roses exhaled a sweeter perfume than they were wont. He exclaimed: "Nature is indeed an inexhaustible storehouse; her treasures, how rich-her dominions are as yet unexplored." The sun was sinking beneath the distant horizon. As Mr. Willard was descending a long hill he espied upon an opposite one, a carriage containing several persons; on approaching it, found it was the Rev. Mr. Bradley and his son; the lady was introduced to him as Mrs. Bradley, the daughter of Mr. De Van. "Is it possible that this can be Amelia? I am just returning from Roselle. I spent several hours with Mrs. Radford, they are getting along very nicely."

"Is Lieutenant Morse still alive?" asked Mr. Bradley.

"Yes, but his work is almost done. Did you call at my Hotel as you crossed the ferry?"

"We did, and your family were well -were they not, Amelia?"

"The little boy was quite sick." "Siek indeed! who was taking care of him?" asked the agitated father. "I think it was the hired girl that was holding him. She told me that his mother had lain down." "Lain down," he bitterly repeated, "Farewell, friends, call whenever you come to Champlain." Striking his horse furiously, he dashed by them, and the sound of his vehicle was lost in the distance.

Mr. Bradley, turning to his children, said, "What a strange piece of composition, everything of the man seems blended in his character; he is a star of no small magnitude, but he is not moving in his own orbit."

The son answered, "It is evident from his appearance that he is not governed by the laws of gravitation.”

"I should judge him a shooting star by the hasty leave he took of us,' said Amelia. "His appearance confirms the reports I have heard, that his home is not his paradise. I read a short time since an article from his pen, upon the 'Fall of Man and his banishment from Eden.' Milton has scarce bettered it."

Amelia asked her father if Mr. Willard still continued the traffic of

intoxicating liquor. "If he does, others will have to write upon his fall."

"Yes, Amelia, he still continues it. I design, as soon as circumstances will permit, to deliver a course of lectures on the evils of intemperance, and I hope you, Charles, will take up the same subject, when you return to the people of your parish."

"This duty, dear father, I have already discharged, notwithstanding I

met with opposition. I believe the Lord has owned and blessed my labors. Some of my parishioners refused to assist in paying my salary. Amelia and myself have resolved to abstain entirely from the use of wines, save, for sacramental purposes."

"Well, my children, you are entirely ahead of me."

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Why, father, Amelia has been engaged in organizing a Temperance Society among the ladies. She has met with a good deal of opposition, but I rejoice that she is willing to have her name cast out as evil in the cause, which we consider so immediately connected with the cause of Christ. The measures she has adopted are considered by many as robbing them of their personal rights. The question has more than once been asked, 'Do you not consider us capable of governing ourselves?'"

"It certainly looks like signing away our liberty."

"I think when we get to brother Radford's we shall have something to do."

"Well, my children, you will find you have a hard case to deal with, for your brother-in-law is blinded by the God of this world; he only thinks of the best way of making money, regardless of consequences. He is as inaccessible to argument as persuasion."

Amelia inquired if James was the only one in this business. She was informed that Colonel Bertram had opened a large hotel and also a store, in each of these he had a bar splendidly decorated, and rendered attractive in every possible way. Mrs. Bradley sighed, and said, "I should not have thought this gentleman would have resorted to measures so