suffered it. I took a walk in the garden, where I often busied myself among the herbs and flowers, and there to a tree were tied by the leg several little pigs, and the barbarous gardener was whipping them to death with a cartwhip!! I loudly exclaimed against this horrid cruelty, and requested to know the reason. 'It renders their flesh plumper and more tender!' he replied. What!' said I, ' and this barbarity exercised for the sake of gratifying the palate, or raising the price! Oh!' said he, very coldly, it is our custom here-they soon die after they fall!"" "What necessity," said Eugenia, "for students, clergymen, and gentlemen to inquire into every part of their domestic arrangements, that such dreadful and inhuman deeds may not be practised, in compliance with the detestable customs of a corrupt age." "But I hope you learned something good there," said Miss Elizabeth ; "Oh, yes, I saw the beauty and excellence of religion in the pious and amiable conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson. I was encouraged by the persuasive instructions of Mr. Clarkson to set myself a daily task for improvement, and I formed there an acquaintance with Mr. Germ and Mr. Dentford, gentlemen who boarded at houses near to ours, and attended Mr. Clarkson's instructions, who, by their advice and help, much improved me."

"Good Mr. Shepley, from Reading," said Mary," is on a visit here, exchanging churches with papa. He was one of Mr. Clarkson's pupils, and you have known him of old.” "Oh, yes," said Charles, "I do know and value him as one of the sincerest and most excellent men on earth. Many a day have I spent at his house in my childhood in the peaceful vale of Lisbury. Many a Sunday have I witnessed him shedding the tears of sympathy while your beloved father was preaching, ere he entered the ministry, and I have heard him with highest delight preach in

your father's pulpit, while tears of yearning pity for sinners, and of ardent love to his christian brethren, flowed down his cheeks; which were answered with equal tears of sympathy from his affectionate audience. He had been accustomed to meet the congregation there, and spend the noon in the church with them till the afternoon service commenced; where he, with others who came from a distance, eat the morsel they brought in their pockets, and spent the peaceful hours in heavenly conversation, and reading, and singing. The words of life, broken to them from the pulpit by such an esteemed friend, appeared doubly precious. He was an Israelite indeed, without guile, and beloved by all."

A rap was now heard at the door, and in came the Rev. Mr. Shepley, this beloved Israelite, Charles's old friend, the monitor of his early childhood, whom Charles had not seen for three years past,

"WELCOME! Welcome, Charles!" said the kind and goodnatured clergyman, “I am glad to see you, after so long an absence at a distant school, and at college; and I am glad to see you too in such good and pleasant companyand welcome Miss Eugenia. friends, and We are all 1 such meetings are peculiarly grateful in this world of mutability and sorrow!" Soon after, with a tear glistening in his friendly eye, his paternal friend addressed Charles :-"Do you recollect, my young friend, the affecting scene where we last met?" "Recollect!" said Charles, "how can I ever forget it; it is deeply engraven on my heart; the thought of that heavenly tutor, whose remains so many pupils of all professions met to consign to the tomb, now animates me in my sluggish pilgrimage to that better world to which he is ascended." "I thank God on your behalf, Charles," said Mr. Shepley, "his death has, I hope, been spiritual life to you and many of us. Yes! on that occasion, there met together fifteen clergymen, all formerly his pupils; and one of them formerly Mr. C.'s friend and pupil, and well known to most of the rest. Mr. Rosely preached his funeral sermon, and the others, with about ten more professional men and gentlemen, once his pupils, wept over his coffin as it descended

to the house of all living, exclaiming My father! my father! the chariot of our Israel, and the horseman thereof!' There was scarcely one among them that had not received religious impressions under that holy and excellent man of God. He had kept an academy in our neighbourhood, far removed from the means of corruption, with the heavens, his future inheritance, stretching over his head, and the woods and downs surrounding him in a beloved retirement, secluded from the busy, tumultuous, and persecuting world, for half a century! There, from youth to age, the pastor of a humble flock of hardy peasants, with a congregation, generally swelled to excess from the neighbouring market towns, dwelt the amiable, wise, retired, and beloved Mr. Clarkson, training up the future heroes, physicians, teachers, evangelists, and enlighteners of the age-nursing in embryo, plantations of piety, which each are destined to form, round his future abode. How I remember the kindness and humility of his manners, his wisdom and piety! It is said, he never beat a pupil in his life! Not a pupil but loved and admired him."

"Yes," said Charles, "I can speak this from my own experience, when I was his pupil; and many of his pupils have had cause to admire him and revere his memory, ever since, for the benefit-the lasting spiritual benefit→→ they derived from his heavenly instructions. Methinks, I see him at this time reclining back in his great arm-chair, in his hall, filled with his parishioners, on a Sunday evening; his eyes closed, and devoutly enjoying the psalms and hymns, which we sung for half an hour, previously to his beginning his exposition and prayers. It was a sermon to behold this sage and hoary servant of God, with his venerable aspect and silent devout attitude. The solemn delight with which he surveyed his assembled parishioners

the patriarchal mode in which he addressed them and his pupils, was truly edifying. I went to him at the time when he had kept a school for half a century; and when having discovered that corruption and depravity had made an inroad among his junior pupils, he abruptly sent them all home at the vacation, with orders never to return. He had ruled by kindness and moral suasion, and he could not endure in his old age to commence a harsher system. He then dedicated the remainder of his useful days to preparing young men for the university, and for holy orders; and numerous are those who now fill the most exalted stations in the army-the law-and in the church-at home and abroad, who were trained under his excellent and pious tuition. "I recollect one young man," said Mr. Shepley, "viz. Mr. Rosely, who came there to spend his college vacations: he had estates in the neighbourhood, and there he kept his horses and dogs, to enjoy the sports of the field, as a recreation from his classical pursuits. Mr. Clarkson's mild parental instructions won upon his heart: he accompanied him in his walks, he visited with him the abodes of penury and wretchedness, and liberally relieved the sick and the poor. One poor man whom they visited, though racked with pain, and worn by disease, told them he was completely happy he enjoyed a peace with God, through Christ Jesus, which the world could not give, nor could all its troubles take it away. This astonished young Rosely, and led him to inquire whether there was not something in religion supremely valuable. He soon embraced it with all his heart. He venerated Mr. Clarkson as his best friend; and they became so endeared to each other, that they agreed, that whoever should die first, the survivor should preach his funeral sermon. Mr. Rosely kept up an affectionate intercourse for several years with his pious tutor; and at length shed the