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 to the words, "A people have I formed for Myself." These must be persecuted by the others. From the time of Cain and Abel it ever has been so. Some saints are surprised. "I never have any one to see me now," is the frequent complaint. "Get a fiddle, my friend, begin to scroop away, invite the people to a dance, and see how they will flock around, and call you 'good fellow, 'good woman,'—only another word, as my father used to say, for a fool.

"The way of persecution is the King's highway, the divine college to which He sends all His dear ones." He dwelt on this thought with extraordinary force, and it seemed to give relief to his soul. I had observed that though he had commenced by saying that he was so weak that he trembled from head to foot, as he proceeded his voice got stronger and stronger, until at last he had entirely recovered his equanimity, and appeared quite happy. He had delivered his soul.

The display of literary food in a bookseller's shop in a Wealden town was suggestive of the intellectual character of the district. First and foremost were Huntington's books, in company with others of a kindred theology, their favourite hymn-book by Gadsby, Owen and Boston's theological works. Side by side with all this theology we have the London Journal, the Half-penny Magazine, and Reynolds's Miscellany. The only agreeable fact is, that even here Bunyan and Defoe find their way. Thus they cater for the two races of mankind, while for polemics against the one great power which threatens some day to devour them all, they have nothing to offer but that dreadful-looking little bock called Maria Monk. If any one would measure the enormous difference between Sussex and Northumberland, let him compare the literature sold in this shop with that in a village bookseller's in Northumberland.

Calvinists are not the only Dissenters in a Sussex village. There are those who represent a more modern style of Nonconformity. From the pulpits of their chapels may almost always be heard sermons in harmony with what is widely known as Revival preaching. Its favourite text is, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever