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' BY D. W. IMS, STATE PMNTBR. RVBRY FRIDAY MORNING I |(Mlwi)Nf <w wttitt t jHyiWf nl #rf?r Doltur$,.M!/mbUa( ihtt%4of\ _JB* I ADVMRTI&tMGMT$\%*<rlti mtlk* iuumlrdtt. ^BwiiAlfEOPI. J ' A TALE. There lived, in | pretty rural village, a industrious, sensible end oonteut of Derby and Susan. cottage thatstood betide the vil , withthe awseroee-bush and the befxe It, and the ere veiled peth n, . iroWsofbox thet led to He rustic f and the honeysuckle climbing over wails, till it hair hid the little arched vindoei and stretched ite fragrant tendrils up to the brown tlist^h?thst was their cottage. It wee their garden that looked so gay and neat behind that pretty cottage;' end it was their cow that fed in tho little pasture beside it. Darby and Susan were, in truth, a nota ble and a happy couple. Nobody brought such sweet scented hay to market as hon est Darby, for so his neighbors were wont to call him; aud not undeservedly; for no body nve justcr weight or toller measure than he, in ell tho country round. Susan's tame had gone far and wide. She was a very pattern of housewifcs; up with the day, at work Uko her own bees, and as merry as the Isrk whon it rises in the sum mer sunbeams. No honey was so trans parent as that from Susen's hives; no cheese or butter, in all tho parish, so good, as that sho made. Her 'kerchief was the Whitest at the village festival, and her step the lightest at tho village dance. You might hear, as you passed her door, tlie busy hum of her wheel: and no lass, within twenty miles of that village, spun a smooth er thread or a stronger. You might hear, too, at intervals, a song whoso merry tones cheered your very heert; and that was Su san's, the sweetest and the blithcet singer In all tho country sido. Darby always found a well-swept hearth and a blazing fire and a pair of laughing ojn, when Tie returned from market, cold and weary. And a blacinfdre and laugh ing eyes are excellent specifics against care ami dullness As he sat, in the Ions win ter evenings, platting willow baskets, while his notable partner spread the apotless nap kin and arranged Ma frugal aupper, you might acarcely chance upon a happier man. And, after aupper, when Susan always sung her merriest ditties, Darby would lis ten tor hours, and forget to tell the atrokes of the village clock. He was surely not aentimental, and he had heard all her songs forth" hundreth time. Yet would bis neighbours roguishly tell, that as they tfoffead before Darby 'a window A catch the ait words of some favorite old ballad, they had seen him lay down hia half-Anish nd basket, and slip behind Susans chair, to with almost as much fondness, uly with leas awkward baah whenhe atole the first from i within the cottage?on Dar J? in Susan* garden, eve oke 0ia carefld eye and the bu tt* possessors. Their thoughts, it* red in thqjr pleasant homo; > world beyond, It was to them " sted not, except when Dsr ?a's panniers, and proceeded io produce or their industry, r the thousandth time with wonder on the marvels and . ... ra of a market town. Yet, ?vcn tbete, Darby aeldom saw a merrier ?ye or a rosier cheek than hia pretty Su san's, and seldom found a neater garden or a tidior home than hia own: and so Darby ?was not given to inconstancy. Thus passed their quiet lives, without tfcar for the Aiture or regret for the past; With scarealy a wish !>oyond their little tas,and scarcely a care beyond the .hour. They lived in the preaent, Joyed it, undisturbed by dreams of inheritance, either in this world or the Jtext Itchanced, ono dark November evening, that % (trfnier rode into (ho village. lie ?won a long ?lack Kpeniah-looking cloak: and the hoy*, attracted by the unusual Might: followed him to the door of the vil wp inn, where be alighted. Aa he ent?r ca the busy kitchen, he threw aside lib up* per garment, discovering beneath a drrss of the same colour, very plainly cut and aosaswhatthreadbare. Therewasameiry S gathered round a fire that biased nnd led a* a November firo ought; and the officious landlady placed a chair tor the stranger, who saluted the circle with a solemn "God !?? with you!" and then aeated himself in fiilonco. The laugh and tho jest were hushed in a moaaent; eaHi