express it, "seeking some one who is worthy." He went to Cutwa, where he attended Mr. Chamberlain's preaching and instructions. "I have been," said he, " many years, from one holy place to another, seeking some one who was worthy, to offer my flower.'" The sweetest flower, they say, is the human heart; this is their figurative way of talking. "I have been seeking some one who is worthy to whom to offer my flower; but never have I found one till now. I have heard of Jesus; I give it to Him."

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heavy charge against you, and I thought it best that you should come up and defend yourself. They say that, in your sermon last evening, in speaking of the willingness of Jesus Christ to receive sinners, you expressed yourself in the following terms: That so ready was Christ to receive sinners who came to Him, that He was willing to receive even the devil's castaways.'" Mr. Whitefield immediately replied: "I certainly, my lady, must plead guilty to the charge; whether I did what was right, or otherwise, your ladyship shall judge from the following 97. Salvation to the Uttermost. circumstance. Did your ladyship -Some ladies called to pay a visit notice, about half an hour ago, a to Lady Huntingdon, and, during very modest single rap at the door? the visit, her ladyship inquired of It was given by a poor, miserablethem if they had ever heard looking, aged female, who requested Mr. Whitefield preach. Upon re- to speak with me. I desired her ceiving an answer in the negative, to be shown into the parlour, when she said, "I wish you would hear she accosted me in the following him; he is to preach to-morrow manner:-'I believe, sir, you evening." They promised her preached last evening at such a ladyship that they would attend. chapel.' 'Yes, I did.' Ah, sir, They fulfilled their promise. When I was accidentally passing the door they called the following Monday of that chapel, and, hearing the morning on her ladyship, she in- voice of some one preaching, I did quired if they had heard Mr. White- what I never had been in the habit field on the previous evening, and of doing-I went in; and one of the how they liked him. The reply first things I heard you say was, was, "Oh, my lady, of all the that Jesus Christ was so willing to preachers we have ever heard, he is receive sinners, that He did not obthe most strange and unaccount-ject to receive the devil's castaways. able! Among other preposterous things, would your ladyship believe it, he declared that Jesus Christ was so willing to receive sinners, that He did not object to receive even the devil's castaways! Now, my lady, did you ever hear of such a thing since you were born?

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which her ladyship made the following reply: "There is something, I acknowledge, a little singular in the invitation, and I do not recollect to have ever met with it before; but, as Mr. Whitefield is below in the parlour, we will have him up, and let him answer for himself." Upon his coming up into the drawing-room, Lady Huntingdon said," Mr. Whitefield, these ladies have been preferring a very

Do you think, sir, that Jesus Christ would receive me?'" Mr. Whitefield answered her, there was not a doubt of it, if she was but willing to come to Him. This was the case; and it ended in the conversion of the poor creature to God.

98. "Saviour" in Esquimaux.Rev. T. S. Grimshawe once related at a public meeting that he had met with Mr. Colemeister, who had laboured among the Esquimaux for thirty-four years, and had first translated the four Gospels into the Esquimaux language. Among a variety of interesting questions which Mr. Grimshawe put to him, he inquired as to a point of some curiosity and difficulty respecting

99. "Something about Christ."

his translations. Knowing how imperfect barbarous languages are, Archbishop Usher and Dr. Pres

and how inadequate to express any abstract idea, Mr. Grimshawe requested him to say how he translated the word "Saviour." Mr. Colemeister said, "Your question is remarkable, and perhaps the answer may be so too. It is true, the Esquimaux have no word to represent the Saviour, and I could never find out that they had any direct notion of such a friend. But I said to them, 'Does it not happen sometimes, when you are out fishing, that a storm arises, and some of you are lost and some saved?' They said, 'Oh, yes, very often.' 'But it also happens that you are in the water, and owe your safety to some brother or friend who stretches out his hand to help you.' 'Very frequently.' 'Then what do you call that friend? They gave me in answer a word of their language, and I immediately wrote it against the word 'Saviour' in Holy Writ, and ever afterwards it was clear and intelligible to all of them."

ton, well known alike for their piety and their learning, were very intimate, and often met to converse on science and knowledge generally. On these occasions it was very common with the good Archbishop to conclude, "Come, doctor, let us say something about Christ before we part."

100. Vine and Branches.-Taking this subject in a Sunday-school class, a teacher was trying to show the dependence of the branches upon the vine-for if the vine dies, the branch dies too-and said earnestly, "Jesus is the vine, we are the branches of the vine, and derive all our comfort and happiness from fellow of eight years, Him." "Yes," said a bright little "Jesus is the branches, and we (the children) are vine, the grown-up people are the the little buds;" showing that he clearly understood the parable, and giving to the great truth a simsmaller children could hardly fail plicity which the minds of the to comprehend.

CHRISTIANITY.

