crown of thorns, and for a sceptre they have given the Lord of All a reed. O think of that agony which could induce Omnipotence to cry out-'My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?—If it be possible, let this cup pass from me.' But his Godhead carried him triumphantly through the terrible struggle, and he meekly added- nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.'

"At length the debt was paid, the wrath was endured-justice was satisfied-our salvation was completed, and he pronounced the victorious words, It is finished!' and his manhood for a season, resigned its vitality. He bowed his head, and gave up the Ghost.'

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"Hark! yon convulsion of the elements! No wonder Nature trembles, when the God of Nature dies! The graves give up their dead, the rocks are shivered, and the Temple is rent in twain; while the great luminary of the world, as if unable to behold his Creator so humbled, becomes darkened with astonishment and shame. Oh! well might Dionysius, the heathen astronomer, when he beheld those extraordinary changes in the laws of Nature, exclaim-Either the God of the Universe suffers, or he sympathizes with one who does!" "

When this address was finished, the communicants arose from the table, during the singing of another portion of the Psalms, and their places

were taken by another company. This second company had the solemn ordinance administered to them by the Rev. Mr. Logan, whose address continued about half an hour; and although esteemed by Frederick to be less striking than Mr. M'Culloch's, was nevertheless admitted to be very appropriate to the occasion.

A third serving up of the sacred banquet was found necessary to accommodate the great number who had received ' tokens' of admission, the duties of which were performed in a very neat, dignified, and impressive style, by Mr. Cooke. But accurate and tasteful as were the language and gestures of the young orator, to Frederick these were insipid qualifications, when compared with those bursts of passion, those soul-harrowing descriptions of Mr. M'Culloch, by which he had been so entirely overpowered.

Such of the congregation, as had partaken of this Divine Banquet, were now addressed by their pastor in a brief but earnest exhortation to be ever mindful and strict in the performance of the duties incumbent upon them, in their holy and glorious character of Christian worshippers, which, by their public participation of the solemn ordinance of this day, they had before men and angels avowed themselves to be.

"In your intercourse," said he, "with the men

of that busy world, into which you are again to return, ah! do not, my friends, disgrace the honourable and upright character of followers of Christ, by yielding to the allurements of vice, or by turning into any of the seducing paths trod by the followers of Satan. Ah! remember that such paths, however fair to view, however gratifying to the sense, inevitably lead to the valley of Death, to the abyss of everlasting destruction."

He then addressed the Throne of Grace, the people standing up, as usual, to join in his prayer that the Almighty would bless the ceremonies of that day, in such a manner that all present might enjoy eternal advantages therefrom.

"If any here," said he, " have eaten and drunk unworthily of thy holy feast, pardon them, O Lord!-Bring them to see the error of their ways; visit them not in thy hot indignation, nor judge them according to their iniquities. O God! we thank thee, that thou dost not see as man seeth; thou dost not judge as man judgeth: for as far as the East is from the West; as far as the Heavens are above the earth, so far are thy ways from our ways, and thy thoughts above our thoughts. We rejoice that the great ransom which we have this day commemorated, is sufficient to cover the guilt of the vilest amongst us; and that the repentant

sinner, who pleads to thee for pardon through that all-sufficient ransom never pleads in vain."

Psalms were again sung: after which, the congregation was dismissed, with the apostolic benediction pronounced upon it.

Frederick withdrew with the clergyman, and the rest of Mr. M'Culloch's household, to the dwelling-house of the latter, where they partook of a short repast. In about an hour they returned to the church; when Mr. Cooke resumed the performance of Divine Service, and preached an excellent sermon, abounding with good taste, good sense, good morals, and scriptural doctrines. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon, when the public worship of the most piously-spent day Frederick Rosendale had ever witnessed, terminated; and the people of the congregation of Ballycarney returned to their homes, with their hearts deeply and thoroughly impressed with that holy gratitude and adoration which they owed to the great and beneficent Being, whose almighty power had brought them into existence, and whose infinite goodness had rescued them from the deplorable effects of their own transgressions.

CHAPTER XXII.

But was he orthodox ?—for that is better

Than to possess the power of Cicero

To wring the people's hearts. Faith and sound doctrine,
Such as great Knox or greater Calvin taught,

Let common sense distrust them as it

may,

Take souls to Heaven with greater certainty
Than all the heartless force of moral duties,
Although urg'd home with every trope of language,
And all the sounding energy of gesture.

GAVIN GURTHRIE'S OPINIONS.

THE next day, Major Rosendale again accompanied the clerical party to church, where Mr. Logan delivered a sermon in the genuine style of Cameronianism. It was divided into an alarming number of ninthlys and tenthlys, and consisted chiefly of a technical disquisition concerning the comparative soundness of the creed of Calvin and Arminius. It contained, however, some observations and figures of speech amusing for their originality and quaintness, and, on the whole, seemed to give great satisfaction to the audience;-even Frederick thought there was something in the venera