church, who was accustomed to invite and encourage his servants to attend the worship of God in his house. There she heard the Scriptures read, and became in some measure acquainted with the purport of the gospel. About the same time came that excellent missionary Pacalt, whose labours were blessed to so many persons, both white and coloured, into that part of the country where Catharine then lived. Under his simple but faithful preaching she was often greatly affected, and stirred up earnestly to seek the salvation which is in Christ Jesus. In the beginning of the year 1836 she came to live in the village of Swellendam, when the writer of this narrative first became acquainted with her. In the month of April in the same year, after having been examined, and given satisfactory proofs not only of her knowledge of divine truths, but also, as it was Coelieved, of her true piety, she was admitted by bapism as a member of the Church. On receiving this noly sacrament she must have been about a hundred years old-an event, indeed, such as has seldom occurred. Since that time she has always distinguished herself by a very pious deportment. For her, Christ was, in the fullest sense, ALL. It was astonishing to see how she became excited and affected when any one spoke in her hearing of his sufferings and death. This always seemed to agitate her entire soul. "For me, for my sins, he had to suffer all that," she would say; whilst frequently the tears flowed down her cheeks. She was very punctual in attending public worship, and was usually the first in the house of God. She night generally be seen sitting on the steps in front of the church, or before the chapel, waiting for the opening of the doors. During the singing her trembling voice might frequently be heard; and she was accustomed to give her assent to what the minister announced by frequent motions of the head. People were often surprised to see her present at the celebration of public worship even in unfavourable weather, or whilst labouring under bodily indisposition; but, when spoken to on this subject, Catharine was always ready with the answer, " My Lord brought me hither, He gave me strength." For her own part she mostly enjoyed an assurance of her interest in Christ, and spoke of it with confidence. When a pious Indian gentleman was one day conversing with her, she was, as usual, much excited when he spoke to her of the great love of Christ. "And Catharine," said the gentleman," will Christ come again?" "Yes," she replied, "at the day of judgment." "And where," rejoined he, "do you think your place will be in that day ?" · Oh, sir!" said Catharine, with a smile, "at his right hand; for he died surely for my sins, and his blood is upon my soul." For the last year of her life she was almost quite blind from old age, yet she got some one to lead her, and that usually twice every Sabbath, to the Lord's house, where the minister of the church had, for some years, allowed her to sit on the pulpit stairs, a privilege for which she often expressed her gratitude. ¦ On the Lord's day, two days before her death, her place in the church was observed to be unoccupied; upon which one of her friends went, after divine service, to visit her. "I was too weak," said Catharine, to go to church to-day, but the Lord was here with me; and oh! the room seemed too small when I was permitted to fall down at his feet, and speak to him freely, and make mention of all his mercies towards so great a sinner." 66 The next morning, the writer of this was sent for, and informed that Catharine was very ill, and desired to see him. Immediately repairing to her cottage, he said, "Well, Catharine, it seems you are going to leave us ?" "Yes, sir," was her reply, "it is all over with Old Catharine." "And whither," said he, "do you think you are going?" "To heaven," she immediately answered, "for Jesus surely died for my sins." "To depart, and to be with Christ," said he, is far better." "Yes," replied she, "to be with Christ is the best; and his Spirit must thoroughly cleanse and sanctify me, and enable me to serve him there in a perfect manner; and," added she with great em It was, indeed, very remarkable how the Lord provided for her. In her experience, too, was fulfilled what the Psalmist declared: "I have been young, ind now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous for-phasis," without shedding of blood shall no one enter saken, nor is seed begging bread." Old Catharine was much in prayer early in the norning; and often in the stillness of the night her voice might be heard wrestling with the Lord. A emale friend of hers, having once requested that she would remember her in her prayers, Catharine, in the middle of the following night, was heard by those n whose house she slept earnestly praying for her friend, whom she mentioned by name, commending er to the Lord, and entreating a blessing upon her. The writer of this once seeing her, very early in the norning, busy feeding some chickens, said, "I hope, Catharine, you were first in your retirement ?" Ah! sir," she replied, "how could I forget that? It is ny bread and my water." She always showed an earnest desire to be useful to her fellow-creatures; and the general