applied this to my own case, with a degree of trust and confidence in God that would have been no disgrace to a much more experienced Christian. Instantly I perceived spired or not, she was a messenger of God to my soul; the cloud was dispersed, the chain was broken, and peace and joy returned." 1058. Sinful Sorrow.—-One day in myself a briskness of spirits and when Lady Raffles, while in India, was almost overwhelmed with grief before experienced, and took several a cheerfulness which I had never for the loss of a favourite child, unable to bear the sight of her paces up and down the room with other children or the light of day, joyful alacrity-His gift in whom I trusted. Happy would it have been for me, if this early effort and humbled on her couch with a feeling of misery, she was addressed not God taken him to heaven in all towards the blessed God had been frequently repeated by me; but, alas! it was the first and last instance of the kind between infancy and manhood. The cruelty of this in so secret a manner that no boy, which he had long practised person suspected it, was at length discovered. He was expelled from the school, and I was taken from it." "I'm 1060. Spiritual Riches.-A merchant some few years ago failed in business. He went home in great "What is the matter? agitation. asked his wife. "I am ruined! I am beggared! I have lost my all!" he exclaimed, pressing his hand to his forehead. "All!" said his wife-"no; I am left." "All! papa," said his eldest boy; "here am I." "And I too," said his 1059. Source of Strength.-The little girl, running up and putting poet Cowper gives an affecting her arms round his neck. instance of that mental enthralment not lost, papa," repeated Eddie. which boys of sensitive parts are "And you have your health left," too often doomed to suffer in public said his wife. "And your hands schools, from the arrogance and to work with," said his eldest; cruelty of their senior schoolmates. "and I can help you." "My chief affliction," he says, your two feet, papa, to carry you "consisted in my being singled out about, and your two eyes to see from all the other boys, by a lad with, papa,' said little Eddie. about fifteen years of age, as a "And you have God's promises," proper object upon whom he might said the grandmother. "And a let loose the cruelty of his temper. good God," said his wife. One day, as I was sitting alone on heaven to go to," said his little girl. a bench in the school, melancholy, "And Jesus, who came to fetch us and almost ready to weep at the there," said his eldest. "God recollection of what I had already forgive me!" said the poor mersuffered, and expecting at the same chant, bursting into tears; "I have time my tormentor every moment, not lost my all. What have I lost these words of the Psalmist came to what I have left!" And he into my mind: 'I will not be afraid took comfort, and began the world of what man can do unto me.' afresh. I "And "And 1061. Terrible Trial.-At the feeling but in a low whisper the siege of Barcelona in 1705, Cap-sacred words left her lips, "Thy will tain Carleton witnessed the follow- be done in earth, as it is in heaven." ing affecting fact, which he tells us in his memoirs :-"I saw an old officer, having his only son with him, a fine man about twenty years of age, going into their tent to dine. Whilst they were at dinner, a shot took off the head of the son. The father immediately rose up, and first looking down upon his headless child, and then lifting up his eyes to heaven, whilst the tears ran down his cheeks, only said, "Thy will be done.'" 1062. "Thy Will be Done."There was a little girl who began suddenly to suffer with pain in her head, and at last became quite blind. She was taken to a doctor who was very famous for his skill in treatment of the eye, and he said that she would never see again. When they told her this, she exclaimed, "What, mother, am I never more to see the sun, nor the beautiful fields; nor you, my dear mother, nor my father? Oh, how shall I bear it!" She wrung her hands, and cried bitterly. Nothing seemed to give her any comfort. Presently her mother took a small Bible from the table, and put it in her hands. "What is this, mother?" asked the sorrowful little girl. "It is the Bible, my child." The touch of that book set memory at work, and one passage after another came into her mind, and each one that came brought light with it. Her tears ceased, and she turned her sightless eyes upwards; and then, though all was dark outwardly, the light within made her face to shine with solemn joy, as, with the strongest 1063. Timely Reproof.Mr. Adams, a worthy Quaker of Philadelphia, on a visit to a lady whom he found sitting on a sofa, six months after the death of her husband, in deep sorrow, approached her with much solemnity, and thus faithfully addressed her: So, friend, I see thou hast not yet forgiven God Almighty." This timely reproof had the intended effect, and restored the lady to a becoming submission to God's will. 66 1064. Virtue at the Scaffold. Madame de Bois Berenger, who was confined in the prison of the Luxembourg in 1793, with her father, mother, and a younger sister, did everything in her power to ameliorate their condition, and even deprived herself of a portion of her own sustenance to contribute to their comfort. When the decree of accusation against her family was promulgated, not finding herself included in it, her affliction was excessive; but upon her own denunciation arriving, an access of joy succeeded the paroxysms of grief. Upon the day appointed for their execution she cut off her hair and dressed herself as if going to a fete. On her way thither, Madame de Bois Berenger supported her mother, and with angelic sweetness said, “Be composed, my dearest parent, nor let an emotion of regret accompany you to the tomb. You have all your family with you: to you they look up for consolation, since your virtues are about to receive the recompense they merit, in the mansions of innocence and peace." RESURRECTION. Job xix. 25-27; Psalm xvi. 9, xlix. 15; Luke xx. 35-38; Acts xxiv. 15; Rom. viii. 19-23; 1 Cor. xv. 32, 40-44; Rev. xx. 6. 