"If, then, her example was so powerful, and her admonitions so strong, let me ask you, what ought to be the effect of the example and admonitions of our Saviour and God? Surely if a mortal can convey instruction, the Eternal Redeemer can render that instruction infinitely more effective, supremely influential. Listen, then, to him, who invites you to cast your cares upon him follow his example, who, in the midst of sufferings the most agonizing, and trials the most overwhelming, resigned himself and his will into the hands of his Almighty Father."

" Your suggestions sting me to the quick," he replied. "All that you have described respecting my lost angel is true. How could I have so soon forgotten her example? And, oh, how could I have passed by my Saviour's sufferings, and dared to repine, when I knew all that he underwent for our redemption? How blind, how infatuated have I been! How dreadful would have been my condition had not you stood in the gap between my purpose and its accomplishment! Indeed you are my deliverer; and as a proof how sincerely I appreciate your kindness, and will follow your advice, I declare, in a manner the most solemn, that I will strive never to harbour the notion of the deed again. Need I pray you, from a consideration of my weakness, not to divulge what has happened? Take with you those instruments (pointing to the pistols), for I already loathe their sight, and shudder at the approach I have made to a precipice from which you have snatched me."

" Assuredly I will," replied the Doctor; " and it shall be my determination that they shall never be employed to shed blood: but I cannot leave you yet; I must see you safely in your bed before I retire again to mine."

"You are determined," said Graves, "to be my preserver; but do not distrust my promise because I have broken it before; no, be assured that you may now return to your chamber in full confidence of my safety. Before, however, you go, let me tell you, that you have already more than once stopped me in the attempt to perpetrate this horrid deed. When I left Edinburgh, I went in quest of some solitary place where I might execute my design with the least fear of interruption. It was myself whom you nearly encountered more than

once on the day you visited the Falls of Bruar. It was you that arrested me in the moment when I meditated throwing myself from the bridge on the heights into the chasm below; and when I visited the grotto with the same intention, I was turned from my purpose by finding that also occupied by you; and now it strikes me that, what is, perhaps, still more astonishing, it must have been you, who only a few hours since, again drove me from my purpose by entering within the walls of the Abbey, which caused me to make a precipitate escape from it."

"The will of Heaven be done!" ejaculated the Doctor. " The object of my excursion has been more than fully answered, even though I had not been gratified by what I have seen, and had gained no accession to my health, since I have been the happy means, under Providence, of snatching from the yawning gulf of self-destruction, one whose life I will still hope may be saved. I must complete the good I have begun; and therefore I beg, with a determination to take no denial, that you will accompany me to my home, and remain with me for some time, that I may be the means of

producing in you that thorough repentance which the crime you meditated requires, and that I may have the satisfaction to instil into your mind the principles of a faith that may give you resolution to run your course with patience; and by these means gradually bring you not only to the restoration of your health, but to the recovery of your mind; not only to a conciliation with yourself, but to a reconciliation with your God!"

Graves joyfully and gratefully accepted this kind offer until the return of his own family from abroad, which was shortly expected. — They shook hands, and separated for the night. On the morrow the party, thus strengthened, proceeded through Jedburgh, and over the Cheviot hills to Duncan's house; where, after remaining a week, the Doctor and his new acquaintance took their way to the Rectory.

EVANGELISM.

DR. FREEMAN had risen at a late hour after a restless night, and was partaking of his breakfast made for him by his friendly Curate, when the servant announced Mr. Vincent Trustwell and the Rev. Mr. Wiseman, who, after the usual exchange of compliments, took their seats, and entered upon conversation.

" I find you, gentleman," said Mr. Wiseman, " in the very place in which I left you, when some time since I came to solicit a favour which it did not suit you to grant. The object of my present appeal is, to request that you, Dr. Freeman, will join with me and another clergyman in signing the testimonials of our young friend here, who is about to offer himself a candidate for holy orders at the next ordination of the Bishop. He makes the request of you as having