii. 13.) O let us be contented while we are in God's scouringhouse to have our names sullied a little; the blacker we seem to be here, the brighter shall we shine when God hath set us upon the celestial shelf.

THE SIXTH APOLOGY.

The sixth apology that discontent makes is-Disrespect in the world; I have not that esteem from men as is suitable to my quality and graces. And doth this trouble? Consider,

1. The world is an unequal judge; as it is full of change, so of partiality. The world gives her respects, as she doth her places of preferment, more by favour often than desert. Hast thou the ground of real worth in thee? that is best worth that is in him that hath it. Honour is in him that gives it. Better deserve respect and not have it, than have it and not deserve it.

2. Hast thou grace? God respects thee, and his judgment is best worth prizing. A believer is a person of honour, being born of God. "Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee." (Isa. xliii. 4.) Let the world think what they will of you; perhaps in their eyes you are a castaway; in God's eyes a dove (Cant. ii. 14); a spouse (Cant. v. 1); a jewel (Mal. iii. 17). Others account you the dregs and offscourings of the world (1 Cor. iv. 13); but God will give whole kingdoms for your ransom. (Isa. xliii. 3.) Let this content-No matter with what oblique eyes I am looked upon in the world, if God thinks well of me. It is better that God approve, than man applaud. The world may put us in their rubric, and God put us in his black book. What is a man the better that his fellow-prisoners commend him, if his judge condemn him? labour to keep in with God-prize his love. Let my fellow-subjects frown; I am contented, being a favourite of the King of heaven.

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THE OUTSIDE PASSENGER. SOME years ago a young lady, who was going into a northern county, took a seat in the stage coach. For many miles she rode alone; but there was enough to amuse her in the scenery through which she passed and the pleasing anticipations that occupied her mind. She had been engaged as governess for the grand-children of an earl, and was now travelling to his At mid-day the coach stopped at an inn at which dinner was provided, and she alighted and sat down at the table. An elderly man followed, and sat down also. The young lady arose, rang the bell, and addressing the waiter, said, "Here is an outside passenger: I cannot dine; with an outside passenger." The stranger bowed, saying, "I beg your pardon, madam; I can go into another room," and immediately retired." The coach soon afterwards resumed its course, and the passengers their places.

At length the coach stopped at the gate leading to the castle to which the young lady was, going; but there was not such prompt attention as she expected. All eyes seemed directed to' the outside passenger, who was preparing to dismount. She beckoned, and was answered. "As soon as we have attended to his lordship we will come to you." A few words of expla-|| nation ensued, and to her dismay she found that the outside passenger with whom she had thought it beneath her to dine, was not only a nobleman, but that very nobleman in whose family she had hoped to be an inmate. What!! could she do? How could she bear the interview? She felt really ill, and the apology she sent for her non-appearance that evening was more than pretence.

The venerable peer was a considerate man," and one who knew the way in which the Scripture often speaks of the going down of the sun. "We must not allow the night to pass thus," said he to the countess; "you must send for her, and we must talk to her before bed time." 3. If we are children of God, we must look for He reasoned with the foolish girl respecting disrespect; a believer is in the world, but not of the her conduct, and on the impropriety of the world. We are here in a pilgrim condition, out of state of mind that it evinced, assured her that, our own country (Heb. xiii. 14), therefore must not nothing could induce him to allow his children look for the respect and acclamations of the world; to be taught such notions, refused to accept any it is sufficient that we shall have honour in our own country. It is dangerous to be the world's favourite. apology that did not go the length of acknow4. Discontent arising from disrespect savours too ledging that the thought was wrong; and when much of pride; an humble Christian hath a lower the right impression appeared to be produced,' opinion of himself than others can have of him. He pardoned her and gave her his hand. that is taken up about the thoughts of his sins, and how he hath provoked God, he cries out as Agur, "I am more brutish than any man" (Prov. xxx. 2); and therefore is contented, though he be set among the dogs of the flock. (Job xxx. i.) Though he be low in the thoughts of others, yet he is thankful that he is not laid in the lowest hell. (Ps. lxxxvi. 13.) A proud man sets a high value upon himself; and is angry with others becase they will not come to his price. Take heed of pride. O had others a window to look into thy breast, as Crates once expressed it, or did thy heart stand where thy face doth, thou wouldest wonder to have so much respect!

The Lord of all, before whose judgment-seat¦ for a season in the world, and the world knew every human being must hereafter stand, was him not. When he was on earth, the Son of God was but an outside passenger. With what consternation will many of those who treated him with disdain, recognise in the Almighty | Judge of the quick and the dead, the despised itinerant from Galilee whom they scorned and derided! And as was with him, so it is with his living representatives. By far the greater

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number of those who belong to the court of the Prince of princes have been outside passengers. What will the feelings be of many who have heard the words," Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me?"

