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quaint array of flags, belts, music, and all the profane bustle with which they disturb the Sabbathday, was expected to return from a funeral. They came presently, and when a rush of boys came into school after the pageant had passed, my resolute acquaintances, having seen what they had made up their minds to wait for, "found it convenient" to come up also. Does the superior courtesy of the less cultivated classes arise from the sober certainty that you cannot in fact interfere or constrain them, so that "I don't feel like doing it," is the quiet reply, instead of the Scotch "What's your business?" or, "What need you care whether I do it or

not?"

In this meeting we saw the encouraging results of a few months' labour. In another quarter of the city, a similar meeting, which had been convened for two years, exhibited a much advanced condition. There were girls and female teachers, as well as boys and males. The hand of industry and kindNeat, clean, and cheerful was the Many a tunic was there which had

ness was visible. pleasant crowd. been

"Turn'd upside down, and outside in,
And made a braw new cotie of."

And many a cap, bonnet, and frock, reminded one of Burns's mother, "wi' her shears, who made auld things look a'maist as guid as new." This order and comfort among the garments is the result of the united contributions and industry of the female

teachers, and many a complacent eye ran over a row of little scholars fitted up for the school by means of many hours of labour. It was Christmas day, so the recitations were rather more of a discursive nature than on the Sabbath, but all of useful tendency. There were interspersed hymns sweetly sung, and passages of Scripture remarkably well recited. The toil of collecting the children, and the responsibilities of teaching them, have for their incentive Christian love alone, seeking neither fee nor reward, save that of seeing the children walk in the truth. And when we know that, two years before, they were as wild and rough as uncared-for children could be, even the present fruit of the labour was a most pleasing reward.

I understood the female teachers met occasionally to make clothing in concert, while one read aloud— an excellent refreshing sociality, not exercised by fine ladies, who might leave their embroidery to unite in this way-but some who had hastened through domestic cares, to procure the time, and others who had passed the regular number of hours in teaching in the Common Schools.

Sustaining the Sabbath-schools is with many church members a duty observed with as much care as any private devotional exercise. On remarking to a zealous teacher that one could hardly hope Senator A. or Governor B. would have leisure from their duties, political and public, to attend still to their class, for they must enjoy the repose of the

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Sabbath, I felt justly rebuked by the hearty reply, "Why, madam, don't you believe the teaching hours are nearly the most refreshing hours of the week?" And so it is. Wherever the mollifying power of the religion of Jesus is felt, there flows into the heart with it a spirit of hopeful benevolence, which turns the man into the protector of the feeble, and the elevator of the neglected and debased. Be he senator, governor, or city missionary, his object and his pursuits will, allowing for difference of circumstances, be the same, and none will be found too low to sink beyond his loving effort, none too debased to pass the line of his faith and hope-as witness Mr Pease at the Five Points. Its rows of miserable dwellings, whose creaking stairs, broken palings, and rag-stuffed window-panes, sufficiently indicate that honest and cheerful industry have long since fled the precinct; while its dull and besotted, or loud and brazen tenants, render it prudent for a respectable female to seek protection in threading its streets in broad day. Yet there has Christian benevolence raised its hopeful standard, and there have some immortals been lifted from the depths, and have entered on the path that leads to peace.

The process of commencement, as related by the zealous operator, is worthy of a record. He was missionary of the district, and many a day his heart fainted as he toiled from den to den, and found none to care for his Scripture-readings, none to accept his tracts, none to value his prayers. “We are hungry—

give us bread-away with your preaching!" "Why don't you work?" One profligate replies, "My eyes are dim." Another, "Me work! if I could do it, who would trust me with it?" "I will, if you will come to me at the room in the corner of C Street to-morrow morning." The new idea had entered the man's mind, and his almost electric energy was instantly applied. His room was opened, and the necessary preparations made. A few poor, shaken, miserable women dropt in; and poor work they made of it, yet the effort was wholesome. After the day advanced a little, their employer said, "Now, I will pay you for what you have done, that you may go and buy your breakfasts; and if you return and work again, you shall have what will procure your dinners." This went on, and presently little children hung about the door, peeping in at their mothers, and morsels of the purchased meal were shared with them. Immediately the mercurial mind seized another new idea. "Little

ones, if you will wash your faces and hands, and smooth your hair, and be as neat as you can, you may come to me to-morrow, and we will begin Infant School," and thus shot forth a new branch from the prolific stem.

By and by some of the sempstresses fell into their old snare of inebriety, and when searched for by their faithful friend, whose hope seemed imperishable, they told him, if he would lodge and take care of them, they would be kept, but they could not

escape if they returned at night to their old neighbours. Here sprung forth another branch. With such friends as he could raise, the philanthropist has added room to room, till in the spring of 1851 he had three houses, with communications enabling him and his wife to pass through them all, and locks preventing the passage and too free communication of the inmates.

At his Sabbath-school many parents and other grown people are auditors. He pointed out several who were seated before us, and mentioned to what condition of wretchedness and misery they had sunk. All the cases were very interesting. One we select as an example :-A still strong and rather fair man, whose hair began to exhibit a streak of silver, and whose face, recently weather-beaten, was now placid and pleasant, and who had the air of a decayed gentleman, was seated near a class, listening eagerly to the instructions of its teacher. He had come to Mr Pease at night, and begged to be admitted to the Inebriate's Retreat. He was requested to return in the morning, as a test of his being desirous of anything more than a night's shelter. He did return, one sleeve wanting from his coat, shoes that would not stay on his feet, no stockings or neckcloth, and a miserable glazed cap on his head. Yet withal, somewhat of an air and address about the man shewed he had lived in other society, and seen calmer days. "Where have you been?" "I don't know." "Where do you come from?"

"No

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