Make whatever objections you my heavenly Father. please, I will endeavour to answer you with the words of truth and soberness. Do not leave me ; I am providing a comfortable supper for you. Will you allow me to pursue my new domestic plans of family devotion at the hour of nine, and stay and form part of the company?" To this appeal they were too polite to refuse their assent. "And now then," said Mr. Haddock, "let us occupy the intervening time in rational conversation and useful discussions over a cup of tea." This reviving beverage the servant soon after brought in on a tray to each gentleman. "Permit me to tell you, gentlemen," said Mr. Haddock, "some of the good effects already experienced from my new domestic arrangements. All my family assemble to morning and evening prayer. We meet with minds composed and increasing love towards each other, and if there has been any misunderstanding during the day, we all agree to settle them by mutual forgiveness. There is my son Philip, who was such a ranting Methodist, that he disturbed the whole house, and I was about to turn him out of my family; he is so delighted with this new regulation, that hẹ always assembles with us, and has left off his excesses, and become sober, rational, and orderly: nay, he talks of going to the Rev. Mr. Mortimer, to obtain instruction in the classics rom him to go to college for the purpose of consecrating himself to God in the church of England. There is my eldest daughter Martha-she has become so punctual and orderly, that our family is regulated as by clock-work; she takes from Mrs. Haddock all the trouble and care; and besides this, she goes out twice a week. distributing tracts to the poor, and has formed Sunday-school, consisting already of twenty scholars. She and her sisters are the sole teachers; the children are all dressed alike so neatly, and they attend church so regularly, " where they take their stations together with my daughters in a separate place; that I am quite delighted with the school, and gratified to witness the orderly conduct of so many poor children. The many good works of charity and mercy which they are carrying on through the whole town is a greater ornament to them than jewels and silks. There is my younger son, Richard-he is become very religious and promising; and my second and youngest daughters are become all that a parent could wish in affection, and dutiful attention, in propriety of conduct, and in their active labours in doing good. The three sisters are help-meets for each other in every good word and work, and they pursue them together in the sweetest union and harmony. I never felt myself so satisfied with my family. So regular are the domestic arrangements, so happy and united are all my household, that my home is now like a little heaven upon earth. I can testify, from happy experience, that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are paths of peace." "You may talk as you please," said one of the old card party, "What! do you think we were all going wrong, and all in the dark, till these new lights sprang up in the town?" "What has become," said another, "of our fathers, and uncles, and aunts, who loved these social games at cards, and the entertainments of the assembly and the theatre? Do you think they are all gone to hell? For my part, I am not afraid to follow them in 'the good old path of doing as you would be done by.' I suspect, Haddock, you are becoming a sectarian, or you would not act so strangely!" "Ah!? I says a third, "I was told by a person that he saw two of the new-light clergymen at the Baptist meeting hearing that Cambridge orator, Robert Hall. Now, does not this prove that they are Dissenters at heart, though under cover of the clerical garb, they are spreading their novel doc trines amongst church people!" "But," said Mr. Haddock, "the broad road is the way of the multitude. You cannot pronounce the road of sin, of worldliness and vanity safe, because so many have travelled it in past times. The way to life is narrow, and beset with difficulties, and requires exertion and self-denial. If we would go to heaven we must walk contrary to the spirit and practices of the world." "Well," said Mr. Dwight, "I have been listening to Mr. Mortimer's preaching at our church, and watching to see if he railed, as the other new lights do, at the theatres and assemblies; for I know my good father and mother frequented them, and I should think I need not be wiser nor better than they. But Mr. Mortimer rails at nothing but sin and folly, and his doctrines, though they appeared new to me at first, yet he proves them so well by reason and Scripture, that I believe them to be true; and he advances nothing but what he substantiates by argument. I have lately formed an acquaintance with him; and though I am steward of the assemblies, he has never said a word to me against my holding that office; but he has began to point out to me the many distressed and ignorant poor in our large town, and strongly argued the necessity of forming a society for visiting and relieving them. We have actually formed a committee, and divided the town into districts, and taken certain portions in which to visit, and relieve, and instruct the poor, and we have already collected a subscription of 150l. which I hope will be a permanent annual subscription; and really I see so much ignorance and want, and so much good doing by our visits, that I shall have no leisure another year, nor much inclination to continue my office of steward of our gay assemblies." "What a change!" said another of the party, "why, if we go on at this rate, our assemblies will be changed into domestic lectures, and we shall all become teachers!" "Why," said Mr. Haddock, "I have already commenced an evening lecture, which I read, with singing, and prayer, in my own drawing-room, on a Friday even ́ing; and I assure you, it is well attended by a number of ladies and gentlemen who delight in it." The supper was then announced, to which the party seemed glad to go down from these novel discussions. GODFREY AND HIGHLEY, YOUNG CANTABS, AND MARTHA THEY had no sooner sat down, than Godfrey, Mr. Had- 66 Prodigious!" "Come come," said Mr. Haddock, "sit down to supper with us, and |