from the temple of Diana; having served successively as a Pagan, a Christian, and a Mahomedan place of worship. No human being now lives in Ephesus, a few miserable Turkish huts are alone seen in this desolate spot. The streets are obscured and overgrown; and a noisy flight of crows seemed to insult its silence. The call of the partridge is heard in the area of the theatre and the stadium. The pomp of its heathen worship is no longer remembered; and Christianity, which was planted and nursed by the Apostles, no longer lingers in this once favoured church." Chap. ii. ver. 9.-I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty; but thou art rich. The following lines were occasioned by the circumstance of a person going lately into the house of a poor pious man, with a large family, and saying to him, "My friend, you seem to be very poor;" to which the man replied, "How can you call me poor, when, through the grace of Christ, all things are mine ?" How canst thou call me poor? All things are mine. The world, life, death, things present, things to come." Such is my store in Christ; a countless sum! The world may think me poor, so I think them: Their treasures I, my riches they contemn. They have their good things now, for mine I wait; How worthless theirs at best; the least of mine how great! Chap. iii. ver. 19.-As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten : be zealous therefore, and repent. Mr Newton had a very happy talent of administering reproof. Hearing that a person, in whose welfare he was greatly interested, had met with peculiar success in business, and was deeply immersed in worldly engagements, the first time he called on him, which was usually once a month, he took him by the hand, and drawing him on one side, into the counting-house, told him his apprehensions of his spiritual welfare. His friend, without making any reply, called down his partner in life, who came with her eyes suffused in tears, and unable to speak. Enquiring the cause, he was told, she had just been sent for to one of her children, that was out at nurse, and supposed to be in dying circumstances. Clasping her hands immediately in his, Mr N. cried, "God be thanked, he has not forsaken you! I do not wish your babe to suffer; but 1 am happy to find he gives you this token of his favour." 1 Chap. iv. ver. 11.-Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Dr Burnet, who was intimately acquainted with the honourable Robert Boyle, and wrote his life, says, "It appeared to those who conversed with him on his inqui ries into nature, that his main design was to raise in him. self and others, vaster thoughts of the greatness and glory, of the wisdom and goodness of God. This was so deep in his thoughts, that he concludes the article of his will, which alludes to that illustrious body the Royal Society, in these words, "wishing them a happy success in their laudable attempts to discover the true nature of the works of God; and praying that they, and all other searchers into physical truths, may cordially refer their attainments to the Great Author of nature, and to the comfort of mankind." Chap. v. ver. 9.-And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. me. An Indian describing his conversion, says, " After some time, Brother Rauch came into my hut, and sat down by He spoke to me nearly as follows: I come to you in the name of the Lord of heaven and earth: he sends to "let you know, that he will make you happy, and deliver you from the misery which you lie in at present. To this end he became a man, gave his life a ransom for man, and shed his blood for him.' When he had finished his discourse, he lay down upon a board, fatigued by the journey, and fell into a sound sleep. I then thought, What kind of man is this? Here he lies and sleeps, I might kill him, and throw him out into the wood, and who would regard it? But this gives him no concern. However, I could not forget his words. They constantly re curred to my mind-Even when I was asleep, I dreamed of that blood which Christ shed for us-I found this to be something different from what I had ever heard, and I interpreted Christian Henry's words to the other Indians. Thus, through the grace of God, an awakening took place amongst us. I say, therefore, brethren, preach Christ our Saviour, and his sufferings and death, if you would have your words to gain entrance amongst the heathen." Chap. vi. ver. 4.—And there went out another horse that was red; and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great -sword. In a German publication, the loss of men, during the late war, from 1802 to 1813-in St Domingo, Calabria, Russia, Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, &c. including the maritime war, contagious diseases, famine, &c. is stated to amount to the dreadful sum of Five Million, Eight Hundred Thousand! Chap. vii. ver. 14.-These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. William Tovart, a martyr of Antwerp, in a pious letter, thus expressed, as he very safely and scripturally might, his belief of the happiness of martyrs. "The eternal Son of God will confess their names before his heavenly Father and his holy angels. They shall be clad with white robes, and shine as the sun in the kingdom of heaven, filled with gladness in the presence of the Lamb. They shall eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Chap. viii. ver. 5.-And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. A profane persecutor discovered great terror during a storm of thunder and lightning which overtook him on a journey. His pious wife who was with him, enquired the reason of his terror. He replied by asking, "Are not you afraid ?" She answered, "No, it is the voice of my Heavenly Father ; and should a child be afraid of its father?" "Surely (thought the man) these puritans have a divine principle in them which the world seeth not; otherwise they could not have such serenity in their souls, when the rest of the world are filled with dread." Upon this, going to Mr Bolton, of Broughton near Kettering, he lamented the opposition which he had made to his ministry, and became a godly man ever after. Chap. ix. ver. 3.-And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. The natural locusts are well known to be a dreadful Scourge to the countries they visit. From 1778 to 1780, the empire of Morocco was terribly devastated by them, every green thing was eaten up, not even the bitter bark of the orange and pomegranate escaping. A most dreadful famine ensued. The poor were seen to wander over the country, deriving a miserable subsistence from the roots of plants; and women and children followed the camels, from whose dung they picked the indigested grains of barley, which they devoured with avidity: in consequence of this, vast numbers perished, and the roads and streets exhibited the unburied carcases of the dead. On this sad occasion, fathers sold their children, and husbands their wives. Chap. ix. ver. 20.-And the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet re pented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols. When Mr Money resided, some years since, in the Mahratta country, as his daughter, not then three years old, was walking out with a native servant, they came near an old Hindoo temple, when the man stepped aside, and "made his saloom,' as they call it, to a stone idol at the door. The child, in her simple language, said, "Saamy, (that was his name) what for you do that ?" “Oh missy," said he, "that my God." "Your god, Saamy why, your god no see-no hear no walk-your god stone. My God see every thing-my God made you, made me, made every thing."-Mr M. and his family residing there for some time, Saamy continued to worship at the temple, and missy to reprove him: but, when they were about to leave India, the poor heathen said, "What will poor Saamy do when missy go to England? Saamy no father, no mother!" The child replied, "Oh Saamy, if you love my God, he will be your father and mother too." He promised to do so. "Then," said she," you must learn my prayers." He agreed; and she taught him the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and her morning and evening hymns. Some time after this, he desired to learn English, that he might read the Bible; and he became at length a serious and consistent Christian. Chap. x. ver. 6.-And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, that there should be time no longer. A young man, in giving an account of his conversion, says, "One Sabbath, after attending divine service, and after the rest of the day spent in awful transgression, I returned home in the evening and joined the family, to whom my sister was reading a tract aloud. Contrary to my usual practice, I remained to hear it, and, with my sin fresh in remembrance, I listened with deep concern to its awful truths. It was entitled 'THE END OF TIME.' The passages which particularly struck me were these: The end of time! When shall the sinner's heart give up its last hope? None are completely miserable before Y |