to be discouraged by this consideration from making the attempt: because the present moment is the only one which may ever be afforded him; and the father who enjoys the presence of his children to-day, can never be assured that he shall not be separated from them tomorrow. Moreover, the tender parent will not deliver his instructions in the dry and concise way which I have been here compelled to adopt by way of succinctness;

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but his paternal affection will suggest numberless modes of conveying the serious truth he wishes to inculcate in some agreeable or inviting form. For instance, he will adopt the various emblems which nature affords for the elucidation of Scripture truth; while, from the various ties of paternal and domestic affection, he will find occasions without end to point out the nature of the connexion which subsists between the Lord and his people.

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This mode of instruction is both authorized and exemplified in Scripture; insomuch that he who is familiar with the inspired writings can hardly fail to adopt it. The Count de S simple and elegant, as well as pious, mind, which enabled him speedily to acquire the peculiar talent of making religion pleasing to his children; and greatly blessed were the days while he was yet spared to them. But at the period when his eldest

daughter had attained her tenth year, being called to Paris upon business, his life was there unexpectedly terminated by a fever, after an illness of only a few days.

The Countess de S was with him when he died; and as it was his particular desire that he should be buried near the place of his decease, his remains were committed to the cemetery of Père la Chaise, on the heights of Charon, near Pa

ris, where a simple white stone was fixed to mark the place of his sepulture.

After having committed the body of her beloved husband to the dust, the afflicted wife, considering how solemn a duty she owed to her children, and what line of conduct would be most agreeable to her husband, could he now, as formerly, observe her actions, returned to her chateau, where she devoted herself to the important work