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11 she instructed me in Christian principles, and led me to the altar."

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.

" I will not quarrel with you," said the celebrated John Wesley, " about any opinion ; only see that your hearts be right towards God, that you know and love the Lord Jesus Christ, that you love yonr neighbour, and walk as your Master walked, and I desire no more. I am sick of opinions ; I am weary to hear them. Give me solid and substantial religion ; give me an humble, gentle lover of God and man ; a man full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy ; a man laying himself out in the work of faith, the patience of hope, the labour of love. Let my soul be with these Christians wheresoever they are, and whatsoever opinion they are of. Whosoever thus doeth the will of my father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.'"

BLASPHEMY PUNISHED.

On the 4th August, 1796, between eleven and twelvo o'clock in the forenoon, a violent storm of thunder and lightning arose in the district of Montpelier. In a field about a mile from the town, a body of 900 French soldiers lay encamped. At a small distance from the camp, five of the soldiers were assisting a bnsbandman in collecting the prodnce of the earth for hire. When the storm came on, the whole party took refuge under a tree, where the five soldiers began to blaspheme God for interrupting them in their labonr ; and one of them, In the madness of his presumption, took up his firelock, which he happened to have by him, and pointing it towards the skies, said that ho would fire a bullet at Him who sent the storm ! Seized with horror at the blasphemous declaration, the hnsbandman made all the haste he could to quit the company ; bnt scarcely had he got to the distance of ten paces from the tree, when a flash of lightning struck four of the soldiers dead, and wounded the fifth in snch a manner, that his recovery was despaired of.

BLESSINGS OF EDUCATION.

The Rev. Dr. Waugh was enlarging one evoning at a public Sunday-school meeting, on the blessings of edncation ; and turning to his native country, Scotland, for proof, told his auditors tho following anecdote :-At a board-day at the Penitentiary, at Millbank, the food of the prisoners was disenssed, and it was proposed to give Scotch broth thrice a-week. Some of the governors were not aware what sort of