portance of every other possession, in compa-
rison with the grand discovery which he had
now made, had wonderfully diminished. A
friend had given him the second chapter of
the Ephesians for his consideration, that he
might gain still further views of his state
of guilt and defilement, and that he might
more clearly trace both the power of Divine
grace by which the sinner is quickened, and
the bright prospect placed before those who
have returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of
the soul. The conversation of this day led to
the subjects contained in this chapter; and
more particularly to the impossibility of man's
pardon, but by the free grace of God, pro-
cured for us by the death of our Lord Jesus
Christ. In the midst of a statement of the
difficulties in the way of salvation, by any na-
tural power we possess, the evil of our heart,
the weakness of our best endeavours, and the
defilement of our services, Jolin remarked, "I
must put off my sins." It was asked, what he
meant by putting off his sins. His answer
manifested at once the simple, but clear, man-
ner in which he had received the Scripture il-
lustration which had been pointed out to him
the day before, and was truly gladdening to
the feeling of his visiters: "Did you not tell
me yesterday about the live goat on whose
head the sins were laid?" The application of
the type of the scape-goat had thus been made
by him to his own state; and he had arrived
at the conviction, that whatever might have
been his sins, and whatever were his hin-
drances, he was permitted to "put them all off,"
upon that great all-suficient atonement, the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins
of the world. He had thus been enabled to
feel his burden, to bring it to the cross of
Christ; and at once it seemed to have fallen
from him at the feet of his Redeemer.

would never again be guilty of this offence.
Yet, as Mr. Hall observes, were his resolutions
expressed as if he were smarting under the
penalty of his crime; not as if conscious of his
own inability to keep the engagement which
he was entering into. He spoke as a man
strong in his own strength, and as yet unac-
quainted with the perfect weakness of that de-
termination which is not taken in dependence
upon the power of God. On the point of again
falling into the sins of which he had repented,
three distinct states were noticed in Jolin's
case bofore his execution. At first, as at this
visit, he was fully confident that if he were
once more to be set at liberty he should never
again become intoxicated. Afterwards, when
ho came to discover the exceeding weakness
of his nature, he dreaded the possibility of his
life being accorded to him, lest he should again
fall into temptation. And lastly, he learned to
believe, that, having cast himself entirely upon
Divine grace, and therefore, using those means
of watchfulness and prayer which the word of
God prescribes, he needed not fear, if he were
called again to life, the temptation of drinking;
or, if brought to the scaffold, the trials of that
afflicting scene. That the blessing of God at-
tended upon the last state of his mind, is
proved by the courage, nay, the humble cheer-
fulness, with which he met his melancholy end.
Jolin, after a long trial, was found guilty;
and the friends who visited him judged that,
after such anxious exertions and suffering, his
mind would not be in a state to admit the quiet
intercourse which they had desired to have
with him. But he asked them to come and
see him, and they accordingly went after the
trial. They had expected at all events to find
bim, on this occasion, in some degree disturb
ed and agitated in mind; but it was altogether
otherwise. The irons to which he was sen-
tenced were put on him in their presence,
when they entered the prison. To this, as the
consequence of his condemnation, he submit-
ted almost without notice. Indeed, the trial
and the condemnation itself seem to have
made as little impression upon him as the
irons which were put upon him; for it was
only by minute and repeated inquiry as to the
proceedings of the day that his friendly visit-
ers could get him to give any account of
them. His mind seemed absorbed in some-
thing else; and what this was, afterwards ap-
peared. His conduct, during his trial, had
been remarked by many of his judges as en-
tirely becoming his awful situation. Indeed,
his whole frame of mind was now beginning
to show that a new principle was at work in it,
and that the great work of regeneration was
taking place. In the early part of his confine
ment, and indeed very recently, he had wish-
ed, as he might naturally, for his escape; and
his cry to his advocate had been, "Save me
from the gallows:" but at this period, the de-
sire that his life might be spared seemed to be
taken away from him in a most astonishing
degree. It was not so with the very zealous
and able advocate to whom his cause had been
Committed, and who very properly continued
1.o the end to urge every plea, and encourage
This client to every effort, by which bis punish-ter of a real Christian. His defence he had
ment might be remitted, or even delayed.
His friends too were most kindly anxious on
this point; and they even attempted to prove
him insane, that they might effect their pur-
pose. Jolin might therefore act by their im
pulse in his favour, as well as from the in-
stinct which he could not but naturally feel.
But to those who visited him about this pe-
iod, he never once alluded to a desire to
escape; but on the contrary, seemed almost
always to refer to his sentence without appa-
rent emotion; and towards the end, he ap-
peared to long for, and to be earnest for, its
completion. This state of mind was no doubt
to be attributed to two causes; in part, to a
complete acquaintance with the state of his
own case, and that his sentence was sealed by
his judges; but much more to his new state of
religious feeling; by means of which the im-

