tell you all of them, Madam; for we used to repeat them till we knew them well, and we were taught to practise them daily and hourly. They were these : 1. Attention and Recollection. 3. A place for every thing. 5. Be clean and neat. 6. Love one another. 7. One thing is needful. By attending to these, he used to say, the cottage will be a palace. I have always found the truth of his words. Thus we worked all the week, and on Sundays we had rest. On that day we were up early as usual, and got ready to go to the Sunday School as soon as breakfast and prayers were ended. We were always in the school before eight o'clock. But, Madam, here I must tell you that the Sunday School was begun and carried on by your good husband, and some other young gentlemen who resided in the parish. I remember that I was in his class, and I can well recollect how he used to explain the Catechism to me." "But how is it," said Mrs. "that you had no Bible then for yourself? and how is it that you have been ever since without one?" "Have you not heard, Madam, that we poor Welsh people had no Bibles in our language for general use, until the Bible Society was set on foot? My poor father had only one large one in his family, but we children had none. I got one from the Society before, about twelve years ago, but it was so small, and was used so much by my husband before he died, that it was almost worn out; so Mr. gave me this new large one out of respect to my father. This is the true state of the case.' He "I thank you, Margaret," replied Mrs., for your information. I perceive that you are now a widow, though you are still but ayoung woman. Go on with the account of your father first, and then, perhaps, you can tell me something about yourself." "Well then, Madam, I was telling you about our Sunday School. My dear father used to talk much of, and continually pray for the Sunday School. He took very great pleasure in listening to us when we were catechized, and very often in the church he would forget to make the responses himself, on account of his listening whether we made them. liked, above all things, the four rules which the young gentlemen, who conducted the school, had made. I can remember them now, for I find them of use every where as well as in the Sunday School. They were, 1. Plan. 2. Punctuality. 3. Perseverance. 4. Prayer. They observed a plan, or method, or order, in all things. They were punctual in their attendance, and in the execution of their plan. They did not, as many do, grow weary in their business-they persevered. And they always prayed to God for his blessing upon their good work and labour of love. My father assisted them to teach, and they all said that he was very useful to them, particularly as he had a good voice for singing. He always sung in the school and in the church with all his might, so that every body said, W. T. whatever he does, does it heartily. And you cannot think, Madam, what good he got by his earnest way. All the people that employed him knew, that if at any time he had not finished weaving a piece for them exactly at the time they wished, it was not through negligence. They knew he had done his best, and so all were satisfied. They were acquainted with his rules, that were hung up in the kitchen, and no one doubted but they were always before his eyes, and in his heart. that I could be half so exact and diligent!" 66 "If I am not mistaken," observed Mrs. -, "you closely follow your father; and rest assured, that the same grace is for you, if you earnestly pray for it, as your father had, to enable you to live thus uprightly and conscientiously." Yes, Madam, thanks be unto God, I know that God is ever ready to help us. My father used to say, that it was practice, and not profession, that recommended religion. The world, he observed, will always narrowly watch professors, and if they see no better conduct in them than in others, a dishonour is brought upon praying, hearing, communicating and conversing, upon serious subjects. But when they see that the man who goes to church and sacrament, and prays in his family, and reproves sin, and such like, is diligent in his business, punctual in fulfilling his promises, careful to do his work well, and striving to do his duty to man, their mouths are stopped, and they are constrained to acknowledge the excellency of religion. "In this manner did my father pass his life until we all went to service. I married a man that my father approved of for his piety and activity, with whom I lived five years in great comfort. It pleased God to call him from me, so I returned to service, where I have continued ever since, excepting two years I spent in nursing my beloved father in his last illness. O, Madam, I shall never forget that period. As he had been so active in his life, I was afraid that he would be impatient in his illness; but he was as quiet as a lamb. His pain was often very great, but he fervently prayed for help from above, and certainly, if I am to judge by the effects, he did