O, to be enabled to believe these interesting and unchangeable facts for ourselves!

The servant returns, and the family are relieved. What an interesting scene is here! It is worthy the pencil of an artist. What a flow of feeling. Ministering spirits participate their joy. O, the pleasure which active benevolence communicates and receives. It is doubly blest, and doubly honored. Its rays emanate on the sufferer, and are reverberated on the donor. O yes, to do good, is to get good. The exercise of Christian benevolence, on Christian principles, cannot go unrewarded; "For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His Name, in that ye have ministered to the Saints, and do minister." Heb. vi. 10.

Those who serve in Christian families, "will do well to imitate the praise-worthy example of Mr. Heywood's servant. She, doubtless, felt the authority of God; and she acted under an influential belief of his wisdom and goodness, in those particular instructions, given to persons in subordinate situations. Their obedience must be, the obedience of faith; and, as is the degree of their faith, such will be their obedience. I would, most affectionately, intreat them to turn to the instruc

tions which are given to them. They are. in Ephesians the sixth,, from the fifth to the eighth verse; and, also, in the first Epistle of Peter, the second chapter, and the eighteenth, and nineteenth verses. They are the words of our divine Master, who is in Heaven; and, they should be frequently and deeply considered, by all those to whom they are addressed.

A steady and conscientious regard to them, cannot fail of obtaining, for all Christian domestics, a name, and a praise in the churches; and, also, a highly encouraging sense of the Divine approbation.. Christian servants, God commands, and the Churches expect you to do your duty; "Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free."

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The parting scene, endured for con-science sake, must speak to the bosom of every Christian; and may well humanize, if not christianize the intolerant. what disciple of the meek, and lowly Jesus, imbibing his spirit, can see the heartrending sorrow. of that family, without lifting up his voice on high, that rites, and ceremonies, in matters of religion, (the cause of all this distress) may be left in that natural state of indifference, in which, almost all sensible and candid men confess, it is best they should be left. But

alas, the picture of Non-conformity, has been distorted with frightful deformities, to which it has no resemblance; and, conformity, charged with principles, which it entirely disavows. The hot-headed, and the hard-hearted-the superstitious, and the high-minded, have been the pest of the Church of Christ in all ages. May God cool, and soften, evangelize, and humble them. Amen is resounded from every heart throughout the universe, which bears the impress of the Lamb.

Stern, and unrelenting men, again drive the good man from his home. Like the Father of the Faithful, Mr. Heywood went out, not knowing whither he went. But that God, who never loses sight of any one of his family, conducted the wanderer to the house of a friend. Ah, his eye is, at every instant, on us for good. We may safely confide all to his care; and go on our way, without murmuring or disputing, leaving him to mark out our journey, and our abode.

But the Horse. Yes, the horse and his rider, both moved onward, under the directing eye of God. And, why should it seem a thing incredible, that the horse as well as the man, came within the range of that Providence, which not only weighs the mountains in scales, but also regards

the dust of the balance. As Christians, the object of our faith is, not a mere geneAral superintending Providence, which extends to all things; but a particular Providence, which fits and directs all things to their determined end; causing them all to co-operate for our present and eternal, good. And, while the judgments of God are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out, here, is the anchor of our confidence; and here, alone, is our haven and our rest.

THE PRAYING SHEPHERD.

The Rev. Oliver Heywood, the subject of the preceding article, being once brought into the greatest want of the necessaries of life, told his wife, one day, that he would leave with her and the children, three shillings, which was all the money he had in the world; and would try to get some work as a day labourer. After commending them to God, and praying for divine direction, he called at a number of houses the first day, but could not meet with any employment. He spent the first night in a barn; and was engaged in prayer the greatest part of it. In the morning he again set out with an empty

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belly; and soon arrived at Lord where he enquired of the servants if a labourer was wanted. They answered 66 No." As he was returning, however, from the hall, one of the servant girls said, the shepherd had just before left his place, and if he understood how to take care of the sheep, thought he might meet with employment. Mr. Heywood immediately engaged in the service; and was informed he was to sleep in a little cot, erected for the shepherds at some distance from the house; but that he was to come once a day, for what he wanted, to the hall. A few mornings after, two of the servant girls apparently by accident, rose two hours before the usual time, and as there was no one at hand, to fetch up. the cows, they went into the field for them. But when they drew near to the shepherd's hut, they were struck with the sound of a man's voice, and, to their no small astonishment, found it was that of the shepherd, engaged in prayer to God. At this they were much affected, and, for several weeks, unknown to Mr. Heywood, they used to rise at four o'clock to go to the cot, to hear the shepherd pray, which exercise he was wont to he engaged in every morning till five o'clock. After Mr. Heywood had been in this situ ation a few weeks, the Lady of the fa mily was taken ill, and was expected to die..