taken the trouble to visit me, and point out
my duty towards God and towards man, I rest
contented. I pray to God to pardon the hor-
rible, but never premeditated crime of which I
am guilty. If I ever had an intention of kill-
ing my poor father, I had a very favourable
opportunity of doing so, when he was stretch-
ed upon a bed of sickness, unable to help him-
self. I was then the only person who took
care of him, and administered to his wants, as
there was no other persón besides myself in
the house. I beg pardon of all those whom I
may have willingly or unwillingly, offended.
Gentlemen, after this declaration, I submit
myself entirely to your wisdom. It is you who
are going to decide my fate. I am ready to
meet it, and I will submit to your judgment
without a murmur.
PH. G. JOLIN."

It is said, that during his trial, his calmness was remarkable. His lips apparently were employed in prayer, and this he afterwards confessed was the case. He prayed for himself, that he might be strengthened to go through his trial, and also for his judges and his jury. There was no effrontery in his look; but, on the contrary, the appearance of deep humiliation. For four hours, during which time his trial lasted, he never lifted his eyes from the ground. On his return from the trial, he had to encounter the indignation of the populace against his crime: On the former occasion, a woman had cried "Ah, le scelerat!" which had a good deal affected him. This time he addressed the people from the prison gates, and when they observed that he was half dead from fatigue, he said, amongst other things, "I have a strength within me ye know not. This supports me. Weep not for me, weep for yourselves."

On the night previous to his execution, the kind relation who had first visited him in the I have before noticed the indifference which prison, and brought him the first message of Jolin appeared to feel to outward circum- salvation, in bringing him the New Testastances; I have yet to observe another pointment, and Mr. Gallachin, an excellent minisconnected with it in this day's, visit, which ter of the church, sat up with him.-They was the brightness and almost cheerfulness of sang a hymn, and in the imperfection of the aspect which his manner and countenance service he was led to say, "To-morrow I shall gradually assumed. In the period before his join in very different singing from this." At condemnation his downcast look and general half past one in the morning, the prisoner, Mr. air of wretchedness might have betokened a Durell reports from unquestionable authority, state of despair; but now he lifted up his head, fell into a kind of dozing stupor for an hour, and even his voice seemed to have changed its but did not sleep. During that time he was tone. This surprising change was observed heard repeating the fifty-first Psalm without by others. M. Hammond, Jolin's advocate, missing a word. Mr. GaMachin also heard told M. Durel!, as he himself has recorded it him, during that period, say repeatedly, in a tract which he published on the trial and "Glory to the Lamb! glory to our Lord execution, that when he saw the prisoner on Jesus Christ!" And when he awoke, he said the 27th of Sept. he found him "in really a that he had seen glorious things in a dream. distracted state, torn by every conflicting pas- He also said, as they judged, in his sleep, sion, and all his faculties hurried by the unut- "There is now, therefore, no condemnation terable anguish of remorse, The dread of for them that are in Christ Jesus." At 'wakdeath was uppermost in his thoughts; and ing he requested that a hymn might be sung there was nothing to which he would not have to him. The next morning Mr. Hall went to submitted to avoid capital punishment: but him at half past six o'clock-When he enterwhen he saw him again on the evening of the ed his cell, Jolin said, "Oh, Mr. Hall, I am so 29th, he was astonished at the sudden and ra- glad to see you; 1 am so happy. I have slept pid change which had taken place in him; he four hours, and the rest of the night we have was calm, placid, and resigned." spent in such delightful conversation. I feel so strong, but I will wait patiently the Lord's time." The day before, I have observed, he thought the hours passed slowly, he was. so anxious to depart and be with Christ. Mr. Hall took occasion to warn him that he had still a work to do. He must not only glorify his Saviour by his conduct, and by his patient resignation, but he must again speak a word of warning to those about him. And he assured him that he might be able to do more for the praise and honour of his Master in his death upon the scaffold, by bearing testimony to his own exceeding wickedness, and to the unsearchable mercy and love of Christ, than if he had died in a more private manner. To this he assented, and took the resolution of doing all in his power.. "Great indeed," says Mr. Hall, "were the grace and support which he enjoyed. He felt sick at breakfast time, and could not eat; but to oblige me he said he would try. About nine o'clock his irons were taken off; and I could not help thinking of this

