as needs to be. One of our farmers one day began to jeer about it wi' him; but he soon stopt his mouth, says he, "pray ye, do ye think it has done me good?" "why, yes," says he, "it has for t' present; but think's ta', is n't it ower good to last long." I's sure they say, did all our neighbours, that if Parson had not been so good to poor old Betty Gabble, when she was laid up, she'd been clear lost. O, bless you, it is n't known what they give and do to poor folks. FATHER. Why, if sich men as these is n't reight, there's nobody is.

NED. You know old Sammy Jepster, he's turned good; and every night and morning he says some varry nice prayers tull his family; and t' little lad at's at his grandfaather's reads 'em a chapter out of t' bible. You'll never hear Sammy swear, nor see him get drunk, as he used to do. But I was telling you about their doing for t' poor folks. Mistress maks wine for badly folks; our Maister sent me to t' Parsonage-house, one day, and they had ever so mich in a tub making; their head maiden gave me some to drink, at they was putting into bottles-you

mind it wor good; then sometimes they send black wine, sich as they buy o' t' Marchants: and hardly ony body can go but there's bread and cheese, and a pint of ale: and it is ale, it's none of your slip-slap stuff to mak a body's belly wark, like sich as one gets at old Squire Skinflint's, I would n't tell my name for barrells full on't. To be sure, one day old Michael Clearditch had been fettling out some dykes for t' Parson, and when he was to get some 'lowance, what sud t' sarvant lass do, but in a mistak teemed him some elleker (alegar) out of a pitcher instead of ale; he said he'd a deal to do to get it down, but it did twitch him after; he laid his sen ower t' table, and thowt nowt but he sud a deed. When t' Mistress heard on't, she gave him a shilling, and some gin to mend him; then at Chrisenmass they give blenkets and twilts, and cloase and shoes, and all sorts of things among t poor.

FATHER. Why, Ned, I'll come and spend a Sunday wi' you; he's like to be a varry good man.

My reader perhaps will conclude that this

last is a very natural observation for a poor illiterate country man to make; if he be a Clerical reader, I hope he will feel, in its full force, the sentiment, and let it have its unrestrained operation.

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CHAPTER VIII.

THE national church is so constructed, that, let her Ministers be ever so zealous, earnest, and determined, to promote the interests of religion, they can never exceed her requirements. They are required to "spare no labour or pains to seek Christ's sheep which are scattered in this naughty world." The saying of an eminent Divine has been much applauded: "The world's my parish."— Our Pastor often said, and deeply felt, "my parish is my world:"-here he lived and laboured and loved :-in his study he spent much time; he was a man given to prayer; he lived in the constant spirit of devotion: and endeavoured to keep up a cloudless intercourse with God,-having his fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. He obeyed the injunction, give thyself to reading:" he laboured hard

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to produce good sermons, such as might convey life and light at once; and to have so pleasing a variety of subjects, that no branch of doctrinal or practical divinity, essential to his people's welfare, should be without a due consideration.

Though he dwelt chiefly on essentials, yet he carefully avoided loose generalities,— he had an eye in all his extensive reading, directly or indirectly, to the composition of sermons and whatever he could borrow to illustrate the scriptures and enrich his discourses, was carefully retained. He particularly made himself familiar with the lives of the reformers; he much admired the well named Apostle Gilpin; he endeavoured to convert all the information and stimulus he received in the closet, into usefulness; he deeply felt the sentiment, "no man liveth to himself;" his household he had in "subjection with all gravity,"-all was order, propriety, and decorum. He considered that being so conspicuously exposed as a clergyman in his parish is, to public observation; he ought, in his family, to set an example of domestic arrangement; to give a kind of