esteem in which she was held, gained for her admonitions and consolations ready access with all. The love of Christ, and the obligation to return his love, by living for him, was constantly the theme of her discourse, and eternity will doubtless reveal that she has been of no small benefit to the souls of many. When a certain lady was once deeply affected on account of the death of a very dear child, Old Catharine came to her, and sharing in her sorrow, addressed her, amongst other things, in this consoling and re into the kingdom." The excitement of her mind now seemed too great for her enfeebled frame. After these words she suddenly fell backwards upon the bed, and remained speechless and without moving until the next morning, when the spirit was released from the body, in order, as we have the best grounds for believing, to join the happy company of those who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, and who are therefore before the throne of God, and praise and serve him without ceasing, and without imperfection, in his heavenly temple. Her earthly remains were followed by a great number, both of white and coloured people, to the grave, there to await the glorious morning of the day of general resurrection. "The righteous," says the Psalmist," shall be in everlasting remembrance." It was therefore considered a duty to preserve in this narrative the remembrance of Old Catharine, and at the same time to endeavour to excite others to praise and glorify the riches of divine grace, so remarkably displayed in her salvation. The same grace, dear reader, is sufficient for you. Pray that you may be made, both here and hereafter, a monument of God's mercy; imitate Old Catharine in so far as she followed Christ; with her, build your whole hope solely upon his atoning sufferings and death; and when you consider the grace shown, not only to this aged Hottentot, but to others THE EAGLE-WINGED BELIEVER. of this (once) utterly despised nation, say with the "The race that long in darkness pined "To hail thy rise, thou better Sun! "Thy power increasing, still shall spread; THE EAGLE-WINGED BELIEVER. BY RALPH ERSKINE. I. As to the wings wherewith they do mount up, they are especially these two, viz., the wing of faith and the wing of love. 66 1. The wing of faith they have, and must have, who would mount up heavenward. Now, there is not a feather in this wing but is made in heaven; By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God."-(Eph. ii. 8,) Yea, after the believer hath got faith, he cannot spread out his wing without God; "To you it is given, not only to believe but to suffer for his sake."-(Phil. i. 29.) To you, believers, it is given to believe; not only the habit of faith is the gift of God, but the exercise of faith is his gift also. Now, this is one wing, and none can mount up to heaven without it; for it is a grace that looks not at things that are seen in this world, but at things that are not seen; it is the evidence of things not seen; it mounts the soul to heaven and heavenly things, and makes them evident. 2. There is the wing of love, by which the believer mounts up to heaven: and this is a wing made also by God: "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost."-(Rom. v, 5.) This is a wing then framed in heaven, a grace that comes from the God of love; and therefore it flies up to heaven again: the holy spark of this fire flies upward. This grace is of such a mounting quality, that it unites the soul of the believer to Christ as well as faith. As Jonathan's soul was knit or joined to the soul of David by love, so is the soul of the believer knit and glued to Christ by love; and, O this wing of love is a strong wing! (Song viii, 6,) "Love is strong as death;" yea, stronger than death and life, and principalities and powers: "I am persuaded," says the apostle, "that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."-(Rom. viii. 38, 39.) This is such a strong wing that the fire cannot burn it: martyrs have found that it would abide the fire when they glorified God in the fires; the fire did not burn their love; no, it mounted up to heaven with the flame. II. As to those things wherein they mount up, we shall give you both a negative and a positive account of them. 377 1st, We propose to give you a negative account of these things. 1. They do not mount up in airy speculations : some mount up only in airy notions; they have a great deal of head-knowledge, but no heart-love to the truth: "They receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved; for which cause God sends them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."(2 Thes. ii. 10, 11.) The devil himself knows God and Christ, but hath no love to God or Christ in his heart: there may be much speculative knowledge where there is no saving grace. 2. They do not mount up in sinful curiosity, to pry into the secrets of God; "for secret things belong to God, to us the things that are revealed."