1065. Doctrine of the Resurrection; the island of Barbadoes, containProved. While a Naval officer ing two hundred Negro boys and was inspecting one of the schools in girls, a sign was made by one dead shall arise.' 'Will my father arise ?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'your father will arise.' Will all the slain in battle arise?' 'Yes.' 'And will all that have been killed 6 of the children, by holding up his hand, intimating that he wished to speak to the master. On going up to the child, who was somewhat more than eight years of age, the master inquired what was the and devoured by lions, tigers, matter. "Massa," he replied, with a look of horror and indignation which the officer said he should never forget, and pointing to a little boy of the same age, who sat beside him-" Massa, this boy says he does not believe in the resurrection." "That is very bad," said the master; "but do you, my little fellow," addressing the young informer, "believe in the resurrection yourself?" "Yes, massa, I do." hyenas, and crocodiles, again revive?' 'Yes; and come to judgment.' And will those whose bodies have been left to waste and to wither on the desert plains, and scattered to the winds, again arise?' he asked me with a kind of triumph, as if he had now fixed me. Yes,' I replied, not one will be left behind.' This I repeated with increased emphasis. After looking at me for a few moments, he turned to his people, to whom he spoke with stentorian voice: 'Hark, ye wise men, whoever is among you, the wisest of past generations, did ever your ears hear such strange and unheard-of news?' Makaba then, turning himself to me, and laying his hand on his breast, said, "But can you prove it from the Bible?" "Yes, massa: Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and in another place, 'Because I live, ye shall live also.' The master added, “Can you prove it from the Old Testament also ?"Father, I love you much. "Yes; for Job says, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.' And David says, in one of his psalms, 'I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness." "But are you sure these passages are in the Bible? Here is a Bible, point them out to us." The little boy instantly found all the passages and read them aloud. Your presence and your visit have made my heart white as milk. The words of your mouth are sweet as honey, but the words of a resurrection are too great to be heard. I do not wish to hear again about the dead rising. The dead cannot arise! The dead must not arise!' 'Why,' I inquired, can so great a man refuse knowledge, and turn away from wisdom? Tell me, my friend, why I must not add to words, and speak of a resurrection?' Raising and uncovering his arm, which had been strong in battle, and shaking his hand as if quivering a spear, he replied, 'I have slain my thousands, and shall they arise ?'" 1066. Moffat and the African Chief. "Sitting down beside the great man, Makaba," says Mr. Moffat, "illustrious for war and conquest, and amidst nobles and counsellors, 1067. Polynesian View of the including rain-makers and others Resurrection.-Some Polynesian of the same order, I stated to him Christians were once asked if they that my object was to tell him my believed in the resurrection. They news. In the course of my remarks, replied, "Yes, most certainly." the ear of the monarch caught the " In what body shall we rise?" startling sound of a resurrection. was then inquired. They answered, 'What,' he exclaimed with as-"In a chapter in the Corinthians tonishment, what are these words it is said, It is sown a natural about? The dead, the dead arise?' body, it is raised a spiritual body.'" 'Yes,' was my reply, all the The questioner would not be satis fied; he required to know the One who had been too poor to put up an engraved brass plate, or even a painted board, had written with ink on paper the birth and death of the being whose remains were below, and this had been fastened to a board and mounted on the top of a stick at the head of the grave, the paper being protected by a little edge and roof. Such was the simple remembrance; but Nature had added her pathos, for under the shelter by the writing a caterpillar had fastened itself, and passed into its death-like state of a chrysalis, and having ultimately assumed its final state, it had 1068. Symbol of Resurrection. winged its way from the spot, and The writer of " Faraday's Life had left the corpse-like relics supplies us with the following: The behind. How old and how beautichurchyard at Oberhofen, Switzer- ful is this figure of the resurrection! land, was beautiful, and the simpli- Surely it can never appear before city of the little remembrance-posts our eyes without touching the set upon the graves very pleasant. thoughts. REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS. Psalm lviii. 