Monday, the 28th, was the day fixed for his
second trial, and here he exhibited the charac-

written before, and it was as follows:-"Gen-
tlemen, whatever may be my fate, I shall not
die without having to reproach myself for not
having quitted my father's house. By so
doing, I should have avoided being the victim
in different unhappy affairs that often took
place between my father and mother, in which
I was generally the object upon which the
weight of their discontent fell.-I was often
obliged to submit to being beaten most se-
verely, and to hear language unworthy of be-
ing uttered by either father or mother. Now,
left to myself in the solitude of a dungeon, I
reflect on times gone by, remembering that I
was the only child, abandoned to the most de-
plorable fate. Yet I ought to have been wiser,
and not followed the example of my nearer rela-
tions, the source of my misfortune. But now
that respectable ministers of the Gospel have

His

as symbolical of that liberty which soon, when passed beyond this life, he would enjoy for ever in the presence of his Saviour. Jolin immediately proposed to me to kneel down and thank God for what he had done. for him; saying, I have always before prayed in bed; now I can go on my knees in the proper posture for a sinner.' Oh at this time how deep were his confessions of sin, committed both in thought, word, and deed; his acknowledgment of mercy through Jesus Christ; his expressions of dependence upon Him for grace, to keep him in his fiery trial, and to open for him the kingdom of heaven! When he drank his milk he said, Oh God, I thank thee that thou hast been so merciful and good to me, who have been so great a sinner!' hand was never cold, and his pulse was always regular to the end. I never witnessed one to whom the Lord was pleased to give a stronger faith, which was proved by his conduct to the last. He sat calmly speaking and listening till about half past twelve; when he left the prison, leaning on me and Mr. Gallachin. An immense concourse of people presented itself at the prison gates; and their rush and noise were greater than we expected. The newspaper account says,-He was calm and collected, walked with steadiness, and evinced throughout the most decorous firmness. We could not perceive that he trembled. His mind seemed quite absorbed in religious exercises; and, from all we can learn, there was good and satisfactory evidence that he was a true penitent, and relied on the divine mercy.' Mr. Durell says, "As he was leaving the gaol he was heard to repeat, the fourth verse of the twenty-third Psalm, Yea, though I walk,"" &c. Mr. Hall continues:." The noise of the people prevented my being heard by Jolin, who walked as firmly as myself, I therefore opened my hymn-book, and pointed out to him the sufficiency of the Redeemer, in one of those hymns which I had previously chosen for his perusal. The hymn chosen was one beginning"He lives, the great Redeemer lives! What joy the blest assurance gives! And now, before his Father, God, Pleads the full merit of his blood. "In every dark, distressful hour, When sin and Satan join their power, Let this dear hope repel the dart, That Jesus bears us on his heart."

He told me,
that he did not mind the people,
that they were poor worms; that he would en-
deavour to warn them from the scaffold, for
they were standing on the brink of the pit.
We mounted the steepest part of the gallows
hill. I think that a worse place of ascent
could not have been chosen. When we ar-
rived at the summit, the Greffier read his sen-
tence aloud, and Mr. Gallachin prayed most
fervently with him in French. After the
prayer, he ascended the platform with Mr.
Gallachin and myself, and addressed the peo-
ple in French, as you will see by the account
in the newspaper. But the account is defi-
cient in one most essential point. He urged
the people by the love of Christ, whom he had
crucified, and "whom they were crucifying by
their sins." The substance of his warnings
was on the subject of intemperance, Sabbath-
breaking, the neglect of God and of religion;
and it was addressed principally to parents
and to the young. These warnings he twice
delivered; once before, and once after the
rope was fastened round his neck." Although
I do not accurately remember," Mr. Hall con-
tinues, "the words of any of his speeches, I
can safely say, that he expressed his convic-
tion that the work which had taken place in
his heart had been effected by no power or will
of his own, but by a sovereign act of Divine
grace. Jolin then read aloud some verses
from the Testament, which sufficiently indi-

cate the view which he took both of the nature
of his change, and of the source from whence
it sprang. They are taken from 1 Pet. i. 3-
5: Blessed be the God and Father of our

nor be deceived by Satan, or any of us; and I can say, as far as I was capable of judging, that his was a real work of Divine grace."

[From the Frieud.]

DR. JOHN D. GODMAN. THE late Dr. John D. Godman was in many respects an interesting and uncominon person

age.

Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time." To these verses he was particularly partial. He then spoke to me, and told me His natural endowments were great, and that he had full confidence in the sufficiency the success with which ho cultivated them of the blood of Christ to blot out all his sins; amidst very numerous obstacles and discourage and that he who had loved him so much as to ments was truly admirable. He was born at shed his blood for him, and had kept him to Annapolis in Maryland, and had the misfortune that hour steadfast and immoveable, would reto lose both his parents at an early age. His ceive him into glory. When the cap was father, who had been wealthy, lost the greater drawn over. his face, I told him not to dread part of his estate before his death, and the rethe momentary pain, for soon he would be in mainder was wrested from his children by the the presence of his Saviour. He pressed my mismanagement of those to whom it was enhand, and said he was not afraid; for he knew trusted. Thrown thus upon the world with no that He would take him unto himself. I told resources but his own talents and industry, him that I would pray that his sufferings young Godman was bound apprentice to a might be short, and went down." Mr. Galprinter in Baltimore. He remained at the bu lachin then read a part of the Burial Service,siness for a few years, but as he had not chosen until the fatal moment. His sufferings ap-it himself, and as his dislike towards it increas peared not to be great, and were of brief duration. "Whilst I was in prayer," Mr. Hall adds "the drop fell, and our poor brother I knew had entered into the presence of his Redeemer. The women around me screamed out, "The Lord have mercy upon his poor soul!" I could not but pray that their souls might find the same mercy. He died without a struggle. I never saw him after I pressed his hand when alive, as I ascended the hill through the crowd, and was spared seeing his mortal remains."