Happy would it be for the Churches of Christ if all who belong to them were to remember habitually that they also have a Master who is in heaven; and that nothing is more clearly deducible from his instructions, than that every one who desires to enjoy his favour should be ready, at all times, to exercise courtesy towards an outside passenger.- Baptist Magazine.

PECULIAR GIFTS.

THERE is a great diversity of character among real Christians. Education, constitution, and circumstances, will fully explain this diversity.

He has seen but little of life, who does not discern everywhere the effects of EDUCATION on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Two children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives. And who is the man that can rise above his dispensation, and can say "You have been teaching me nonsense?"

As to CONSTITUTION-look at Martin Luther: we may see the man every day: his eyes, and nose, and mouth, attest his character. Look at Melancthon : he is like a snail with his couple of horns: he puts out his horns and feels-and feels-and feels. No education could have rendered these two men alike. Their difference began in the womb. Luther dashes in saying his things: Melancthon must go round about-he must consider what the Greek says, and what the Syriac says. Some men are born minute men-lexicographers-of a German character: they will-hunt through libraries to rectify a syllable. Other men are born keen as a razor: they have a sharp, severe, strong acumen: they cut everything to pieces: their minds are like a case of instruments; touch which you will, it wounds: they crucify a modest man. Such men should aim at a right knowledge of character. If they attained this, they would find out the sin that easily besets them. The greater the capacity of such men, the greater their cruelty. They ought to blunt their instruments. They ought to keep them in a case. Other men are ambitious fond of power: pride and power give a velocity to their motions. Others are born with a quiet, retiring mind. Some are naturally fierce, and others naturally mild and placable. Men often take to themselves great credit for what they owe entirely to nature. If we would judge rightly, we should see that narrowness or expansion of mind, niggardliness or generosity, delicacy or boldness, have less of merit or demerit than we commonly assign to them.

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CIRCUMSTANCES, also, are not sufficiently taken into the account when we estimate character. For example-we generally censure the Reformers and Puritans as dogmatic, morose, systematic men. it is easier to walk on a road, than to form that road. Other men laboured, and we have entered into their labours. In a fine day, I can walk abroad; but, in a rough and stormy day, I should find it another thing to turn coachman, and dare all weathers. These men had to bear the burden and heat of the day: they had to fight against hard times: they had to stand up against learning and power. Their times were not like ours: a man may now think what he will, and nobody cares what he thinks. A

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man of that school was, of course, stiff, rigid, unyielding. Tuckney was such a man: Whichcot was for smoothing things, and walking abroad. We see circumstances operating in many other ways. A minister unmarried, and the same man married, are very different men. A minister in a small parish, and the same man in a large sphere, where his sides are spurred and goaded, are very different men. A minister on tenter-hooks-harassed-schooled, and house, are very different men. the same man nursed-cherished-put into a hotSome of us are hot-house plants. We grow tall-not better-not stronger. Talents are among the circumstances which form the diversity of character.

A man of talents feels his own powers, and throws himself into that line which he can pursue with most success. Saurin felt that he could flourishlighten-thunder-enchant like a magician. Every one should seriously consider how far his talents and turn of mind and circumstances drive him out of the right road. It is an easy thing for a man of vigour to bring a quiet one before his bar; and it is as easy for this quiet man to condemn the other: yet both may be really pious men-serving God with their best powers. Every man has his peculiar gift of God; one after this manner, and the other after that.Cecil.

A USEFUL SHELF.

I HAVE long adopted an expedient, which I have found of singular service. I have a shelf in my study for tried authors, and one in my mind for tried principles and characters.

When an AUTHOR has stood a thorough examination, and will bear to be taken as a guide, I put him on the shelf!

When I have more fully made up my mind on a PRINCIPLE, I put it on the shelf! A hundred subtile objections may be brought against this principle: I may meet with some of them, perhaps: but my principle is on the shelf! Generally, I may be able to recall the reasons which weighed with me to put it there; but, if not, I am not to be sent out to sea again. Time was, when I saw through and detected all the subtleties that could be brought against it. I have past evidence of having been fully convinced; and there on the shelf it shall lie!

When I have turned a CHARACTER over and over on all sides, and seen it through and through in all situations, I put it on the shelf. There may be conduct in the person, which may stumble others: there may be great inconsistencies: there may be strange and unaccountable turns-but I have put that character on the shelf: difficulties will all be cleared up: everything will come round again. I should be much chagrined, indeed, to be obliged to take a character down which I had once put up; but that has never been the case with me yet; and the best guard against it is-not to be too hasty in putting them there.-Ibid.

