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camp in circumstances equally flattering to Edward as a
monarch, and interesting to him as a husband.
It was
during her regency in England that the great victory of
Neville's Cross had been obtained; and it was under her
auspices that David II. of Scotland was made prisoner.
The queen was also at this time with child, and thus in
every respect entitled to the highest regard of her royal
husband. When she saw that Edward would be moved
with no less intreaty than her own, she rose hastily from
her seat, and kneeled before the king, saying, with many
tears, "Ah, my lord and husband, have I not a right to
ask a boon of you, having come over the sea, through so
many dangers, that I might wait upon you? Therefore let
me now pray you, in honour of our blessed Redeemer, and
for love of me, that you would take pity upon these six
prisoners!"

Edward looked doubtfully upon the queen, and seemed to hesitate for a space, but said at length, "Ah, madam, I could well wish you had been clsewhere this day; yet how can I deny any boon which you ask of me? Take these men, and dispose of them as you will."

The gracious queen, rejoiced at having prevailed in her suit, and having changed the dishonourable attire of the burgesses for new clothing, gave each of them six nobles for immediate use, and caused them to be safely conveyed through the English host, and set at liberty.

RELIGION.

MEN are industrious, that they may get food, clothes, house-shelter, and other comforts. They eat and drink moderately, if they wish to preserve health and an agreeable state of body. They are courteous, modest, kind, and inoffensive, if they wish to be well thought of by their fellow-crcatures. And they are strictly just in their dealings, and in the discharge of their duties, if they wish to think well of themselves, and to avoid the punishments usually

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inflicted on wicked persons. All these qualities are only of use in making us pass happily through life. But man finds that he is connected with something besides what he sees and experiences in this life. He asks how himself and all the world were created. He inquires if the mind which thinks and feels is to perish like the frail body. To these inquiries answers have been given in the BIBLE, where we learn that God created heaven and earth, and all that they contain; and that the soul, after death, is to survive in another state. Man thus finds himself in a new and important light: he is not only a creature seeking for present happiness, but is passing onwards to a spiritual state of existence, in which his happiness or misery will be infinitely greater than it is at present, and to which there will be no end. We learn in the Bible that no efforts of our own enabled us to attain to happiness in the future state, but that God, in his great kindness and mercy towards us, his sinful creatures, has arranged a plan for our salvation through the mediation of his Divine Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, leaving it in our own power, while in this world, to take advantage of that plan if we will. Those who wisely take advantage of the free offers held forth in the Gospel, are assured of eternal joy in communion with God; while those who fail to do so, are as surely threatened with eternal reprobation and punishment.

To read and reflect upon these things to endeavour by the grace of God to run that course which alone can lead us to eternal happiness and to seek by all proper means to make others do so likewise-ar -are the highest and most solemn of all duties. Men have formed different opinions respecting the doctrines contained in the Scriptures, and respecting the best means of carrying on the public worship of God; and such differences are apt to lead them into strife. The Bible itself calls upon us to be on our guard against such variances, and not to be angry with our fellowcreatures because they do not think precisely as we do.

Besides perusing the Word of God, we should, as opportunities offer, study His works in the visible creation around We there see, in a most affecting light, the immensity of His power and goodness. Who but He could have

us.

formed the vast expanse of heaven, filled as it is with worlds, all probably covered, as ours is, with creatures enjoying His bounty? Who but He is able to sustain all these worlds in their proper places? Who but God causes the sun to shine over us, or the food to grow by which we are maintained? Who but He could have so arranged all organised beings, that they can live, move, and enjoy themselves each in its appointed way? In contemplating these things, we ought to feel disposed to adore a Being so perfect and so beneficent, and to yield Him that obedience which, in His Word, He has called on us to render to Him.

THE MORAL LAW.

The books of the Old and New Testaments furnish us with the most perfect system of moral duty ever promulgated. The sum of the earliest delivered moral law is comprehended in the Ten Commandments, which are as follow:

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth

thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

Such was the sum of the moral law, until Christ added to it a number of most excellent rules and admonitions, which are found scattered throughout the history of his ministrations in the four Gospels. The chief moral which he inculcated was "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them; for this is the law and the prophets." The whole of his sayings breathe a similar spirit of benevolence and gentleness. He preached, for the first time, the doctrine of "peace and good-will towards men"-that is, universal love and peace among all mankind. "Ye have heard," said he, "that thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: but I say unto you, Love thine enemies: bless them that curse you do good unto them that hate you: pray for them which hurt you and persecute you." Again, he said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven: blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted: blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth: blessed arc they which hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled: blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy: blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall seo God blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God: blessed are they which suffer