Thus ended the course of a young man, whose history stands an example, not only of the awful effects of a bad education, of the wretchedness and reward of sin, but also of the wonderful grace and mercy of God. Much of what has been narrated may appear almost incredible to some readers; and many especially who are justly suspicious of deathbed repentances, may be led still to doubt how far the work of this young man's conversion was complete, and whether, if he had been permitted to live, he would have lived as he has died. If, however, he was really converted to God, the observation which he made himself must be applied to his own case : "The man that is it to die is fit to live." The same grace which brought him into the fold of Christ, would have kept him in all his way; so that the enemy of his soul should not have overpowered him. The grace of God could alone do the work in either case. And there is, as before mentioned, the most remarkable concurrence of testimony as to Jolin's state at the time of his death. Not only Mr. Hall, and Mr. Gallachin, and many others, bear witness to the facts; but the public voice has declared the wonderful change which took place in him. And even one who was not a believer in revelation, but who stood by Jolin on the gallows hill and witnessed his conduct, came to a minister, and acknowledged, that "there must be something in religion to support a man in such a manner; and that he had therefore determined to attend a place of worship, and to bring up his children in the fear of God." Mr. Hall says, "I have never had a doubt on my mind as to the reality of the change. His conduct in the court; his coplete deadness to the things of time and sense, and this even when his friends seemed so anxious to save him from an ignominious death, were so many pleasing testimonies that he was really rison with Christ, and that his affections were set upon things above. God did indeed work mightily in him: though last, he was one of the first. He seemed so convinced of sin, and to have such simple dependence upon the truth and firm foundation of Christ's promises, and he showed so abundantly that these feelings were not merely talked into his head, that I always returned delighted with my visit to him. I used to pray instantly with him that he might not be deceiving himself,

ed with time, he determined to abandon it. He therefore left his master in the fall of 1813, and entered as a sailor on board the Flotilla, which was then stationed in the Chesapeake bay for the protection of its coasts and har bours, It was, while in this situation, that a incident occurred, which has already been related in the public prints, and to which he han self attributed much of the buoyancy and energy of his character. A raw sailor who had been sent aloft by the captain, and was busy in performing some duty which required him to stoop, was observed to falter and become dizzy,

Look aloft, cried the captain, and the fainting landsman, as he instinctively obeyed the order, recovered his strength and steadiness. The young philosopher read a moral in this trifling incident which he never forgot, and which frequently animated and aroused him in the most adverse circunstances. It is not treating the subject with undue levity to add, that in the last and closing scene of his life, when the earth was receding from his view, and his failing strength admonished him of his peril, the watchword was still ringing in his ear. At that awful period he "looked aloft" to "worlds beyond the skies," and therein derived strength and hope which supported him in his passage through the narrow valley.

At the close of the war, young Godman, who was then about fifteen, was allowed to follow the strong bent of his mind, and commenced the study of medicino with a physician in Lancaster, Pa. He soon removed to Baltimore, where he entered the office of a highly respectable physician, and pursued his studies with such eagerness and success, and gave such promise of future eminence, that before the expiration of his term he was selected to supply for a few weeks the place of his preceptor, who was the professor of anatomy in the uni versity of Maryland, and who was disabled by the fracture of a limb, from completing his winter's course. The youthful deputy lectured with such enthusiasm and eloquence, and his illustrations were so clear and happy, that strong and unequivocal expressions of regret, it is said, were manifested by the students when he yielded up his post to his preceptor.