jogged his neighbor with a aide glance at their visitor; and, after a few commonplace* about the weather and the crsaa, first ono and then another rose and " Who can ho bol" said tho landlady to bar holp-mato, as the last guest prepared toretire j "Ask him," was tho laconic reply. But this was not so easy, even for the asMvance U Mrs. Margery. Her Arst re taark about the weather was answered in a monosyllable; and there the conversation ended, lor tho landlady thought, assiie ex pressed it afterwards, ?? that lit* was an tin ?vorafbrtabh> looking man;" and so *he smothered her curiosity, and left hiin to his own meditations. Margery's remark was not inapplicable to fbt stranger. His figure was tall and span, and he fttoo|>ed from his shoulders. Gats waa imprinted on the wrinkled brow, over which his straight black hair was for combed: and care and restlessness i his dark grey eyea. There was a .absent, uneasy, swimming en pre* IV about those eyes. You might at |V* Imagitfejl they wrfre turned on tan man, rawer than ?iccupied in | outoird objects; so dead and un hay saomcl. Ami then again you W fcljiflnssil that tliey looked I vulgar realities of sense to some a vaguer naturo, distant and long ><! unseen; fetln tlic ftrouent fix*d neasof his esse, there Was rather the ex ntement ofeag^r and dlasstirfM expect*. tkw.than tha I P<T2)uStbeU?igi EdtbatalHbSaSI flections ptntd (brouih Msreerr1* brain, ?nd nlicitaJ tfct ftwitf) U|tftw ho via id uncomfortable-looking nu," Noj ^ wm not om of tbaee who look bejrotxl tko outwtrd fthow: hut the outward flkow of Oiat pale, thin ?l?git and fannt %uia, And,' In trutfi, the ippwrnaoa of the inuiK did not bolto Mo tvoettkw. Hb labors and hit thought* wore not of thio world. His body, indeed. sojourned on our earth, tat Me spirit had wandered out iof it. He walked through life with the careless inditfrrenoe of a hasty pilgrim, who scarcely bestows a glance or a thought Ion the sconce that open around bias: so deeply and solely occupiod is his imagina tion with other fands and feture prospects. I Ho walked through life, not only without j tasting its ioys, hut even unconscious that i it eootained any. As be oonceivcd it the duty, so he made it the business of his life, to render others aa careless of timo and its labors and its pleasures, and aa oarethl for eternity as he was himself. In a word, he was a preacher?a aealous, enthusiastic, untiring, consistent nroacher. ? The morning after hit arrival, Join, tho tdwn-crier sallied forth with a manuscript in one hand, and his well known bell in the other. Jem was considered, and he con sidered himself, a scholar. Vet he conned hit task for the space ot several minutes, puzzling over the hurried abbreviations it contained, and tho blots that disfigured it, before he contrived to inform tho curious and inipationt crowd which liad meanwhile gathered around him, " that a friend to tho welfare of thoir eternal souls would meet them, God willing:, in tho parish church, an hour before curfew." " Darby," said Susan, as they returned to their cottage, after hstoning to Jem's oratory, 14 what docs all this moanV " Did not you hear what Jem aidl" re joined her partner. " To be sure I did. He said somebody would meet us in the church. lint what ran we do in the church to-day 1 It's only Thursday. What could tlio man mean!" " llo meant what he said," replied Dar by vory sagely. " lln meant, that some body would preach in the church tonight." " La! Darby! Tonight! on Thursday night!" '' Why notV j " Why notl How droll you arc! Who ever heard of preaching oxcept on Sun-' (Uy 1 What would bo the use of it V " Tho unci M'hy, what's tho use of it on SundavsV' " On fie! Darby. Y mi know it'H/u'o'irr to preach on Sunday ; and you know it's ftrofier ibr us to go to church then, Hut we nocd not go today." " No," said Darl>y, as they entered ttnr cottage, "we need not." " But inuKt I put on my Sumlav (town if I got" And Susan carefully took down a new straw bonnet with bright yellow rib bon* that hung, pinned up in a white hand kerchief, against the wall. " Just as you like." said Daibr ? " But wont the neighbont laugh it I wear my Sunday bonnet on a Thursday V per siided SuHan; at tho same time smoothing and adjusting tho rumpled