Matt. xvi. 18; Rom. xii. 4; Eph. i. 10, iii. 6; James i. 27; Rev. xi. 15. 101. Best Sailors.- -Captain being a hindrance to the arduous Parry at a public meeting in 1826, duties of that station in which it said: "I have lately had the honour, has pleased Providence to cast the and I may truly say the happiness, seaman's lot, that, on the contrary, of commanding British seamen it will always incite him to their under circumstances requiring the utmost activity, implicit and immediate obedience, and the most rigid attention to discipline and good order; and I am sure that the maintenance of all these was, in a great measure, owing to the blessing of God upon our humble endeavours to improve the religious and moral character of our men. In the schools established on board our ships in the winter, religion was made the primary object, and the result was every way gratifying and satisfactory. It has convinced me that true religion is so far from

performance, from the highest and most powerful of motives; and I will venture to predict, that in proportion as this spring of action is more and more introduced among our seamen, they will become such as every Englishman would wish to see them. To this fact, at least, I can, on a small scale, bear the most decided testimony; and the friends of religion will feel a pleasure in having the fact announced, that the very best seamen on board the Hecla-such, I mean, as were always called upon in any case of extraordinary emergency

were, without exception, those who had thought the most seriously on religious subjects; and if a still more scrupulous selection were to be made out of that number, the choice would fall, without hesitation, on two or three individuals possessing dispositions and sentiments eminently Christian."

The words form a delightful_comment on 1 Cor. i. 26-29: “I am, by birth, of an insignificant and contemptible caste; so low, that if a Brahmin should chance to touch me, he must go and bathe in the Ganges for the purpose of purification; and yet God has been pleased to call me, not merely to the know102. Confession of an Enemy.-office of teaching it to others. My ledge of the Gospel, but to the high One day, while D'Alembert and friends, do you know the reason of Condorcet were dining with Vol- God's conduct? It is this. If God taire, they proposed to converse of had selected one of you learned Atheism, but Voltaire stopped them Brahmins, and made you the at once. "Wait," said he, "till preacher, when you were successful my servants have withdrawn; I in making converts, bystanders do not wish to have my throat cut would have said it was the amazing to-night." learning of the Brahmin, and his great weight of character, that were the cause; but now, when any one is converted by my instrumentality, the praise to me: and God, as is no one thinks of ascribing any of His due, has all the glory."

103. "Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you."Tedynscung was a celebrated chief among the Delaware Indians of North America about the year 1780. The efforts of the Christian missionaries, after many severe dis- 105. Lord Lyttelton on the appointments, trials, and failures, Christian Religion. The celehad been the means of diffusing brated Lord Lyttelton said to his much spiritual knowledge among physician, in his last illness, "When the native Indians, and the I first set out in the world, I had doctrines which prevailed among friends who endeavoured to stagger them were frequently the subject my belief in the Christian religion, of conversation and general dis- but I kept my mind open to concussion. One evening, Tedynscung viction. The evidences and docwas sitting by the fireside of an trines of Christianity, studied with English friend, who mentioned attention, made me a most firm the golden rule to him as very believer of the Christian religion. I excellent, "For one man to do have made it the rule of my life, and to another as he would the it is the ground of my future hopes."

other should do to him." "It is

impossible; it cannot be done," 106. Poor yet Rich.-The folsaid the Indian chief. After lowing is a passage from the will smoking his pipe, and musing of the author of the wellfor about a quarter of an hour, known commentary on the Tedynscung again gave his opinion, Bible :-"I have now disposed and said, "Brother, I have been of all my property to my family; thoughtful on what you told me. there is one thing more I wish If the Great Spirit that made man I could give them, and that is would give him a new heart, he the Christian religion. If they could do as you say, but not else." had that, and I had not given them 104. Glory to God.-A native one shilling, they would be rich; Hindoo convert, who had originand if they had not that, and I had ally belonged to one of the lowest given them all the world, they would be poor."

castes, thus addressed a number of his countrymen, among whom 107. Spirit of the Gospel. were some of the superior castes. -A well-known missionary, Mr.

Gutzlaff, having landed in China, importuned by the people to impart the people were distrustful, and to them the knowledge of Divine some of them hinted that the things. In the wide excursion Christian books merely contained which I took, I daily witnessed the doctrines of Western barbarians, the demand for the Word of God. which were quite at variance with The greatest favour we could bethe tenets of the Chinese sages. stow upon the natives was to Mr. G. did not undertake to con- give them a book, which as a test this point with them, but precious relic was treasured up, proceeded to administer relief to a and kept for the perusal of all poor man who was almost blind; their acquaintance and friends." thus showing the spirit and conduct which the Gospel inculcate The man was affected with this unexpected kindness, and, turning towards Mr. G., said, "Judging from your actions, your doctrines must be excellent; therefore I beseech you give me some of your books; though I myself cannot read, I have children who can." "From this moment," says Mr. G., “the demand for the Word of God increased, so that I could never pass a hamlet without being

108. Truth of Christianity."I give my dying testimony," said Dr. John Leland, after a long and exemplary life devoted to the service of the Gospel-"I give my dying testimony to the truth of Christianity. The promises of the Gospel are my support and consolation. They alone yield_me satisfaction in my dying hour. I am not afraid to die. The Gospel of Christ has raised me above the fear of death; for I know that my Redeemer liveth.''