Soon after receiving his diploma, Dr. Godman settled as a practitioner of medicine, at the spot described with so much truth and beauty in his Rambles of a Naturalist. He there became engaged in laborious practice, and devoted all his intervals of leisure to the acquirement of general and professional knowledge. Finding the sphere of action too contracted for his powers, he removed to Baltimore, where he married, and being offered the chair of anatomy in the medical school then about to be established in Cincinnati, he was induced to emigrate thither. The school did not succeed, and after remaining there a year, Dr. Godman returned homeward, and settled in Philadelphia, as a physician and private

teacher of anatomy. He was also for some Providence to heal his mortal wound, and pro-
time the editor of Dr. Chapman's Medical long his life and strength, he would have borne
Journal. It was during this residence here away the palm from all his contemporaries.
that he published his Natural History of Ame- It is not meant to assert that his scientific
rican Quadrupeds, a work which is deservedly works are faultless, or that his claims to ori-
popular. The fame of Dr. Godman as a teach-ginality were always well founded; but what-
er of anatomy was now widely spread, and he ever he has written bears the stamp of great
was solicited to accept the professorship of that vigour and originality, and his errors were
branch of medicine in the Rutger's Medical those of inexperience or of a hasty judgment,
College at New York. He removed thither, which time and study would have corrected.
and the clouds which had so long darkened his His fame however rested chiefly during his
career, seemed at last to be breaking away. life, upon his success as a teacher of anatomy;
His practice soon became extensive, and the and in this capacity he raised himself at once
affairs of the college prosperous, when, in the to the top of his profession. He was so in-
midst of his second course of lectures, a severe tent upon making his students understand him,
cold settled on his lungs, accompanied by a and he was so fully master of the subject him-
copious hemorrhage, and compelled him to self, that his clear and animated flow of elo-
abandon his pursuits and to flee for his life to quence never failed to rivet their attention,
a milder region. He sailed for the island of and he became whenever he taught the idol of
Santa Cruz, where he passed the remainder of his pupils. His lectures upon anatomy were
the winter and the spring, and returned home, real analytical experiments. The subject was
cheered but not eured, by the influence of that placed before the class-tissue, and muscle,
balmy climate. After his return, Dr. Godman and blood-vessel, and nerve, and bone, were
settled in Germantown, where for a while his laid bare in turn-their use and position and
disease seemed to be mitigated, and his friends nature exemplified to the eye, and enforced by
flattered themselves that his life was yet to be the most lively and precise description, while
spared to science and his country. His com- the student was at the same time receiving
plaints were, however, beyond the reach of art the most valuable lessons in practical dissec-
to overcome, and he continued, though with tion. I have never known an individual to at-
many fluctuations, to decline in strength. He tend one of these courses and not receive the
removed to this city during the autumn of most profound impression of Dr. Godman's un-
1829, and after passing the following winter rivalled ability as a teacher.
and spring in great weakness, and often great
suffering, died, on the 17th of fourth month
last, in the 32d year of his age.

The great characteristics of Dr. Godman's mind, were his retentive memory, an unwea ried industry and quick perception, and his capacity of concentrating all his powers upon any given object of pursuit. What he had once read or observed, he rarely, if ever, forgot. Hence it was, that although his early education was much neglected, he became an excellent linguist, and made himself master of Latin, French, and German, besides acquiring a knowledge of Greek, Italian and Spanish. He had read the best works in all these languages, and wrote with facility the Latin and French.

His powers of observation were quick, patient, keen and discriminating; and it was these qualities that rendered him so admirable a naturalist. He came to the study of natural history as an investigator of facts, and not as a pupil of the schools; and while he regarded systems and nomenclature with perhaps too little respect, his great aim was to learn the instincts, the structure and the habits of all animated beings. This science was his favourite pursuit, and he devoted himself to it with indefatigable zeal. He has been heard to say, that in investigating the habits of the shrew mole, he walked many hundred miles. Those parts of his natural history in which he relates the results of his own observation, are among the most interesting essays on that subject in our language. This praise is due in a still greater degree to his Rambles of a Naturalist, which are not inferior in poetical beauty and vivid and accurate description, to the celebrated Letters of Gilbert White on the Natural History of Selbourne. These essays were among the last productions of his pen, and were written in the intervals of acute pain and extreme debility. They form a mere sketch of what he intended, and had he have lived to complete them, he would have left a work and a name of enduring popularity.

There were few subjects of general literature excepting the pure and mixed mathematics, with which Dr. Godman was not more or less familiar. Among other pursuits to which his attention had been turned, was the study of ancient coins, of which he had acquired a critical knowledge.

The powers of his mind were always buoyant. His cagerness in the pursuit of knowledge seemed like the impulse of gnawing hunger and unquenchable thirst. Neither adversity nor disease could allay it, and had it pleased

innumerable positive contradictions had they been untrue. Mysteries are stated without attempt at explanation, because explanation is not necessary to establish the existence of facts, however mysterious. Miracles, also, altested by the presence of vast numbers, are stated in the plainest language of narration, in which the slightest working of imagination cannot be traced. This very simplicity, this unaffected sincerity and quiet affirmation, has more force than a thousand witnesses--more efficacy than volumes of ambitious effort to support truth by dint of argumentation.