(Deut. xxix. 29.) Many mount up too far into the decrees of election and reprobation. Oh! I fear I am a reprobate, say some. Alas, Sirs! beware of such blasphemy; as if, forsooth, you were omniscient, like God; and as if you had been upon the privy council of God from eternity, when he marked down the names of elect and reprobate: this is a thing that cannot be known. In this side of time you cannot be sure you are a reprobate as long as you are out of hell; but I can give you assurance, better than the stability of heaven and earth, that if you truly repent of your sin, and flee to Christ, the only Saviour, you are no reprobate: "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."-(Isa. lv. 7.) But if you will not part with sin, nor flee to Christ, you subscribe your own reprobation. Now, I say, the believer doth mount up in sinful curiosity concerning the decree of election and reprobation, but in so far as it is revealed to him, to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure; neither doth he pry curiously into the secrets of God's providence: "It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power." Some have been very rash in telling when the day of judgment would be: we should not meddle with such secrets; "for of that day and that hour knoweth no man."-(Matt.) xxv. 13.) 3. They do not mount up in self-conceit and selfestimation, as some do, who mount up in the pride of their hearts; God abhors the proud, and he will cast them down, let them mount up never so far: "He resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble." (Jas, iv. 6.) Pride was the sin of fallen angels; they would be as high as God, viz., self-dependent; and therefore God cast them down. This was the ill lesson that the devil taught our first parents, "Ye shall be as gods;" and they were taken with this bait, to their overthrow and ruin; and ever since, pride and self-conceit hath been natural to their posterity; and hence it is, so much self is mixed with all our preaching, praying, communicating. But when the believer mounts, he mounts in some measure above self, and gets it trod under his feet in self-abasing, self-abhorring thoughts. 4. They do not mount up in fits and starts of devotion, in modes and pangs of affection in a transient way. Many professors, when they hear the word, they seem to be mounted up in joy; but what comes of it? It is but a flash, and like a land-flood. The stony-ground hearers may receive the word with joy; but having no root, they wither and dwindle to nothing.-(Luke viii. 6, 13.) Some, when they hear of Christ's sufferings, and see him sacramentally crucified, it draws tears from their eyes, and they never mount further. 2dly, We come now to give a positive account of these things wherein the believer mounts up. Believers mount up with wings as eagles, in these following things, or the like. 1. They mount up in spiritual-mindedness, contemplation, and holy meditation: hence says David, 'My meditation of him shall be sweet."-(Psal. civ. 34.) Having got the spirit, they mind the things of the spirit: "They that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, mind the things of the spirit: that which is born of the spirit, is spirit."—(Rom. viii. 5.) Their heart is set and bent to mind the great mystery of godliness, "God made manifest in the flesh " (1 Tim. iii. 16); "and to know the height, and depth, and breadth of the love of Christ." They do not suffer their thoughts to wander on the mountains of vanity. 2. They mount up in high designs and intentions : their ultimate design is the glory of God, and the enjoyment of him, which, you know, is man's chief end. This is the winged Christian's end: he mounts up in this high and holy end, and that in all his actions; in his civil actions, as in his buying and selling, travelling, labouring; and in his sacred actions, as his praying, reading, hearing, communicating; or in his relative actions, what he doth as a father, master, servant, or child; and in his natural actions, whether he eat or drink, or whatever he doth, he doth all to the glory of God.—(1 Cor. x. 31.) At least, his shortcoming herein is matter of sorrow and shame to him. whole God in all his essential perfections, and in all the relations he stands in to his people. They will have this God for their God for ever and ever, and for their guide even unto death. And they will have a whole Christ-Christ for sanctification as well as for salvation, yea, Christ for their all in all. 4. They mount up in pious inclinations; they have an aversion at sin, at the sinful pleasures of this life; yea, they abhor them with Ephraim, "What have I any more to do with idols ? " That is the language of the eagle-like believer; he hath a great inclination, a strong bent of spirit after a God in Christ, as the top of his perfection, as the very spring of all his pleasure, and as the magazine of all his treasure, as the rest of his soul; if the devil and his evil heart hath set him at any distance from God, his mind is restless till he return to him again: "Return to thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee."—(Psal. cxvi. 7.) The top-swarm, as it were, of his inclination mounts up this way. 5. He mounts up in heavenly affections: hence is that injunction, "Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth.”