around you with a keener glance, and you will regard your country with a new affection. Believe us, she has for those who love her scenes of freshness, sweetness, and cheerful beauty, far lovelier than those of other lands. Go to Cumberland, Westmoreland, Derbyshire, and Devonshire; to Richmond, Windcliff-on-the-Wye, and a hundred other delightful spots, and you will be con vinced of our assertion; but if, after all, you are still sceptical, and would put the things beyond a doubt, why then form a pleasant party, go forth with a buoyant spirit, and a grateful heart, and spend a sunny day at Malvern.

EVERY CRIME HAS ITS

PUNISHMENT.

WOULD that my appeal could meet every eye; would that the truth could be impressed on every heart, that as every evil seed bears evil fruit, so every crime has its punishment. Doubt it who may, deny it who will

A guilty day shall bring a gloomy morrow;
And every sin succeeded be by sorrow.

Look at mankind narrowly, and you will perceive more clearly than ever the truth of God's holy word, "There is no peace to the wicked." The neglecter of duty and the great transgressor are punished, from the unprofitable servant who hides the talent he is bound to improve, to the red-handed murderer who "hunts for the precious life." Every shade, and grade, and degree of sin is visited, in one way or another, with its appropriate punishment; sometimes by a deprivation of enjoyment, and sometimes by shame and suffering.

Some think it no crime to hoard up useless wea.th; but he who does no good, relieves no

distress, removes no evil, and prevents no crime, when God has given him the power to do all, is living a life of ingratitude and practical iniquity. It is a sin to hoard up useless riches, and heavy is its punishment. Is it no punishment to be deprived of the sweet sleep of the man without care, and to be prevented by fear of loss from the enjoyment of slumber? Is it no punishment to be shut out from the happiness of doing good? To be debarred from the blessing of the widow and the fatherless? To live unhonoured, and to die unlamented? Assuredly, in these and other respects, the punishment of the selfishly rich man is heavy :

We need not grudge the godless rich their stuff,
Whate'er it be, for they are poor enough;

While he that fears the Lord, though small his store,
Is rich indeed-you cannot make him poor.

Is a man proud? he shall be brought low is he idle? he shall be clothed with rags: is he deceitful? his mouth shall be filled with gravel: is he a slanderer? he shall be cut off: and if he is angry and revengeful, the stone that he casts into the air shall descend on his own pate. There is no escaping the punishment that follows crime; it clings to a man like his skin; dogs his steps like his own shadow; goes out and comes in with attends him at his board and in his bed.

him;

chamber, and is alike his companion in the midday and the midnight hour:

No earthly power can ward the coming blow :
Sorrow and sin through life together go.

What a punishment is borne by the envious man! He cannot rejoice in the prosperity of his neighbour; his pulse quickens not at the happiness of his friend. With a jaundiced mind he looks around, and that which ought to be to him a source of delight, becomes a blight to his eye, and a mildew to his heart. Go where he may, he takes that with him which robs him of his peace ; for his envy renders him unthankful, destroys the bond of brotherhood between him and his fellows ; turns his love into hatred, and his honey into wormwood and gall:

In vain a thousand blessings may be sent,

Where envy reigns there must be punishment.

Seldom does vice leap upon a man like a tiger at one bound, it usually glides into his path as a serpent; but come as it may, it always brings with it a sharp fang, or a poisoned sting. He who takes to drinking, hardly ever intends to become a drunkard; but the liquor sparkles in the glass; the fire burns brightly, and his companions are cheerful and gay. Night after night he finds his way to the pot-house or the tavern, and cup after cup, and glass after glass are indulged in, till his

bad habit is confirmed, and want, wretchedness, crimes, and punishment pursue him. Sin, as a serpent, has enfolded his foot, his hand, his head, his body, and his mind; and sorrow and suffering become his constant companions. The negro

slave is manacled against his will:

Not so the drunkard; he has sought
The bondage that his sins have wrought;
And he may cry amid his pains,

And his despair, "I made my chains!

How stealthily the housebreaker draws near the dwelling he is about to plunder! how dexterously he uses the cutting centre-bit, and the wrenching crow-bar, in the midnight hour, when no eye sees him! Did I say, no eye sees him? Oh! but there is an eye that sees him, an All-seeing Eye, one that pierces through the gloom of night, and penetrates the darkness. It may be, that for the time he is successful, and bears away his booty unpursued. He may enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, and revel with his companions; but does he on this account escape his punishment? That is impossible. He quarrels with his companions, and they betray him; by day he is pursued by the officers of justice, and by night he fears to be surprised. The maddening draught and the midnight song are but short respites to his cares: