they laugh-oh, when you talk about this, I so sorry-I see how blind, how wicked, and how ignorant, men is; and I say, I know all men ought to pray to God, because God is power all thing, and he hath all the life of men. Therefore, when I remember all these things, I do not know what to do.

"And, in the evening, you preach fourteenth chap. Matthew, 12th verse. It talk about the trouble of the disciples of John. All things what be spoken last night, all is my feeling: and some time I told Jesus all my trouble; but as I get up from my kneel, I feel the same thing again but I only can say, the Devil and all his Angels, that may try possible they can to tempt God people, but they can do nothing. Oh, I can saw much of my trouble; because if I stand up to complain all what my own heart, it bring bitter things against me: even the people will stop their ears and run away, because my heart bring bitter things against me.

"I wish the Lord may enable me, that I may keep close under his footstool. I wish the Holy Ghost may be with you. Therefore remember me in your prayer, because this time I very cast down. And what you be preach last night, it please me."

3. It is not unusual with the Negroes, as our readers know, to describe the conflicts between Grace and Sin, which are common to all real Christians, by their having two hearts.

An

instance or two will strikingly illustrate their use of this appropriate figure :—

One of them said-" Me go, one day, to cut bush: one heart say, 'You go pray'-t'other heart say, 'You no must go pray mind your work:' then one heart say, 'You must go pray Lord Jesus Christ;' and t'other one say, 'No mind what that heart tell you:' then first one say, 'You had better go pray.' So me throw down the cutlass, and me pray to Lord Jesus Christ, and my heart feel glad too much then the first

say,

heart Ah! you see, suppose you no been pray, you no feel glad too much.'"

Same heart God to forgive

But the other

A woman, much distressed, came to me complaining-" Massa! I got two hearts." I begged her to explain what she meant. She replied-"One heart -new heart-tell me of all the bad things me been doing in my country, and since me been here. tell me I must pray to me these bad things. heart tell me, "Never mind! God no look you-God look white people-he no look black people-he no look you.' But my new heart tell me, Suppose you no pray--you die--you go to hell :' and then I want to go to pray then old heart tell me, ' You go work first-make fire-cook rice :'-and then when I done work, I forget to pray; and so these two hearts trouble me too much, and I don't know what to do." I read to her the seventh chapter to the Romans. When I came to the Apostle's exclamation, Oh, wretched man that I am!" That me!" said she: "me feel the very same thing." I then explained the following words-I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, and pointed her to Christ. She has since walked worthy of the Gospel.

4. Their acknowledgments of Divine Forbearance and Mercy:

One man said-" Massa! I am like a dog who runs away from his master, and runs all about; but finds no house, no place to live: he gets hungry, and then comes again to his master; because nobody will take him in the house, and give him something to eat. I do the same. I run away from the Lord Jesus Christ; but I find no peace; trouble meet me everywhere, and then I must come back to the Lord Jesus Christ, for He only gives me rest.”

Another said-" Massa! God do keep me, for true. I have now been past three years in the church"-meaning a communicant. "Sometimes I have run away from the Lord Jesus Christ, but

He no run away from me; He hold me fast. When I run, He send trouble after me. As He bring back Jonah, so He bring me back many times. I no run like Jonah, but heart run more like Jonah. One time I get so much trouble, and my sins so much plague me, that I want to hang myself; but, blessed be the Lord! He no let me do so. I wish, that time, that I no hear the Word of God at all-it plague me so. Ah, Massa! first time when you talk to us about trouble, I hear it; but I don't think that trouble can come so much. I cannot tell you how much trouble I been have sometimes I no sleep at all, Them words which you preach last night comfort me much. I see now that all them trouble I bring myself. The Lord wanted me, but I did not want Him. When I consider, I wonder that God has keep me so long. Oh, what mercy! I see he will not leave me. When I look back, I have comfort."

5. A Watchful Jealousy over the state of their hearts.

After service, one day, some young women, who are still in the school, followed me into the piazza, and desired to speak to me. One said " Massa! what you now say about having peace with one another, troubles me very much. She began to weep, and could say no more. Another then said"Massa! we have too much trouble in the school-house. Them girls that no serve God, trouble us too much we have no peace with them. We beg you, Massa, to tell us what we must do. We want to sit down by ourselves, to read and pray sometimes; but we cannot; them other girls make too much noise; and some of them would do us bad, but they fear you. And now so much rain live there, we cannot go into the bush; and that make us feel sorry. Last Sunday, you say you fear people neglect prayer, and now them feel cold in them heart. Massa! for my part I stand that fashion. Sometimes I kneel down to pray, and then my heart so cold, and then somebody come and

disturb me." Another then began to speak for some length, in much the same way. I gave them advice, and they left me weeping.