—(Col. iii. 2.) He endeavours, through grace, to have his affections some way corresponding with God's affection, so as to love what God loves, and hate what God hates; yea, to love as God loves, and to hate as God hates. God loves holiness with a strong and great love; so doth the believer. God hates sin with a perfect hatred; and so doth the believer: "I hate every false way." See also, Psal. cxxxix. 21, 22. 6. They mount up in a gospel conversation; so saith the apostle, "Our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ."-(Phil. iii. 20.) 7. The winged saint mounts up in a heavenly walk as Enoch and Noah walked with God, so doth the winged soul whose strength is renewed; he runs without wearying, and walks without fainting on the Lord's way. His heavenly walk discovers itself, 1. In his heavenly words-they are seasoned with salt, and edifying. And, 2. In his actions, wherein he studies sobriety, righteousness, and godliness in all the duties of religion, prayer, and praise. And, 3. In his company, for he can say with David, “I am a companion of all them that fear thee."-(Psal. cxix. 63.) (To be continued.) THE PRETENCES OF COVETOUSNESS. 3. They mount up in holy desires, saying with Job, "O that I knew where I might find him that I might come even to his feet." And their desires are not like the faint, languishing wish of the wicked, such as Balaam had; no, no; their desires are spiritual and sincere, such as these spoken of (Isa. xxvi. 9), "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; and with my spirit within me, will I seek thee early." Their desires are strong and fervent; none but Christ will satisfy them. "What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?" said Abraham.—(Gen. xv. ONE instance in which men use to plead the will in2.) So says the soul, mounting up towards God, Ostead of the deed, is in duties of cost and expense. what wilt thou give me, seeing I go Christless? It pants after God, the living God. Their desires are restricted to God and Christ alone: "One thing have I desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee."-(Psal. lxxiii. 25.) Their desires are dilated on a whole God, and a whole Christ: "O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord, my God, my King." (Psal. xvi. 2.) They will have a Let a business of expensive charity be proposed; and then, as in matters of labour, the lazy person can find no hands wherewith to work; so neither, in this case, can the religious miser find any hands wherewith to give. It is wonderful to consider, how a command or call to be liberal, either upon a civil or religious account, all of a sudden impoverishes the rich, breaks the merchant, shuts up every private man's exchequer, and makes those men in a minute have nothing at all to give, who, at the very same relieving the poor, such a command strangely ininstant, want nothing to spend. So that instead of creases their number, and transforms rich men into beggars presently. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE. Thus, at the siege of Constantinople, then the wealthiest city in the world, the citizens had nothing to give their emperor for the defence of the place, though he begged a supply of them with tears; but when, by that means, the Turks took and sacked it, then those who had nothing before to give had more than enough to lose. But to descend to matters of daily and common Occurrence; what is more usual in conversation, than for men to express their unwillingness to do a thing, by saying they cannot do it; and for a covetous man, being asked a little money in charity, to answer that he has none? Which, as it is, if true, a sufficient answer to God and man: so, if false, it is intolerable hypocrisy towards both. But do men in good earnest think that God will be put off so? or can they imagine, that the law of God will be baffled with a lie clothed in a scoff? For such pretences are no better, as appears from that notable account given us by the apostle of this windy, insignificant charity of the will, and of the worthlessness of it, not enlivened by deeds (James ii. 15, 16): "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?" Profit, does he say? Why, it profits just as much as fair words command the market, as good wishes buy food and raiment, and pass for current payment in the shops. Come to an old, rich, professing vulpony, and tell him that there is a church to be built, beautified, or endowed in such a place, and that he cannot lay out his money more to God's honour, the public good, and the comfort of his own conscience, than to be. stow it liberally upon such an occasion; and in answer to this, it is ten to one but you shall be told, "how much God is for the inward spiritual worship of the hear; and that the Almighty neither dwells nor delights in temples made with hands, but hears and accepts the prayers of his people in dens and caves, barns and stables, and in the homeliest and meanest cottages, as well as in the stateliest and most magnificent churches." Thus, I say, you are like to be answered. In reply to which I would have all such sly sanctified cheats (who are so often harping upon this string) know, once for all, that that God who accepts the prayers of his people in dens and caves, barns and stables, when, by his afflicting providence, he has driven them from the appointed places of his solemn worship, so that they cannot have the use of them, will not, for all this, endure to be served or prayed to by them in such places, nor accept of their barn-worship, no, nor yet of their parlour or their chamber-worship, where he has given them both wealth and power to build him churches. For he that commands us to "worship him in the spirit," commands us also "to honour him with our substance." And never pretend that thou hast a heart to pray while thou hast no heart to give; since he that serves mammon with his estate, cannot possibly serve God with his heart. For, as in the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without an heart was accounted ominous; so in the Christian worship of him, an heart without a sacrifice is worthless and impertinent. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE. A STORY OF LAST CENTURY.* ABOVE a century ago, in a sequestered part of Scotland, a hard-working couple were struggling through *This striking narrative has been recently pub ished as a tract by James Nisbet and Co., London, from whom we have received a kind permission to insert it in our pages. 379 life, and frequently found it difficult to gain a bare subsistence, and provide even necessaries for their young family. But though their lot was cast among the poor of this earth, they were honest. They lived in a thinly-peopled neighbourhood, remote from town or village, and indeed at a considerable distance from any habitation whatever. Their humble thatched cottage stood picturesquely at the foot of a hill, rugged, with perpendicular rocks, and projecting cliffs, and precipitous to the base. In summer these were wellnigh hid by the verdure-the different wild plants, the braken (fern), the bog myrtle, the wild thyme, and lichens of richest emerald tints, uniting to conceal them from view. There too, the pine, the mountain-ash, the hazel, and the birch-tree flourished, springing up naturally out of the crevices, or spreading their roots fantastically over the bare rocks, till their fibres reached some congenial soil, where they found nourishment, and thus gained strength and firmness to withstand the wintry blast. But when divested of its summer garb, the scene assumed a sterner aspect, the rocks appearing in all the varied and fantastic forms which fancy might create, Fronting the cottage, but divided by the public road, was a deep ravine, down which a rivulet was seen at intervals, through the foliage, gliding smoothly over its pebbly bed, or, when swollen by the rains, impetuously rushing on with a loud roaring noise, forming in its course innumerable cascades. But, however inviting the situabespoke the poverty of its inhabitants, so that a strantion, every thing within and around the little cottage "What happiness ger might naturally have asked, can these poor people enjoy amid such manifest hardships and privations?" Yet though worldly advantages were denied them, they had in their lowly dwelling a source of comfort, too often unknown to the great and the affluent of this world, and which riches cannot purchase-the peace of God reigned there. The poor man could generally contrive to earn a scanty subsistence, barely sufficient to maintain his wife and four children. At times, indeed, his means of support were cut off; for though industrious when he could procure work, his employment at best was precarious. In that secluded district, where there were few resident gentry, his resources in this respect were limited and uncertain. And sometimes this worthy couple were reduced to great necessity for want of food, when they experienced unexpected interpositions of Providence, by which help was sent to them in the most unlooked for manner. Thus God often reveals himself to his chosen ones, and in the time of their need proves that he is "a very present help in trouble." So frequently in their case had they been made to perceive that they were the objects of his peculiar care and watchfulness, that they were led by experience to put their trust in that Providence which had so many times signally and graciously preserved them. At some miles' distance from this cottage, was the residence of a lady whose piety and active benevolence had gained her the love and esteem of all the neighbourhood. Lady Kilmarnock devoted her time and fortune in doing good, and was indeed a blessing to those around her. She had herself been taught in the school of affliction to sympathize with the distressed. Early in life she was deprived, by a sudden stroke, of the husband of her affections. At first she was overwhelmed by the blow, till by degrees she found true consolation, where alone it is to be found, in the love of God. Thus was she led, though by a thorny path, to place her happiness beyond the things of time, and to experience real comfort--that peace "which passeth all understanding." With every external advantage to render life attractive, she from that period gave up the world, and devoted herself entirely to promoting the welfare of her fellow-creatures; and it was her peculiar care to seek out cases deserving of her assistance. But ere she began, that she might not afterwards be disturbed, she made up the peat fire on the hearth, She trimmed and lit the cruisy (a small iron