bows. " I dont know," replied he. " But if it* proper to prcach to-day," reasoned Susan, " It must be proper to wear a Sunday bonnet tco." " I ?vpposcao," taid Darby. " Then tot's go." said Susan. "Ml put off my churning till to-morrow, and iron a clean shirt lor you; and vou'll come home at Are o'clock; and we'll drees, and go." Susan waa not tho only one who was startled at this innovation on week day cus toms. The villagora generally did not] know what to make of it. Their own cu rate, a quiet, easy good-tempered soul, who | led his parivhonerx to arrango their eternal concerns, each according to his own fancy, | never preached but once a weok, on Sun day morning; and no itenerant preacher had ever yet visited tho remote village. But a few of the more travelled having averred that, in other towns ami villages, they had heard men preach on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Friday, and, indeed they believed, on every day of the week, tho map could ijority concluded that, at least, there lid be no great harm in it, though it was Thursday. So the day *? work was hurried over: and at six o'clock, the church was nearly filled. If you had chanced to walk into that old cathedral-looking building, with ita an cient grey aisles, and ita wall worn atono door, and ita small-paned roth in window*, ?on a fine Sunday morning at half pa it' ten o'clock, you might have witnessed a chcerful if not a merry scene. An the oantrm sun-beams streamed, in checkered rays, through the dunky pile, and fell on tho face* and forma of the aasemlded audience with all the painting-like effect of bold broad light* and shadee, you might liave fancied each quiet ailent group, a study for a master's pencil. It was not tlie silence of gloomy contemplation. There yras alill expression enough to intereat the specta tor. The hale, entiling old dame, her anow-white cap peeping from beneath her ancient Ixmnet, ant thinking over the tale of olden timea which ahe had been relating to a neighbor gossip as they had walked slowly together to the house of prayer.? 'Hie halM?a*hful, half-laughing lass still pondered orer the homely jokes and rustic effort a at gallantry, with which her favor ed swam had wiled away their morning's at roll; while he sat in a neighbouring pew, hie bee turned towards her, and hie eyes, it would seem, intently fixed in stu dy, an old dark-red, well-worn prayer book, wSieh he held up before him with both hands: although as hie sister who sat next him archly told after they left the ehurch, " Harry's prayer-book was turned up side down, and you could see him look ing over it, just as their old grandmother looked up over her spectaelea at theminis ter, when he begun ntosermon." And if, m HwMrrko inmmM. Dm v? rious nptwlom Mobeml down into tlw vacant look of IwiMOrann, or Into th? drowajr. half rupm?d yawn, Btitt there waa nothing liko M?*tfc frarHrot bigots wretffcr of id *1! that ront rr tar. Hi?ten4overtheserviceef thedey In the MM toMOf voice (only snmiwbet shriller Ifed weaker) and with the very sooent im tB?r>KMn? ?4 he had reed it tffMtjr tmii before. He wm a wry regular man, that jolly curate; regular at Ms meek, regular in liis yearly visits to hit ^phionerw, above all regular in hia aer-i pa. Ilk stock of senuoos held out pre-1 ply two years: and so acrupuloualy did I l| good man adhere to the order of which be hadooce for all prescribed to K that several of Ids veteran parkh. were able to fort el, with uosrriag Icy. not only the text, but even the P of the ?ermon, before they entered thtehurch: an eflbrt of memory which ob tained for them no little share of respect nn( admiration from their juniors in age anl experience. Veil might the appearance of the reve rent Htrungcr, then, form en era in the vil hiatory; and little wonder that older eager head* than the .pretty Kuean'a ero puzzled to conceive wliat it could can. They had gone to churrb all their vet on Sunday morning, becaune. as Bu rn eaid. It was proper to go. Their curate read prayers and sermon* to them, be b it wss proper for a curate to do so, they had returned home hatifttted to re completed their Sunday morning'soc ition. To havo absented themiielvc*, Id have been very wrong and wicked; iuao Sunday morning wan meant