After prayer, one morning, at which the church was nearly filled, I was followed by a woman, who is a communicant, into my house. She there gave free course to the fullness of her heart. After she had wept bitterly for some time, she said-" The Lord has loved me so much, and that make me cry. My father was killed in war, and my mother die; and then the people dragged me about from one place to another, and sold me like a beast in the markets. Sometimes they could not sell me, because I was so small; and then they wanted to kill me, but the Lord helped me." Wept again. feel all them words in my heart which you talk last night. You show us how them people stand that have grace in the heart, and every word you talk me feel; and me want to cry, me feel what great things the Lord Jesus has done for me; and what hurt me and make me sorry is, because I love him so little."

" I

Wept again very much. "Yesterday, when I go to the Lord's Table, I feel so cold-that make me sorry very much." I endeavoured to comfort her, and she went away, weeping bitterly.

Another instance of this Jealousy over the Heart discovers a simplicity perfectly delightful, and furnishes a lively illustration of 1 Cor. vii. 32-34.

In calling at one of the houses, I found two women (both communicants) at needle work. The house was neat and clean. A clean bench was immediately put down, and I was entreated to sit. One of the women had been lately married to a decent and serious young man. I asked how she got on She said "I think not so well as before. Beforetime I go to prayer, nobody hinder me-I live by myself in this house-I have no trouble: when I go to church I was glad-nobody hinder me; and the word which I hear was

now.

sweet too much. Sometimes people ask me, 'Why you no get married?' I no answer, but I know I have peace too much my heart live upon the Lord Jesus Christ. But, soon after, people begin to talk bad of me, and me be afraid that, by and by, people would say I do bad; and I was sorry too much. That same time my husband send one man, and he ask me, if I willing to marry. I don't know what to say; but I think I must say yes. Well, I say yes; and, soon after, we got married. Me got plenty trouble this time. My husband he is a good man, but me have trouble about him. Every time me think about the Lord Jesus Christ, my husband come in my mind; and so I stand, when I live in the church. Sometimes I think it would be better for me if I was not married: then I should only think about my sins, and about the Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes I don't know what to do. I hear you preach, but I can't feel it only Sunday before last, when you preach in the morning, it was just as if you talk all the time to me-me hold my face down, and cry too much. Oh, them words make me glad too much.”—The text was, Isaiah xliii. 1.

6. Of their Faith and Patience under afflictions, many edifying examples occur.

Of the second of the young women mentioned in the last extract, Mr. Johnson says

The next woman then spake, after some advice had been given to the former, and said-" Massa! me been very sick; and that time when you come and see me, I think I cannot live much longer But you see, Massa, the Lord has spared me; and now I can thank Him for His mercy. Beforetime I was always fraid, when I got a little sickI was fraid to die: but, this time, I was glad too much. I suppose I been die, I live in heaven now with the Lord Jesus Christ. Them words you talk yesterday in the church, about God punish Him people because He love

them, them words true. God make me sick, because me great sinner; and because me fraid to die, He take away my fear, because He love me."

In visiting the people at a very unhealthy time, I was happy to find the sick, in general, much resigned to the will of God. One man said—" I trust I am one of His people; and as I am His, He can punish me; because, when a man have a child, and that child do bad, he whip that child; so God punish me, because me do bad. But I trust in Jesus Christ-He help me.

7. Love to the Souls of their Relatives.

At one of our meetings on Saturday evenings, one man said "I have felt very glad since last Sunday morning. When you preach, you talk to me all the time; what you said was what I felt, which make me glad too much. But when you at last talk to the wicked, I wanted to cry-my heart turn in me for my poor wife; she come always to church, but she no believe-she still careless. I do not know what to do with her sometimes when I look at her, I could cry-I cannot keep water out of my eyes-I grieved very much for my wife. Oh, I wish God may teach her!"

After family prayer, one day, I perceived several women with children sitting by the church door. I heard them complaining and telling one another their troubles. When I was perceived, silence was immediately observed. I joined them.

One began to complain of her husband, that he did never pray. When she begged him to pray with her, the answer immediately was, "Don't bodder me. I wont pray wid you. If I want to pray, I can do it for myself." Moreover, she said, that since he had learned to read the Bible, she thought he was worse. Sometimes he would read in the Bible; and when she feared and wept because of the words which she heard him read, he would laugh and mock. She was troubled very much

on his behalf, and she begged me to speak to him, and tell him of his danger.

8. The power of Religion in recovering and securing domestic happiness.

Another woman (one of those last spoken of) began then to tell me that she was also in great trouble. She had not taken any food for two days: she could do nothing but weep: her Husband appeared to dislike her: he had behaved very roughly to her since monday. At this I was rather surprised, for both are Communicants; and have lived very comfortably together, to my knowledge. I went to the man, who was in school at the time; and asked him what was the matter between him and his wife. He said that he had reproved her, because she had not got the dinner ready when he came home with two men who work with him; and, since that time, she had not spoken to him. If he had asked any thing of her, she had not answered him.

