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son as Mrs. Potter. But Mr. B. said, "In what is your father particular, Mr. Walker?" and to him the young man replied, not admitting persons to stand who do not frequent the church."-" Very right, very right," said Mr. B., and he fell back in his chair with his eyes fixed full on Mrs. P., to her no small mortification.

Mrs. P. Well, I do think that this is the most extraordinariest thing I ever heard, that a man should come all the way from Lunnen to know whether I goes to church;" -and Mr. Brownrigg, who could hardly help laughing at the struggle between Mrs. P.'s interest and her temper, wished her a very good afternoon for the third time, and left the house. As the gentlemen walked on together, Edmund Walker recollected that a neighbouring clergyman had offered to take the duty at the time Mrs. Potter was at church, so that it was accounted for. "Well, I have learnt thus much," said Mr. B., " by my visit to Mrs. Potter; she is not the least improved, and the person for whom I make the inquiry was willing, in case she had been, to have left the whole of her late uncle's property to her: but it appears to me, that she is saucy enough without wealth, and I shall advise sending her a mall yearly present, but by no means to nrich her."-" And now, Sir," said Mr.

B., "I must beg you to present my respects to your father, and I have no occasion to trouble you further." So they parted, not without inquiring where old Kemp lived. "I wish you had asked

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me before," said Mr. E., we were exactly opposite his cottage when we were at the Lion."-" I thank you, I shall easily find it." Sarah opened the door, when Mr. B. knocked at it. "I see I am right,' said he; "Is your mother at home?"No, Sir, she is just gone to see a sick neighbour, but she will be in presently." So Mr. B. seated himself. "I am going some way off, and I shall be very likely to see a brother of your's; have you any message for him?"" My love, if you please, Sir, and we should all be happy to see him this way."" Have not you another brother?"" Yes, Sir, two; I have one quite grown up, my brother Joe; but I don't expect you will see him, Sir; but if you will please to write down on paper any thing you have to say."-"No, little maid, I have nothing very particular, but I should have liked to carry some news."-" Oh, Sir, my sister is here, thank you."True, I met her at Mr. W.'s" As Mr. Brownrigg rose to go, Mrs. Kemp returned, and Mr. B. explained in few words, "that he should soon see her son, and would very gladly convey any tidings.""I thank you,

Sir, only say the Lord prospereth us on every side; that Joseph is a very good lad, and I would be glad of a service for my Jane, if he should hear of one. We are all in good health, Sir, and that is no small mercy.

Brownrigg, though he had been often angry with his sister for speaking of the Lord and his mercy, was now in a temper to receive any communication patiently. Mrs. Kemp was so mild, so neat, and so pretty, that he could forgive a little enthusiasm, and he looked benevolently, and promised to think of all her pleasant messages. He well knew Michael's sentiments, he saw they were all agreed, and he did not object; he only begged they would not oblige him to speak in set phrases, and to lift up his eyes, as though he was always praying, and Margaret Beal said in her last converse with him, that till his heart went with his eye, she should be very sorry to see any thing of that sort. "There is no doubt, brother, many hypocrites are found looking upward; but when we remember what we look towards when the eye is thus employed, surely, my dear brother, you need not be so very angry that a traveller, who has his home in view, should sometimes cast an eye towards it." "No, no, Margaret, 'tis not that they should look but that they should expect to be thought

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the better for it, and have their hands in your pocket while they sigh and whine." "You are a very unlucky man, brother, I never saw such persons. The fact was, Brownrigg had spent his life in the exercise of formal duty, and had never inquired whether his weekly visits to the house of prayer had any other end than the repetition of words, without any reference to the heart. He was strictly moral and honest in word and deed, but he never thought of God in his dealings with man. If he read his Bible, it was with no farther end than to do a duty, and of course it was heavy work; and to see a person lift their eyes when they read that passage in the Psalms, he thought it stuff, and hypocrisy, little knowing how two or three lines of Scripture trusted in and believed in, could comfort a mind cast down and distressed, and when thus applied, becomes a balm to the wounded conscience. But he was a whole man, he had never been pierced by the arrows of conviction, and had not any need of consolation. What he felt

not he thought no one beside felt; and what would have been hypocrisy in him, he consequently thought would be the same in another. He was full of kindness to his fellow men, and would have exerted himself to serve any one; but then all

these actions were viewed by him as claims to a seat in heaven. But let it be remembered, "it cost more to redeem a soul, he must let that alone for ever.'

Michael had made some impression on the mind of Brownrigg, not by conversation, but by conduct: he had heard of his allowing voluntarily one hundred pounds per annum to Mrs. Finch, and while he slept at the Brow, he saw the quiet and respectable order of his dwelling, the obedience of his servants, and their love to him; and all this pleased him, because he understood it, but why he should make them all assemble to prayers he could not see. Could not they all pray in their own chambers? He did not quite like that, it seemed like boasting of his religion. To be brief, the appearance of piety was offensive to him, every acknowledgment of God he held to be cant; but every kind notice of his fellow-men, even though publicly done, he approved. How plainly in this man did enmity appear-sad to say, enmity against him who formed him, against him who redeemed him, and yet he would have said in the spirit of those whom our Saviour mentions, as replying at the last day,

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Lord, when saw we thee, &c. &c." Like Saul, he persecuted ignorantly, and thought he did God service, he flung the raiment