In the meantime the humane wreckers were watching of the shipwrecked sailor could scarcely be discerned; aleagerly behind some ledges of rock where the mother of the though the reader need scarcely be told that they were those young sailor was seated, palefaced and engaged in fervent of the sailor who had remained firmly tied to the spar, from prayer in behalf of her darling child, whom she thought it which his two companions had been washed away. As, probable was on the tumultuous deep at the time, and, however, the man was now giving some evidence of reperhaps, buffeted about by the very tempest that was then turning life and consciousness, all other considerations were howling around them. She and her husband, aided by her lost in the efforts to restore him effectually. These efforts two remaining sons, had already been instrumental in saving were crowned with the utmost success, for within the space life and property on the coast; and now the three men of half an hour he was able to sit erect. Scarcely, however, were anxiously looking seaward in the hope of being able to had he opened his lips to thank his deliverers and tell his rescue some bale of goods or human figure swept in toward name, when he was folded in the wild embrace of the woman the beach at their feet. who had but a short time previously, and for months and After having remained fully an hour in the deepest anxi- months, been earnestly imploring the protection of Heaven WRECKERS AND THEIR SPOILS.-" ON BOARD THE ILL-FATED BARK ALL WAS CONFUSION AND DESPAIR." ety, they suddenly perceived a spar washed ashore close to where they had assembled, with their ropes and hooks awaiting an opportunity to ply them in relation to anything seen floating among the relentless billows. In a moment the whole family sprang down to where the spar now lay, with a human figure, as they could plainly perceive, lashed to it. Both were driven far in beneath a caverned rock, and were lying there still washed by the furious tide when the humane wreckers reached the spot. To unbind the figure was the work of a moment; and carrying the body up into a recess above reach of the waves, a torch was at once lighted, and restoratives administered, if, perchance, a spark of life yet remained. Owing to the murkiness of the light, the features in behalf of her absent boy. That those prayer shad been heard there can be no doubt, as she now held her darling in her arms. BASE natures joy to see hurt happen to them they deem happy. INTELLECT.-Do not call intellect glorious; there is nothing glorious out of Christ.-Last words of Archbishop Whately. "No MAN," says John Owen, "preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it in his own heart." The Invalid's Portion, and Thoughts for the Afflicted. DOING AND SUFFERING THE WILL OF GOD. 1. "TEACH me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God." Psa. cxliii. 10. 2. "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me." John iv. 34. 3. "I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me." John v. 30. 4. "Not as I will, but as Thou wilt." 5. "If any man will do His will, he doctrine." John vii. 17. Matt. xxvi. 39. 6. "Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." Ephes. v. 17. 7. "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." I. Peter iv. 19. in it, we are often sorely troubled about our past sins and say some. "to leave the bad things behind, and let them be forgotten; but we cannot help looking regretfully at the enjoyments and comforts of former times." "Ah," says some one, "I regret the time when I used to be able to walk, and ride, and work, when I could eat anything, when the day was not half long enough for all I had to do;" and so on, until a long list of good things is gone through. But they are all gone; and to tarry amid such thoughts is to cry after spilt milk. Hope says, Do not fix your eyes on withered leaves which once were bright and green, but on the buds, which, if you will look upon the bare trees, you can find in plenty on the branches as preparations for a coming Spring. Those good things had their day. That day has ended. It lasted the time it was meant to last, and now another day is coming. The past has slipped from you, the future is yours. Onward-onward-look out-look far, look with belief, hope for great things; it is your privilege to project yourself into the future-the future is yours; and all this vigorous growth is beautiful in the Lord's eyes, and makes the sick-bed of the saint a flower-bed of God. Yes! it greatly glorifies Him-it brings into His domain property of which Satan by unbelief, and sourness, and despondency would rob Him-grace makes a flower-bed for God when natural circumstances would have made a wilder ness. And who can tell what great good we may do to others, by such sick-bed experiences! Depend upon it there are as hopeless people on their two legs as on their back; and the sick man may, if he be hopeful and cheerful, be the physician, and prop, and helper of the man that is well. It was a little mouse that let the lion out of the net. It was a poor man that delivered the strong city. God chooses the weak ones of the world, to show light out of the broken pitchers. If those who are well in health, but hopeless in mind or as to worldly circumstances, see you cheerful and hopeful in your trial, you may infuse into them some of your own spirit. You may be the one used of God to strengthen the feeble knees, and lift up the arms that hang down. That may be a part of the ministry which God has assigned to your sick-bed-a part of the honor He puts upon you-a part of the triumph He gives you. And, lastly, bear this in mind: The good effects of Hope, in a physical point of view, are very great. A doctor is much to be pitied who has a hopeless patient. Hope gives his medicines a chance; it vivifies