travellers on the same road to Heaven with herself. She expressed the pleasure she felt in entertaining such visitors; and then, not from curiosity, but from a benevolent desire to serve them, enquired the object of their journey. The husband of the good woman shortly afterwards returned from his daily labor, and upon learning the character of his guests, offered them such accommodations for the night as his cottage afforded.

After an evening spent in serious but cheerful conversation, which was concluded with singing and prayer, they retired to that sweet kind of rest which an habitual devotedness of heart and life to God never fails to give.

On the following day they proceeded to make enquiry after a habitation suited to their wishes and designs.

There is nothing in the village of Nottingtown more remarkable, than in most other

villages. Excepting the substantial house of the clergyman, and two or three decent farm houses, the buildings are simple cottages, placed at irregular distances on either side of the humble streets, or rather lanes. At the side of one of these a stream of pure transparent water continually flows. From the village itself no extensive views of the adjacent country are to be seen. But the tops of the hills, which shelter it from the westerly and south-westerly gales, very beautiful and diversified prospects, both of land and sea present themselves to the eye. About half a mile to the south of the village, the road passes through an opening in the hills which skirt the coast; and below this opening is a track of rude, rocky, and broken ground, gradually descending for half a mile to the sea shore. This singular description of country has been thus described by geographers.

"This track of land is bounded by the sea

on the south, and by the cliff on the north, being generally about half a mile broad. By some convulsion, probably as old as the deluge, the solid rock has burst asunder for five miles in the direction of east and west, and the separated mass seems to have rushed forward in scattered fragments towards the sea. The majestic perpendicular which has kept its station, and forms the northern barrier of this truly romantic spot, presents the appearance of the walls of an old castle of many hundred feet in height, curiously fretted into rock work, and picturesquely interspersed with lichens, ivy, and other creeping plants. The intervening land is fancifully tossed about, and variegated with huge rocks, that, being separated by their fall from their native quarry, and covered with many kinds of brushwood, form a striking contrast with the cultivated banks by which they are surrounded."

"Whatever," says another writer, "has occasioned this wild uproar on the surface of the

earth, the power of vegetation, though imperceptible in its progress, has softened down all that was terrific, and the cheerful habitations of man have given to the scene every impression calculated to elevate and affect the feeling mind.

In this singular and romantic situation, our travellers succeeded in finding a small thatched cottage near the shore, uninhabited, the fisherman, who lately occupied it having removed to another part of the coast: through the recommendation of their newly formed friends at the village, they were permitted to rent it: and Barnabas lost no time in removing his aged mother and young sister, together with their humble furniture, to it.

I shall not attempt to describe the affecting, but happy interview, which took place between Susan Hill and her son. She knew not how to be sufficiently grateful to William, for his kind

ness to the once abandoned, but now reclaimed and joyful, Barnabas. Through the mercy of God her latter days, like those of Job, were her best days; not because she was delivered from want, and possessed a few comforts which were denied to her before, but because her son was become a humble and devoted worshipper of that God in whom she trusted.

O! my dear Children, you know not the painful distress which you occasion to your pious parents, when you indulge in sinful tempers, words, and conduct; and are careless about the important concerns of religion. Nor can you conceive of the delight which they experience when you walk in the ways of God, and prove by your daily conduct, that you "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and mind, and strength."

Our narrative is now arrived nearly to a close. Many succeeding years passed in a uniform, but tranquil manner. By the occu