crying out, Lord be merciful to me a finner! on which the judge, to the surprise of all, faid, "Well done, good and faithful fervant.” The poor man replied, "Lord, I have done "nothing!"-" But thou haft fuffered "well," faid the judge; "thou hast been

an example of patience and meekness, "and though thou hadst but few talents,

yet thou haft well improved thofe few; "thou hadft time, this thou didst spend in "the humble duties of thy station, and also "in earnest prayer; thou didst pray even "for that proud founder of thine hofpital, "who never prayed for himself; thou waft ❝ indeed blind and lame, but it is no where "faid, my fon give me thy feet, or thine

eyes, but give me thy heart; and even "the few faculties I did grant thee, were

employed to my glory; with thine ears

"thou didst liften to my word, with thy

tongue thou didft fhew forth my praise, "enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

There were feveral who came forward, and boafted of fome fingle and particular virtue,

virtue, in which they had been fuppofed to excel. One talked of his generofity, another of his courage, and a third of his fortitude; but it proved, on a close examination, that fome of those fuppofed virtues were merely the effect of a particular conftitution of body; that others proceeded from a falfe motive, and that not a few of them were actual vices, fince they were carried to excefs; and under the pretence of fulfilling one duty, fome other duty was loft fight of; in short, these partial virtues were none of them practised in obedience to the will of the king, but merely to please the perfon's own humour, or to gain praise, and they would not, therefore, ftand this day's trial, for he that had kept the whole law, and yet had wilfully and habitually offended in any one point, was declared guilty of breaking the whole.

At this moment a fort of thick scales fell from the eyes of the multitude. They could now no longer take comfort, as they had done for fo many years, by measuring

their neighbours' conduct against their own. Each at once faw himself in his true light, and found, alas! when it was too late, that he fhould have made the book which had been given him his rule of practice before, fince it now proved to be the rule by which he was to be judged. Nay, every one now thought himself even worse than his neighbour, because, while he only faw and heard of the guilt of others, he felt his own in all its aggravated horror.

To complete their confufion, they were compelled to acknowledge the justice of the judge who condemned them; and also to approve the favourable fentence by which thousands of other criminals had not only their lives faved, but were made happy and glorious beyond all imagination; not for any great merits which they had to produce, but in confequence of their fincere repentance, and their humble acceptance of the pardon offered to them by the king's fon. One thing was remarkable, that whilst most of those who were condemned, never expected

expected condemnation, but even claimed a reward for their fuppofed innocence or goodness, all who were really rewarded and forgiven were fenfible that they owed their pardon to a mere act of grace, and they cried out with one voice, Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise!!!

THE

SERVANT MAN TURNED SOLDIER,

OR

THE FAIR WEATHER CHRISTIAN.

AN ALLEGORY.

WILLIAM was a lively young servant, who lived in a great but very irregular family. His place was, on the whole, agreeable to him, and fuited to his gay thoughtless temper. He found a plentiful table and a good cellar. There was, indeed, a good deal of work to be done, though it was performed with much diforder and confufion. The family in the main were not unkind to him, though they often contradicted and croffed him, especially when things went ill with

them.