for pie to go to church in: and Suxsn would tout as noon have omitted to feed and her favorite cow, or l)arhy have fori en liiii regular trip to market, as that |er had mhwod their weekly dovotionn. ?tThurwlay wan not meant for a prcach> inklay; and, even if it bad been, it wan not a danger'* business to preach to them. Os old inan observed, that, for Iim part, holished people would be content, as their Gitlni and mothers had done beforu them, to It every day to its proper uto; while an<ler remarked, that ho tnought it little betlthan sabbath-breaking to employ the chilli (.a a week da v. ill curiosity ultimately silenced all scruVs. Tliey woro to licur a sermon whil tho oldest parishioner lia<l never hearttuforc; and thu very text oi which theyfcro unable lo foretel. Tho appear ance I tho preacher, too, as ho had saun tered! reverie through tho villuguduring the (okoon. had aw aliened an iutoreMt not I unmix with dread, so dark and severo lookinku doomed; ho totally iliflerent from I their ok good, cany pastor. " !)??," haid Susan a* they entered tho chil. " in not it for all the world like Sunday! ft'* very droll. I'm sure I shall lotto coil of (ho days thin wook altogether. I shall Uhinkiug that to-morrow's Mon day; amtaro say 1 shall forget my churn ing, for it know I never churn on Mon day"? \ ?? HusA kuiiI her partner; omU* point ed to tho kro, htooning torin of tlio gran ger as? ho la ncod to the ttepiof tho pul pit. " Ui and wit down.'* It uoudf&iot a warning to Mrjnior Huiau'a lo4ciiy. Her eye* met t1i<>*> ??t tho Turuaef and nhe thrunk lack in actual tcmioin that unearthly, ascetic gw. \ If the fttrApv'ft appearance had awak ened curiosilnd fixed attention, the man net and theyttcr of hi* delivery were well calculate,, confirm *he impression. After a few (iitea, past, apparently, in allentdcvotioiL suddenly rose, stretched forward hie lolhin armc, clovcd hit eye*, a?id in a low, *oVn, earnest trrnr.commenc ed an ex tempi prayer. Hi* audience waa clectrifitdAcarcely one among the number knew tHL|1Cre were any prayers hot those contuirajn their pra)cr book*; and, nnder othe?Vcum8taiirr?, perhaps, they might have In scaiidulizsd to hear a man address the ity in other word* than those the church 1 sanctified; and ad dress him, too, inloneof mingled com plaint and confident flut the preacher'* earnest sincerity, al}, impressive man per. extinguished eY. feeling of di?ap Inroval, and carried (hearers along with dm. As he bccaffl4||iHl to animation, and in empassloned \n\* culled on him who rideaon the tcmw.| w'mK mid speak* In its thunders, to Ih\(|i? heavens and I come down among th&fu| n-catures of | his hand; to snatch the|0m the e\ll| and miseries that await th^ ! ner, and to reaeue th that yawned before thera involuntarily followed tH eyes, half expecting an tion of the divine preae and when at last he clow aat in silent and breatl what they next might h< Tne preacher'* text wak,n Matthew, | ('hap. 16, Ver. 26. num /ini/i | tnl if he ffain the whofe f<^\ond /o?e him ori'ti koul, or what thall a /w Cx- j change for hU toulf" \ He read hi* text twice, IVd, looked i on the assembled audience, timed with ' a mixed feeling of sorrow nntVrcst, and j then proceeded! y ?There whs a man who waitd into a ? Strang'' country. He foynd it Lpm* mid j fertile, its ficras f-dr tothceyeuts pie.*- j sur? * pleasant to the sense*. 1S? a man who loved his fellow mortals a wished them welli and who felt in Ma 11 K w;| lingnecs to sacrifice much lor tlnhappi nc*?. He remarket!, that the Rdtimt* of that country were continually tglng; no one remained there more tha* day, and that day each usually spent Wmg and feaatlm| and making merry I his friends. On the morrow he |**Vay, and the next day his very exbteWM forgotten. This grieved that MM Ly. dent heart i ho anught to diseover%,er these travellers went, and what b?