not pray in vain. The clergyman, whose ministry he attended, came often to see him. Nor did any of the farmers, for whom he had worked, cease to pay him every kind attention, so that he wanted for nothing. On Christmas-day, 1818, my brothers and sisters came to see him, and it was remarkable that we were all present together. He begged our excellent minister to give him the holy sacrament that evening, and he gladly did it; my mother, and her eight children, and my dear father, were all in one chamber, when the good man arrived, and when he saluted us with that sweet benediction in the Prayer Book, 'Peace be to this house, and to all that dwell therein,' we felt an awe and a solemnity that cannot be described. He read to us, explained the promises of the Gospel, showed us the love of Christ in saving us, and invited us to commemorate that love by partaking, perhaps, for the last time with our father, of that Table of the Lord. We did so; and we found it good to be there.' My father observed that people talked of going to heaven, but, said he, heaven is come to me." He joined the worthy clergyman in exhorting us all to make the care of our souls the one thing needful.' Such a spending of Christmas, Madam, was truly Christian. He lingered a week longer, and just as the new year dawned upon us, he departed to take up his everlasting rest in the New Jerusalem, to which happy place may our Heavenly Father in his own good time bring every one of us for Christ's sake!" After Margaret had thus related the history of W. T's Life and Death, she and her auditor were deeply affected. With such scenes Mrs. was familiar; she therefore gave Margaret suitable advice, and the writer of this simple story has the pleasure to state that it was not lost upon her. The reader, however, will pardon me if I embrace this opportunity to ask him or her, what is his or her view of this account? It has not been written as an amusing tale, but as an admonitory lesson. Reader, are you like W. T. a plain mechanic? Strive, like him, to be a real Christian. Live well, then you shall die well. Reader, are you young and opulent? There is in this account a copy for you to follow. Some young wealthy persons conduct a Sunday School which is made a blessing to a parish. "Go," reader, "and do thou likewise!" Reader, are you a professor only? Learn from the example before you to practise as well as profess the Gospel of Christ. Reader, are you a sufferer? Look to God for strength. Reader, whatever age or sex, whatever rank or station, whatever state or condition, you are, remember, "One thing is needful." Attend to religion now. Seek the Lord Jesus as your Saviour now, for time is short-eternity is at hand! B-d, Oct. 21st, 1822. ANECDOTES. W. M. The Lottery. I took the first opportunity to call again on poor Richard Sly. Although he had often, during my absence, broke out into the most violent fits of agony and despair; yet, on the whole, as I learnt from his attendant, he had been latterly more composed. As soon as he saw me by his bedside, he grasped my hand, exclaiming-O, Timothy, tell all my old companions to beware of the lottery! Here lies a poor miserable wretch, ruined in this world! undone for ever! undone for ever! by the lottery! It was the lottery, that made me drink to excess to drive away my misery, when hopes after hopes of obtaining a prize had been disappointed! It was the lottery, that brought me from a state of comfort and plenty, to wretchedness and want! It was the lottery, that made me abuse a kind master's confidence! that made me DISHONEST! that has made me my own tormentor! that has driven me from an excellent place, that has forced me to a workhouse-that would have sent me to a prison, and the gallows! Yes! and it has ruined my health-my character, and will bring me to a disgraceful, miserable end! And O, Timothy, there is, I know, an hereafter. There is a hell for sinners; and the lottery-yes, the baneful lottery, will send me there! O, tell my former friends-tell them all-tell every body, to beware of the lottery!! Judge, Mr. Editor, how my feelings were harrowed up, on hearing all this, spoken with the most thrilling emphasis, by this miserable and dying man. Every expression went with the keenness of a twoedged sword to my conscience, and a nameless horror ran through my frame, both on my own account, as well as that of poor Richard. But I felt it of the utmost importance to attend to him. 66 Your striking description of the sad effects of the lottery," said I, "is, alas! too true. But, my friend, do not give way to de- spair." 