When silent, his very looks proclaimed the devout exercises of his mind; and when he spoke, his tongue declared that his heart was fixed on things above.' In this marked religious deportment, there was not the least affectation of sanctity; but heart, and tongue, and life, conspired to testify that all was genuine and sincere. And yet this was the man, (unlike Charles in this respect,) who was once the companion of the dissolute and the idle, and distinguished for his clamour and noise at the public-house. Surely this was one of those of whom the Apostle speaks, "Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." (Eph. v. 8.)

Dear reader whoever you may be, do not despise the accounts of these poor and pious men, but rather honour them as they are honoured of Christ. If you are a clergyman, you will at once recollect Bishop Bull's words, "We minister to souls. Souls! methinks in that one word there is a sermon. Immortal souls! precious souls! one whereof is more than worth all the world besides -the price of the blood of the Son of God," and you will love these humble men. Oh, they have done no one any harm, but, on the contrary, may have been of much service to many. If all men were like to them, we should not see the vice and religious hypocrisy that is in the world. If all men were like to them, the whole world would be one society of friends: and schism and dissension would reign no more. If all men were like to them, we should see the latter part of that awful text universally fulfilled-"If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." (Rom. viii. 13.) If all men were like to them, we should

See CHRIST CRUCIFIED to be the hope of eternal life, and the grand motive to all spiritual obedience: we should behold the sacred places of the Church of Christ filled with devout worshippers, "speaking the same thing with one mouth and one mind,” (1 Cor. i. 10; Rom. xv. 6;) we should see the daily renewal of the heart by the Holy Spirit, earnestly sought for within the walls of the Church: and we should see all men acknowledging God the Father as One who is "about their path, and about their bed, and knoweth every word of the tongue," (Psalm cxxxix. 3,) and to whom "every one of them must give account." (Rom. xiv. 12.) Oh, rather than speak one word against these good and honest men, or despise their simple and sincere habits of cheerful devotion, do you yourself look inwardly-examine "your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have to all the saints,' (Col. i. 4,) and turning, with your face to the wall, as Hezekiah did, pray, "Dispose me, O heavenly Father, so to obey the precepts, that I may inherit the promises, of the Gospel. Bless me, O Lord, with all spiritual blessings in Christ. Bless me, in forgiving my iniquities; and bless me, in turning me, by the aid of thy Holy Spirit, from all iniquity. Oh let the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world, cleanse me from all sin: and purge my conscience from dead works, to serve Thee, the living God."* "Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all." (2 Thess. iii. 16.)

* Hill's Devotions.

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On Joining Audibly in Public Worship.

ROMANS XV. 6.

"That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." *

In several places in his Epistles, St. Paul mentions the "continuing instant in prayer," as one of the leading features in the character of those, who have been called out of heathen darkness to the pure light of the Gospel.

The being constant and earnest in our addresses to the throne of grace, "praying always with all prayer and supplication," we should all of us regard, not only as an important duty, but as a high and valuable privilege,-a privilege, which we should rejoice to exercise, both in private, in our families, and in the public assemblies of the church. Upon the manner in which we ought to take part in the public devotions of the house of God, I now wish to make some observations.

* See an excellent and judicious sermon on this text and subject, published in 1825, by Bishop Mant, the worthy successor of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, in the diocese of Down and Connor.