many times to fetch water to clean the house, and was quite tired, and asked him only to fetch her one pail of water, he refused. "Sure," said his master," you could not do so! the men are always happy to oblige the ladies." The fellow surlily replied, "I was not hired to fetch water for the maids." "True," said his master, "I did not think of that-go-put the horses in the carriage, and bring it to the door as soon as possible"--and left them. On being told that the carriage was ready, he bade the girl get into it, and ordered the coachman to drive her to the well and back, as often as she had occasion to go.

How difficult it is to shew those who are in the House of Mourning, that God is teaching them, that if they had not leaned so much on their creature-sup-ports, they had not been so broken! Still they are crying, O Absalom, my son, my son! Why is it that we are shocked to see the world falling to pieces around us, when we shall leave it ourselves to-morrow-perhaps to-day? We forget that it is the design of God to dash every thing to pieces. It is by these trials that we begin to learn we have been walking by sense rather than by faith-and looking at our children and our possessions as though we were never to lose them.

Faith and Sense.

From the same.

It is by FAITH that we are relieved under the difficulties of SENSE. Sense revolts, when it views our great High Priest on the Cross-Faith glories in this object! Sense talks like the Jews: He saved others: himself he cannot save: if he be now the King of Israel,

let him come down from the cross, and we will believe him. Faith lays hold on him as the Saviour of the World, and cries, Lord! remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom! Sense envies the prosperous worldling, and calls him happy-Faith goes into the sanctuary, to see what his end will be. When the waves run high, Sense clamours: Faith says, "Speak but the word, and the winds and waves shall obey thee." When we feel our earthly house of this tabernacle taking down, Sense sinks; but Faith says, We know, that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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ABRAHAM teaches us the right way of conversing with God:-And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him! When we plead with him, our faces should be in the dust: we should not then speak lightly of him, nor complain; nor will there be any more boasting. We shall abase ourselves, and exalt God!

The Christian's secret intercourse with God will make itself manifest to the world. We may not see the husbandman cast the seed into the ground, yet when the corn grows and ripens, we know that it was sown. The mere professor, who may be found, every where but in his secret chamber, may think that with care he shall pass for a good Christian; but he mistakes, for the spirit wILL discover itself, of what sort it is. He, who would walk safely and honourably, must walk closely with God in secret.

BE ye not unequally yoked. If a believer marries an unbeliever, the miseries which ensue are endless. Were they determined, in kindness, to grant all they, could to each other; yet they live as in two separate worlds. There is a great gulf between them, which cannot be passed without the grace of God: on which, while all should hope and pray for it, none should presume. They cannot taste the same pleasures, nor share the same sorrows, nor pursue the same objects, nor walk in the same path. What hope, then, can there be of comfort? Every Christian finds the corruptions of his own heart, the snares of the world, and the devices of Satan, together with innumerable secret anxieties, quite enough to struggle with in his journey to heaven, without adding another to his difficulties.

A CHRISTIAN'S steps are not only safe, but steady:He that believeth, shall not make haste. When DANGER approaches, he shall not be thrown into confusion from his alarm, so as to be ready to say, "Whither shall I run?" but, finding himself on safe ground, he shall be quiet. Being built on the sure foundation, and stablished in Christ, he shall not make haste in his EXPECTATIONS: he shall not make haste with respect to the promises, as though they were long in their accomplishment, knowing that all the promises of God are Yea, and, in Christ, Amen! In AFFLICTION, he shall not make haste in running to broken cisterns; as Asa did, when, in his disease, he sought not to the Lord; but to the physicians: he shall not be alarmed, or driven about, as one who has not a strong hold to

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enter; but shall say, None of these things move me! neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy! With respect to his CHARACTER, the Christian shall not make haste; if a cloud come over his reputation, and men will suspect his integrity without grounds, he will commit himself to God, and wait his opportunity, and not make rash haste to justify and clear his character.

The Conduct of a True Friend.

From the same.

SAY the strongest things you can, with candour and kindness, to a man's face; and make the best excuse you can for him, with truth and justice, behind his back.

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A Humane Mind rebuking itself.

From the same.

ONE day I got off my horse to kill a rat, which I found on the road only half killed. I am shocked at the thoughtless cruelty of many people: yet I did a thing soon after, that has given me considerable uneasiness, and for which I reproach myself bitterly. As I was riding homeward, I saw a waggon standing at a door, with three horses: the two foremost were eating their corn from bags at their noses; but I observed the third had dropt his on the ground, and could not stoop to get any food. However, I rode on, in absence, without assisting him. But when I had got nearly home, I remembered what I had observed in my absence of mind, and felt extremely hurt at my neglect; and would have ridden back, had I not thought the waggoner might have come out of the house and relieved the horse. A man could not have had a better demand for getting off his horse, than for such an act of humanity. It is by absence of mind that we omit many duties.

Influence of the Company we keep.

Extract of a Letter from JOSEPH WILLIAMS, of Kidderminster.

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-THE tea came safe to hand, but it hath lost the elegant flavour it had when we drank of it atowing, I suppose, to its conveyance in paper; which, being very porous, easily admits effluvia from other goods packed up with it, and emits the effluvia from the tea. Such are the moral tendencies of evil communications among men, which nothing will prevent, like canisters for tea, but taking to us the whole armour of God. Had the tea been packed up with cloves, mace, and cinnamon, it would have been tinctured with those sweet spices:-so he that walks with wise men shall be wise. He that converses with heavenborn souls, whose conversation is in heaven,-whose treasure and whose hearts are there, will catch some sparks from their holy fire: but evil communications corrupt good manners.

I have put the tea into a canister, and am told it will recover its original flavour again.-So the pious soul, who hath received some ill impression from vicious or vain conversation, will, by returning from the world, by communion with his own heart, by heavenly meditation, and by fervent prayer, recover his spiritual ardour. Have you not experienced, in their turns, all the consequences I have mentioned as proceeding from such like premises?

Select Sentences.

Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.

ANON.

When God threatens, that is a time to repent; when he promises, that is a time to believe; when he commands, that is a time to obey.

MASON.