'I have brethren on the other side of the great waters, who, having heard that many of the Indians on this river were ignorant of God, have, from the great affection they felt towards you, sent me to tell you of the love of God, and what he has done to save you.' The chief then said, 'Have you never heard that the Indians intend to kill you?' 'Yes,' answered Daehne, but I cannot believe it. You have among you some who have lived with me, and they can tell you that I am the friend of the Indians.' To this the chief replied, 'Yes, I have heard so; they say you are a different sort of Christian from the white people in general.' The missionary then said, 'I am your friend; how is it that you come to kill me?' 'We have done wrong,' answered the chief. Every countenance now altered, and the Indians quickly dispersed. The chief, however, remained behind, behaving in a very friendly manner, and left him a supply of cassava. Thus the missionary, by his magnanimous yet temperate conduct, warded off the blow which threatened his life, and converted his enemies into friends.

pendently of purifying their souls and elevating their sentiments. Sometimes the missionary has to wander about much, however, before even a little settlement is formed, exposing himself to much fatigue and danger. The Indians in the interior live scattered over a large track of country along the banks of the rivers and their tributaries. They wander from place to place; and a family which the missionary has visited to-day, he will not find on the same spot within the space of a few months. This circumstance occasions him many disappointments in his travels; and it may happen that, after having travelled for weeks together, he will have to return without having found one family at home. The dry season is the time for travelling, and it is at this very time that they are engaged in expeditions for hunting and fishing, or else in preparing their fields; and the latter being sometimes at a considerable distance from their dwellings, they do not return home till they have finished the task. . . In these my lonely travels in the interior, when I have justly considered myself as being buried alive as respects soDuring his stay in this solitary situation, Daehne was ciety, I have felt as happy as every Christian may be frequently in want of the common necessaries of life. Be- when realising his heavenly calling; and believing that sides these various trials, he now and then suffered from where he is, there he is placed by the providence of God, fever, and was often in no small danger from wild beasts and has a work to do. This power of realising my call to and other venomous creatures. Thus, a tiger for a long accomplish the work given me to do, has often kept my time kept watch near his hut, seeking an opportunity, no mind at perfect peace in times of imminent danger and doubt, to seize the poor solitary inhabitant. Every night in the midst of necessities. I should be wanting in my it roared most dreadfully; and though he regularly duty to my Lord and Master were I to be forgetful of the kindled a large fire in the neighbourhood before he went many preservations of my life from threatening danger to bed, yet as it often went out by the morning, it would by men and beasts; and although at times I broke the have proved but a miserable defence, had not the Lord last bread to my crew, the evening did not arrive but an preserved him. The following circumstance is still more abundant supply of fish and game was procured by the use remarkable, and illustrates in a singular manner the care of means. I have never received any harm from any of of God over his servants. Being one evening attacked the Indians, although it may easily be conceived I might with a paroxysm of fever, he resolved to go into his but have given them offence when least I thought it. It is and lie down in his hammock. Just, however, as he en- true, the Indian is very suspicious of the white man; and tered the door, he beheld a serpent descending from the who can wonder when it is remembered what treatment roof upon him. In the scuffle which ensued, the creature in most cases his countrymen have received from Eurobit him in three different places; and, pursuing him peans? But it is also true that when an Indian is once closely, twined itself several times round his head and made a friend, he will go through fire and water, and give neck as tightly as possible. Expecting now to be bitten, life itself, to prove his friendship sincere and lasting. I or strangled to death, and being afraid lest his brethren remember a circumstance which forcibly illustrates the should suspect the Indians had murdered him, he, with truth of what I have said respecting the attachment of the singular presence of mind, wrote with chalk on the table Indians. Having encamped one evening, when travelling -A serpent has killed me.' Suddenly, however, that in the interior, at a place called Onissaro, where alligators promise of the Saviour darted into his mind, 'They shall abound, the Indians, in cleaning the game, left the entake up serpents, and shall not be hurt.' Encouraged by trails of the animals on the sand beach. The scent of this declaration, he seized the creature with great force, them attracted an unusual number of alligators to the tore it loose from his body, and flung it out of the hut. spot. The moon shone brightly, and they were seen He then lay down in bis hammock in tranquillity and moving under water by the waves occasioned on the surpeace. This was most probably a boa-constrictor, whose face. The people having retired to rest, I was reading bite, though painful, is not venomous; and which destroys under my tent in the canoe, and was soon convinced that bis prey by crushing it to death, and gorging it whole.' these voracious creatures were assembled in great numbers, from the strong musk smell that was given out from beneath the water. Presently one came up close to my canoe drawing his breath, which, in the stillness of the night, sounded terrific. I started on my couch, and, wishing to get a peep at the creature, drew aside the little curtain; but he had sunk. A few minutes after, I felt the canoe moving, and thinking that one of the alligators had got into it, I grasped a cutlass which was near me, and, seeing my curtain move, I was just about to give a violent blow, when the thought flashed across my mind, Perhaps it is one of the people; I therefore asked, Who is there?' 'John,' was the answer. "What do you want ?' I see,' said he, that there are juhuru caimanu [that is, many alligators] around you, and I am come to take care of you.' Most thankful was I for not having struck the blow; and after recovering myself a little, I tried to persuade the Indian to go and lie down in his hammock, which he had slung high under some trees; but he positively refused. He sat down on a bench before the tent, with a spear between his legs, and there he remained till break of day. After the excitement was over, I fell sound asleep, and when I awoke, found the Indian still sitting there.

