sufferings, than the adoption of the principles, the extension of the privileges, and a continued adherence to the cause of truth and righteousness, for which they strenuously contended, and for which they hazarded life itself, as well as actually endured the sorest privations. If no man can consider the favours thus conferred, and the obligations incurred, to partake of a merely pecuniary value; if every right thinking mind at once contemplates both the benefits and the responsibilities to exhibit a purely moral character, and on that very account to possess a preciousness infinitely greater than that of any amount of gold and of silver, what difficulty can prevent the contemplation of Christ's ransom for the soul's salvation, and the nature of man's obligations to the Redeemer, in a similar point of view? In Immanuel's agonizing sorrows and ignominious death, the justice of God obtains a full moral satisfaction for all the dishonour cast upon the divine attributes, government, and law; in Christ's perfect obedience the holy decalogue finds a complete response to every one of its precepts, and that, too, to the greatest extent of its spiritual as well as its literal demands; and from the entire execution of all the engagements, under which the Saviour bound himself by covenant, a merit ascends, like the incense of old, most delightful to the Almighty, and altogether an equivalent for the blessings of redemption in time and eternity. Thus it is that the evils of sin are averted, the peace, the purity, and the glory of heaven secured; thus it is that the law's thundering denunciations cease to appal the hearts of believing men; that the Church's enemies become for ever discomfited; and that the channels of divine munificence begin continually to flow. attainments, as to be always understood to signify something mercenary, and never to admit of any other meaning than that of temporal loss or of secular gain. A parent, for instance, evinces strong affection for his son, by conferring upon him, out of a scanty income an education far superior to, and more expensive than what the family's circumstances would have warranted. Perhaps at no one period of his subsequent history does this favourite child arrive at the possession of wealth or affluence; at the same time, should his successful studies bring him high reputation in the walks of science, and a vast revenue of this world's fame, who would not hear of the immense load of gratitude under which he lay for the exuberance of parental kindness? Requite the father in gold and in silver the grateful son never can, yet, in a moral point of view, he makes a return more valuable and more highly esteemed than any amount of these grossly idolized substances could have ever effected. Besides, under what obligations does all Christendom lie for the civil and religious privileges bought in former days by the blood of martyrs, wrenched out of the iron grasp of tyrants, and secured to their posterity by the costly sacrifices and noble struggles of men, whose names may with propriety go down to latest generations as Reformers indeed! What earthly treasures ever could discharge the debt which posterity owe to Luther, or repay him for the dangers which he encountered in rescuing mankind from the most cruel oppression, bigotry, and superstition? What sums of gold and of silver could remunerate Calvin-that "splendid light of the Reformation and oracle of the Christian world" for all his gratuitous labours, unwearied toils, and profound theological literature, whereby he established orthodox doctrine, demonstrated the excellence of This view of Christ's passion, and his active Presbyterian government, and enforced the rules obedience, seems essentially requisite to the proof salutary discipline in the Church? And what per understanding of the lofty theme of man's rerevenues, even of the most wealthy empires upon demption. It at once refutes the groundless acearth, could recompense a Knox-than whom no cusation, that this plan of mercy holds to view a uninspired orator ever gave proof of a more richly pecuniary character; it puts to scorn the idea that stored mind, a more impressive eloquence, and a the Almighty only measures out a certain quantity more determined decision of character-for all his of happiness for a specific amount of painful sufillustrious achievements, his glorious career, and tri-fering on the part of the Saviour, and it establishes umphant success in overthrowing the Papacy, and establishing the truth in this kingdom? Debt of no ordinary magnitude do succeeding generations owe these men, under strong obligations do they lie to revere their memory and to hand down their names to posterity; but if no other method occurs to them of expressing their gratitude than by pecuniary gifts, or by the erection of monuments of perishable materials, then poor as were our suffering ancestors while upon earth, and humble as was their condition, they would have positively despised such expressions of gratitude; and now they stand far removed from both the necessity and the desire of such insignificant acknowledgments, Nothing less would have pleased them when in the Church militant, and assuredly when in the Church triumphant nothing less, would satisfy them, as a return from men, for their toils and the doctrine, as every thing connected with the atonement most befittingly ought to do, that