\ ^ tftem. ?'After much diligent enquiry, that they all joatntyed toward* a Icy, the eMftuiee to which wae goodly garde**t*e and teaming of ?i>ke?t bat wit Wn there wae a 1 growth of thorn* and r.y preteee) ended as of midnight, even when the sun weal cut, and a demp chilly air, even when t rter area lalrmt and wemeet. lie I jworad lb thoomind InhahjUnt? ncvt r, ne ver to return. WKh muck labor and dlA> eulty he penetrated ita m\lm ijloorh, wl discovered* th.t ItUrm.utnl l.i ? frigtful on davtiB lwM d^aern rk*J I U?'in ardy ttynjaMiit* ware twwrWd in| ek?kv, aad below he aaw a bnrntng fake that extended further than hit algfct might Ircach, nnd from nil that wfclolaka thera arose clay and night, without ? piteous groans and th? roovir tiorni of tboaetbutweretorm] iftagw it? "It (Mined <b? good man at hit heart to k? the writhing* and tosslngs of hopeless wtvtchedMM hi that scorching, unquench able lahc; and to hear the ceaaeleea moan lags that arooe from hs fiery waters. So he Mood by the entrance of the valley, beside Its grmcs of spier* and Its joMljr garden tree*. ami cried alnud to those that would ri.'cr in, wtintiiiK them of the burning pre ciplcc uimI tbc lake of fire below. would ye know more of that fair laud, and it* paMitij; inhabitant*, and it* dark valley * Look ar?und ye, tetlow C hristinns! Ye it here. This world is the country wliottr fields ate fair to the eye, nnd lujnys pica tan t to the uninc*. Ye ere its Inhabi tant*; end the short day that ye spend in tinging and making merry, that is your eurtbly llle* The valley of cypresses and gt?om Is the valley of the shadow ot death, and the Amy precipice beyond opens Into the great eternal hell. I?I am tliat man that ktands at the entrance ot the valley, crying aloud to you to turn back while there is yet time, that ye may save your undying souls. 1 cry to ye, ns a further to hi* children, a? h brother to hi* brethren. 1 till yc, thnt valley is before yo?. Ye will die; ye know j yc will. Ye will sleep the colli, dull sleep; ~nml where will your waking be? Your bodies will perish; where will your touU *xlsl? Poor, thoughtless, misguided mortals!? Yc take thought for this life. Yc cure for your bodice. For them ye labor; for t'uem ye spend y.mr time and your talents; for them?that ?hull return tomorrow to the dust whrncc they were formed. And ye tnkc no thought, not care, for > our prcciou* imperishable souls. I Can ye itiiH^inc :t being whose life should | he extended one million times beyond the I term of your earthly existence? Can ye | imagine micIi ft btlng giving nil ItU thought* | nnd time nnd substance toincrease the enjoy ? ; ment of one little, short moment of his en during life, n moment so hrief that our ten sen should scarcely note it* duration; nnd wilfully easting from him, for the sake of that brief moment's enjoyment, the perfect happiness of a tuillion of centuries? Can ye imagine a being s.. utterly childish, so blind so mad as this.' Yet kin h being* ye ore. 'I he smallest, shortest moment that your scin>ea can tinguUh, when compared to a million of centuries, t* a thousand time* longer than this life compared to eternity. Yet fir that tingle, petting moment ye live, ye care, ye Iniim; nr. .I ye are content to be tormented through the million of centuries. Are ye not dtildiah and blind and mad.' Ye will tell me that yc hope to cscape fntu hell; un.l after hnving cheriihed your bodice here, to save your souls hereafter.? Ye cnuld fir*t enjoy* Karth, ami tbeu win Heaven. Ye give Mammon six days, and ye think to prnpltiate God by giving him the seventh. But be not deceived; no man can serve two ?aater>t eo neither can ye serve Clod and Mammon. Between (iod end Mammon, therefore, ye have to choose. Said 1 ye Aove to thmt? nay rather, yr have choxn. Aim! wne, woe for yonr choice! When the day ??f rcpeo* taucr i* panned, and the torments of eterni ty are upon ye, then shall yc know und feel the chotec ve have made! Think,ye that 1 speak harsh I v and unad* \iscdly, uml that I condemn yo without* reason > I would to (Jml it were no. I would to God that I cuuld look among ye And find ouc righteous man?one that pre fer* God to Mammon, one thiit labor* for heaven, one that thinks and speak* lor eter nity. But 1 look in ?ain. Ve will remind me, perhaps, that ye fre quent this holy place imi tlie Hist day of the *eek; that yeprav, it may lie, once n day; tlmt ye succour tnc poor and the naked; that > e reveret.ee the church'* creed, and give the tenth of your subsistence to support her minister*. And these nre your claim* to the favor of the Most High* these are your titles to k place in Hi* paradise? Ve I* ol* and blind ? Which of you, If he lovt even a sinful fellow- crcaturv, will be satis fied to tree .