No man, whatever might be his peculiar opinions relative to missions, could, we apprehend, read the foregoing without feeling his heart touched with sympathy for the high-toned courage, the lofty faith of those soldiers of the cross of peace, who ventured their lives in the cause of the Captain of their salvation. The missionaries in Guiana, as elsewhere, have always found their noble efforts to be obstructed by traders from European nations. These men carry death, and disease, and demoralisation, wherever they go, amongst the simple aborigines of distant lands; and they, supposing that all white men are Christians, often reject with scorn the principles of that religion which would elevate and make them free indeed. They reject Christianity through that suspicion which unjust traders have sown in their bosoms towards all white men. The settlement of missionary stations merely as an effort of simple civilisation is of the highest importance to the heathen nations. They are the centres of a higher condition of life than any that is known to the poor savage. They induce the building of huts, and the permanent association of men-the direction of the savage's energies to labour-the reducing of his habits to regularity; and then they bring the Indians close to highly cultivated, refined, and benevolent minds, moulding them in manners, inde

Alligators abound in the Upper Essequibo, and more

mitted to it with suspicion. On other occasions I invariably administered a little medicine so as to prepare the system for a more favourable reception of the vaccine matter; but with these savages this is altogether out of the question. When the arm became inflamed, attended with considerable fever, they used either to go up to their necks into the water, or annihilate the pustule that was would come to me, and, addressing me with indignation, inquire what I had been doing to their arm, seeing it was so inflamed and caused them fever! It was no easy matter to quiet them and persuade them that within a few days they would be well again; but on inquiry they were told by others that this very circumstance of seeing their arm thus inflamed was a proof that they would not catch the small pox, as others had who were not vaccinated. By degrees they felt confidence in the doings of the Dominie; and those who had destroyed the pustule, and others who had run away from me, returned and submitted themselves to a second vaccination.'

especially in the creeks. I have seen as many as ten at one time basking themselves in the sun and swimming on the water like logs of wood. They are afraid of men, and quite harmless, provided they are left unmolested; but when bereaved of their young they are very ferocious. Erie, who accompanied me, told me that there he lost one of his people. The Indians, in order to see the fish more distinctly in the dark waters of the creeks, are accustom-forming, and walk off to be seen no more. Others, again, ed to climb on the trees which line their banks, from which they shoot them when passing by. One of his people, when drawing the bow, slipped off the branch and fell into the water, when an alligator bit off his leg. He bled to death in a few minutes. At another place higher up the river, Erie called my attention to an amusing incident which occurred to one of his people. Falling off the tree in the manner just described, he fell upon an alligator's back. The Indian no sooner perceived what had happened, and felt that the creature was moving under him, than he placed himself in a riding position and clasped his hands round the alligator's body. He was now dragged through the water across the creek, where the creature climbed up through the bush, by which the Indian's back was much lacerated; he returned to the creek, and, dragging him through, tried to climb up on the opposite bank. This being rather steep, he was slow in effecting it, and the Indian observing this to be a favour-bour and who had adopted Christianity. The field and able moment to make his escape, threw himself backward, and, swimming across, saved his life. It may be easily conceived, that both the rider and his horse were equally glad of getting rid one of the other.'