66 O, how can I indulge a hope?" he exclaimed, "No, no, there is no hope for me." 66 Say not so," I replied, we are all, while out of hell, prisoners of hope.' There is a hope set before us in the Gospel, for the vilest repenting sinners, who come unto God by faith in Christ Jesus. My former good old master at the parsonage often told his people so from the pulpit." "But," said he, "I cannot repent, I cannot come to God-I know nothing about faith in Christ-my mind is all dark-I cannot pray. O, no, I am ruined, through neglect of religion and the cursed lottery." I tried all I could to encourage and instruct him, but it seemed in vain. He became, however, somewhat more composed, and soon sunk into a state of lethargy, and in a few hours after died. O, what a warning did all this prove to me! I thanked God for his not having suf fered me to go to such lengths in the lottery; I praised him for having preserved me from so awful an end, and I felt a determination, by the help of his grace, to have nothing more to do with the lottery, and to seek by earnest prayer to become a partaker of true religion. My grace is sufficient for thee.-The late Rev. T. W———, as appears from some memoirs of his life, was one evening preaching in Bristol from these words-My grace is sufficient for thee; when he took occasion to relate the circumstance of a pious young woman's labouring under a strong temptation to put a period to her life by drowning herself, from which she was delivered in a manner strikingly providential. She had gone to the river in order to comply with the enemy's suggestion; but as she was adjusting her clothes to prevent her from floating, she felt something in her pocket, which proved to be her BIBLE. She thought she would take it out, and look in it for the last time. She did so, and the above-mentioned text caught her eye. Through the Divine blessing attending them, the words struck her with peculiar force, when the snare was instantly broken, the temptation vanished, and she returned home, blessing and praising Him who had given her the victory. It is stated, that the relation of this circumstance was blest to the conversion of a man and his wife who were present, who had lived in an almost continual state of enmity, and whose habitation exhibited a terrifying scene of discord and confusion. In one of those unhappy intervals of sullen silence, which both parties were accustomed to maintain after their quarrels, the wife came to the dreadful determination of drowning herself. She accordingly left her house for VOL. IX. 74 that purpose, and approached the river; but owing to its being too light, she apprehended that she should be detected before she could accomplish her design. She therefore deferred the fatal act till it should have grown dark; and, in the interim, wandered about not knowing whither to go. At length, she espied a place of worship open, and thought she would go in to pass away the time. Mr. W. was preaching, and she listened to him with attention, especially when he related the matter above-mentioned. Instead of drowning herself, she returned home after the sermon, with a countenance, which however expressive before of a malevolent disposition, now indicated that a spirit of gentleness had taken possession of her breast. Struck with her appearance, her husband asked her where she had been. On her telling him, he immediately said, " And did you see me there?" She replied, "No." He rejoined, "But I was; and, blessed be God, I found his grace sufficient for me also!" Instance of Negro Fidelity and Attachment.-The following is a singular and authentic instance of fidelity and grateful attachment in a Negro. A gentleman of respectability, Dr. L--, was lately confined for some time in the King's Bench prison, while his fortune, involved in a Chancery suit, was unjustly withheld from him. During this distressing period, he was obliged by poverty to tell his Negro servant, that, however repugnant to his feelings, they must part; his pecuniary difficulties being now such, that he was unable to provide himself with the necessaries of life. The Negro replied with affectionate warmth-No, massa, we will never part; many a year have you kept me, and now I will keep you. Accordingly, he went out to work as a day-labourer; and at the end of every week, faithfully brought his earnings to his master, which proved sufficient for the support of them, until the recent decision of the Chancery suit, by which the Doctor obtained an award of thirty thousand pounds. Very much to the Doctor's honour, he has settled a handsome annuity for life on this faithful and affectionate Negro. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER OF JEWS IN THE PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. 1. Gallicia IN Poland before its division, 500,000, viz. 3. Russian do 2. Prussian Poland 90,000 110,000 300,000 The Russian Polish Jews reside chiefly in the following places, Wilna, Kanen, Grodno, Pinck, Mohilow (in this place are two Synagogues) Bizesk on Bug (here is the famous Jewish University.) The Austrian Polish Jews reside in Leonberg, (here is a famous School and Hebrew Printing Office) Brody, Lublin, Cracow, Tarnow. The Prussian Polish Jews reside chiefly in Warsaw, Thorn, Paren, Lissa, Kalish, Rawitz, Petrikan, Rielsh. In Hungary, viz. Presburg, Newratz, Miskolz, In Germany, viz. Frankfort on the Main, Prague, Furth, and Berlin, 76,000 200,000 20,000 14,000 |