DAVIES AND THE KING.

When in England Mr. Davies was listened to with great delight, and crowds attended his frequent ministrations. The following anecdote is related of him. King George II., being curious to hear a preacher from the wilds of America, attended on one occasion, and was so much struck with his commanding eloquence that he expressed his astonishment loud enough to be heard half way over the house. Davies, observing that the King was attracting more attention than himself, paused, and, looking his Majesty full in the face, gave him in an emphatic tone the following rebuke: "When the lion roareth let the beasts of the forest tremble; and when the Lord speaketh let the kings of the earth keep silence." The King shrank back in his seat and remained quiet during the remainder of his discourse, and the next day sent for Mr. Davies and gave him fifty guineas for the college, observing at the same time to his courtiers, "He is an honest man! an honest man!"

In 1758 Davies was chosen to succeed Jonathan Edwards as President of the college of New Jersey. This appointment he declined, but it being renewed the following year, he, in accordance with the judgment of the Synod, accepted it. He did not, however, long enjoy this high honor, for he died in February, 1762, when but thirty-six years of age. He was interred in the burying-ground at Princeton, where sleep Edwards, Burr, Witherspoon, Finlay, and others of the mighty dead.

Whitefield and Howell Harris.

Howell Harris, a distinguished layman, who had three times been refused ordination, was the great apostle of Methodism in Wales. He kindled a fire through the principality that burns to this day, and his name in Wales is a household word and as ointment poured forth. He was the friend of the Wesleys, and the intimate bosom friend of George Whitefield, with whom he became acquainted in this wise: Mr. Whitefield had heard. of Howell Harris, and though they had never met, Whitefield wrote him the following letter:

"LONDON, Dec., 1738.

"MY DEAR BROTHER: Though I am unknown to you in person, yet I have long been united to you in spirit, and have been rejoiced to hear how the good pleasure of the Lord prospered in your hands. . . . Go on, go on. He that sent you will assist, comfort, and protect you, and make you more than conqueror through his great love. I am a living monument of this truth. . . . I love you, and wish you may be the spiritual father of thousands, and shine as the sun in the kingdom of your heavenly Father. O how I shall joy to meet you at the judgment-seat! How you would honor me if you would send a line to your affectionate though unworthy brother, G. WHITEFIELD.”

Harris promptly answered the letter, as the reader will here see:

"GLAMORGAN, Jan. 8, 1739. "DEAR BROTHER: I was most agreeably surprised last night by a letter from you. The character you bear, the spirit I see and feel in your work, and the close union of my soul and spirit to yours, will not allow me to use any apology in my return to you. Though this is the first time of our correspondence, yet, I can assure you, I am no stranger to you. When I first heard of you, and your labors and success, my soul was united to you, and engaged to send addresses to heaven on your behalf. When I read your diary I had some uncommon influence of the Divine Presence shining upon my poor soul almost continually, and my soul was in an uncommon manner drawn out on your account; but I little thought our good Lord and Master intended I should ever see your handwriting."

This was the beginning of a correspondence and the commencement of a friendship that continued through life, and which has, we trust, been renewed to be perpetuated to all eternity.

FIRST MEETING.

Whitefield and Harris met for the first time at Cardiff, Wales, in 1739. Whitefield was preaching in the town-hall from the judge's seat, and Harris was one of his auditors. "I was much refreshed," said Whitefield afterward, "at seeing Mr. Howell Harris present, whom, though I knew not in person, I have long loved, and often have

felt my soul drawn out in prayer in his behalf. A burning and a shining light has he been in these parts, a barrier against profaneness and immorality, and an indefatigable promoter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Two more kindred spirits never met; greater flames of fire never commingled. He says: 66 I doubt not but Satan envied our happiness; but I hope by the help of God we shall make his kingdom shake."

HARRIS AND THE MAGISTRATE.

When Harris was first expected to preach near Garth, Marmaduke Gwynne, a magistrate, and a very influential citizen of Wales, was determined to arrest him, not doubting from current reports but that he was a madman, or "an incendiary in Church and State." He went out with the Riot Act in his pocket, but said to his wife as he left her, "I will hear him for myself before I commit him." Such was the nature of Harris's discourse the magistrate was deeply moved, and thought "the preacher resembled one of the apostles." When he had finished his sermon he went up to Mr. Harris, took him by the hand, expressed his favorable disappointment, asked his forgiveness, wished him success among the people, and, to the astonishment of all, invited him to his house to supper. Through Harris, Whitefield and the Wesleys were introduced to this family, and Charles Wesley, the poet, married Mr. Gwynne's daughter Sarah, who made him an excellent wife. She was a great admirer of the Prince of Pulpit

Orators, and it is said that at the time of her marriage she put in one condition, namely, that she should always have the privilege of going to hear Mr. Whitefield preach whenever she felt so inclined. We are told also that after Whitefield and the Wesleys separated on doctrinal points, she was very influential in bringing about a reconciliation.

WHITEFIELD'S ADVICE TO HARRIS.

"Talk to them," says Whitefield on one occasion to his friend Harris, "O talk to them, even till midnight, of the riches of His all-sufficient grace! Tell them, O tell them what he has done for their souls, and how earnestly he is now interceding for them in heaven! Show them in the map of the world the kingdoms of the upper world, and the transcendent glories of them; and assure them all shall be theirs if they believe on Jesus Christ with their whole heart. Press them to believe on him immediately. Intersperse prayers with your exhortations, and thereby call down fire from heaven, even the fire of the Holy Ghost, "To soften, sweeten, and refine,

And melt them into love.'

Speak every time, my dear brother, as if it were your last; weep out, if possible, every argument, and compel them to cry, 'Behold how he loveth us!'"

WHITEFIELD AND HARRIS NOT TO BE SILENCED.

At Husk, Harris and Whitefield met again. Whitefield says: "The pulpit being denied, I preached upon a table, under a large tree, to some