dropped from your lips on that occasion-observations which you derived from the Word of inspired truth-produced powerful and searching thoughts; and I was led to search in the Scriptures daily, "whether such things were so." Thus, sir, to you I owe in a great measure my first inquiries after truth, which led me eventually to renounce the paths of error, and to find by continual and prayerful investigation of the Bible, 'Him, of whom Moses and the Prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.""

"I am rejoiced to hear such an account of your altered state," rejoined Woodville; "and would truly glorify God for having made me, (however humble,) an instrument, for shaking your erroneous views, and leading you to seek after the truth. May I enquire what has been your subsequent course?”

"I quitted Orpington a few weeks after that meeting, and came to this city to fill a mercantile post. I am now a member of that Church whose scriptural nature, and whose divine authority I once repudiated,—and, I trust, am a firm believer in, though an unworthy follower of, that blessed Saviour whose divinity I once denied. Of the sinful course of Arthur Hutchinson I heard, from time to time, but was not

aware of the result of his trial, till I read it this evening in the paper before us."

"Well may you have reason to bless the sovereign mercy of God," exclaimed Woodville, as he grasped the hand of his new acquaintance at parting, "seeing that you have been preserved from those acts of overt immorality, to the commission of which poor Hutchinson was led, by reason of his pernicious and destructive opinions and sentiments."

Edward returned home with feelings of chastened gladness; and while on the one side the image of the guilty prisoner, who made shipwreck of faith and of a good conscience, glided by, and caused him to sigh over the recollection, the form of the converted Socinian presented itself on the other hand, and enabled him to rejoice with thanksgiving over the remembrance that the Lord had made him in some sort, the means of directing his mind from heresy to truth, from Satan unto Christ; and though many blessed texts of God's Word had at various seasons, filled the breast of this virtuous and pious young Christian, with delight and peace, yet on no previous occasion did he feel so much the possessor of heavenly joy, as on the night which closed the day wherein he had met the reclaimed heretic, when, ere he retired to rest,

his eye fell upon that passage in the writings of the Apostle St. James,-"Let him know that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins."

CHAPTER XX.

"Since his dread sentence, nothing seemed to be

As once it was."

"I pray you,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate."

"He dies, and gives no sign."

CRABBE.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

FROM the moment in which David Huntley (whom we must now call Danville) beheld his brother-in-law, (that moment which so quickly followed the hearing of his fearful sentence,) he had become the prey of no enviable emotions. The recollection of his guilt was sufficient to sting his conscience; the doom which a violated law had inflicted upon him was sufficient to overwhelm his spirit; but the sight of one who brought before his mind's eye the image of her,

whom he should most have cherished, but whom he most basely forsook, and that, too, at an instant when of all others his recognition would have been most distant from his thoughts; this was the crowning point of his misery; this was too much for his soul; and the once desperate and violent man was subdued and abased, under such a weight of retributive visitations.

When, therefore, Mr. Newton entered the cell of his guilty and condemned relation, he found him sinking under his insurmountable load of mental anguish. Hardened and desperate man though he had been, the time had come when his strength, both of body and mind, had failed him. His violent mode of living had conduced towards the derangement of his physical and mental powers; and though for a while he had borne up under the pressure of accumulated ills, he at length gave way when his career of infamy was stopped, and his doom was about to descend upon his head.

To the eye of Mr. Newton, he presented indeed the wreck of which once he was; and his altered state wrought powerfully upon the feelings of the beholder.

Having requested his relative to listen to some details which he wished to furnish him with, ere he quitted him and all that