of Sève China, with appropriate plate, to which Gertrude added a highly-finished London harp, and the Oratorios of Handel, elegantly bound.

Anxious to ascertain the promotion of a military friend, Maria was perusing a Gazette, when the mention of the regiment caught her attention. Smiling she said to her mother, I have long learned to consider Captain Maxwell as an involuntary instrument in the hand of my heavenly Father, used to promote my happiness and welfare.'

This prohibited name had been so long unpronounced that Mrs. Vernon regarded her daughter with some surprise.

When first acquainted with him,' continued Mrs. Lindsay, perceiving the look, I beheld this world through a medium false and delusive; my views were deceptive and limited, each glance displaying objects new and seductive, beyond which I never

4 tem selection, and anteny a my former lusions, I aught instruICHON VORE slona ta sa le found, I umei nef Bafora, that i udge whose chastisenens at marcjan-I taotled His law, aut Leanei to bond my hope on the Rock ar aps which faneth not. My humitation vas graciently accepted, and with adoring gr titude I acknowledge the blessings conferred by Him whose ways are ways of pleasantness,' and in all of whose paths there is peace.

THE END.