a similar ransom should be offered to God for the salvation of one soul as for the pardon of a thousand transgressors; and that to cancel the guilt of one single sin, a similar satisfaction must be presented as for the removal of a myriad of sins. In what a deeply affecting light do these thoughts depict the evil of man's apostasy from God! How do they also hold up to admiration the unmeasured and the unmeasurable efficacy of Christ's sacrifice of himself in the room of the guilty, whom he has undertaken to redeem from sin and wrath! While the Almighty Parent of the universe thus appears dealing out the gifts of pardon and of boundless goodness to his most profligate sons, in a way perfectly consistent with the interests, the homage, and the affectionate obedience of his other in numerable children, He, at the same time, sits enshrined in all the glories of holiness, righteousness, and truth. While the Creator, Preserver, and Judge of all worlds, in this manner manifests himself dispensing unmerited blessings and unrivalled honours to the most rebellious of his subjects, He nevertheless stands forth to the view of men and of angels enthroned in the robes of unsullied majesty, securing the love, esteem, and praise, as well as the reverence of the hosts of intelligent beings throughout his vast dominions. The displays of divine love which thus appear in the Saviour's cross, combined with God's unspotted rectitude, the awful splendours of the Almighty's administration, in connection with the most attractive benignity, and the utmost security for sin's destruction, along with the sinner's salvation, can never fail to produce sentiments of the most profound veneration, gratitude, and unwearied obedience. The statements just made have been adduced for the purpose of protecting the Almighty's character from every thing sordid, mean, and grovelling, in the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ. But the subject seems to require this further remark, that the scheme, of which the sufferings and death of God's Son form a prominent part, only manifests the divine love, and furnishes the medium for its transmission, in a way consistent with the claims of justice. Nothing can be more remote from truth than the supposition that love does not inherently and essentially belong to the nature of God; but that, in some way or other, it takes its rise there on account of the Redeemer's propitiatory sacrifice and efficacious merit; whereas the Scriptures represent God's love as originating the world's salvation, as "setting up his eternal Son from everlasting," in the form of mediator, and as sending him to seek and to save the lost family of man. Surely, however, the fact of God's being angry with the wicked every day does not necessarily supersede either the existence or the exercise of love as an essential attribute of the divine nature; it is quite conceivable, and entirely in accordance with fact, that love and anger may exist in the same person. The Almighty may have compassion on the sinner, and at the same time have an irreconcilable hatred of sin. Yes; his love for the souls of men may rise to the utmost height and fervour, while his feelings of holy indignation against all unrighteousness may appear altogether unquenchable. Corresponding with these sentiments, the words of Jehovah, describing his deep emotions towards Israel may be adduced, "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within me; I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, for I am God and not man." In these deeply pathetic strains, there appears a struggle between a wrathful indignation against the offence and the overflowings of kindness to the offender. So when God's love could not find its way to this world's disobedient popula tion, without a vindication of the rights of legiti mate government, without upholding the sanctions of a righteous law, and without regard to the demands of infinite justice, then it was, in not sparing his only begotten Son, that he gave the most astonishing expression of love to men, then it was that he furnished demonstration of his eternal enmity of all iniquity, and of his unspeakable affection to the children of a most unnatural revolt. Look at these amazing transactions, and you at once behold the measure, the expression, and the medium, of divine love to man. Look at the ransom paid for man's redemption as a proof, that Jehovah wards off the slightest stain from his moral administration, and you have a full refutation of all the false and calumnious charges brought against the Scripture method of a sinner's justification before God. Look, in fine, at the views which have been already adduced, in respect of God's way of pardoning transgressors, and instead of the Almighty proceeding, with a measure of nice dimensions, to bestow a certain amount of happiness, as a remuneration for so much pain and suffering, exacted from Christ, in the sinner's room, you have the Godhead presented to the eyes of all worlds, as demanding a propitiatory sacrifice for the purpose of vindicating the rights of his outraged government, and for the purpose of exhibiting sin as the most detestable evil; and that, when the way of mercy in this manner becomes unstopped, the Deity bursts perpetually upon your view in the bestowment of rich, free, and unmerited favours. A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF A SABBATH BY THE REV. HENRY GREY, A.M., THE friend we have lost, the sister whom it has pleased God, as we think prematurely, to remove from us, was a character of no common excellence, she was entirely without pretension, little in her own eyes, with nothing in the sphere in which she was placed, or in the talents with which she was intrusted, to distinguish her above This formed the concluding portion of a Sermon preached to the children of the Congregational and Parochial Sabbath Schools of St. Mary's Parish, Edinburgh, on the Evening of Thursday, 11th July, 1889. 