with me, and will he forsake me at the last?'

66 6 No,' I replied, 'No, assuredly! Return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon thee; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.'

"Yes,' she said, 'such is the language of the prophet; and dare I deny it?'

"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.'

"Ah!' she replied,

so spoke the

blessed Jesus. And yet-and yet—'

"Can you disbelieve him, Mrs. Duplin?" I rejoined, in a tone of affection that seemed to reach her heart.

"Can

you doubt his gracious promise? He may for a season have hid his face from

you, but is he not still your Saviour? Is there any other on whom you would rely?"

666 No, Sir, none. He is the way, the truth, and the life;' and deeply am I persuaded, that none can come unto the Father, but by him; with him is the fountain of living waters, and there I must drink or die.'

"This she uttered in a supplicating voice, as if she would have said-'Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.'

"Look unto me and be saved, all the ends of the earth!' Nothing is expected, nothing else required,' I proceeded, ‘but to believe and live.'—They shall look on me whom their iniquities have pierced.' Therefore I will look unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.' -Who is a God like unto thee, that

pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.'

He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins.' As I spoke, I perceived her eye, lately suffused with tears, brighten. Her countenance became more animated; and at length, in the moment that I concluded, a smile of joy irradiated her faded cheek, and she exclaimed,

"O Lord, I will praise thee! Though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will

trust, and not be afraid.'-' He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?''Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?' No; 'I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus my Lord!'"

"Ah!" I said, filling up a pause in the narrative, for my companion had stopped as if overpowered with the war of feeling within; "who that has experienced similar mercy, will not sympathize with your good old friend? Endure we may awhile the ills of life, and

stand unbending beneath outward calamity; but, who would not sink under the apprehension of the wrath of God? A wounded spirit, who can bear? O, what pencil can delineate, what tongue pourtray, the ecstacy of a soul just delivered from the burden of guilt? O my friend and brother, my bosom glows in the remembrance of sorrows I have suffered, of pleasures I have known. Not such they were as would dwell upon a thoughtless mind; sorrows the world is unacquainted with, pleasures it cannot understand; yet, O how abiding was the impression they left! Then, indeed, did I go out with joy, and was led forth with peace. was anointed, as it were, with the oil of gladness. No more was my soul cast down-no longer disquieted within me; while with those who loved his salva-' tion, I said continually, THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED!"

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