Mr Bernau was ultimately constrained to leave the mission through ill health; but before he did so, his station, called the Grove, consisted of a little church, a school-house, garden, field, and many comfortable homes, where Indians dwelt who had devoted themselves to lagarden were kept in beautiful condition by the gratuitous labours of the Indians. Bananas, plantains, cassavas, yams, and other vegetables, grew in rich luxuriance round the station, and, what was of more importance, many chilMissionary labours, it is well known, embrace all the dren attended school, where natives acted as monitors, moral and practical means at their disposal for the eleva- and so evinced a high state of religious advancement. tion of the people, and it is delightful to contemplate the After remaining in Barbadoes some time, till he recoverresults of their devotion and toil upon some of the darkest ed, Mr Bernau returned to the Grove, when, alas! he spots of the heathen world. Their beautiful little en- found that 'the fences were broken down by the cattle; closure, when such is completed, not only contains the the shrubberies rooted up by the pigs, the produce of much church, the school-house, and the model dwelling-house, solicitude and care; in short, the labour and anxiety of but it presents to the eyes of the people the model garden many years, all gone. When looking on the scene of deand grain field. It educates their taste, and exalts their struction, and contemplating the gross neglect and shameknowledge of art and agriculture. The good done in ful indifference of those concerned in it, I could not reBritish Guiana has been intermitted by the government's frain from shedding bitter tears. Nor had the fruitdoings, who, sending soldiers to interfere in disputes be- trees, which were planted and trained with no less solicitween the converted and savage natives, while the mis- tude along the road, escaped, whilst the field had been alsionaries were exerting themselves in the inculcation of lowed to be overrun with grass and underwood, which the law of love, has frequently destroyed the whole labour completely destroyed all that had been planted in it; for it of years by a single act. The law of love is the only one must be remembered, that in a tropical climate, and more which universal nature acknowledges and yields obedience especially in a newly-prepared field, the ground is rank, to. One act of kindness prepares the way for a free pas- and the production of weeds most rapid. There is a kind sage to the preaching of the Gospel; military interference of lianas, which with amazing rapidity entwines itself destroys the ground that would receive it, as is seen in the around trees and other plants, and checks them in their following instance :-' At one time the small-pox made its growth, if it does not absolutely destroy them. When I appearance in the colony, and committed great ravages asked the catechist how all this had happened, he calmly among the negroes. Not many weeks passed and cases answered, 'You did not leave them to my charge.' When were reported to have occurred in the Essequibo. I now next I turned to the schoolmaster, he replied, ' Why, sir, endeavoured to procure the vaccine matter, and, through thought you would never return again to this place'the kindness of the colonial surgeon, I obtained a small certainly a very polite compliment to me, but surely no supply. I tried it upon the children, and was thankful excuse for his own neglect. Although the taste of indito see it take effect. I next prevailed upon the adult In-viduals may differ as to these things, and men of little dians at the settlement to consent to be vaccinated, and minds think them incompatible with their high and bessucceeded beyond my expectation. All the people at the venly calling, the book of nature has the same Author Grove, without an exception, submitted to vaccination; with that of revelation; and he who is taught to read and although strangers, affected by the malady, mixed them aright, will find not only sweet enjoyment in the with the people, not even a single case occurred among study and culture of both, but also trace the Author's them. Some weeks after the vaccination, however, the wisdom, love, and power in the meanest worm that we children generally were affected by the chicken-pox, but crush under our feet. And should not the contemplation in a very mild form, and this I looked upon as afford- of these objects excite gratitude, love, and trust in the ing a proof that the plan had been effectual. As soon as heart of the believer, when be remembers that the same the Indians were restored, I sent them abroad to tell their great and glorious being, who not only created, but suspeople of the remedy and the effects it had produced upon tains them by his almighty power, is his God and Father them; and to invite them generally to avail themselves in Jesus Christ, willing, as well as able, to supply all his of it as a preservative from that dire disease. Many had need?' already fallen victims to it, and a still greater number were just at this time suffering from it. This had the effect of causing them to come from a great distance, and from places which I had never known of before. Some of these Indians looked upon my mode of proceeding, when vaccinating them, as a kind of charm; and others sub

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Mrs Bernau died after his return to the station, and his affliction for her loss gave birth to the following beautiful incident:-'I cannot forbear stating the fact that, no sooner was her departure known, than the room where she died was crowded by our dear people expressing their sympathy. Some mourned and grieved, whilst others, to

Mr Bernau returned home in 1846, where he now is, after having faithfully done his part as the harbinger of that glorious day when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the bottom of the sea.'