1 others. Advantages of that kind, in the case of many, turn out of no account, from not being improved and put into exercise. But our friend, wise in her generation, faithful in that which was committed to her, and diligent as the bee or the ant in the prosecution of her Christian calling, bore much fruit. She was the last person that would have supposed there was any thing in her for others to imitate: she would be startled, nay, distressed, if she were alive among us, to think that her name was thus brought forward, or any reference made to her humble graces and virtues as a pattern for others. Like those of enlightened and tender consciences who take the Word of God for their directory, she was too anxious to "cleanse her way" in subduing sin, and correcting and perfecting her conduct, to find in herself any thing to admire, or commend her to the peculiar esteem of others. But we are not, because humility shone in her, to overlook her excellencies, or lose the benefit of her example. She had been early conducted to the fold of the good Shepherd, along with others, the friends of her childhood and youth, attached to the ministry of the late Drs Robertson and Colquhoun, of Leith, where she, with her family, resided. These ministers were not alone instrumental in leading her to the Saviour. She was indebted also to Sabbath school tuition; and, being prompted by affection and the entreaties of friends to lend assistance in teaching where teachers were scarce, she got early engaged in that walk of usefulness in which she long persevered and eminently excelled. In watering others and preparing to instruct them, her own soul was refreshed. She became a diligent student of the Scriptures, joining with another young friend in purchasing a commentary, for the sake of the marginal references and notes, which they sedulously studied before meeting with their classes. My friend became in this way, as well as by reading good books, and a close and intelligent attendance on the means of grace, a well-instructed theological student, as she was an edifying and exemplary member of religious society. Social and cheerful in her disposition, attached and engaging to young persons, she was eminently blessed in that line of occupation to which, in consequence of some painful losses and visitations, she was led to devote herself. Her business lay in training the young, in forming the character and habits, in cultivating the mind and dispositions, and in imparting useful knowledge and arts. Many passed under her care with conspicuous advantage to themselves. Many there are to whom her name and memory will ever be dear; who will associate the thought of her with whatever is good and praise-worthy, and will recount lessons as learnt from her lips when conveyed again to the ears of their own children. Some also there are who have gone before her, her witnesses at the throne of grace, who died in the faith, taught by her admonitions and cherished by her prayers. She left us a lovely and attractive example in this department of life. She did not move among the more conspicuous and stricter class of professors. Her duties lying among young people, she engaged with great cordiality and cheerfulness in their innocent recreations, and knew how to give vivacity and a benevolent charm to their winning sports, as well as to conduct their thoughts and affections in the lessons of the Sabbath School. This will be remembered by those who shared in them. I speak it to her honour, as one of the forms in which her varied and pleasing character was amiably illustrated. I feel a pastor's gratitude to my departed friend. She was an attached hearer. The ministry she herself loved, she kindly and zealously commended to others. Her pupils became naturally, under her influence, approving, affectionate, and improving hearers. They were brought with herself to our Sunday schools; where all her week-day and Sabbath-day labours did not lead her to excuse herself from toiling with much assiduity for many years. They were there generally distinguished pupils, profiting themselves and exemplary to others. No unpropitious weather, dark or rainy nights, interfered with her regularity. Her services were never made a favour of, or earned at all by compliment or importunity. It was no task to the managers of the school to keep her from tiring of her office, or from thinking her labours too little appreciated. Her service was that of love, done as to the Lord. She looked not for a reward to any lower quarter. I have mentioned that trials, in the way of family bereavement and pecuniary losses, attended her youthful years. Her latter years, for old age was not allotted her, were chequered with severe personal sufferings. Hardly three years ago she had a singular deliverance from death, being run over by an omnibus, and