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I HAVE felt twice in my life very extraordinary impressions under sermons, and that from men least calculated to affect me. A man of great powers, but

THE LOVE OF CHRIST.

How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand! as little do I take away of my great sea, the boundless love of Christ.

so dissipated on everything that he knew nothing-home, nursing themselves over a fire, and then trace a frivolous, futile babbler, whom I was ready almost up the natural effects of solitude and want of air to despise surprised and chained me so, in my own and exercise into spiritual desertion. There is more church at Lewes, that I was thunder-struck: I pride in this than they are aware of. They are un think it was concerning the dove not finding rest for willing to allow so simple and natural a cause of the sole of her foot. He felt the subject strongly their feelings, and wish to find something in the himself; and, in spite of all my prejudices against thing more sublime. him, and my real knowledge of his character, he made me feel it as I have scarcely ever done before or since. In the other instance, I had to do with a very different character: he was a simple, but weak man: it pleased God, however, to shoot an arrow by his hand into my heart: I had been some time in a dry, fruitless frame, and was persuading myself that all was going on well. He said one day, at Lewes, with an indescribable simplicity, that "Men might cheer themselves in the morning, and they might pass on tolerably well perhaps without God at noon: but the cool of the day was coming, when God would come down to talk with them." It was a message from God to me: I felt as though God had descended into the church, and was about to call me to my account. In the former instance, I was more surprised and astonished than affected religiously; but, in this, I was unspeakably moved.—Ibid.

SOUL.

SICK persons are often sent by physicians to their native soil, that they may again breathe the original air they drew when born at first. The spirit of man was first breathed into him by the Father of spirits, and heaven is the believer's native place; nor can sick souls be cured until God is enjoyed and heaven in him.

As soon may a trunk be filled with wisdom as a soul with wealth; and as soon might bodily substances be nourished with shadows as rational spirits be fed with bodies.- Arrowsmith.

WATCHFULNESS.

A BELIEVER'S watchfulness is somewhat like that of a soldier on guard. A sentinel posted on the walls, when he discovers a hostile party advancing, does not attempt to make head against them himself; but informs his commanding officer of the enemy's approach, and leaves him to take the proper measures to repel the foe. So the Christian does not attempt to fight temptation in his own strength: his watchfulness lies in observing its approach, and in telling God of it by prayer.-Tozer.

TRUST GOD.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished God had done otherwise than he did; but which I now see, had I had my own will, would have led to extensive mischief. The life of a Christian is a life of paradoxes. He must lay hold on good: he must follow hard after him; he must determine not to let him go. And yet he must learn to let God alone. Quietness before God is one of the most difficult of all Christian graces-to sit where he places us; to be what he would have us be, and this as long as He pleases.

A CAUSE OF MELANCHOLY. THERE is a large class who would confound nature and grace. These are chiefly women. They sit at

My Lord Jesus is kinder to me than ever he was prisoner. The King feasteth me, and his spikenard It pleaseth him to dine and sup with his afflicted casteth a sweet smell. Put Christ's love to the trial, and throw all your burdens upon it, and then it will appear love indeed. We employ not his love, and therefore we know it not.-Rutherford.

Fragments.

THERE are certain great principles clearly laid down in Scripture, in relation to giving, and the use of property generally, which, by almost all men, are sceptically disregarded-as, for example, 1. That what we have, we hold as stewards that must give account. 2. That the way to increase is to distribute. Some are rich because liberal. 3. That what is given to the poor, is loaned to the Lord. 4. That God has designated a tenth himself: and Pagans give that proportion to their gods. 5. That what is done to Christians, is done to Christ.

The low and scurrilous writers against revelation carry their own condemnation with them. They are like an ill-looking fellow, who comes into a court of justice to give evidence, but carries the aspect, on the first glance, of a town-bully, ready to swear whatever shall be suggested to him.

When the ship that carried Jonah sailed from Joppa, there was only one good man aboard, and the storm was for his sake.

In Paris, during the Revolution, theatres increased from six to twenty-five.

The worst orphans are those who have wicked parents alive.

Religion should be not a rapture, but a habit.

Modesty and diffidence always attend true greatness, in nature and in grace. Samuel was slow to tell his vision: and Paul told his not till after fourteen years, and then by compulsion.

Conscience is a bosom friend or bosom fury-the quarter sessions before its grand assize.

To have too much forethought, is the part of a WRETCH to have too little, is the part of a FOOL. Remember always to mix good sense with good things, or they will become disgusting.

A wicked man is a candidate for nothing but hell! -However he may live, if his conscience were, awake, he would turn pale at this question, What' shall I do in the end thereof?

Peter died A.D. 66. John survived him forty years-was he subject to the successor of Peter?

The greatest honour some men could do the Chris tian name, would be to disclaim it.

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