place at a throne of grace, and frequently lead you to visit your attached parents. Keep throughout your residence in another's house the principles that regulated your father's. Never act unworthy of those whose happiness is built up in yours. If you have had a dedication to the Lord at home, plead for its fulfilment in your personal sanctification. Mr. Budgett, when dying, could say, "I feel as if I were a poor sinner saved through my dear mother's prayers, the prayers of my friends, and my own poor feeble prayers, offered through Christ." Have you come from a godless home? Learn from Samuel Budgett to seek a religion for yourself. No other blessing can suffice for your salvation. To be kept in safety amidst temptation,-to be faithful to employers, and free from evil habits,-seek an interest in the Lord Jesus. When in the shop, make the most of your opportunity. Endeavour to attend customers, and to satisfy them; but in doing so never indulge in falsehood. Integrity, industry, and piety, will be your best character and your surest means of advancement. Remember Samuel Budgett's rules,-"Tact, Push, Principle."

SHOPKEEPERS! there is a lesson here for you. You wish a large custom and a prosperous business; you are tempted to sell some things at a loss and quietly overcharge others, that you may attract. See that you act uprightly. The Kingswood grocer did not need unworthy practices to extend his business and increase his gains. Keep short accounts. Beware of credit. Cash payments are your safety, and they are your customers' advantage. Never deal in bills. Misfortunes may come. You may require aid, and have to give your signature. But beware of paying by bills. Keep no P. D. in any corner of your shop for anything you sell. Be regular and as short as possible in your hours, just to your customers, and let your business be reviewed before God

every night. Forget not the sanctuary. Let not the hour of Saturday keep you out of the house of God on Sabbath. Endeavour to be useful, and keep these rules ever before you," Tact, Push, Principle."

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS! the life of Samuel Budgett has a message to you. He was in your calling, and did business with success; but he cared for his soul while he prosecuted his work. You have peculiar temptations. You are obliged to live in hotels, and are expected to treat. Never make liquor an inducement to commerce. Let your goods and your own integrity be your recommendation. Make good use of a good customer. Mr. Budgett's rule to his travellers was, "Gain a little at a time, and take care of what you have got." If you possess a Christian character, you can find opportunities of usefulness by means of your journeys. I have known commercial travellers who made it a constant object to visit Sunday-schools, Bands of Hope, Young Men's Societies; and who, by giving their experience and observation, became the means of doing good. Their visit was looked for as earnestly by Christian youth as by busy tradesmen. Fully carried out, the threefold rule of Mr. Budgett will suffice for you in business and in usefulness," Tact, Push, Principle."

MERCHANTS! this prince among your order has a word for you. Marked by just dealing in his own actions, he demanded it from all in his employment. Anxious for his own prosperity and comfort, he endeavoured to promote the same among his men. Hence the punctuality, short hours, rewards, happy homes, education, and insurances, that the persons belonging to his establishment enjoyed. His spiritual influence over them was great and blessed. He assumed no airs, though he exacted obedience. But he impressed them all with his own motto,-" Tact, Push, Principle."

cause.

He was no mere money-hoarder; he was a liberal giver. Every good cause had his sympathy and aid. He always carried tracts and books with him for distribution, believing that this is a means of doing good most effective and blessed. He made a rule in the latter part of his life not to give away less than a sixth of his income. He "distributed, with discrimination and liberality, and without ostentation, fully £2000 a-year from his own pocket," is the testimony of a Bristol newspaper; and it is confirmed by those who knew him. He gave in a way likely to bless the recipient and the He made it a part of his business to look after his benevolence. Merchants! copy this large-hearted brother, who consecrated his gains, and sought to benefit others by the Lord's goodness to him. No men have more influence in a commercial country than its merchants and manufacturers, who have so many thousand souls dependent on them for daily bread, and connected with them by employment. Were you to use that great opportunity and responsibility to the glory of God in the moral and spiritual improvement of those under you, the teeming population of our manufacturing districts would become a Christian and happy people, and " your joy and crown." Ability to give, motive to do it to the best advantage, piety to ascribe all that you have to the Lord your God, would be your blessed experience in the benefit of thousands, were you to make such hallowed use of Mr. Budgett's rule,-" TACT, PUSH, PrinCIPLE."

"I care for no titles that are not my right,

No honour that is not my due,

But stand in my station by day or by night

The will of my Master to do.

He lent me my lot, be it humble or high,

And set me my business here;

And whether I live in His service or die,

My heart shall be found in my sphere.

"If wealthy, I stand as the steward of my King;
If poor, as the friend of the Lord;

If feeble, my prayers and my praises I bring;
If stalwart, my pen or my sword;

If wisdom be mine, I will cherish His gift;
If simpleness, bask in His love;

If sorrow, His hope shall my spirit uplift-
If joy, I will throne it above.

66 Away then with 'helpings' that humble and harm,
Though 'betterings' trip from your tongue;
Away! for your folly would scatter the charm
That round my proud poverty hung.

I felt that I stood like a man at my post,

Though peril and hardship were there,And all that your wisdom would counsel me most Is, 'Leave it,-do better elsewhere.'

CHAPTER XIV.

ADELAIDE L. NEWTON, THE INVALID.

"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."-2 COR. i. 3, 4.

"Farewell, dear flowers, sweetly your time ye spent;

Fit, while ye lived, for smell or ornament,

And after death for cures.

I follow straight, without complaint and grief;
Since, if my scent be good, I care not if

It be as short as yours."

THERE are some memoirs which, as you peruse them, make you feel that you stand on holy ground. They are pervaded with a deep solemnity. They not merely burn, but glow with a celestial fire which impresses the reader. Such are the lives of Martyn and Brainerd, of M'Cheyne and Hewitson, of Madame Guyon and Mrs. Fletcher. These eminent individuals lived so near to God,-dwelt so much within the holiest of all,—that a glory seemed to shine around them while they were in the world. Mr. M'Cheyne was a young man, and young in the ministry, yet so holy was his character, and reverend his demeanour, that brethren in the presbytery much his seniors in years, and more frigid in their theology, were often seen to wear a deeper solemnity in his presence. His appearance in the pulpit produced the same effect. A most striking instance was made known after his death. The following note was found unopened on his desk: "Pardon a stranger for addressing to you a few lines. I heard you preach last Sabbath evening, and it pleased God to bless that sermon to my soul. It was not so much what