trampled upon by the horses, whose feet mangled her limbs with distressing wounds. She was fully conscious of her situation during the perilous moments when she lay between the wheels of the carriage; and her presence of mind and Christian collectedness helped her in some degree to avert the danger, as they certainly promoted her recovery, though effected with difficulty. She had, after that, another crisis of severe and alarming fever, through which the Lord brought her to nearly her wonted state of health, though not to all her former vigour. She did not, after this, resume her post in the Sunday school, but gave herself, with more scrupulous and affectionate attention, on the Sabbath evenings, to the improvement of the young ladies who dwelt under her roof. I have heard that it was quite edifying to be present in sharing these instructions. These afflictions were attended with blessed fruits to her soul, exercising her in fervent reliance, deep and thankful submission, prayerful hope and confidence in the right arm of her Saviour, which bore her up through her right of conflict. She had in these seasons near and realizing views of her final change, close and holy communion with her God and Saviour, and an established faith and comfort as to her eternal state. We may acknowledge the goodness of God in giving her those consolations at an earlier period, which were denied her in the near approach of death. Her last illness was short, attacking her strongly in the head, and soon shutting up the avenues of thought and reflection. I saw her three days before her departure, when her disorder had assumed an alarming form. She had repeatedly expressed a strong desire to see me, and joined fervently in the prayer I offered up, subjoining warm expressions of gratitude and affection. The next time I saw her she was nearly unconscious of what passed; when I returned the following day, her eyes were sealed up, her mouth speechless, her breathing painful and oppressed, and the functions of life toiling in their last conflict. THE SIBERIAN CONVERTS. THE two Chorin Buriats, from whom the following affecting appeals were received, belong to a tribe in the neighbourhood of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal in Siberia, near the borders of China, and about four thousand miles east of St. Petersburgh. A mission of the London Missionary Society was commenced in that distant and desolate field in 1819, by the Rev. Messrs Stallybrass, Swan, and Yuille. After toiling for about fifteen years amid great difficulties and discouragements, the death of a member of the mission was overruled to the awakening of the first Buriat convert, who also soon died. The two individuals named below, were among the first fruits to Christianity; and about a year after their conversion, in the summer of 1835, hearing that the Rev. Mr Brown of St. Petersburgh, proposed leaving that post on a mission to India, addressed to him, in their native language, the following letter: DEAR ELDER BROTHER IN CHRIST, MR BROWN, to whom we have become united by the gracious love of our Lord. Two disciples in this quarter, who, by the blood of Christ, have been quickened, desire to express good wishes for your great happiness and peace; and, sir, what shall we say to you? There is but one thing to write of, and that is Christ's salvation. Ah, sir, we rejoice that we have been awakened. Formerly we were of the number who commit numerous sins against the only true God, and on that account our future portion was the second death. Yet in proud boasting thoughts, these two poor souls rejoiced and made merry. But Jesus Christ, by his own compassionate favour, knocking at their hearts, called them. Hell was clearly shown them; they feared falling into it and being made partakers of the misery there endured, therefore these two souls, at the invitation of their Saviour, came to him. He has given them one précept, upon hearing which they embraced his feet and worshipped, bending before him; and in his narrow path following him, they now desire to walk. The precept is, Fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.' "Upon coming to Jesus Christ, the people who were formerly the friends and acquaintances of these two poor souls became undesirable and were forsaken; but now how many friends have they found, and how lovely they are! How numerous now are our mothers, and brothers, and sisters in Christ Jesus! You too have become our elder brother, and we trust you will not refuse to acknowledge the relation. "The Saviour, to whom these two souls have come, has also given them other gracious precepts in which they greatly rejoice. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh I will in no wise cast out,' Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heávý lađen, and I will give you rest. These two souls come daily to the Father of their Saviour, the only true God, and in the name of his beloved Son ask for blessings. "The people of Israel were formerly the people of the true God, but they were given into the hand of Pharaoh, who oppressed them and made them his servants. In like bondage were these two souls, who, by the power and grace of God are quickened: they were dead, and served dumb idols. God remembered what he had promised to his servant Abraham, and from heaven and, through Moses, delivered them from knowing the great misery of his people, he descended the bondage of Egypt. So God, by his beloved Son, has saved us from darkness, misery, and death. Ab, we two souls have been saved by Christ; then how should we rejoice and praise him for having delivered us from the worship of lifeless images and the service of Satan! "Now, dear Sir, the souls who address you have one request, which they much desire to make: be pleased then to hear what they have to say. In this place there are multitudes now in the same condition from which we have been delivered-near to the second death. If they all heard of their misery and the danger they are in of falling into everlasting punishment, as well as of the gracious Saviour and his commandments, and if they were led to come at the invitation of the Saviour, O what great cause of joy would it be! Ah, Sir, our dear teachers who prepare Christ's sweet food for us, how few they are! There are only two for this place, and now one of them is with you; only one is thus left to us, and there is only one other missionary on the west side of the Selinga. Our dear teacher, at times, is quite unable to proceed in translating the word of God into the Mongolian language. While he is thus engaged, many people every day crowd round his door requiring medicine, and he has also the school-boys to teach and catechise; he has, too, to converse with those souls who have received the grace of God our Saviour, by which they are taught much. And there are many places here where such work might be done, all of them very populous. The sheep scattered in the wilderness going without a shepherd are very many; ah; ah! if they had teachers and had God's commands, how good it would be! therefore we two souls ask from God the Father, in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, if it be his will, that you, a teacher, may be sent into the midst of this people who are sitting in the shadow of death. O, that it might indeed be sol We, Sir, entreat "Ah! Sir, our elder brother, do come here. Ask our Saviour Jesus Christ if you may. We trust that to your favoured heart he may give a fixed determination to assist us. If there be in the heathen land where you propose to go, more of Christ's servants than are here, then Obe pleased to come to us! Dear Sir, we need many teachers; our places of residence are far apart. As the earth in time of drought is not satisfied with rain, so we are rot satisfied with the number of those who teach us the doctrine of Christ. We are indeed in a state of famine; and we two souls see and feel this. you to be pleased to come. We are greatly fearing that our former friends and acquaintances may be made fuel for hell. O, of the Lord Jesus Christ ask! We desire and hope with our whole hearts that He may send you quickly to us. Reflect thus: your two un worthy younger brethren in Siberia, being grieved on account of the captives of Satan and the worshippers of idols, have requested you to pity them. May this be your determination: I will go to serve Jesus my Lord, putting my trust in him, among the Chorin Buriats. May God, who is King over all, with his merciful blessing you and us alike bless, We now bid you farewell in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, your humble well-wishers, lately become your brethreu. *A MAN, the son of Kennat. TIKSHIE, the son of Morhosie." Upon the receipt of this letter Mr Brown imme diately wrote to these Buriat converts, informing then that he had long expected to labour as a missionary in The name of the first is Shagdur, but for some time he refused to subscribe his name, because it is the name of an idol. India, but as it was his duty to labour where God | might see meet to appoint, he had complied with their request to ask of our Lord Jesus permission to proceed to Siberia. In the decision of the Directors of the London Missionary Society, to whom the case was submitted, he hoped to receive the answer of his Lord. In the meantime the following letter was received by him from one of the individuals who had written the above. “MY DEAR SIR, JOHN CROMBIE BROWN,-I, your younger brother, who have become so by being united in the faith of our Saviour Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was unsparingly poured out in his compassion for us poor sinners, desire from this region of Siberia to express wishes for your happiness. We two unworthy ones, who by the favour of God have been made the humble lambs of Christ's flock, have received your very kind letter; we read it with joy, praying and giving thanks to him who is our Saviour and protector, the only living God. Ah! Mr Brown, we wish you much happiness in doing the will of our Lord Christ. What you wrote, Sir, is indeed true; from the time of my birth for upwards of twenty years, my stupid heart was without the knowledge of God, and the sins I committed against him I cannot now reckon. I did not need my father, or my mother, or my brothers to teach my wicked heart to keep the feasts of idolatry; there was evil enough within me for that, and it was God alone who aroused my stupid heart from the sleep of sin and cleansed it from its pollution. Ah! for so great mercy I feel that I have no strength to make any return; nevertheless, in my Lord Jesus Christ, who is merciful and powerful, and the end of the law for righteousness, with my whole heart do I trust. "When I think how truly sinful I was, living without thoughts of the