We now neared her, and such a mass of anxious faces as thronged the side to which we approached I never saw. My soldiers, apprehensive that by some means the vessel would yet escape, seized the oars, and rowed so desperately that we were in no small danger from the violent shock with which we were likely to strike her keel. However, we ran safely alongside, and a chair was about to be lowered for me, when, infected I suppose by the nervous impatience of the soldiers, I seized a rope that hung above my head, and by some means, I never could tell how, mounted the tall side of the vessel, to the extreme terror of all on deck, and my own subsequent astonishment. It was an old weather-beaten naval officer who seized my wrists, and lifted me with a spring upon the deck; and strange it was to see the deadly paleness of his cheek, the actual chatter of his teeth, and universal tremor of his frame, while he continued to grasp my arms, as though not yet satisfied of my safety. The men who had formed our Annapolis and Windsor detachments had been in a state of excitement nearly approaching to mutiny, when they found that Madame,' and Vanrohe, and Matthias were left ashore, and their delight was now turbulent. We needed not to have hazarded our lives in such a chace, for the lull of the wind was so complete that we lay becalmed within the harbour's mouth for more than twenty hours. How providential was that lull I have often since thought; for sure I am that nothing would have deterred the soldiers from urging our frail boat over the billows of the Atlantic, had the vessel held on her way, and preferring a briny grave to the agony of such a disappointment.

We were to call at St. John's, Newfoundland, to take in some military stores, previous to crossing the mighty ocean: and I think the incidents of that trip, with the picturesque scenery that now rises in review before me, may furnish matter for one more transatlantic reminiscence.

C. E.

THE very dress, or rather semi-dress of the countrypeople is picturesque; the large blue cloak worn by the women is sure to be held round their well-made figures in folds so easy and so beautiful, as to furnish excellent models for the artist and sculptor. Their long beautiful hair is generally braided round their small heads with a taste and simplicity truly classic; and there is an ease and grace in all their movements which seem, I think, to denote a feeling of good taste and refinement far above the common level of their class in other countries. In an intercourse with the common people, a day, an hour, cannot pass, without being struck with some mark of talent, some display of an imagination at once glowing and enthusiastic, or some touch of tender and delicate feeling.-Rambles in the South of Ireland.

TRINITY SUNDAY.

THE Trinity in Unity is a mystery quite beyond our finite comprehension. We can no more enter into that depth than we can unravel the mystery of our own mind, soul and spirit dwelling in the body. All which concerns ourselves is incomprehensible; and how much more incomprehensible the eternal Being by whom we are formed-the Three in One who works in joint agreement, our election, redemption, and sanctification!

"Elect, according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter i. 2. In believing this, we have "all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Col. ii. 2, 9.

We are at no loss for passages in the scripture which plainly set forth that great leading doctrine of the Trinity in Unity. "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." Acts xx. 28.

Each person in the Trinity is engaged in the glorious work in and for man. The church elected by

God the Father, redeemed by God the Son, sanctified and superintended by God the Holy Ghost.

It is necessary to our salvation to have a lively faith in this undivided Trinity, and therefore of tremendous importance. Let us examine ourselves whether we be in this faith, and earnestly pray for this good and perfect gift.

"He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark xvi. 16. “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Matt. xxviii. 19.

In one great name, these three are comprehended. "There are Three that bear record in heaven-the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these Three are One." 1 John v. 7. We may as well deny the being of a God as deny the reality of the Trinity; and we know there are many who do. There are many such as are described in the 14th and 53rd Psalms-"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

More stupid and devoid of understanding than the beast that perisheth must that man be, who could advance an absurdity so strangely preposterous, as that there was no Almighty Creator of the wonders by which we are surrounded. For this is to say that the fabric of the world, and all its myriads of peopled inhabitants-the glorious ruler of the day, the sunthe moon, which sheds her pale lustre by night, and all the orbs which stud the sky, started of themselves into being, arranged themselves in their spheres, and directed all their own movements! It is to say, that sound, and light, and air, and all the phenomena of nature, were spontaneously produced, without any

great First Cause! It is to say that nature upholds herself, and rules and orders according to her own will and power. And these men are learned and wise in their own eyes! If you shew them a book of deep scientific research, and tell them it made itself, and wrote on its own pages all the sublime truths which are found therein, they would laugh at the ridiculous assertion; yet how much more ridiculous to assert that the human frame was put together, and endowed with intellect to make such discoveries, without a superior Being, from whence all that man is and possesses at first proceeded!

If you shew these people a table or a chair, they will tell you that they were made by a carpenter; yet they will deny the power by which the tree was formed and grew, and of which the furniture was made.

Every object around us, animate and inanimate, sensible and insensible, declare the being of a God. My fingers guiding my pen by their supple joints, and rapidly moving as my thoughts suggest, declare it; my thoughts themselves declare it; mind, soul, and body declare it. How wonderful the mechanism of the human frame! How much more admirable, beyond all comparison, to that of a watch or a clock! and yet how wonderful the ingenuity which contrived these! From whence comes this ingenuity? How ungrateful not to acknowledge that the hand which made us is divine! Oh, how ungrateful to deny to God the honour which is due to him alone!

God has limited the power of man, that he may acknowledge that there is a much higher power. Man, with his utmost ingenuity, could never form the minutest, the most insignificant object in crea