and your minister he employs to teach his children, and requires you to pay the salary out of the income of that store. Now, do you call this your sacrifice, and say that you are making a great sacrifice to pay this minister's salary? No: you are just as much bound to sell goods for God, as he is to preach for Him.”

A MINISTER IN BOSTON

A MINISTER in Boston paid a visit to a lady of his acquaintance, who was newly married, and who was attired in the modern fashion, with bare arms. After the usual compliments, he familiarly said,

"I hope you have got a good husband, madam ?"

"Yes, sir," replied she, "and a good man, too."

"I don't know what to say about his goodness," added the minister, rather bluntly, "for my Bible teaches me that a good man should clothe his wife, but he allows you to go half naked."

TWO CLERGYMEN.

Two very gayly dressed ladies, being in company with a clergyman, on his being informed that they were professed Christians, were kindly, but very solemnly reproved by him for their extravagance in dress. He reminded them that God had commanded that "women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works; whose adorn

ing, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and the wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price." They were somewhat offended, and, with the hope of quieting their consciences, went to another clergyman, and asked him if he thought there was any harm in their wearing feathers in their hats, with artificial flowers, &c. He gravely replied, "There is no harm in feathers and flowers. If you have in your hearts the ridiculous vanity to wish to be thought pretty, you may as well hang out the sign, and let every one know what is your ruling passion."

REV. JOHN GANO.

THIS gentleman warmly espoused the cause of his country in the contest with Great Britain, and at the commencement of the war joined the standard of freedom in the capacity of chaplain. His preaching, in which he was inferior only to Whitefield, greatly contributed to impart a determined spirit to the soldiers; nor was his private intercourse less adapted to usefulness. When a lieutenant, after uttering some profane expressions, accosted him, saying, "Good morning, Dr. Good Man;" he replied, "You pray early this morning." The man thus reproved answered, "I beg your pardon." "Oh!" retorted Mr. G., "I cannot pardon you; carry your case to God." Of such a man we do not wonder to read the testimony, "The careless and irreverent stood arrested and awed before him, and the most insensible were made to feel."

REV. T. P. BENEDICT.

A MAN having heard the late Rev. Thomas P. Benedict preach a sermon, the object of which was to show that salvation is entirely of grace, said to him, "If what you have preached is true, what is it my duty to do?"

"It is your duty to believe it." "What else is it my duty to do?” "It is your duty to love it. truth."

You ought surely to love the

"What else is it my duty to do?"

"I fear I have told you now more than you will ever do. If you will do these things, you will find no difficulty in regard to any other part of your duty. It will be very plain."

AN UNKNOWN PREACHER.

THE spontaneous preference which all persons, free from prejudice, are ready to yield, other things being equal, to a preacher who has had the advantages of education, may be illustrated by the following incident :—

In the vicinity of one of our literary institutions, where several young Baptist ministers were pursuing their studies, a church, whose members were violently prejudiced against college-learned ministers, had passed a vote that they would admit no one from the neighbouring institution into their pulpit. Shortly after this they sent to a minister then residing near the institution, whom they did not know, but with whose preaching they supposed from information they should be pleased, The minister agreed to attend and preach for them, on the day named in their request. Circumstances, however, prevented

his going in person; he therefore engaged a young ministering brother, who had nearly completed his studies at the institution of which he was a member, to go in his stead. This young brother was unknown to any of the church. He came to the place at the hour appointed; and, with a fluent and ready utterance, with a warm heart and fervent spirit, and with a well-furnished mind, he delivered his Master's message. The members of the church, who supposed all this while that the preacher was the individual for whom they had sent, and who had never been in a literary institution, were delighted. Their hearts were opened. They pressed him to visit them again, to which he consented. In the mean time, they ascertained who their preacher was, that he was a member of the neighbouring institution. But they had committed themselves; he had gained their hearts, and the approbation of their judgment. It was the end of their prejudice against learning in a minister. After this they were ready to admit and act on the principle, that learning cannot MAKE a minister, but that it can greatly increase his power of being useful.

REV. SAMUEL HARRIS.

THIS excellent minister, who laboured in the last century, was called the Apostle of Virginia. In his power over the affections of his hearers, he was thought to be equal to Whitefield. The Virginians say that he seemed to pour forth streams of lightning from his eyes. The following anecdotes may illustrate his character. Meeting a pardoned criminal, who showed him his pardon received at the gallows, he asked, "Have you shown it to Jesus Christ ?" The reply was, "No, Mr. Harris, I want you to do it for me." Accordingly, the good man dismounted and kneeled, and with the pardon in one

hand, and the other on the offender's head, rendered thanks and prayed for pardon from God. He once requested a debtor to pay him in wheat, as he had a good crop; but the man replied that he did not intend to pay until he was sued. Unwilling to leave preaching to attend a vexatious suit, he wrote a receipt in full and presented it to the man, saying he had sued him in the court of heaven; and that he should leave the affair with the Great Head of the Church, with whom he might settle another day. The man soon loaded his wagon and sent him the wheat.

REV. DR. LAIDLIE.

SHORTLY after the arrival of the Rev. Dr. Laidlie, one of the early emigrants from Europe to New York, he was thus accosted by some excellent old Dutch people, at the close of a prayer-meeting: "Ah, Domine !" (the title which the Dutch, in their affection, give to their pastors,) "we offered up many an earnest prayer in Dutch for your coming among us; and truly the Lord has heard us in English, and sent you to us!"

AN AGED MINISTER.

A VENERABLE minister at H- preached a sermon on the subject of eternal punishment. On the next day, it was agreed among some thoughtless young men, that one of them should go to him, and endeavour to draw him into a dispute, with the design of making a jest of him and of his doctrine. The wag accordingly went, was introduced into the minister's study, and