finger he placed the nail, and then with his hands closed, he drove it, exclaiming, 'Jesus! Jesus' He then showed how his feet were nailed to tree. This scene was so descriptive, that I believe all understood it. Thousands were liftting up their voices in praises to God. Looking up to the sun, he put his finger on one of his eyes, and said, 'Now that sun closes his eye to sleep-the earth trembles, and Jesus the Son of God dies! At this moment the congregation manifested great emotion-a high state of feeling was shown-the weeping and shouting was very loud. To close this description of the scene, the chief then leaned his arm on his left shoulder, signifying that Christ had dismissed his spirit. Then he turned his right side to the congregation, and with his left hand pulled up his vest; with his right hand, representing a spear, he then struck his side as though he had pierced it to his heart, and drew it back quick, with a whizzing noise, as if you had heard the blood streaming, and held his hand out, as though the blood was dropping from it as from the point of a spear.

"This was a scene beyond description. The whole congregation was in a flood of tears, and expressed their feelings by shouts of joy. Bishop Soule, and perhaps twenty preachers, were sitting in the stand behind; and while they were filled with astonishment, their souls were kindled with holy joy. After the extra

ordinary impulse had a little subsided, Betweenthe-Logs commenced talking to the Bible, which lay on the stand before him. He turned it over, while the great drops of tears fell from his eyes upon it. At last he took it up and laid it on his breast, and clasped both his arms around it, and lifting up his eyes towards heaven, he exclaimed, Duramaya! duramaya! Homendezue! (Hallelujah! hallelujah to the Great Spirit!) Dezamah! dezamah! Jesus!' He then turned to Bishop Soule, and handing the Bible to him, said,' Here take this good Word of God, and give it to your preachers, whom God has sent, and tell them to go quickly, and carry it to all nations, for God hath sent you.'

"I have often heard this great unlettered man of the woods, in his most eloquent strains of heavenly love, but never before saw him so overwhelmed with the love and power of God. Nor did I ever witness such effects upon an audience. Many who were present will read this very faint description of the scene, but will have to say, that the half has not been told.

"Good was done this day by the Holy Spirit, and thousands were satisfied that this man had been converted to God; for no man could speak and act as he did, without supernatural aid. This meeting waked up in many the missionary spirit, and zeal for the conversion of the world, and for sending the gospel to every creature. On this and other occasions, I had a clear

demonstration of the different effects produced by hearing and seeing. Many had heard of the conversion of this savage race, but doubted the possibility of the untutored Indian being made a subject of God's converting grace; but now, like Thomas, they saw and believed, and wondered at the mighty power and grace of God."

BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS.

BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.

A VOICE amid the desert!

Not of him

Who, in rough garments clad, and locust-fed,
Cried to the sinful multitude, and claimed
Fruits of repentance, with the lifted scourge
Of terror and reproof. A milder Guide,
With gentler tones, doth teach the list'ning throng.
Benignant pity moved Him as he saw

The shepherdless and poor. He knew to touch
The springs of every nature.

The high love

Of heaven he humbled to the simplest child;

And in the guise of parable, allured

The sluggish mind to follow truth, and live. They whom the thunders of the Law had stunn'd Woke to the gospel's melody, with tears;

And the glad Jewish mother held her babe High in her arms, that its young eye might greet 1 Jesus of Nazareth.

It was so still,

Though thousands clustered there, that not a sound
Brake the strong spell of eloquence which held
The wilderness in chains, save, now and then,

As the gale freshened, came the murmured speech Of distant billows, chafing with the shores

Of the Tiberian sea.

Day wore apace;

Noon hastened: and lengthening shadow brought
The unexpected eve. They lingered still,
Eyes fix'd and lips apart-the very breath
Constrained, lest some escaping sigh might break
The tide of knowledge sweeping o'er their souls,
Like a strange, raptured dream. They heeded not
The spent sun, closing on the curtained west
His burning journey. What was time to them,
Who heard, entranced, th' Eternal Word of Life?
But the weak flesh grew weary. Hunger came,
Sharpened each feature, and to faintness drained
Life's vigorous fount.
Compassion for them,
Care-stricken, to his side.
Bread in this desert?"

The holy Saviour felt
His disciples press,

"Where shall we find

Then, with lifted eyes,

He bless'd and brake the slender store of food,
And fed the famish'd thousands.

Wondering awe

With renovating strength inspired their souls,
As, gazing on the miracle, they marked

The gathered fragments of their feast, and heard
Such heavenly words as lip of mortal man
Had never uttered.

Thou whose pitying heart

Yearned o'er the countless miseries of those

Whom thou didst die to save, touch thou our souls

With the same spirit of untiring love!

Divine Redeemer? May our fellow man,
Howe'er by rank or circumstance disjoined,
Be as a brother in his hour of need.

THE name by which this bird was known among the Jews, and mentioned in the Scriptures, signifies pity and benevolence; doubtless from traits of that kind unfolding themselves in its habits and history. Parkhurst has recorded a description of the stork, as to these features of its character, which is not a little interesting. He tells us, that the parent birds mutually guard their brood; one always remaining with it, while the other goes for food. They keep the young ones much longer in the nest than any other bird; and, after they have led them out of it by day, they bring them back at night, preserving the nest as their natural home.