him.
To that true and tender soul, how beautiful must have been the green
fields, the rippling brooks, and the familiar hills, where he had roamed
when a child! They made him a cave on the hillside; a bush covered its
entrance. There he was hidden from the enemy, and there he lay in his
last illness, and ripened for heaven.

When near his end he predicted, that, bury him where they would, the
enemy would lift his body. Forty days after his burial, the spiteful foe
raised his body, and buried it among the graves of criminals. Thus they
attempted to disgrace this servant of Jesus Christ. But in later years
his memory was so dearly cherished, that many good people requested to
be interred beside him, and the grounds around that grave in time became
a beautiful cemetery.

Communion with God is the secret of power, and of spiritual vision; and
faithfulness in God's Covenant is the secret of Divine communion. The
possibility of living in holy familiarity with God the Father, and with
our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Spirit, learning the thoughts
of God, feeling the thrill of His power, viewing His far-reaching plans,
and co-operating in His glorious work--is this only a fascinating dream?
Nay, the Covenanters of the martyr-spirit found it to be a realization.
Do their children strive after the same attainment?

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POINTS FOR THE CLASS.

1. What gift specially distinguished Peden?

2. What distress did he meet at his licensure?

3. How did he overcome it?

4. Where was his first pastorate?

5. Why did he leave Glenluce?

6. What remarkable prophecies did he utter?

7. Repeat some of his sayings.

8. What occurred to his body after burial?

9. How may we attain to a similar familiarity with God?

XLV.

SCOTLAND'S MAIDEN MARTYR.--A.D. 1685.

King Charles II. died February 6, 1685. Few tears were shed, many hearts
were glad, at his departure. He was called the "Merry Monarch," in
allusion to his frivolous spirit and gross dissipation. "Wherever you
see his portrait, you may fancy him in his court at Whitehall,
surrounded by some of the worst vagabonds in the kingdom, drinking,
gambling, indulging in vicious conversation, and committing every kind
of profligate excess."

Charles left behind him a gory path. Pools of blood, precious blood, the
blood of the saints, marked it all the way through the twenty-five years
of his reign. Where did that horrible pa