flourish; he confines not his preaching to cities, but villages, and fields, and the mountains of the Cevennes, the ancient refuges of God's persecuted professors, witness the wide sphere of his energies;-exertions lightly esteemed on earth, but known to be glorious in heaven.

While we weep that he has so little aid from earthly friends, we should pray for many more such labourers from the Lord of the harvest.

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scenery around Brussels, and indeed from Mæstricht to Ostend, is more like that of England, than any other part of the continent. The surface is delightfully broken into hill and dale, and is sufficiently well wooded and watered to give variety to the swelling landscape.

In travelling from Aix-la-Chapelle to Brussels, each step reminds us that we are passing over the battle-ground of Europe, where the sovereigns of Germany and Spain, as well as of England and France, have met to decide their quarrels by the strong argument of the sword. From the period of the wars of the League to those of Napoleon, has this ill-fated country been the spot where many battles have been fought, and blood profusely spilled in conflicts, in which both

victory and defeat, it is to be feared, were murder. For that is nothing better which consigns to untimely death, thousands of men, upon the suggestion of passion, or from the lust of power.

It is an important point gained, when our moral feelings become so strong as to lead us to reprobate the practice of war in whatever shape it appear; so that even when we stand upon the defensive, we weep over a victory, as over a capital punishment, necessary, but awful.

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Our own age has seen the armies of Europe again drawn out in the Low Countries; and the sound of the shock of hundreds of thousands of in arms has gone forth to the ends of the earth. It is among the wonders of this century, that the works which have been originated by the most sublime spirit of benevolence, and those which have been excited by the most demoniacal fury, have appeared at the same period ;— even as we sometimes hear the thunder from the heavens, and see the rapid ravages of the light

ning in the fairest summer day. At the very time when a general system of instruction has been devised for the people-a general desire evinced to meliorate the condition of the lowest class—a general freedom of opinion propagated, and when ancient abuses and prejudices seem to relax their hold upon men's minds ; -at such a time we have beheld nations, wielded as playthings in the hands of a tyrant, and the will of millions bow to his supreme volition.-This enlightened age has seen how difficult it is to get men free from the fatuity of trusting all to one man; since even the defeats in Russia, the refusal of peace at Chatillon, the arrogance upon the Champ de Mai, did not prevent the flower of France from flocking to the standard of Bonaparte, to stand or fall with him at Waterloo.

I was anxious to visit this ever memorable and sublimely decisive field, where the enemy of the liberties of mankind closed his destruc

tive career; when the Emperor of the French, and King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, was transformed into the captive of St Helena. I found it bearing but few marks of the desolation of war, though but three years had passed away since it was literally the field of blood. The hand of cultivation had erased all marks of violence from the face of nature, and made this plain again rich and beautiful.

We were fortunate in our guide, who was the same who attended Bonaparte during the whole period of this fearful combat. He led us over the field in various directions, and also to the farm-house of La Haye, described the positions of the several corps, and marked out the spots where the action had been the most severe. The slight eminence behind which Wellington was posted, gave him a great advantage in his evolutions; and the guide reports that Marshal Ney declared to Bonaparte, that it was impossi