love of Christ, doing much to oppose him, and yet notwithstanding this, he with patience and mercy, as he had before appointed, knocked at my poor unworthy heart to make it his own; I indeed know not with what to love him. While thinking so, I know I have no strength of my own to walk before him in uprightness and truth, neither to do or desire good; and while my heart is in this strengthless condition many kinds of earthly temptations, as before, come into my heart, and seem as if they would again cause me to fall into the pit; nevertheless, by the power of Christ, my only God and Saviour, I am protected. Ah! dear Sir, will you not pray for your younger brother who is in so miserable and helpless a condition? But "We wrote before, inviting you to come to Siberia; but, as you said, it can truly only be according to God's will. We are so ignorant we cannot know that by your coming here you would be more useful than by going to India; that only is known to God. remember that this snowy Siberia is very great, and although the inhabitants of it are much scattered, yet they are very many; they think not of their precious souls; and though they did, as you well know, they only trust to dead images, and their state is worse than that of cattle. Every month and every year many While I think people are entering the gates of death. that they have not Christ for their Saviour, and being sinners, are unable to escape from the place of punishment, I pity them. Those of us who have received the favour of God are very few, and we are weak-we would like to speak of our trust-worthy Saviour to our friends, who are still in their fearful condition, but some of them, on our attempting it, are angry, and others only mock us; so of what avail can our poor words be? Yet if God favour us with true knowledge, courage, and will, we shall speak to them. Ah! dear sir, we greatly desire if it were the will of God, that you and other servants of Christ who spread his name abroad, might be brought to this our country, and about this we often pray to God. "In the fourteenth chapter of Luke, at the thirtyfirst verse, our Lord says, What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thou sand? or else, while he is yet a great way off, he sendeth an embassage and desireth conditions of peace.' But I, though I have many temptations from Satan, and earthly desires which oppose my faith, and have reason to fear, yet I shall not ask to be at peace with them, for although I have no strength in myself to oppose them, yet, at the close of the twenty-eighth chapter of Matthew, Christ says, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth,' and since this merciful and all-powerful God and Saviour has promised to be with me even unto the end, and not to forsake me, in Him do I trust for strength to oppose all. "You have heard, I suppose, that God has made the number of us less, who had by his grace been chosen from among the Buriat people and brought into the flock of Christ. Our younger brother Bardo, who was sick, is dead. He was the first of the Buriat people who received the favour of God, and was one that loved Christ; so I suppose on that account his God took him before us to the land of rest. We trust he has departed from this world to be with Christ, as he hoped if so, he now sees the good that we see not; the sound of the melodious praise offered to God, which we do not hear, I suppose he hears. We trust that God will not farther diminish our number, but rather we hope and pray that our little flock may be increased. Ah, dear Mr Brown, please remember your few unworthy Buriat brethren. I do desire that you may find an opportunity of coming to Siberia. Your friend, our dear teacher, who shows our perishing souls Christ's truth, and who testifies to our darkened people the Saviour's name, is well; but, as we wrote before, he has but one body and one tongue, and cannot be every where. We know too that those who dwell in bodies of clay are subject to many infirmities, weakhesses, and diseases. But, Sir, why should I multiply words? I desire that you may enjoy much peace in our Lord Jesus Christ; also I desire you to make known my love to those whom you know, who are in Christ. Wishing you much happiness and peace from this quarter of Siberia, I remain your unworthy and weak brother, "TIKSHIE, son of Morhosie." About the time that the last letter was written by TIKSHIE, another was written by SHAGDUR, to the mother of one of the Missionaries, giving a most delightful exhibition of the effects of Christianity in converting the soul. He expresses the joy which a letter from her to the Buriat converts had given them, and his ardent desire to be useful in making known the Saviour to his countrymen. He describes a tour of many days which he made, accompanied by a youth from the schools, among the poor people who subsist by fishing on the Gerona, Koroga, and Isango lakes,— distributing tracts, and telling them the way of life, to which many gave a very serious attention. He alludes to the terrific descriptions in the New Testament of the gross sins of the Heathen, as applicable to the state of those around him; but is assured that the same grace which renewed his own heart can also be magnified in their salvation. He then proceeds to relate the singular providence which led him to enter the Rev. Mr Stally brass' house, where he was accosted as a friend; |