the depressed vitality of the man. The inspiration of Hope has in itself performed many a cure, and helped in the performance of many more. So strongly did the poet feel what Hope could do, that he said: "Cease every joy to glimmer on my mind, But leave-ah! leave the light of hope behind! Her musing mood shall every pang appease, And charm, when pleasures lose the power to please." THERE is no bank or bar of difficulty over which God will not so deepen the water as to float us over it, provided we entreat Him to do so; but special exigencies call for special earnestness and importunity in prayer. (See Luke xxii. 44.) Earnest prayer is the inspired prophet of approaching joy. (See I. Thess. v. 16, 17.) As IN a town or city, immediately before sunrise, the extinction of the lamps annonnces the termination of darkness; so oftentimes, after the irksome night of sorrow, that probably seemed at one period as though it would never expire, the dawning of the day of relief and joy may be divined by the dying out of earthly confidences. SWEETBRIAR and other odorous shrubs never smell so sweetly as after a shower of rain; no more are the graces of a believer ever so lively and fragrant as when watered by the tears of sorrow. And even as some pieces of mechanism will only keep working while they are moved by weights, so would the weight of affliction seem necessary to the keeping in action the moral mechanism within our bosoms. AS RIVERS are generally deeper in Winter, when there is commonly more rain, and less evaporation, than in Summer, 80 are our religious feelings wont to be deepest in the wintry season of sorrow, being then most fed with the showers of grace granted in answer to earnest prayer, as also exempted from the exhaustive influences of prosperity. SHOULD it happen that you feel no relish or comfort in meditation, I conjure you not to disturb yourself on that account, but open the door of your heart to prayer; complain of yourself to our Lord; confess your unworthiness; beseech Him to assist you; say to Him those words of Jacob: "I will not let thee go, except Thou bless me ;" or those of the Canaanitish woman: "Lord, I am a dog; but the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the Master's table." At other times take up some spiritual book, and read it with attention, till your spirit be awakened and return to you. But if you receive no comfort, do not be troubled, however great the dryness, but continue to keep yourself in a devout posture before God. How many courtiers go a hundred times a year into the prince's presence-chamber, | part of England and the Continent. He also made a visit without hopes of speaking to him, but only to be seen by him, and pay him their duty? So ought we to come to holy prayer purely and simply to pay our duty and testify our fidelity. Should it please the Divine Majesty to speak to us, and to converse with us by His holy aspirations and interior consolations, it would doubtless be to us a great honor and most delightful pleasure; but should it not please Him to do us this grace, but leave us without speaking to us, any more than if He did not see us, or we were not in His presence, we must not therefore depart, but, on the contrary, we must remain before His sovereign goodness with a devout and quiet carriage. He will observe our diligence and perseverance; He will be pleased with our patience; and another time, when we present ourselves before Him, He will show us grace, and will converse with us, and make us experience the sweetness of holy prayer.-St. Francis of Sales. 66 Jesus, Thy boundless love to me No thought can reach, no tongue declare; Oh knit my thankful heart to Thee, And reign without a rival there; May dwell, but Thy pure love alone; A QUAKER MEETING. THIS remarkable sect was founded in England by George Fox in the middle of the seventeenth century. He had been bred up as a shoemaker, but in his nineteenth year he became an itinerant preacher, and traveled over the greater to this country. They have no recognized clergy, each member, whether male or female, being competent to expound the Gospel, and is supposed to be under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This frequently results in the prayer-meeting being perfectly silent, the Spirit not having moved any person to rise and hold forth. Their dress is very peculiar, and has the effect of keeping them still more apart from general society. Generally speaking, they are distinguished for their blameless lives and grave demeanor. It is a singular and suggestive fact that the average of insanity is larger among this denomination of religionists than any other-a striking proof that the repression of cheerfulness and pastimes is deleterious to the human mind. A SOWER. MUSTAPHA, a cobbler, had his stall at the corner of a street, where hung a lamp. Over the stall was a single apartment, lighted by the lamp, where he said his prayers and slept. When Mustapha was not working at his trade, he was sowing seed. He would sow seed in every spot, it mattered not where. He sowed seed in so many places, that he often forgot where; so he sowed it over and over again. His neighbors had long been accustomed to him; moreover, they liked him, for he was helpful and kind, gentle and just, cheerful and contented. So, without let or hindrance, he sowed his seed in their bits of ground, promising or unpromising, or in flower-pots and boxes, cracked or broken; he was never interfered with. Neighbors only laughed at him, and asked him what was to come of it ?-which meant, "When flower and fruit would come." "Ah! a great deal will come of it, no fear of that," was his answer; which meant, "Flower and fruit will come," at which they laughed again. Years passed, Mustapha worked, and prayed, and sowed. His hair had grown white as the snow, his step faltered, |