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never encroach on her superiors, or her inferiors on her. When I first went to the parish of B— I anxiously looked round for persons who might assist in my Sunday School: three had presented themselves before I thought of the humble and unpretending girl, whom I had seen, but scarcely noticed. I did, however, request her assistance, and she expressed concisely, but with perfect freedom from any thing like affectation, her full sense of her unfitness for the office, and her readiness to undertake it if I thought her qualified. I pressed on her the duty of endeavouring to exert herself, when there were numbers scattered about as 66 sheep having no shepherd," and reminded her there was no better way of obtaining instruction, than communicating what we possess, according to the scripture which says "there is that scattereth and yet increaseth." agreed to do what she could.' I gave her a class, and from that day till she left the parish I do not think she ever missed a Sunday: and she taught so that, though she had the worst class in the school, consisting of tall boys and girls, who were too dull or too idle to join those of their own age in the first class, they soon improved; their attendance became regular, and they entered with the deepest attention into all she set before them. She did not lecture them, but endeavoured, by questions, to draw out what they did know, to set that knowledge in the right place, and to lead them on to more. Nor did her care for her children end here. Although most of them lived at the opposite end of the parish, nearly four miles from her house, and though she had not means to ensure a welcome by bringing presents, she never failed to visit every straggler, and to see each child in its

home, so as to form an acquaintance with its real state. After she had continued teaching in this way long enough to know precisely what she could do, she found that, as it was impossible for her to walk to evening service, she had leisure, in the Sunday evenings, which might be turned to some account; and she proposed to me to endeavour to collect such children about her as were too young to go to church, and also some Roman Catholics, who might learn from her at her home, though they would not attend my school.

I advised her to go on in the Lord's name. She began with five children, and, in a short time, her school increased to twenty: this continued for about a year, when a school-house was built, a mile from her house, and it was proposed to her to remove there; but this she refused, as involving too much publicity, unless I would undertake to manage the school myself. I had hitherto lectured every alternate Sunday evening, at her father's house, and the lecture was now removed to the school-house; and, considering that these people lived at a distance from the church, and there were many Presbyterians who never entered it, I agreed to attend the school, and lecture every Sunday evening, she taking the second class, and relieving me from all but nominal superintendence. The Sunday school was thus established by her, and soon became as numerous and interesting as that at the church, scarcely withdrawing one child from the latter. It continued to improve, and I left it one of the most interesting spots in my parish. Her Sunday there was thus spent. She was in church, between three and four miles from home, at eleven, never late; she taught, after service, till three;

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walked home, dined, and walked to the school-house by five; taught there till seven, when lecture commenced; and returned home about half-past eight. I do not hold her up as an example; her Sabbath was an exception-not a rule; it was spent thus in public services and active duties, not from choice, not from love of truth, but because there was a strong necessity laid upon her." If she hung back from exertion, there was no one to fill its place; she must spend that day without retirement, other than what she redeemed from the morning's or evening's rest; or the children, thirsting for instruction, must remain in untaught idleness. But I believe that nevertheless more hours of that day were spent by her in retirement and private devotion, than by many professors who are always lamenting the slightest interruption, and concentrating, with a kind of pious selfishness, every religious exercise on themselves. She rose early, and neither spent hours at her toilet, nor loitered minutes till they amounted to hours; and all she could snatch from the active service of her Beloved was devoted to communion with him. In the week, as I have mentioned, she visited, as occasion required, even the most distant of her Sunday school children. And she collected, in halfpence and pence, a considerable sum for the Church Missionary Society: when she went away, she left her list with another, and the amount soon dwindled down to an eighth.

H. B.

Review of Books.

THE NEW IRISH PULPIT, or Gospel Preacher. Vol. 1. Robertson, Dublin; Nisbet, London.

IF our English friends desire to know in what manner the clergy of Ireland have been enabled so to hold forth the word of truth as to gather multitudes into the Lord's fold, and to provoke against themselves the fiercest persecution, from the combined forces of the papal antichrist and the corrupt men of an evil world, marshalled together under the banners of Satan-let them peruse this volume. Το begin with the outside, which in our day is of no small moment a label printed on white paper often deciding the exclusion of a book from modern shelves

-we must state that 'The New Irish Pulpit' is remarkably neat in externals; its back handsomely lettered in gold, the bible and crown surmounting all. The volume comprises upwards of sixty sermons, of which a few are by the Rev. Messrs. Bickersteth, Noel, Montgomery, and others: the rest by Irish clergymen. We plead guilty to a measure of

partiality for the beloved and honoured church now chosen so conspicuously to bear her Lord's cross, and to fight her Lord's battles: but apart from such consideration, we must accord to this collection the praise of being eminently scriptural, faithful, earnest, affectionate, and awakening. We desire to shew no preference; but as an example of fervent pleading we would point to the two farewell sermons of the Rev. Fielding Ould. When we consider the great revival that has taken place, within twenty years, both among the ministry and laity of the Irish church, we cannot but expect to find some indication of the powerful help vouchsafed to those who were preparing to glorify God in the fires of a fierce and cruel persecution. In this expectation we are not disappointed, while conning the instructive pages of the New Irish Pulpit; and we hope that many will shew the privilege we have experienced in so doing.

THE LIFE OF AUGUSTUS HERMAN FRANKE, professor of divinity, and founder of the orphan-house, in Hallé. Translated from the German of Henry Ernest Ferdinand Guerike, Licentiate, and private teacher of divinity, in Hallé; by Samuel Jackson. With an introductory Preface by the Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Herts. Seeley and Burnside.

THE history of the orphan-house at Hallé is one of the most animating displays of God's faithfulness in answering the believing prayer which He alone inspires, that we ever met with. This sketch of Franké's life, Christian experience, and devotional writings is

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