Chap. xviii. ver. 12, 13.-The merchandize of-slaves. A late traveller at the Cape of Good Hope, says, in a letter to a friend, "Having learned that there was to be a sale of cattle, farm-stock, &c. by auction, we stopt our waggon for the purpose of procuring fresh oxen. Among the stock of the farm was a female slave and her three children. The farmers examined them as if they had been so many head of cattle. They were sold separately, and to different purchasers. The tears, the anxiety, the anguish of the mother, while she met the gaze of the multitude, eyed the different countenances of the bidders, or cast a heart-rending look upon the children; and the simplicity and touching sorrow of the poor young ones, while they clung to their distracted parent, wiping their eyes, and half-concealing their faces, contrasted with the marked indifference and laughing countenances of the spectators, furnished a striking commentary on the miseries of slavery, and its debasing effects upon the hearts of its supporters. While the woman was in this distressed situation, she was asked, Can you feed sheep?' Her reply was so indistinct, that it escaped me; but it was probably in the negative, for her purchaser rejoined in a loud and harsh voice, • Then I will teach you with the sjamboc,'— a whip made of the rhinoceros's hide. The mother and her three children were literally torn from each other." Chap. xix. ver. 9.-And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. "Well, Hodge," said a smart-looking Londoner to a plain cottager, who was on his way home from church, "so you are trudging home, after taking the benefit of the fine balmy breezes in the country this morning.""Sir," said the man, "I have not been strolling about this sacred morning, wasting my time in idleness and neglect of religion; but I have been at the house of God, to worship him, and to hear his preached word." "Ah! what then, you are one of those simpletons, that, in these country places, are weak enough to believe the Bible? Believe me, my man, that book is nothing but a pack of nonsense ; and none but weak and ignorant people now think it true." "Well, Mr Stranger, but do you know, weak and ignorant as we country people are, we like to have two strings to our bow." Two strings to your bow! what do you mean by that ?" "Why, Sir, I mean, that to believe the Bible, and act up to it, is like having two strings to one's bow; for, if it is not true, I shall be the better man for living according to it; and so it will be for my good in this life-that is one string; and if it should be true, it will be better for me in the next life-that is another string; and a pretty strong one it is. But, Sir, if you disbelieve the Bible, and on that account do not live as it requires, you have not one string to your bow. And O! if its tremendous threats prove TRUE, O think! what then, Sir, will become of YOU ?" This plain appeal silenced the coxcomb, and made him feel, it is hoped, that he was not quite so wise as he had supposed. Chap. xxii. ver. 7.-Behold, I come quickly blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. The 19th of May 1780 was remarkably dark in Connecticut. Candles were lighted in many houses; the birds were silent, and disappeared; and domestic fowls retired to roost. 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