to Captain H. for the full triumph of Christian forgiveness. As he was taking a solitary morning walk on the borders of a jungle, to which the officers frequently resorted to shoot, he observed Lieutenant T., with his servant carrying his gun, at no great distance before him; and just as they turned into the thicket, an exclamation of distress made hin rush forward, when he perceived an enormous tiger in the act of springing on the lieutenant, who, in hastening to take refuge in a tree, slipped his foot, and was thus placed within reach of the animal. At this terrific moment, Captain H. seized the fowling-piece from the hand of the servant, who seemed stupified with terror, and levelled it at the ferocious monster, which instantly fell dead, dragging his victim to the ground in his dying grasp.

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"When the lieutenant found he was rescued, and perceived to whom he owed his life, powerfully contending emotions deprived him of speech for a few moments, and he could only seize the hand of his deliverer, until at length he exclaimed, Harley, you have something more to do; here is one that deserves from you the same fate.'

"You know,' said Harley, smiling, 'I have relinquished the practice of killing my friends. Let us both forget ourselves, and adore Him whose providential care brought me hither to enjoy the happiness of saving your life; a life preserved, I hope and pray, to be devoted to his service, the only object worthy of a rational and immortal existence.""

"Oh!" exclaimed Frederick," How I envy Captain

Harley's feelings at this glorious moment, and how contemptible are the triumphs of gratified revenge in the comparison."

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Cultivate, then, the spirit from whence such actions spring, and be assured you will never want opportunities, in the progress of life, for the exercise of it. You may not, indeed, have an equally splendid occasion, nor is it from such occasions we can form the most accurate estimate of character. Virtues whose lustre attracts the admiration of the world may be performed from no higher motive, and it is possible to risk our lives for an enemy, to whom we should be disinclined to show some small and private act of kindness which might be received with ingratitude and without applause ; so necessary is it to examine well that most subtle and universal deceiver, the human heart."

CHAPTER VII.

PHILANTHROPY IN A COTTAGE.-SELFISHNESS IN RELIGION.

As soon as Mr. D'Arcy could settle his affairs, he and his family set out on their journey to Ireland; for though his estate there was situated in a very agitated part of the country, this was to him a stronger motive for making it his residence, as he hoped by prudent measures and benevolent exertions to contribute something to the restoration of tranquillity. Mrs. Cecil engaged to meet them on the road, and accompany them. Our travellers were not a little disappointed on arriving at C——————, in North Wales, to find she was not there, and were apprehensive of some accident, because they knew she was always scrupulously punctual in engagements, where delay might inconvenience her friends, and still more when it would occasion them anxiety. In a short time, however, their fears were removed, and they found that a benevolent duty had detained her. A poor child, whose parents lived by the road-side, was run over by a cart, just before Mrs. C.'s chaise came in sight, and she found the distracted mother alone, endeavouring to carry her child, whom she thought dead, back to the cottage. C. immediately despatched the post-boy for a

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geon, while she herself endeavoured to soothe and aid the agonized parent, who found that her child was not, indeed, dead; and was soon able, with the elevation of feeling and of language which true piety infuses into the most uncultured minds, to express her gratitude to her heavenly Father for sending her such a friend in the time of her great affliction. After the dislocated limb, which was all the injury the poor child received, had been carefully set, Mrs. Cecil proceeded on her journey, enjoying a luxury peculiar to Christian benevolence, that of relieving one of those whom the blessed Saviour identifies with himself in the awards of the final day; and having secured that treasure of untold worth which the rich may obtain by the prayers and blessings of the pious poor.

The next day was devoted to visiting the exquisite scenery of Landberis. Eliza and her aunt had wandered a little from the rest of the party, and were resting on a bank by the side of the lake, when their attention was fixed by the conversation of some little children who were concealed from them by brushwood.

"You are very naughty, William," said a gentle voice, and in a manner very superior to that of a peasant child, "to find fault with all Thomas's shells, till you made him throw them away; and now he is vexed, and can find nothing to play with. Tell me what pleasure it gives you to make him unhappy ?"

"I didn't like the shells, sister, and so I didn't choose that he should."

"You never cared, then, about making him unhappy,

so that you could please yourself, and without doing yourself the least good any way. You know what mother told you the other day, that when children showed such wicked tempers, it was very plain they had no love in their hearts, and that they could not go to heaven, where good people and all the holy angels are full of love. Have you forgotten what she made you learn,— the rules at her school about trying to make every body happy?"

“Though these children are so plainly dressed,” said Mrs. C., they have certainly no common mother; let us endeavour to find her out: I dare say they do not live far off.”

On inquiring of the eldest, the little reprover of her brother, who appeared to be about ten years of age, she pointed to their dwelling. It was a rather large white cottage, embosomed in trees, near the foot of one of the lower hills encircling this beautiful lake. Her father, she said, was a small farmer. Mrs. Cecil gave her some of those interesting little books for children with which she always provided herself on a journey: for she thought it the very best sort of benevolence to diffuse religious knowledge. The child received them with an avidity which showed that they were a real treasure in her eyes. As the whole party followed these little ones to the cottage, they became every moment more prepossessed in favour of their parents, who had so evidently made Christian charity the first principle of their instructions, and had taught them to try all their actions by the Divine law of love to God and man, the