whom she had been a friend in need and an instructor, learned research; on the contrary, it just furnishes the were seen bedewing her face with tears. It was a scene most cogent reason for the student's exercising increased which altogether overpowered my feelings, so that I was caution in his deductions, and assiduity in fitting himself obliged to withdraw for many hours together. One of to grapple with a subject attended with so much doubt. our communicants, whose name was Simmon, found me It has been conceived that a series of occasional etymositting in a room by myself. He addressed me in the fol- logical notices, descriptive of the geography of England, lowing words, Dominie, I think you cry too much.' I and embracing her most important districts, cities, towns, looked him in the face, thinking that this remark was and other localities of consequence-if planned and exerather an unkind one, and observed that tears were start-cuted so as, while not altogether unworthy of the perusal ing from his eyes. 'Yes,' said he, 'you have lost a dear of those who are connoisseurs in such studies, they should wife; we, a dear and beloved mother. But, Dominie, have something to attract and sustain the attention of the why cry so much? You told me, when my mother died, uninitiated-would be neither unacceptable nor unprofitI should not weep as one without hope; and I believe I able to the readers of the INSTRUCTOR. Interesting, too, shall see her again. Now you teach us so, you should at times they would scarcely fail to be; for there is no show us a better example.' 'Simmon,' I observed, we locality so insignificant or remote, the sound of whose name are permitted to weep, for Jesus wept, as you will remem- falls not sweet as music on some ear, and whose characters, ber, at the grave of Lazarus.' 'Oh, yes,' he replied, but traced on paper, charm not some eye. That man's feelnot too much. Come, let us pray, brother.' I accom- ings-if feelings he have-are not to be envied, who, in panied him into an adjoining room, and there kneeling listless mood glancing over a paper, sees there, on subject down, this Indian offered up a prayer of sympathy, thanks, trivial or otherwise, mention made of his native country or and praise, which I shall never forget.' natal spot, be it busy city or sequestered hamlet, stately hall or homely cottage, and straightway feels not the pare name fascinate his eye, and, like wizard's spell, conjure up a crowd of mixed but not unpleasing associations, that rush upon his soul, and take possession of him for the while. We have ourselves seen an old worn-out Londoner-about as hackneyed and artificial a specimen of the genus man as is-who was 'ruralising,' as he elegantly styled it, in a northern province in quest of health-we have seen, we say, this battered septegenarian evince evident pleasure at the casual record in conversation of Cheapside, London Bridge, Towerhill, Templebar, St Paul's, and other crack localities of great Babylon, which had been from his infancy, as one may say with England's bard, familiar in his mouth as household words;' but at mention of Bow Church' the lack-lustre eye of eld actually flashed coruscant, and the veteran Cockney stood auribus arrectis, as if the merry chime wont to solace his youthful soul still tingled in his senile ears. So irrepressible are man's best sympathies! and few, we feel convinced, are there so callous as to have had utterly extinguished those amiable instincts of our common nature, which are all distinct from low illiberal prejudices and narrow ungenerous partialities, local and national. Who cherished more passionately the former than Scott, while it was the daily labour and the nightly task of his giant genius and his graphic pen, by delighting the fancy and pourtraying character, to exterminate the latter from the minds of his readers? It shall be the aim of these notices, then, to make localities, replete with associations so endearing, still more interesting, by showing that not only have they a local habitation and a name,' but that that name is often most significant, involving in itself some important historical, traditionary, or descriptive information, the knowledge of which cannot fail but to be gratifying to the mind, which is ever pleased with the substitution of sense for sound, or, in other words, with the discovery of truth. Especially-and to the fact we presume to call the attention of the practical teacher of geographycan such knowledge be made most usefully available for educational purposes; for, when any particular place has been the theatre of an event of historical importance, and the very term itself indicates the fact, then, we hold, the intelligent teacher will, by a simple exposition of the term, more directly inform the understanding, and more forcibly impress the memory with the event, than by the more remote and mechanical method of merely associating it with the locality.