"What motive could the evangelists have to falsify? The Christian kingdom is not of this world nor in it; Christianity teaches disregard of its vanities, depreciates its honours and enjoyments, and sternly declares that none ean be Christians but those who escape from its vices and allurements. There is no call directed to ambition-no gratification proposed to vanity the sacrifice of self; the denial of all the propensities which relate to the gratification of passion or pride, with the most humble dependence upon God, are invariably taught and most solemnly enjoined, under penalty of the most awful consequences! Is it then wonderful that such a system should find revilers? Is it surprising that sceptics should abound, when the slightest allowance of belief would force them to condemn all their actions? Or, is it to be wondered at, that a purity of life His social and moral character was marked and conversation, so repugnant to human pasby the same traits of force, enthusiasm, and sions, and a humility so offensive to human pride, simplicity, as his intellectual. He was ardentshould be opposed, rejected, and contemned? ly devoted to his friends, and if his sense of Such is the true secret of the opposition to reinjustice and wrong was too keen for his hap-ligion; such the cause inducing men who lead piness, he learned in the school of adversity to unchristian lives, to array the frailties, errors, control, if not subdue it. His conversation weakness, and vices of individuals or sects, was the unstudied and spontaneous effusion of against Christianity, hoping to weaken or dea mind full, to overflowing, always buoyant, stroy the system, by rendering ridiculous or imaginative and ardent, loving truth above all contemptible those who profess to be governed things else, and devoting itself as on an altar by its influence, though their conduct shows to her sacred course. them to be acting under an opposite spirit.

Upon all this bright attainment and brighter promise for the future the grave is closed! Divine Providence saw fit to arrest him in the midst of his unfinished labours, and we must turn to contemplate the character of our lamented friend in a different light.

It had been his misfortune that his philosophical opinions were formed originally in the school of the French naturalists. Many of the most distinguished of these men were avowed atheists, and a still greater number rejected absolutely the Christian revelation. Such is human nature! Surrounded by the most magnificent displays of Almighty wisdom, placed on a scene where all things speak of God and invite us to worship and obey Him a purblind philosophy may devote herself to the study of his works, yet pass by the evidence they convey of his existence and his attributes, and see nothing in all this wonderful creation, more noble than the mere relations of colour and form! The manliness and sin

The

"What is the mode in which this most extraordinary doctrine of Christianity is to be diffused? By force-temporal power-temporal rewards-earthly triumphs? None of these. By earnest persuasion, gentle entreaty, brotherly monition, paternal remonstrance. dread resort of threatened punishment 'comes last-exhibited in sorrow, not in anger; told as a fearful truth, not denounced with vindictive exultation; while, to the last moment, the beamy shield of mercy is ready to be interposed for the saving of the endangered.

"Human doctrines are wavering and mutable: the doctrines of the blessed and adorable Jesus, our Saviour, are fixed and immutable. The traditions of men are dissimilar and 'inconsistent; the declarations of the gospel are harmonious, not only with each other, but with the acknowledged attributes of the Deity, and the well known condition of human na

ture.

"What do sceptics propose to give us in cerity of Dr. Godman's character soon extri- exchange for this system of Christianity, cated him from this "stye of Epicurus." He with its hidden mysteries,' 'miracles,'' signs was in all things a seeker of the truth, and his and wonders?' Doubt, confusion, obscurity, philosophical spirit would not rest satisfied annihilation! Life, without higher motive with any superficial examination. He applied than selfishness: death-without hope! Is it himself to the study of the New Testament- for this that their zeal is so warmly displayed he went to "the fountain head, where the in proselyting? Is such the gain to accrue pure waters of life gush forth in silent profu- for the relinquishment of our souls? In very sion, and in their profoundest depths exhibitdeed, this is the utmost they have to propose, neither shade nor opacity." In what temper and with what success he examined the sacred volume, the following extracts which were written during his last illness will bear

witness.

and we can only account for their rancorous efforts to render others like themselves, by reflecting that nisery loves company."

A conviction thus deeply impressed, did not spend itself in empty profession. It influenced "Is proof wanting that these gospels are his conduct as well as his opinions, and pretrue? It is only necessary for an honest mind pared him for that patient endurance of suffer. to read them candidly to be convinced. Every ing which he exhibited during his long conoccurrence is stated clearly, simply, and unos finement. After his removal to Germantown, tentatiously. The narrations are not support- Dr. Godman's complaints soon assumed a more ed by asseverations of their truth, nor by pa- serious aspect, and he suffered severely from rade of witnesses: the circumstances de- several violent attacks of disease. Yet the scribed took place in presence of vast mul-progress of the disorder was very gradual, and titudes, and are told in that downright unpretending manner, which would have called forth

allowed him many intervals of comparative ease. He returned to his literary labours with

MARY CLAVERY'S STORY.

BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

THE language of the Irish peasantry is invariably strong and metaphorical; and when they would describe their distress, or paint their happiness, it becomes highly poetical. I will illustrate this remark by the story of Mary Clavery, in her own words, as she told it to some very dear friends of mine, who resided at Bannow Parsonage, and who united, in a singularly happy manner, the kindly feelings and active exertions that make a clergyman's family "the blessing of the poor."

vine even to bleeding, and suffers the bramble
to grow its own way.'

the feaver, and the steward found out some stranger who offered money down on the nail for the land, for we had it in prime order. Every one cried shame on the landlord, but sure there's no justice for the poor! 'twas a sorrowful parting-for some how a body gets fond of the bits of trees even that grow under their own eye-and I was near my laying-inand the troubles came at once-and all we could get to shelter us was a damp hole of a place. My husband got plinty of work, and though it wasn't in natur not to lament bygone comforts, yet sure the love was, to the good, firm-aye, firmer than ever, and no blight was on our name, nor isn't to this day; thank God for it, for nobody breathing can say, Thomas, or Mary Clavery, ye owe me the value of a thraneen.'

pressions, of whatever nature, are, at this time, easily made, and often permanently retained. We have already alluded to the distortions to "That's true-thank ye, Sir, for that sweet which want of care subjects the body. False word of comfort," she replied smiling faintly; perceptions, by which the brightness of chari-"it's happy to think of God's care the only table feeling in after life is sullied and darkly care that's over the poor-though it seems unclouded, often have their origin from early ne- grateful to say that to those who are so, extraglect or false tenderness. How many melan- ordinary kind to me. Well; we had a clane choly examples of excessive fear of supernatu- cabin-a milk white cow-a trifle of poultry ral agencies, superstitious and absurd beliefs, two or three pigs,-indeed every comfort in envy, prejudice, vindictive passion, overbear- life according to our station, and thankful we ing demeanour, and offensive pride, are strictly were for it. Why not! time passed as happy referrible to the indolent yieldingness of a as heart could wish, and one babe came, and mother, and the gossip of an idle and ignorant another, but the eldest now was the third then, nurse. The first painful feeling created in the for it pleased God to take the two first in the breast of Byron, while yet a child, was by the feaver; and bad, sure enough, was the trouble, angry taunts of his mother at his deformed for my husband took it, and there he lay, off foot; and to this he referred his estranged filial and on, for as good as four months; and then affections in after life. Alfieri, the celebrated the rint got behind hand, and we were forced The change of air, and the fretting, and Italian dramatic poet, attributed his deep-root- to sell the cow: one would think the baste had one thing or other, made me very weakly, and ed aversion from every thing French, to his knowledge, for when she was going off to the we lost the fellow twin to this one; it was hapoccasionally seeing, in early childhood, an old fair (and by the same token it was my brother-py for the darlint-but oh! it was heart-scald marchioness of that nation, with rouged face, in-law's sister's son that drove her), she turned ing to see it peeking and peeking, wasting and tasteless finery, and affected manners, among back and mowed-ay, as natural as a child that wasting, and to want the drop of wine, or the his mother's visiters. was quitting the mother. Well; we never morsel of mate,, that might keep it to be a could rise the price of a cow agin, and that was blessing to its parents' grey hairs; it was then a sore loss to us, for God sent two young ones just after my child's death, that to drive the the next time, and betwixt the both I could sorrow from his heart, Thomas took a little to never get a minute to do the bit o' spinning or the drop, and yet he was'nt like other men, knitting that the landlord's wife expected as a that grow cross and fractious; he was always yearly compliment. (She was not born a lady, gentle to me and the young ones, but in the and they're the worst to the poor Musheroom end it ruined us, as it does all who have any gentry! that spring up, and buy land, hand call to it for he was as fine a young man, over head, fron the rale sort, that are left, in though I say it, as ye could see in a day's walk the long run, without cross or coin to bless-standing six feet two in his stocking vamps, themselves with-all owing to their generosity.) Well; to make up for that, I was forced to give some of my best hens, as duty fowl to the lady, on account that she praised their handsome toppings. That wasn't all;-the pigs got the measles, and we might have sould them to advantage; but my husband says, says he- Mary, we have had disease and death in our own house, and don't let us be the manes of selling unwholesome mate upon no account; because it brings ill health, and we to answer for it, when nothin' will be to the fore, but the honest deeds and the rogueish ones, straight against each other, and no one to judge them but the Almighty-the ONE who who knows the rights of all;'-that was true for him. Well; we might have got up again, for my poor Thomas worked like any negre to the full; but just after we had sowed our little field of wheat, (it was almost at the corner of the landlord's park, and we depended on it for next gale day,) nothing would sarve the landlord but he must take it out of our hands, widout any notice, to plant trees upon. I went to my lady, and to soften her like, took what was left of my poor fowl--the cock and all-as a present; she accepted them very genteelly, to be sure, and promised we should have another field, and compensation money. Well, we waited, but no sign of it; at last my huband made bould to go to the landlord himself, and tould him all that had passed between the lady and me. Don't bother me, man,' was the answer he made; compensation indeed! what compensation am I to have for being out of my rent so long-the time ye were sick, and ye without a lase? And I am certain, my wife never promised any thing of the sort to the woman.' I ask ye'r pardon, Sir, replied Thomas, civil of course; but she did, for my Mary tould me.'