vessel which served as a lamp), and hung it upon its accustomed place on the wall. She moved the clean oaken table near it, and having taken the large family Bible from among the six or eight well-read, well-worn volumes on the book-shelf, deposited it upon it. She paused, however, before opening the sacred volume to implore a blessing on its contents, when the following text involuntarily came into her mind: "For every beast in the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills," That text, thought Ann, is not very applicable to me-and opening her Bible she proceeded to look out for some of her favourite passages of Scripture. Yet, "For every beast in the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills," was uppermost in her thoughts. She endeavoured to read the parts of the Bible that she considered more particularly adapted to her present circumstances. Her eye, it is true, might glance over the sacred pages, and her lips pronounce the precious words they contained; but still the verse we have quoted would ever and anon occur to her, supplanting in her mind every other passage of Scripture and every other subject of thought. She knelt down, and committed her case to the Hearer and Answerer of prayer; and then tried to recall former experiences-to bring to remembrance the promises of God, and those portions of Scripture which used to come home with power to her heart; but without now feeling that lively pleasure and satisfaction she had ever found in the Word of God, the text, "For every beast," &c. &c., seemed fastened to her memory, and, despite of every effort, she could not banish it from her mind. Yet, thought Ann, it is God's own word; and she read the Psalm in which that text is contained. It was, she thought, a beautiful psalm, but many verses in it appeared to her more suited to her condition than the one already quoted. Again she prayed, hoping that, while pre These worthy cottagers had, of course, been frequent objects of her bounty, and through her means they had often obtained most seasonable relief. But though Ann Young-for that was the maiden name of the cottager's wife, by which she was still known in the neighbourhood-had formerly been a servant in her family, yet such was her repugnance to appear burdensome to her benefactress, that it was seldom indeed that when in want her distress was made known by herself. It came to pass from some of those causes before alluded to, or from circumstances with which we are not acquainted, that those poor people were reduced to the greatest extremity of want: all their resources had failed. Their little store of provisions gradually diminished till they were exhausted. Ann had always been frugal, and a good manager of her husband's earnings; but, with all her economy, she could not make her means last longer. Unlike the widow's of Zarephath, the barrel of meal wasted away without any prospect of its being replenished. Her children had received the last morsel she could furnish, yet she was not cast down, for Ann Young was indeed a Christian. She "knew in whom she had believed;" she had learned to trust in the loving-kindness of her God, when ap-senting her supplications before a throne of grace, parently cut off from human aid; and having found by experience, that man's extremity is God's opportunity, therefore she did not despond. The day, how ever, passed over, and no prospect of succour appeared. Night came, and still no relief was vouchsafed to them. The children were crying for their supper, and, because there was none to give them, their mother undressed them and put them to bed, where they soon cried themselves to sleep. she might forget it, but with no better success. Still she endeavoured to encourage her drooping heart with the belief, nay, God's blessed assurance of the efficacy, of earnest, persevering prayer, and continued her occupation, alternately wrestling in prayer and reading her Bible until midnight, Indeed, early dawn found her engaged at the same employment, as at length daylight appeared through the little casement, when a loud impatient rap was heard at the door. "Who's there?" said Ann. A voice from without answered-" A friend." "But who is 'a friend,'" replied she, "What are you?" Their father was much dejected, and likewise went to bed, leaving Ann in solitary possession of the room. And yet she felt not alone-many sweet hours had she spent in that little cottage, apart from the world, with her Bible and her God. Often had she here enjoyed communion with Him whom her soul "I'm a drover; and quick, mistress, and open the loved, unobserved, save by his all-seeing eye. Pre- door, and come out and help me. And if there's a cious had these seasons ever been to her. The man in the house, tell him also to come out with all present, therefore, was not to be suffered to escape speed, for one of my cattle has fallen down a preciunimproved; nor the opportunity neglected of pour-pice and broken its leg, and it is lying at your ing out her soul to God-of spreading her sorrows, her trials, all before him; and giving vent to a full, and now, alas! a heavy heart. door." On opening the door, what was the first object that met the astonished gaze of Ann? A large drove of |