CHRISTIAN GRACES.

Deut. xiv. 2; Psalm cvix. 1; Matt. v. 8, vii. 12; Romans xii. 1; Gal. v. 22, vi. 9; Phil. i. 10.

110. Civility. When old Mr. Zachariah Fox, the great merchant of Liverpool, was asked by what means he contrived to realise so

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109. Beauty and Deformity.- defect of beauty in your person by A gentieman had two children: the superior lustre of your virtuous one a daughter, who was consi- and amiable conduct.' dered plain in her person; the other a son, who was reckoned handsome. One day, as they were playing together, they saw their faces in a looking-glass. The boy large a fortune as he possessed, was charmed with his beauty, and his reply was, Friend, by one spoke of it to his sister, who con- article alone, in which thou may'st sidered his remarks as so many deal too if thou pleasest-Civility." reflections on her want of it. She told her father of the affair, complaining of her brother's rudeness to her. The father, instead of appearing angry, took them both on his knees, and with much affection gave them the following advice:-"I would have you both look in the glass every day: you, my son, that you may be reminded never to dishonour the beauty of your face by the deformity of your actions; and you, my daughter, that you may take care to hide the

111. Doer of the Word.-A poor woman in the country went to hear a sermon, wherein, among other evil practices, the use of dishonest weights and measures was exposed. With this discourse she was much affected. The next day, the minister, according to his custom, went among his hearers, and calling upon the woman, he took occasion to ask her what she recollected of the sermon. The poor woman complained much of

her bad memory, and said she had most learned doctor of the city, forgotten almost all that he had who happened to be present, said delivered; "but one thing," said to himself, that a law which taught she, "I remembered: I remem- men such virtue, inspired men bered to burn my bushel." with such unshaken courage, and 112. Equanimity and Persever-gave them so perfect a victory over themselves, could not but be from ance. In compiling that im- God. mense work, the "Synopsis," Poole spent sixteen years, during which time he rose every morning at five, and never dined out once. Having at length finished the work, he went out to enjoy a little rest with a friend, when his wife, in a fit of bad temper, destroyed the MS. On his return, grieved as he was, he simply said, "My dear, thou hast done very wrong;" and next morning rose at four to re-commence his labour," Ma'am, that now almost two and never relaxed till the task was finished the second time.

113. Evenness of Temper. Bishop Burnet declared that during a strict intimacy of many years with Bishop Leighton, he never saw him for one moment in any other temper than that in which he would wish to live and die.

114. Francis Xavier's Example. -Francis Xavier at times received, in the prosecution of his missionary labours, the most mortifying treatment. Preaching in one of the cities of Japan, some of the multitude made sport of him. One man, more wanton than the rest, went to him while he addressed the people, feigning that he had something to communicate in private. Upon his approach, Xavier leaned his head to learn what he had to say. The scorner thus gained his object, which was to spit freely upon the face of the devoted missionary, and thus insult him in the most public manner. The missionary, without speaking a word, or making the least sign of anger or emotion, took out his handkerchief, wiped his face, and continued his discourse, as if nothing had occurred. By such an heroic control of his passions, the scorn of the audience was turned into admiration. The

115. "Freely ye have received, freely give."-On occasion of the arrival, on the coast of S. America, of a body of fresh Negroes who had just been released from the hold of a slave-ship, a female took one of the newly-arrived women under her care. On being asked by Mrs. During, wife of the missionary of that name, what she wanted to do with the woman, she said,

years since we come this country: my countrywoman take me: she Lord Jesus Christ-and that same do me good: she tell me of the to do the same to this woman." they do to me that time, me want

116. Fruits of Christianity.-A converted Hottentot girl, nine years old, was asked how she and her She replied, "We often pray to younger sister spent their time. our Saviour to own us as His children, and to keep us from growing up as children of the devil. Then we sing verses together, which we learn at school. Sometimes we help old mother Lydia to work, and she gives us a piece of bread for our labour, for our parents are are at home, we have to dig for a great way off; and when they roots in the fields to satisfy our hunger, for they are very poor, and have very little to give us."

117. Gentle Response.-The horse of a certain man happening to stray into the road, an "unneighbourly neighbour" put him into the pound. Meeting the owner soon after, he told him what he had done, and added, "If I ever catch him in the road hereafter, I'll do just so again.' "Neighbour," replied the other, "not long since I looked out of my window