these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Two gentlemen, Messrs. W and J, kindly attended him to the coach, and took care that his luggage was safely placed in the boot. As the carriage passed through the town, several persons were standing at their doors, to bid him the last and friendly "farewell."

Never before did Jairus, at leaving any place or people, feel regret equal to what he now experienced. He continued to gaze at the tower of the church, the last object his eye could discern at W, until, receding from his sight, it was lost in the distance.

How desirable, thought Jairus at that moment, is that period when parting feelings shall for ever be unknown.

"There we shall meet again,

When all our toils are o'er,
And death, and grief, and pain,

And parting are no more;

We shall with all our brethren rise,
And meet our Jesus in the skies."

Among Jairus's travelling companions was a young coxcomb whom, for his garrulity, he could not in his own mind but regard as having a head not unlike a hollow sonorous instrument of war, which, when struck, is at once full of noise, and as full of emptiness. He was, however, an adept in what has become much too fashionable, and by some is deemed a necessary qualification to complete the gentleman,-Swearing. His conversation not being directed to Jairus, he con

ceived that a more convenient opportunity than the present might offer to reprove him; knowing that to administer reproof prudently would leave the only probability of his doing it with success.

A person on the fore part of the coach, whom Jairus had observed at the place where they last stopped for refreshment busily distributing tracts, enquired if there was any room behind, and was answered in the negative; the swearing gentleman declaring with an oath, they wanted no Methodist Parsons there, at the same time appealing to Jairus, who sat opposite, for a confirmation of what he had said.

"Sir," replied Jairus, with a look which could not easily be misunderstood, accompanied by a correspondent tone of voice,-"We are quite full, but we had better have a Methodist Parson than worse company." The intended reproof appeared to be taken, and silenced the noisy babbler.

Stopping shortly after to dine, the gentleman who had wished to change his place, the declaimer against Methodist Parsons, and Jairus, met in the same room. Jairus was immediately recognized by the gentleman, who enquired if he had not had the pleasure of hearing him preach at P. Jairus admitted it was probable he might, as he some time since was so engaged there. With great cordiality the gentleman shook hands with him, and expressed the pleasure he felt at their thus meeting.

During this conversation the young man re

ferred to looked on, evidently much confused: until now, he had no knowledge of the character Jairus sustained. At length he advanced towards him, and in the most respectful manner apologized for his previous conduct and conversation, assuring Jairus that in what he had said nothing was personally intended. The concession was accepted, and a suitable admonition given by Jairus, who, during the remainder of the journey, received the utmost attention from the " man of pleasure," and was no more annoyed by any instance of his vulgarity or profaneness.

A few weeks after Jairus had arrived at home, the providence of God directed him to another part of his vineyard in an opposite direction from W-, and where, at the request of the people, he consented to continue and serve them in the Gospel of the Son of God; still, however, cherishing the same missionary feeling, and ready, whenever the call shall be given by Him whose he is, and "whom he serves with his spirit," in the Gospel, to forego all the comforts and honours of his native land, or of civilized life; that he

might preach among the gentiles," in foreign lands, "the unsearchable riches of Christ."

CHAPTER XIII.

Urg'd by no speculative view

Or low ambition, in
Diotrephesian spirit true

To study, and to win

The literary chaplet, and

Be known as D. D. through the land.

Nor motives mean, as filthy gain,

Or popular applause

Empty as air, and hard t'attain,

Mov'd to the sacred cause;
Love, ardent, pure, impell'd; they ran,
Servants of God, and friends to man.

HAVING, in the preceding Chapters, followed Jairus through some of

"the mazy labyrinths of life's rough road,"

a few concluding reflections may not, perhaps, be altogether unsuitable or useless; and in thus attempting to "gather up the fragments, nothing" may "be lost."

There are several parts of the narrative to which the attention, especially of juvenile readers, might be directed with profit, as furnishing

materials for instructive caution, or solemn warning but it is intended now to point those who may peruse these pages to some considerations rather remotely than immediately connected with the work, and to refer to the work itself only by way of illustration, or to confirm the sentiments advanced. The multiplied and various moral dangers to which the unwary season of youth is exposed, are of the most subtle nature, assuming all the diversified and fascinating forms which depravity can invent, or those who lie in wait to deceive can devise and exhibit: and they are awfully calculated to work upon the passions and lead the heart further and yet further from the ways of God.

The pride of human nature, ever anxious for "the bubble reputation," and the gratification of the sensual appetites, are the grand means by which "the God of this world blinds the eyes" of his vassals and "leads them captive at his will.” The adulation of the ignorant, and the intoxicating praise of mistaken friends, inflates and bewilders the youthful mind with vanity; so that frequently a spark of genius, which with proper attention and by careful cultivation might have shone in pleasing and useful lustre, has been, by the injudicious influence of its flatterers, either entirely extinguished or excited to blaze out in the faint and sickly productions of mere mental ignes fatui; thus rendering its possessors, who might have been happy in themselves and bless