11; Proverbs iii. 35; 1 Cor. iii. 21; Ephes. i. 26; Rev. xxii. 3,4. Deut. vii. 10; Psalm ix. 17; Prov. i. 24-31; Mark xvi. 16; Heb. ii. 3; Rev. xxi. 8. 1069. Baseness its own Punish- Job soon afterwards arrived in this ment. An African youth, Job country, and was introduced at Ben Solomon, son of the High Priest Court, where he was generously of Bundo in Forta, was travelling received by the Royal Family, and on the south side of the Gambia, most of the principal nobility, who in the year 1731, when he was honoured him with many marks of robbed, seized, and sold as a slave their favour. After he had conto an American captain, who carried tinued in England about fourteen him to Maryland. Job, on his months, Job resolved to return to arrival in Maryland, was sold to a his native land, from an carnest planter, who finding him a youth desire which he had to see the of very distinguished abilities, High Priest, his father. On his treated him with great respect, and leaving England he was loaded with at the expiration of twelve months presents from the Royal Family, undertook to forward a letter of the nobility and the African ComJob's own writing, in the Arabic pany, the latter of which ordered tongue, to Mr. Oglethorp in England, their agents on the African coast to whose fame as a friend of humanity show him the greatest attention. pointed him out as the likeliest Job arrived at James Fort on the person to effect the restoration of 8th of August, 1734, at which time an unfortunate captive to his native Mr. Moore, then in the service of country. Mr. Oglethorp, on re- the African Company, was at ceiving the letter, immediately sent that place. A relation of what out instructions for the ransom of followed after the first interview Job and his conveyance to England. between Mr. Moore and Job has been published by the former, and tation reaching the ears of Peter from it we extract the following the Great, he raised him to the very interesting account: "Job, rank of Chief Judge, or Governor having a mind to go up to Joar to of the province of Novogorod. On talk with some of his countrymen, appointing him to this office, his went along with me. We arrived Majesty declared to him in the at the creek of Damofeusa; and most formal manner, that he had having some old acquaintances at as much confidence in his integrity the town of that name, Job and I as in his skill in settling disputes went there together. In the impartially; and that he trusted he evening, as we were sitting under would continue to distribute justice a great tree, there came six or in a disinterested manner throughseven of the very people who three out the extent of his jurisdiction. years before had robbed Job and The new judge faithfully discharged sold him into slavery. Job, affect- his duties for some time, but after ing not to know them, asked them a few years had elapsed it was some questions about himself, which publicly reported that he received they answered according to the presents, that he perverted the truth. At last he inquired how laws, and committed flagrant acts the king, their master, did. They of injustice. Peter, who flattered answered that he was dead. himself that he had not been de'Dead!' exclaimed Job, how did ceived in his choice, considered it he die?' 'Among the goods,' at first a calumny, but on making replied they, for which he sold the necessary inquiry found that poor Job to the American captain, the judge, upright as he had thought there was a pistol, which the king him, was no longer so; but that, used commonly to wear suspended corrupted by presents, he had more by a sling about his neck; and the than once made a trade of justice. pistol, being loaded, one day acci- The monarch determined on quesdentally went off, and the balls tioning the judge, who confessed lodging in his throat, he presently that he had suffered himself to be died.' Job was so transported at seduced by bribes in several affairs the close of this story, that he im- submitted to his judgment, and mediately fell upon his knees, and that he had pronounced sentences returned thanks to Mahomet, for contrary to law. On being remaking his persecutor die by the proached by the Czar, he pleaded very goods for which he sold him the lowness of his salary, which into slavery. Job then, turning to would not enable him to provide Mr. Moore, said, 'You see now, Mr. anything for his wife and children, Moore, that God Almighty was dis- or permit him to live in a condition pleased at this man's making me suitable to the rank to which he a slave, and therefore made him had been raised. "How much, die by the very pistol for which he then," said the Czar, "would it sold me. Yet ought I to forgive require to put you above the neceshim, because, had I not been sold, sity of receiving presents and makI should neither have known any- ing a trade of justice?" "Twice thing of the English tongue, nor the income I enjoy at present," have had any of the fine, useful, and answered the judge. "Will that valuable things I have brought with be sufficient," said the Czar, "to me, nor have known that there enable you to discharge the duties is such a place in the world as noble of your office with fidelity?" The England, nor such good and gene-judge declared it would, and pledged rous people as I have met there."" 1070. Corrupt Judge.-There was at Moscow a very learned counsellor in the law, whose repu himself to future good conduct. "Well, then," said the Czar, “I pardon you for this time; you shall enjoy double your present salary, and I will add to it half as much |