THE ORPHANS. AMONGST the many virtues which distinguished Dr. Truman, that of charity, as we have already intimated, was not the least remarkable. He felt that the habitually interesting himself in the welfare of his fellowcreatures was the highest possible command promulged by infinite power, and the highest imaginable interest held out by infinite wisdom. On this conviction he acted. To the utmost of his ability he cherished worth wherever he found it, thus augmenting the great mass of individual happiness, and by condolence and sympathy he would alleviate the burden of individual wretchedness; and, to the extent of his means, considered it his bounden duty to relieve the indigence of his parishioners. His purse was always open to their urgent wants, and at the head of every list of subscribers for the relief of sufferers was his name to be found. To the different hospitals and infirmaries did he lend his pecuniary aid, and he possessed such a method of exercising his charity, that his right hand hardly knew what his left hand did. His benevolence proceeded not from any principle of ostentatious display, but from a truly Christian spirit. As a proof of kind feeling, when at College he had formed an acquaintance with a man, almost if possible the counterpart of himself, this gentleman held a living but a few miles from Dr. Truman, consequently the same friendship and intimacy was observed between them as constituted much of their happiness when at the university. Mr. Blaclock had an only daughter, who long before she could estimate the real value of her loss, was deprived of her parents, by an infectious disease which carried them both off in the same week. Dr. Truman, out of respect for the memory of his friend, took the child into his own house, and she was indeed unto him as a daughter. The first words which she prat tled out were papa and mamma, and never were those endearing appellations more applicable, than to Dr. and Mrs. Truman from the mouth of Julia. They made no distinction between her and the rest of the children-the same masters directed her studies-the same colored cloths adorned her person, and the same kind hand was ever over her, as shielded those whom she was wont to style her sisters and brothers. The personal and mental advantages which Julia Blaclock possessed were truly great. She was one of those dark beauties which arrest the attention of every beholder. And while her large dark eyes flashed with a kind of fire expressive of her heart, they bespoke mildness and amiability, her predominant characteristics. Her whole form and gait were eminently elegant, and she appeared altogether, as if more than ordinary care had been bestowed upon her by the Maker of us all, that she might surpass in beauty and loveliness the rest of her sex. The outward advantages which Julia possessed were not to be compared with those which she, with the assistance of |