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Preacher to kings; and Louis XIV. himself said, that he would rather hear Bourdaloue preach his old sermons over again, than the novelties of another. With a collected air, Bourdaloue had little action; he generally kept his eyes half closed, and penetrated the hearts of the people by the sound of a voice uniform and solemn. On one occasion he turned the peculiarity of his external aspect to a very memorable advantage. After depicting in vigorous terms a sinner of the first magnitude, he suddenly opened his eyes, and casting them full on the king, who sat opposite to him, he added, in a voice of thunder, "Thou art that man!" The effect was confounding. When he had finished his discourse, he went in private to the king and threw himself at his feet, saying: "Behold at your feet one who is the most devoted of your servants; but punish him not that in the pulpit he can own no other master but the King of kings.”

SMART REPROOF.

NCE at a meeting of ministers, a question was started to be debated among them. Upon the first proposal of it, a confident young divine said: "Truly, I hold it so." "You hold, sir,” replied the Rev. Philip Henry; "it becomes you to hold your tongue."

MEAT AND BONES.

HE Rev. John Newton one day heard a minister preach who affected great accuracy in his discourses, and who had occupied nearly an hour on several laboured and nice distinctions. Having a high esteem for Mr Newton's judgment, he inquired of him whether he thought these distinctions were full and judicious? Mr Newton said he thought them not full, as a very important one had been omitted.

"What can that be?" inquired the minister, "for I have taken more than ordinary care to enumerate them fully."-"I think not," replied Mr Newton, "for when many of your congregation had travelled several miles for a meal, I think you should not have forgotten the important distinction which must ever exist between meat and bones."

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REV. R. WALKER.

R BLAIR one day, when concluding a sermon in which he had descanted with his usual eloquence on the amiability of virtue, gave utterance to the following apostrophe :-" O virtue! if thou wert embodied, all men would love thee." His colleague, the Rev. R. Walker, ascended the same pulpit for the evening service of the same Sunday, and addressing the congregation, said: "My reverend friend observed in the morning, that if virtue were embodied all men would love her. Virtue has been embodied; but how was she ill-treated? Did all men love her? No, she was despised and rejected of men, who, after defaming, insulting, and scourging her, led her to Calvary, where they crucified her between two thieves." The effect of this fine passage on the audience was very powerful.

BRANDY AND WATER.

MONG the friends of the Rev. Robert Hall, was an old divine who had unfortunately accustomed himself to the use of brandy and water, and who was on the brink of becoming a confirmed drunkard. One day he called on Mr Hall, who was then at Cambridge, and, as usual, said: "Friend Hall, I will thank you for a glass of brandy and water." Hall replied: Call things by their right names, and you shall have as much as you please."-" Why, don't I employ the right

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name? I ask for a glass of brandy and water.". "That is the current, but not the appropriate name," answered Hall; “ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation, and you shall have a gallon." The old gentleman turned pale, and for a moment seemed struggling with anger. But knowing that Hall did not mean to insult him, he stretched out his hand, and said: "Brother Hall, I thank you from the bottom of my heart," and from that time ceased to take brandy and water.

BENEFIT OF A DULL SERMON.

JEAN RAMSAY relates that the Earl of Lauderdale was alarmingly ill, one distressing symptom being a total absence of sleep, without which the medical men declared he could not recover. His son, who was somewhat simple, was seated under the table, and cried out, "Sen' for that preaching man frae Livingstone, for fayther aye sleeps in the kirk." One of the doctors thought the hint worth attending to, and the experiment of "getting a minister till him" succeeded, for sleep came on and the earl recovered.

SMART PUNNING.

OLERIDGE in a note on Baxter's Life remarks, "Schoolmasters are commonly punsters. My old master, the Rev. James Bowyer, the Hercules Furens of the phlogistic sect, but an incomparable teacher, used to translate Nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu-first reciting the Latin words, and observing that they were the fundamental article of the Peripatetic school-" You must flog a boy before you can make him understand;" or, "You must lay it in at the tail before you can get it into the head."

NO SINECURE.

HE Harleian MS. Na 6a fol 100 contains the following : — Saturday, June 24 1724 I was at the funeral of the Rev. Mr Ford curate of Marybone. The Rev. Mr Thomas Riddle, who was curate of St Giles-inthe-Fields, and since lecturer, gave the following account that on one certain Sunday be Mr Riddle performed the following Cuties. In the morning married six comples, then read the whole prayers and preached, after that churched six women. In the afternoon, read prayers and preached; christened thirtytwo children, six at home, the rest at the font: buried thirteen corpses, and read the distinct service over each of them separitely, and this done by nine at night. It was then mentioned by another clergyman, that he had a paper given him to pray “ for the accomplishment of a young woman's desires.P

EFFECT OF A SERMON.

ITTY CLIVE, a celebrated comic actress, who died in 1785, was a great admirer of Dr Ashley's preaching, and used to say that she was always vastly good for two or three days after his sermons; but that by the time Thursday came round, all their effect was worn cii.”

WATTS AND WADS.

IRVING in his "Life of Washington" relates, that during the War of Independence, there was in the American army a chaplain named Cauldwell, whose wife was murdered during the sack of a village by the British troops, when Kniphausen with his Germans was marauding the Jerseys. At the fight of Springfield, Cauldwell dealt retribution to his

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foes. None showed more ardour in the fight than he did. The image of his murdered wife was before his eyes. Finding the men in want of wadding, he galloped to the Presbyterian Church and brought thence a quantity of Watts' psalms and hymnbooks, which he distributed for the purpose among the soldiers. "Now," cried he, "put Watts into them, boys!"

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S.

ILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S., the preaching coal

Wheaver, was one of those extraordinary men, who, be

lieving to be inspired to preach the truth, seek to gain the ear of the multitude by an unfaltering boldness of speech and an amusing levity. S.S., which meant "sinner saved,” the name and title assumed by this rude genius, have been amusingly explained by himself. It should be noticed that his real name was Hunt; but owing to one of the follies of his early days, he was called upon to support an illegitimate child, to escape which he left the parish in which he was living, and had recourse to several expedients to conceal his identity; one of these was the augmentation of his name, which process is thus narrated in his "Own Life" in his own peculiar style.

"If I change my name, the law may follow me for that; and if I let the present name stand, I may be traced by means of the newspapers. There is but one way for me to escape, and that is by an addition. An addition is no change, and addition is no robbery. Well thought on, said I; it is—ington, which joined to Hunt, when put together, make Huntington. And thus matters were settled without being guilty of an exchange, or of committing a robbery, for the letters of the alphabet are the portion of every man; and from that hour it was settled, nor did I ever make a single blunder for anybody to find it out."

For the degree of S.S. he conferred upon himself, the follow