*lve n tithe of hi* lieatt In return? Is \ our earthly time so valuable that ye cannot give but a seventh to your Maker*? Ate y?air worldly goods so precious that ve uannot devote bnt one tenth to Httn who gave ye all thing*? Trifle not thus with holy things, ye frail worms of the dust?? (>ive your time, your talent*, your substance your exertions? give your all to God: in hit. s ir red caused latior night and d*y; for him Mcriftce your case, your comfort,' your tem poral happiness,?your worthless, mortal life. Ami know, that when ye have done all, ye are but wicked und unprofitable ser- . vants still; still burdened with a debt that : ye can never liquidate. Hut insult not the* Most 1Iij.lt with a pit tance of your time and your thoughts <iu< I our money. Shall Mmninoi lie nvrviti, rvt, and would ye have the Almighty ohi tent to accept w It at Mammon iltnnaea to leave Rtntf Yu Tools mid ungrateful! In whom do ye live and move and have your liciiiK- From whom do ye draw health and wealth and happineW Who gave you thb fair world, and endowed you with Cm* coltkn to perceive and with aenaea to enjoy it' Waa It not thoGod of your tathera? And Htm, juat Heavens! film ye would po*t pone to the sordid iimrtiU of you* gvo* vellln IpMMcni! Ye would aoek meat and drink and raiment, the luat of the eye and the pride of life?oil before your graekma Hen eh* tor! For thoeo yo would employ your tlx day*, for three you would ftpeiw; nine tenth* of your auhrtaftoe, and yo Ima gine that the rook wW euMce to puretmeo If raven! ^ And do ye JPk employ the six day*, and do ye not so spend ainetentht of your lr?h*toncc* Ar*ver to ymr ???? Ueart#, SSjSJS; ^ssm%s7rs: X: 5s'I"? sUclss^mI1?*^ Whllt oarelesayotfband buoyant health ?at your*, y? inayevaie the question or re ^lltoUCaUely. Oat ? <tayot reflection will come?ey, and a day oc retribution. When age and dclcnm press upon ye, when ye hear a Mill small voicecalllngye toy oar long home ye will peace, alas I too late. Yourconeeience I vlll tell yon, that ye lived for thin life and scarcely cared for the next.' It will tell yon I thut every moment of your Uvea, every thoughtof your hcarta; every emotion of your souls, every portion of your ptoperty, every exertion of your faculties^ ever)* effort of y?*ir Industry ought to havx brum cod's; nnd It will tell you, that they wkrk NOT OOU's. ? ! 11 six dayt only of evory week were con i ?c<-rated to religion mm) nine tenth* ouly of . y our substance devoted to her feervice, while the seventh day and the tenth of your world ly good* were spent in earthly pursuit* well might the Deity oomplain that he was robbed b\ the creatures orhli hand of a por tion of that which belongs exclusively to him; and well might ye l>c taxed, like Ana nlas and Sapphlra, with inlquitously keep ing back a part ot God'shcritancc; and well might yo be reminded, even then, that ye gave to the care of the body that which ought to have been given to the care of the soul alone. Dut how shall 1 find *ords to paint the sordid impiety that fills this vain earth,tfay after day, with worldly thoughts and worldly carts, und worldly hopes, and worldly enjoyments? Ye punish with dis gracc and death the man Who robs a fellow creature of hie miserable substance; how ?ball those sacrilegious robbers be treated, who steal from the Deity, day by (lay, and year by year, tho time aod the property that is lib. Ye treat with Indignant scoin the wretch that should be entrusted by a mortal benefactor with worthless, worldly rlchc, and should basely betray the trust. In what terms will ye cur*e li'm, whose impious ingratitude betrays the trust of our immortal Benefactor, and appropriates to secular purposes the talents that were lent to him, that he might win n place among the happy in paradise? But yc need not punish, ye need not curse the wrctcb. Punishment and curse are al? ready meted out to him. Already is the eternal flame kindled) already does the pit yawn for its victims! And ?oon shall those victims feel what it is,?to be tormented of God! Have ye ever thought-Poor,sinful worm* ?have ye ever thought what it won, to feel the Almighty'? vengeance; to