I inquired further into the matter, and found that he required his wife to beat rice and cook it; which certainly must be too much for a woman who has an infant to take care of. I reproved him, and explained the unreasonableness of his behaviour to her: he expressed

great sorrow immediately. I went again to his wife, and told her what I had spoken to her husband, and found that they both were wrong. She also said that she was wrong, and would do so no' more; she would always speak when her husband spoke to her. I then called the man, and sent them both home; and told them to kneel down and pray together, as soon as they got home, which they promised to do. They both appeared exceedingly glad and happy; and thanked me, over and over again, for bringing them together again in peace.

In visiting a sick communicant, his wife, who was formerly in our school, was present. I asked several questions; viz. if they prayed together-read a part of the Scripture (the woman can read) -constantly attended Public Worship -and lived in peace with their neighbours. All these questions were answered in the affirmative. I then asked if they lived in peace together. The man answered-"Sometimes I say a word which my wife no like, or my wife talk or do what I no like; but when we want to quarrel, then we shake hands together, shut the door, and go to prayer, and so we get peace again." This method of keeping peace quite delighted me.

DEATH OF DR. BOUDINOT. [From the New-York Daily Advertiser.]

Departed this life, at his seat in the city of Burlington, New-Jersey, on the 24th day of October, A. D. 1821, ELIAS BOUDINOT, Esq. L.L.D. in the eightysecond year of his age. On the 28th of October his remains were committed to the tomb, followed by a large concourse of family connexions, and by the most respectable inhabitants of the city of Burlington. Amongst the mourning friends who attended on this occasion, was la deputation from the Board of

Managers of the .Imerican Bible Society, consisting of General Clarkson, the Rev. Dr. Milnor, Messrs. S. Boyd, and Carow. The pall was borne by Gen. Bloomfield, William Coxe, and Joseph McIlvaine, of Burlington, and by Horace Binney, and Andrew Bayard, Esqrs. and Dr. Mease, of Philadelphia. The body was conveyed to St. Mary's church, where a very appropriate discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Wharton, and the whole ceremony was conducted with solemnity, order, and decorum.

As Death has now set his seal on a character pre-eminent for talents, for

piety, and for extensive usefulness, a just regard to public sentiment requires that the annunciation of such an event, should be accompanied with at least a short retrospect of the life, and of the leading traits in the character of the illustrious deceased.

Dr. Boudinot was born in Philadelphia on the 2d of May, A. D. 1740. He was descended from one of those pious Protestants, who, at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, fled from France to America, to escape the horrors of ecclesiastical persecution, and to enjoy religious freedom in this favoured land. He had the advantage of a classical education, and pursued the study of the law under the direction of the Hon. RICHARD STOCKTON, a member of the first American Congress, whose eldest sister he afterwards married.

Shortly after his admission to the Bar of New-Jersey, Dr. Boudinot rose to the first grade in his profession. Early in the revolutionary war, he was appointed by Congress to the important trust of Commissary-General of prisoners.. In the year 1777, he was chosen a member of the national Congress, and in the year 1782 he was elected the President of this august body. In this capacity he had the honour and happiness of putting his signature to the Treaty of Peace, which for ever established his country's independence. On the return of peace he resumed the practice of the law. It was not long, however, before he was called to a more important station. On the adoption of the present constitution of the United States, the confidence of his fellow-citizens allotted him a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States. In this honourable place he was continued for six successive years. On quitting it to return once more to the pursuits of private life, he was appointed by that consummate judge of character, the first President of the United States, to fill the office of Director of the National Mint, vacated by the death of the celebrated Rittenhouse. This trust he executed with exemplary fidelity during

the administrations of Washington, of Adams, and (in part) of Jefferson. Resigning this office, and seeking seclusion from the perplexities of public life, and from the bustle and ceremony of a commercial metropolis, he fixed his residence in the city of Burlington. Here, surrounded by affectionate friends, and visited by strangers of distinction-engaged much in pursuits of biblical literature-practising the most liberal and unceremonious hospitality-filling up life in the exercise of the highest Christian duties, and of the loveliest charities that exalt our nature-meekly and quietly communicating, and receiving happiness of the purest kind; he sustained, and has left, such a character, as will for ever endear his memory to his friends, and do honour to his country.

Prior to the revolution he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of New-Jersey College. The semi-annual meetings of this respectable body, he always attended with punctuality, unless prevented by severe indisposition. At the time of his decease he was the senior member of this corporation. The liberal donation he made it during his life, and the more ample one in his last will, must be long remembered with gratitude by the friends of science.

But while anxious to promote the interest of literature, he was not unmindful of the superior claims of religion on his remembrance and his bounty. Attached from principle and habit to the religious denomination of which he was so distinguished a member, he has been most liberal in his testamentary donation to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and to their Theological Seminary established at Princeton.

But as his mind, unshackled by bigotry or sectarian prejudice, was expanded by the noblest principles of Christian benevolence, he has also very liberally endowed various institutions whose object is to diffuse more widely the light of revealed truth-tó evangelize the heathen-to instruct the deaf