a boy who had done something very wrong; and who, though he acknowledged the fact, could not be brought to acknowledge the magnitude of the offence. The examiners were requested to expostulate with the boy, and try if he could be brought to feel and deplore it. Dr Waugh was solicited to undertake the task; and the boy was in consequence brought before him. How long have you been at the school, my boy?' asked the Doctor. Four months, sir.' When did you hear from your father last?" My father's dead, sir.' Aye! alas the day! I am very sorry to hear that. "Tis a great loss, a great loss, that of a father. But God can make it up to you, by giving you a tender, affectionate mother.' On this, the boy who had previously seem

ed as hard as a flint, began to soften. The Doctor proceeded : Well, laddie, where's your mother?' On her voyage

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Yes, sir.'

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Do you think she
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home from India, sir.'Aye! good news for you, my boy : do you love your mother?' Yes, sir.' pect to see her soon?' loves you?' 'Yes, sir, I'm sure of it.' dear laddie, think of her feelings when she comes here, and finds that, instead of your being in favour with every one, you are in such deep disgrace as to run the risk of expulsion; and yet are too hardened to acknowledge that you have done wrong. Winna ye break your poor mother's heart, think ye? Just think o' that, my lad! The poor culprit burst into a flood of tears, acknowledged his fault, and promised amendment."

But we must draw to a close this division of the memoir, and cannot do so in more appropriate language than by adopting the words of one of his friends and associates in these labours of love and mercy.

"Where, in this vast metropolis, shall we find an individual who combined so much that was energetic in action with so much that was kind and conciliatory in disposition and social intercourse? Where shall we find one institution, formed either to relieve the mere distresses of the body, or to alleviate the more painful maladies of the mind, that did

not benefit, and that materially, by his public advocacy, or by the weight of his private character and influence? He was the habitual friend and unwearied supporter of hospitals, schools, penitentiaries, and of every other humane undertaking which went to diminish the amount of national misery and crime, and to augment the sum of national virtue and happiness."

CHAPTER IV.

HIS FRIENDSHIPS.

Extracts from his correspondence, with remarks, viz. Letters to a youth at college-to a young friend in India-to another, an emigrant to South Africa-to a friend ordained to the ministry. Readiness to assist country ministers. Visitation of the distressed and dyinganecdote. Letters of consolation :-to a mother bereaved of her child to a father on the death of an only son-to a widowed mourner-to the widow of a deceased friend-to a friend on the death of a parent-to a friend distressed-to a friend dying. Address at the funeral of Rev. Mr Townsend. To a friend under misapprehension of his conduct. A good-humoured hint. Ordidinary correspondence. Reminiscences of early days. Miscellaneous extracts. Descriptions of natural scenery. Advice to a young lady. Friendships with the high and the humble: old John Ker. His general character as a friend and companion-urbanity -talent for anecdote-pleasantry--aversion from evil speakingmodesty-letter- cheerfulness. Kindness to his predecessor's

widow.

MUCH of a man's heart may be traced in his friendships ; and it is a delightful proof of the wisdom and goodness of the Almighty, that while in friendship we enjoy a pure and sweet satisfaction, it presents us with a sphere for the most beneficial services. Religion is supposed, by those who know it not, to damp the ardour and to limit the enjoyments of friendship; but, in reality, its spirit of love prompts to every kind office, and to every generous deed; its self-denial makes those sacrifices of personal indulgence and feeling, by which irritation and jealousy are precluded; and its intercessions bear with them the object of our regard to that Throne of Grace, where our best affections are strengthened and blessed by the power of devotion.

Few have shone in friendship like Dr Waugh. To the companions of his youth who were preserved, like himself, to advanced years, he continued attached through life; and though so far removed from many of them that they rarely met, and though placed in a scene where the bustle, the fascinations, and the varieties of a metropolis, would have detached many a heart from all its partialities for friends in obscurity, he delighted to think of them, and to speak of them; and often in society the most imposing to ordinary minds, would his heart turn to the worth in the shade, which, though overlooked on earth, was prized in heaven. In the young he felt a peculiar interest, and their improvement in wisdom and piety was his great object. His counsels to them were judicious and appropriate, and, instead of being expressed in that tone of arrogant superiority, which irritates the spirit of youth, they were given with all the mildness and kindness of a father. To a young friend at College he wrote:

January 1, 1788.

"I hope you are making satisfactory progress in your studies. Ever remember, that the culture of the heart is the most becoming exercise, and that without this, all other acquirements are nothing. Want of supreme love to God and man is a far greater blemish in the character than a palpable deficiency in arranging ideas, or in expounding Greek and Roman phrases. Be frequently in your closet, and remember the Hearer of prayer looks to the heart. Examine with candour the claim which Christianity makes to a Divine original, and espouse her cause from a settled conviction of its heavenly birth and innate excellence. Suffer not your mind to be shaken by the insinuations of able and infidel men. There are few causes so bad, that great talents cannot adorn and recommend them to the simple and unsuspecting. Read no bad books, for they pollute the mind. Be the willing slave of evidence, and adhere to it, though you cannot solve the objections which sophists may raise against it. There is a paper in one of Johnson's Ramblers, signed 'Pertinax,' which contains excellent thoughts on this subject. Campbell on Miracles, and Beattie's Evidences of Christianity, with Addison's valuable fragment, and Pascal's Thoughts, are treatises which you ought to

read, and to make the subjects of them the matter of your most serious inquiry.

"As to the way of life in which, with your father's approbation, you wish to engage, it is a very delicate matter to say any thing to you: indeed no man can prudently advise you. Consider in your own mind what you are fittest for; ask your own heart what are the motives which induce you to give the preference to one profession above another, and see if those motives are justifiable. If you mean to devote yourself to the ministry, and are satisfied concerning the creed and government of the Scottish Church, I believe that, by the blessing of God, you may be useful in the Secession, provided you can submit to the prospect of a small and precarious subsistence, and yield to the humour and caprice of the people. Were the support of her ministers independent of the congregations, and their minds freed from all temptations to unmanly silence, or chiming in with the popular follies of the day, I know no church in which a good man might be more agreeably as well as beneficially engaged, than in the Secession. The character of her ministers for learning and knowledge of divine things; the general good behaviour of professors; the Scriptural foundation of her doctrines and ecclesiastical polity, with her disinterested and generous appearance in behalf of a good cause against an enslaved body in the establishment, are very pleasant things indeed. But your own mind must pronounce the way in which you are to walk. Let your eyes be towards God for counsel and direction; and make the views of the Bible, and not the maxims of a degenerate world, your standard of judging."

Nothing can be more judicious than such counsels, or more necessary; for the pride of science is unwilling to bow to the Cross; and knowledge, especially in the young, puffeth up. If this letter evinces a strong partiality to the religious society with which he was connected, it must be remembered that the expression of this was necessary at that period, when dissent was likely to expose a young man to petulant ridicule. It is a proof how firmly Dr Waugh was attached to the church to which he belonged, that he cherished and avowed such sentiments in a place where, at that time, he stood almost alone, and when he was far removed from the scenes