One tranquil evening in autumn, a pale, delicate young woman rested her hand on the gate that opened to the green sloping lawn that fronted the Parsonage-house, uncertain whether or not she dared raise the latch, as she gazed wistfully on the group of children who were playing on the green. Although in the veriest garb of misery, she had nothing of the common beggar in her appearance; and the two little ones that clung to her tattered cloak were better covered than their mother. She carried on her back a young sickly-looking infant, and its weak cries arrested the attention of the good pastor's youngest daughter, who bade her enter, in that kindly tone which speaks of hope and comfort to the breaking heart. How much is in a kindly voice! When the woman had partaken of food and rest, and remained a few days at the parsonage, she told

her tale.

May God reward ye-for ye have fed the hungry, and ye have clothed the naked, and ye have spoken of hope to her who thought of it no more; and ye have looked like heaven's own angels to one who had forgot the sight of smiles. May God's fresh blessing be about ye -may ye never want!-but a poor woman's prayer is nothing; only I am confident the Almighty will grant ye a long life, and a happy death, for your kindness to one who was lone and desolate, in a could world. It little matters where one like me was born, only I came of dacent, honest people, and it could not be said, that any one belonging to me or mine, ever wronged man or mortal; the boys were brave and just-the girls well looking and virtuous: seven of us under one roof, but there was full and plinty of every thing-more especially love, which sweetens all. Well, I married; and I may say, a more sober, industrious boy, never broke the world's bread nor my Thomas -my Thomas! I ask your pardon, ladies; but my heart swells when I think that may be he's gone to the God who gave him to me first for a blessing, then for a heart thrial."

"She tould ye a lye, then," said the landlord-and my husband fired up. Sir,' said he, if ye were my equal' you dar'n't say the likes o' that of my Mary-for though she's not of gentle blood, she's no liar! Then the landlord called my husband an impudent blaguard, and Thomas made answer, that he, being a gentleman, might call him what he pleased; but that none should say that of his wife that she did not desarve; however, the upshot of The poor woman wept, and the father of the the thing was, that we got warning to quit all family she was addressing, adopting the figura-of a suddent; but there was no help for it, as tive language which the Irish so well understand, observed-"The gardener prunes the

the neighbours said, true for them-that Tho-
mas was by no means as strong a man as before

and admired for his 'beauty; and we went to the next town to sell my little spinning; that I had done to keep the dacent stitch on the childer; and, as was fated I suppose, who should be there, but the devil in the shape of a recruiting sargent-and when the drink's in, the wit's out-and he listed-listed-And the parting--oh! but I thought the life would lave me sure I followed him to the place of embarkment, and there they druv me from him -and I stood on the sea shore-and saw him on the deck of that black ship, his arms crossed over his breast like one melancholy mad; and it was long before I believed he was really gone -gone-gone; and that there was no voice to cheer me-for these did nothing but cry for food. It was wicked, but I wished to die, for my heart felt breaking-the little left me was soon gone-I was among strangers-I could not bear to go to my own people or place, because I was more like a shame, and my spirit was too high to be looked down on. I have travelled from parish to parish, doing a bit of work of any kind when I could get it, and trusting to good Christians to give something to the desolate children, when all else failed."

"You have never heard from your hus

band?"

"Oh! Sir, he sends his letters to Waterford to the care of one I know;, but I cannot often hear, the distance is so great.""

"Did he not forward you money?" "Three pounds; but we owed thirty shillings of it, betwixt rent for the last hole we lived in and two or three other matters. I was overjoyed to be able to send the money, for the debts laid heavy on my heart; and to be sure the children wanted many a little thing, and the remainder soon went.'

The "good pastor and his fire-side" were deeply interested in Mary Clavery's simple tale; and on farther inquiry its truth was fully established, and it was also found that her husband was in the regiment then at Jamaica, commanded by the clergyman's brother, a gallant and distinguished officer. The story circulated very quickly in a neighbourhood where every little circumstance, is an event, and, to the credit of the united good feeling of my favourite Bannow, be it known, that on the very same Sabbath morning, in the Protestant church and Catholic chapel, a collection was made for the benefit of the distressed family, and another week saw Mary and her chil