It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.