feel the fiery worm gnawing at your maddening hearts; to feel the burning pulwe throbbing through J our glowing velo% to pray with phrensted ro patience for death, yet not to find it; to long, with a lover** hxjging, for annihila tion, yet not to obtain it; to cry through mil lions of centuries for one moment'* respite from vour racking pains, and to know ni su redly that millions and million* of auch periods Mull approach, and arrive, and past away, yet never bring that one mitigating moment; to feel that a hope of relief so dis tant that your reason refuses to comprehend the intervening period?to feel that even auch a (hint hope would afford you extatic bliss, and then to know that you can never ?never hope again! Soon, soon shall ye feci and know what it Is. The great gulf is l>eforc you. The prccipice open* at your feet! 1 see it! I feel l?* hot breath! Great God!"? Kxccssof emotion stopped the preacher** utterance. He covered hlsfacc with his hands and sunk back in the pulpit. A cold shudder pawed over his audience. The men gazed uround them in vacant terror} the women sobbed aloud. Susan, who, in the excitement which the stranger'* orato ry produced, had involuntarily stood ut> that she might not lose a syllable which fell from his lips, now sunk back; and, scarcely conscious of what she 'did clung imploringly to her scarcely less terrified partner. At Inst, with nu almost convul sive effort she whispered to him, ?*Ohl take me home!" "I cannot," ejaculated Dar by, ??I cannot. See! he is going to speak ?gain!" The wild, pieiclng tones of the orators voice sunk to un expression of softness and comnassion, as, aftee an interval, he pro ceeded. "Poor, perishing, lost sinner*! My henrt yearns towards ye. My spirit mourns for your fate. I see ye hurried onward, as a lamb to the slaughter, unconscious what ye arc, unconscious whither ye go. I see ye stand on the very brink of your eternal des tine. A breath, a touch?-..nd your earth ly footing will crumble from beneath you, ami j ?* will sink down, despairing, to un eartblv, unending torments. I see ye care less, eiieerful, smiling; and oh! too well I knov.- the change th.K shall come over thnt earv!< -xM ijrer'atm ?\andturntheseth'<uglit )(????. smMr ?? Xn sighs of agony. It breaks my j i 'V,t lt irn>wii!>? thought; it cloud* my ? i ii'vj :t wi -.ind* my heart. Shall I sit down m t, nod think that, when the angelic iuc* Kilmers l?ci?r nty spirit to the realms ,Vi-\ <. i shall look across the great gulf and witne-s vour tortures? It may not bej In hem n 1 may lose the sympathy that himN mc t" '?? inp.s of nature like to mv own) but on earth 1 eun netei lease to feel, to mourn, to warn, to pity them. Ye might yet escape. Weak, sinful as ye are, ye might vet, per chance, save y?air Imperishable souls. Kre ye reach yourloug hornet, ye might yet turn aside. Hut alts fbryel woe for yout- earthly passions! woe, yet more* for your Ittkewartnnes* and your inconsistency! flow straight la the gate, how narrow the wav, how hard Is It to en ter the kingdom of Heaven! A-n.l?h! hew vain the attempt to c#1l n??Mly ?ptftts off from worldly pursuit*, and fix mortal thoughts CM tha concern* of Immortality! Nor may y* halt between two opinion *. Expect hot that earth and Hefc^en can bo*> be yours. ('boose bit ween them: himI ?t#r.d tr> j ttir c!f!:c. Well did t'i* Sin prove, Rmt kk 'A. fcjrUw ***** ***< ? *?**?? not oMhoor la dav. bdt T???XTrf "? *?" 1 *?IL T * ' lit.' ? nth aid thefov/U of the abr: fori not, neither ao they reuft, nor r burnt; yet your hemventy /kU them, jfre ye not much better than they/. Alas for ye! How does every act loo cif your lives and every thought and care of your heart* offend against your heavenly teacher I Do ye not dally* hourly ttk'o thought foe your lite? Are ye not' ttfintaf-' ed and troubled about many thing*, think-' ing what ye shall eat, what ye shall drittU and what ye shall put on? And la not this expressly, positively forbidden by Je-' vus Cnrist himself? Eternal perdition Oil your bu*y selfishness, that blind ynuik eyes to the law of the Most High* an<l closes your ears to the gracious words of our merciful Savior! But toad further; listen while he repeats the heavenly pre cept, which ye arc arc su dull to hear