he makes his friends-while you enjoyed the gain of their disloyalty, should you feel no pity for their need? Should you leave their children to perish at your gates? I believe you would not. There is nothing more moving to our natural feelings, than to look on the residue of fallen greatness—if a suffering pauper be pointed out to us as the child of one who was of rank and birth superior to our own, a stronger emotion of pity is excited for his degradation; for we contrast his fortunes with our own, and measure his fall as what ours might be. Still more,

if you were the gainers by that change, and held the property that was once his father's, would you not hold out to the deprived and degraded offspring, some portion of your well-spared abundance. You would go out of those pleasant lands to the bleak forest I have described, to look for those poor children that were perishing on the waste, and bring them in to live on your estates, and be at least your servants. Now believe me it is no fiction I have told. Jehovah has a garden that he cultures with especial care, as unlike the heathen lands that lay around it, as the dwelling I have pictured to the country that was about it. He cast out in anger the original inhabitants, and put you in unearned possession of what erst was theirs. A few of their outcast children, innocent of their fathers' sin, ignorant of the real cause of their degradation, and not knowing by what means to be reconciled to their offended Maker, are lying about your streets, and lurking round your doors, and you have taken no notice of them. You have not gone to their dwellings to offer them a partition of the word of eternal truth, on which you feed so richly. And you have not sought out their children to separate them from their miseries and rear them to a better state, before habit has confirmed them in their errors, and reconciled them to their destruction. You know their high original-you trace with lively interest their distant pedigree, and are proud to call yourselves by the name of their fathers-it is your boast and glory to observe the law of Moses, their legislature,

and Christ who was born of them. And yet you hold these ancient people in contempt, individually, if not as a people; and feel no emotion when you see them perishing without those moral and religious advantages you possess in such rich abundance, and have never been forbidden to communicate. On the contrary, you know there would be joy in heaven itself to see the offspring of a Hebrew become a spiritual Christian. The only way in which an inhumanity not natural to our hearts can be accounted for, is thoughtlessness of the circumstances in which we stand respecting these people, or ignorance of the means by which we can amend their condition.

These thoughts were suggested to me when on a late occasion I went to listen, where the holders of the rich blessings of the gospel were assembled to consider of the claims of these poor children, and deeply was my mind struck with the contrast I beheld. They were not indeed unfed and naked in their land of barrenness, for pity had fetched them in-but they were sitting there, the suppliants for a small share of that which once was all their own-the children of Abraham were in the dress of charity-their little eyes cast down and often filled with tears, while their wants and claims were urged by those who spoke on their behalf, to wring a poor pittance from the gay Gentile crowd before them-gay in the ornaments of superfluous wealth, that, spared to them, had not been missed—and gay in the consciousness of moral dignity and enjoyment of spiritual good, that, divided with them, had surely not been lessened. The sight was to me the argument-the scene was its own sufficient illustration. Who are those? Who are these? Abraham, four thousand years ago, worshipping our God on the only altár he had upon the earth, the temple of Jerusalem in all its splendour, his own presence shining in the midst, while our unknown forefathers were wandering somewhere in the wilds of uncultured ignorance-rose to my imagination with such impressive reality, every thing that was said or could be said, came short of the spontaneous

emotion of my bosom, that had already ran through the world's strange history for an explanation of the scene before me.

In determining to represent to Christians the duty of instructing Jews in general, and Jewish children in particular, I have left the grounds on which more has been said than I can find to say-they are in better hands than mine. I have left to others the strength of Scripture language, and the mysterious voice of prophecy, and put in the plea of feeling, justice, and humanity; because I am writing for some who may not understand those, but must be accessible to these persuasives. I do not wish to suggest any particular measures or means; but merely to awaken in the bosoms of my younger readers some share of the shame I feel, that I have never given any of my time, or talents, or superfluous expenditure, towards the children of Abraham-that I have not yet, even by a word of persuasion, sent a messenger out from our Christian halls, to ask one of those few poor children to come in to the habitations of their fathers.

BIOGRAPHY.

QUEEN MARY.

(Continued from page 292, Vol. 4.)

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ON 19th October, 1688, the prince went on board, and the whole fleet sailed out that night. day, the wind turned into the north, and north-west. At night a great storm arose. against it all that night and the next day. vain to struggle any longer, and so vast a fleet run no small hazard, being obliged to keep together, yet not to come too near one another. On the 21st, in the afternoon, the signal was to go in again; and on the 22nd, the far greater part got into port. Many ships were at first wanting, and were believed to be lost, but after a few days all came in. There was not one ship lost, nor

as much as any one man, except one that was blown from the shrouds into the sea. Some ships were so shattered, that as soon as they came in, and all was taken out of them, they immediately sunk. Men are upon such occasons apt to flatter themselves upon the points of providence. In France and England, as it was believed that our loss was much greater than it proved to be, so they triumphed not a little, as if God had fought against us, and defeated the whole design. We on our part, who found ourselves delivered out of so great a storm and so vast a danger, looked on it as a mark of God's great care of us, who, though he had not changed the course of the winds and seas in our favour, yet had pre served us while we were in such apparent danger, beyond what could have been imagined. The princess behaved herself at the Hague suitably to what was expected of her. She ordered prayers four times a day, and assisted at them with great devotion. She spoke to nobody of affairs, but was calm and silent. The States ordered some of their body to give her an account of our proceedings. She indeed answered little: but in that little she gave them cause often to admire her judgment."

Nothing can more strongly depict the deep impression on Mary's mind of the awfulness of her situation, than this sort of silence and withdrawing from communication with others at a time when most minds would have sought encouragement and consolation from all around them. Mary seems to have felt where only it was to be efficiently obtained. Her biographer gives us elsewhere an account of these very frequent regular devotions in publick as well as in private, where he says, "Her punctual exactness, not only to publick offices of religion, but to her secret retirements, was so regular a thing, that it was never put off, in the greatest crowd of business or little journeys; then though the hour was anticipated, the duty was never neglected: she took care to be so early on these occasions, that she might never either quite forget, or very much shorten that, upon

which she reckoned that the blessing of the whole day turned. She observed the Lord's day so religiously, that beside her hours of retirement, she was constantly thrice a day in the publick worship of God: and for a great part of the year, four times a day, while she lived beyond sea. She was constant to her monthly communions; and retired herself more than ordinary for some days before them. In them as well as in all the other parts of the worship of God, an unexampled seriousness appeared always in her, without one glance let out for observation: and such care was taken to hide the more solemn elevations of her mind to God, that these things struck all who saw them, and had never seen any thing like it before. This did spread a spirit of devotion among all that were about her, who could not see so much in her, without somewhat to arise in themselves; though few could chain themselves down to such a fixed and steady application as they saw in her. Nothing in it that was theatrical; nothing given to show; every thing was sincere as well as solemn, and genuine as well as majestical."

After considerable detention by contrary winds, the violence of which threatened the whole fleet with destruction, and the undertaking with defeat, William again set sail for England with his armament, and from this time every event proved favourable, and every change of wind and weather exactly served to promote their purposes, and put it out of the power of the English fleet, the greatest object of their fears, to approach or molest them. This concurrence of fortunate circumstances was so striking, that Burnet says William, on landing, shook him heartily by the hand, and asked him, if he would now believe in predestination-to which the Bishop answered, that he would never forget the providence of God, which had appeared so signally on this occasion. While alarm and confusion reigned in the councils of James, every thing with William prospered beyond his utmost expectation. The kingdom hailed