as God is in the light, we shall see fruit where others see none. While blind Pharisees quote Scripture to prove where Messiah is, and where he is not born, and do not know him when he comes: to the man who waits for the consolation of Israel the Lord's Christ shall be revealed, and widows indeed, who serve God with fasting and prayers night and day, shall instantly and with thanks discern him in the temple where he dwells. There is that in the experience of some souls which answers to the carrying away of Christ into Egypt from the sword of Herod. He is lost sight of; and shepherds may persuade themselves that the angels' song they heard was but a dream, and wise men think that the star they followed was, after all, a meteor of the earth, and the Child they worshiped a false Messiah; but as surely as Jesus is born in Bethlehem, he shall reappear at Nazareth; and though his very embassador, after crying, "Behold the Lamb of God!" may send and ask, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" yet his works shall in due time draw forth the confession, "Truly this was the Son of God!" The reader will remember that at the time of his conversion Weaver lived at Biddulph, in Staffordshire, a few miles from Congleton. His first visit to Biddulph after his conversion was at this time. He spent the last week in March among his old companions, a living witness to them of what the grace of God could do. He began his labors there on the Sabbath. The chapel, which was crowded in the morning, at night was crammed long before the appointed time, and some thousands of people filled the road outside, so that a wagon was procured, and he preached in the field opposite. At the close a number of anxious ones assembled in the chapel, and one of the first who came forward seeking salvation was the widow of his brother Thomas, who was killed in the coal-pit. She and many others found peace that night. In the afternoon there was an experience meeting, at which the last who spoke was Mrs. Weaver, whose sweet words, spoken with much feeling, are added here to give some idea of the kind of wife the Lord God provided for his serv"I feel," she said, "thankful to stand up and bear my testimony. I am nothing, but Christ is all in all. Glory be to God for ant. ever, he has kept me fifteen years, and he can keep me to the end. A dear companion who set out with me is now in heaven. She said when dying, 'There's light in the valley.' Ay, friends, it's good to have light in the valley when we come to die. Let us hold fast living grace, and he will give us dying grace. Let us live a day at a time. I've been glad to hear these dear young ones tell what the Lord has done for them: May God ever keep them; and keep my dear husband. I will bear him up when he is far away from me.” On Good Friday Richard preached to two or three thousand people in the sand-pit, in which nine years before he had wrestled with God, until the Sun of Righteousness dawned upon his soul; and the same evening in another sand-pit he addressed a similar assembly. This was a week of deep interest, as numbers of those who had known him in the days of his ungodliness thronged to hear him, and many of his old companions and others were converted to God. On the evening of his first Sunday at Biddulph he spoke to a group of colliers with whom he had been accustomed to work, and one of them replied, consenting to what he said. This poor man told his wife the following morning to get ready to go to chapel with him at night; but before the day was over he was killed in the pit, and brought home dead. On that day week a man, who had been a backslider, fell dead as he was going to the meeting at Withington, where he had heard Weaver preach three times the day before. These events greatly solemnized the people; and a work of awakening and conversion was very general through the whole neighborhood. In April Richard returned to Dublin, where, as everywhere else, the common people heard him gladly. Night after night the Metropolitan Hall was crowded with persons of all ranks in life and all varieties of creed; and at each of the meetings for inquirers, held after the preaching, there were a number under deep conviction, many of whom found peace before they left. Among those whom we believe to have been savingly converted were many Romanists, who found in Jesus the Son of God a Great High Priest, and in God the Father a Confessor, whom they joyfully received in the stead of the shadowy deformities with which |