SHORT ETYMOLOGICAL NOTICES OF THE
TOPOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND.
OURS is emphatically an educational age: it is so, both as
regards the quantity and the quality of the article itself,
and the methods of its communication. These all have
been amplified, refined, improved. Ours is also strikingly
an age of instruction, in respect of the noble army' of
those that communicate, and the mighty masses that re-
ceive, knowledge. Teaching and learning are studied both
in theory and in practice; and, consequently, both as
sciences and as arts, they are beginning to be more
thoroughly understood and more skilfully practised.
Plain, sound sense, solidity, and scholarship are getting
the better of plausible superficiality, and flash, and glitter.
Especially in the province of etymology, taking that term
in its strict and true sense, much has been achieved, and
more is being done, towards storing the juvenile mind
with a competent knowledge of the ingredients of com-
pound, and the radices of derivative words. This mighty
improvement in the nature of modern elementary tuition
it is which justifies the title intellectual' as applied to
many modern systems of discipline, in contradistinction
of the methods formerly in vogue, which, not dealing in
verbal analysis, left the pupils, as a matter of course, with
crude and inadequate notions of words, and therefore of
the things which they represented. The superiority of the
one mode over the other is now generally admitted; and,
accordingly, scarce a spelling-book, grammar, or any edu-
cational work whatever, treating on English, now issues
from the press, but either it is furnished with copious lists
of Saxon, Latin, or Greek roots, or, in some way or other,
is made to illustrate etymologically their prolific propaga-
tion into the stock of the English language and literature.
Now, this process, from which so many undoubted benefits
have accrued to other departments of knowledge, has as
yet, strange to say, been but partially and casually ap-
plied to geography, though this last seems to be a field
upon which, if soberly and dexterously directed, the beacon
of etymology can be made to shed some of its strongest
and brightest beams-a field, too, it is, be it remembered,
of national education, the proper cultivation of which is of
prime moment to British youth, nor barren of interest and
utility to Britons of every age. We say on purpose, when
soberly and dexterously directed;' for etymology is con-
fessedly a subtle and a slippery subject-its light is often-
times dim and fitful, and its guidance not always satisfac-
tory-though this affords no solid argument for the rejec-
tion or depreciation of the service which the skilful em-
ployment of it can be made to render to geography, as
well as to other branches of education, and other walks of

Northumberland, latinised by Buchanan and others Northumbria, signifies, the land north of the Humber. The modern Northumberland, though in point of size it ranks among the largest counties in England, being seventy miles in length, and above forty in breadth at its southern extremity, occupies but a diminutive portion of the territory which the name indicated under the heptarchy. The fact was then more in keeping with the mean

GALLERY OF LITERARY DIVINES.

BY GEORGE GILFILLAN.

NO. III. THE LATE DR FERRIER OF PAISLEY.

and the resources of a genius which, through its united brilliance and strength, has excited the rage, the envy, and the admiration of religion's bitterest foes.

First, however, let us say a few words on the nature of Christian oratory. Opinions on this subject are very contradictory and confused. What is the idea of a perfect sermon?' is a question which, from Claude down to the late amiable Alexander Nisbet of Portsburgh, has been asked and sought to be answered, if once, a thousand times; although it had been as profitable to have asked and answered the question, What is the idea of a perfect sausage?' It is implied in the very mooting of such a question that there is a certain formula or standard, to which, were it once discovered, all sermons should be arbitrarily adjusted. To this we strongly demur. In certain kinds of mental exercitation, such as the writing of epic poems or the demonstration of mathematical theorems, there are general rules, fixed or presumed to be fixed, which writers and students are required to keep before their view. But how often is the rigour of such rules relaxed? Who now would dream of compelling the author of a heroic poem to conform it in all points to the Epopea of the Iliad, or to the mechanical rules of the Stagyrite? And though there be no royal road to geometry, who, in demonstrating a proposition, does not hail the most expeditious and most elegant mode of reaching the conclusion? How absurd, then, the attempt to press down a thing which in rerum natura must depend so much as a sermon on circumstances, persons addressed, place of meeting, country, and even climate, under any wooden or iron model or mould! In the idea of a perfect sermon lies the same impossibility as in the idea of a perfect play, or a perfect essay, or a perfect anything. But then there is a second absurdity in the case; for even were such a rara avis as a sermon, perfect in a literary its very perfection proved its ruin, and that the faultless thing, which should baffle, if not please, the most censorious critic who ever carped in church or closet, might be caviare to the general, and perhaps produce more unmitigated contempt than the most feeble composition which ever sought to sound the bottom of the Bathos. The idea of a sermon implies in it not only a certain literary character, but something that should be level to the apprehensions, as well as in a measure accommodated to the tastes, of any 600 or 800 persons who may chance to be collected within the walls of a church; and this itself serves to show that no species of composition more spurns an artificial standard, and that as soon may we find a golden mountain or a black swan as a perfect sermon.