ami ' jslow to obey: "IVhy take'ye thought for raiment? Cow tidcr the H(lc? of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither dv they s/iln; yet I tay unio you that even Solomon, In aft hit %to~ ry, atat not arrayed tike one of thete.? therefore, if God to dole the grata of the Jleld, which today it ar.d tomorrow it can into the oven, thud he not much more clothr ye, oh ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, toying what thai I we eat or what thall wi drink or wherewithal thall we be clothed? (for ajiet* all thete thingt do the OentUet teek.) But teek ye first the kingdom of God and hit righteoutnett, and all thete thingt thall he added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the tut rrow, for the morrow thall take-' thought for the thingt of Ittelf. Sufficient unto the day it the evil thereof. There are tho#o wlto exhort ye to carnal industry, and who bid ye labor that ye may eat. Auk yourselves if these be God* commands! Hath not Christ said, "La bor not for the meat that perishuthl" Ilath he not promised "that God will clotht>' yol" And will ye, oh ye of little faith, will ye pentist in laboring to fead.snd to' clothe yourselves! Will te nil livatw for a me?of po4ta&tOTftjpmeat toeorv' ye1 Infatuated and bttad" fa Obd a i that he should lie, or aifehtoeoounandsbut empty words, that ye should defcpfo anft ncifkct thenil Your life and yonr death are before ytv, Yel again I bid ye cbooee between God and Mammon* Will yeleaveall and follow Godt will ye fonake earthly cares and abstain from worldly labor*! will ye oeaae to by up for yourselves treasures on earth whem moth and rust corrupt and thieves brsal( through to steal! will ye thittlf and labor for the one thing oeedftil alone, ooahpen cing your spirited journey witha or staff and easting your care on the sparrows of Iho sir, to clothe and to? food you! end will ye .to return', devote your souls to Itis worship, ana your bodies to bb sorvice! Will ye thus, win your selves s place in God's holy fovor and a scat in III* glorious paradbel?Uold to* God. then, and despise Mammon. Livn a spiritual life, and touch not the unholy throf. ? ^ Or?will ye cast contempt oh the divine law, by keeping bis own from the lord; by, ?pending your tune in temMVsl labor, ana your money in temporal comforts} by car ing for your bodies when ye ought toeare for your soub alone; and thus making Him a liar who has prombed to nrovido for yc, if ye will but seek Hb kingdom?then tako your portion. Drink the cup ya are rai sing to your Mm. BHbr-+rtter * * sonousare the dregs: bait to fneb shall drain them. And the hot i their poison kindles in yotoryofca en, unnticncbcd unquenchable,ftmn hdnce forthand A The preachers lips rcfosed to Ulttfr the horrible "Amen!" " ,v It is a grievous thing to behold tboldigV ting irscweof ignoiSnce and wfcne* Unj ravages of superstition. I tad you KndWn Darby snd his thrifty partner in their daW of worldly-inindedness and Unponlfw** perity, it would have pained yottr heart to revisit them after s (sw short yean. In that quiet cottage of theirs. It sbnds <b**o Mill, by Itiovilbae green; and the gay h*# nny micWo Mill clings to Ha hnmbb walls. I hit alas! the spirit of its Inmates b gone, j Hunan?the fny, lighthearted, bright-eyed ! SuKjMi, the merry songstress, the notsblo houttewife, the bughing villager?ala?! for that Thursday evening?it dimmed her eye, it cheeked her bugli, it crushed her Itshtheartedncss snd portioned her induntry Gentle end uncomplaining she stUI bin *tranger to sectarian intolerance and an|r? itoal pride: not supenUitionr fastf er.uid teach Iter these. But the heart that lannfet I HI Irritated, may be crushed?aaay be* brought to shudder at itself; to readdepra^ vity in Hs most innocent thoughts and wick edness in ib gentlest impulses. Aba! alas! for that Thursday evening/ Its lessons sunk into Susan's hArt, andnf. curred, at every mosarntto bereavedi?V agination. Hlte sought to hide their ef fort* from Dsrlnr's hardier snd tesS MM them hLthe buttle of occupation; but tl reawti-d in apite of herself The tie* sefcrrhitig terns of thetwild srtd*%rarn voice, os i? repeated the command "Lab# not for the iH"?t that |M0shHh!'' Mill nm# jn her a." rd)" f flirted, A in fionsoloi#