EVERYBODY knows how common it is, each ten years or so, to hear an outcry raised about this or the other thing being on the decline-in a slow and deep, or high and gallopping consumption. Everybody knows, too, that the cry varies at various seasons. Now poetry is in an extremely low and languishing condition; and now the potato, now hops, are looking down; and now history is losing its high and palmy honours, and verging on what Lord Plunket long ago called it, an old almanack.' It were a curious speculation, had we time, to trace the origin of such outcries, and show how often they result from sheer ignorance, how often from envy or stupidity, how often from a partial or narrow deduction of facts, and how often from the ipse dirit of some popular author or journalist, who, perhaps, having cast the paradox among the gaping crowd, is himself not a little surprised to find it caught up, canvassed, and at length entertained by many as a sober, serious, and ultimate truth. Among such vain and false alarms, we know none vainer or falser than that which prevails in certain quarters, that pulpit eloquence is in a state of decay or collapse. So far do we deem this wide of the truth, that we are persuaded that, whatever be the state of religion, the art of religious eloquence was seldom in a more flourishing condition than in the present day. We grant that the truths which are the basis of Christian oratory have, of necessity, lost much of the gloss and novelty which at first made the plainest proclamations of them the best, and of itself secured attention, if it did not awaken emotion or compel belief. We admit, too, that in the circumstances of the time, agitated as it is, there is not the ardent excita-sense, formed or found, it would be a thousand to one that tion which in former days enkindled and upreared such living volcanoes of eloquence as Luther or Knox, Renwick or Cameron, Wesley or Whitfield. Some of those men, at least, were prodigies; possessed of extraordinary powers, they were led by extraordinary circumstances to consecrate them to the service of religion; cast on fierce and troublous times, their fronts were fronts of defiance, and their language a two-edged sword; placed in the dark passage between two eras, their very position was eloquence; and standing suddenly up and against deep obscurity, the radiance of their powers and their characters seemed larger and more luminous from the surrounding gloom. Those men suited the periods on which they were cast; their minds soared up on storm-loving wings' into the highest heaven of pulpit oratory, where they dwell alone and unapproached; their powerful sentences, torn from their own hearts, float down the current of ages, safe as the sun in a stormy day; their books, containing high thoughts, higher aspirations, bursts of death-defying energy, gems of purest ray serene,' blended with live coals from the altar,' though at times, too, with baser and earthier materials, are often in our hands and often in our hearts; their names in fame's eternal volume shine for aye,' and we feel, besides, with strong assurance, that they are recorded in the Lamb's book of life.'

For such spirits we may not look speedily again; though should any dark crisis occur in the history of the church, it is not unlikely that (perhaps from quarters unexpected) the tones of religious eloquence, in its sternest and sublimest form, may again startle the nations, and that the pulpit of an enlightened and earnest ministry may again become the throne of the civilised world. Other Christian Anakim, girded with the ancient energy, and breathing the ancient spirit, may arise to teach the man to act, or, it may be, the martyr to die. Meanwhile, holding as we do, that Christian eloquence as an art, prosecuted with elaborate success by not a few, was seldom, if ever, in a more flourishing condition than at present, we propose now to depict another of those masters of Israel (too little known, alas! beyond the narrow bounds of his own Israel!), who have brought to their pulpit ministrations varied faculties, extensive erudition, accomplished eloquence, literary tastes,

Taking, however, the word 'perfect' in a very modified sense-in the sense of good,' and bearing in mind the last remark, we may find various forms of preaching of a very high order indeed. For the country and court of France, during the reign of Louis XIV., were admirably adapted the ornate oratory, the piercing interrogation, the stormy pathos, the florid horrors, and splendid exaggerations, of Bossuet: the classic grace and mystic piety of Fenelon; the Ciceronian fluency and fervour of Massillon; the logic, the energy, and the terrible terseness of Bourdaloue. All those preachers, while essentially distinct from each other, suited the standard of their age and the excitable temperament of their countrymen, not yet in love with the lurid lights and eloquence of atheism. How well, again, was Barrow's preaching, in the plenitude of its learning, the richness of its language, and the fine easy amble of its motion, adapted to the secluded scholars, to whom, in general, his extraordinary productions were addressed. Taylor's preaching, less close in its thinking, and more coloured in its diction, was better fitted for gaining those popular audiences who were wont to think him a young angel newly descended from the climes of glory.' Howe's style, again, calm, majestic, diffuse, with highly laboured passages, and a fine vein of poetry intermingling with Platonic thought, was eminently suited to the unworldly and elevated views of that better class of Puritans who were privileged to hear him, and who, we are told, were wont to sit for five or six hours at a stretch, drinking in his