skirted also with listening auditors.
While, at a distance, the flocks and herds were peacefully feeding,
the trees, covered with beautiful foliage, were waving in the breeze,
and all nature seemed to be in harmony with those sacred emotions
which so obviously pervaded this rural assembly.

After addressing the throne of grace, M. ---- read a part of the
fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. He turned their attention
more especially to that interesting passage in the twelfth verse:
"_There is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we
must be saved_." He endeavoured to point out to them the exceeding
sinfulness of sin, the awful consequences of violating the law of God,
the inefficacy of all those expedients which the ignorance, the pride,
or the self-righteousness of men had substituted for the "only name,"
Christ Jesus. He spoke of the necessity of this great sacrifice on the
cross, of the love of God in sending his Son into the world, of the
fullness and all-sufficiency of the mighty redemption, and of the duty
of sinners to accept it and live. "It is through Christ alone," said
he, "that you can have hope of pardon and salvation. You must take up
the cross and follow Christ. You must renounce your sins and flee to
Christ. You must renounce your own righteousness, and trust alone in
Christ. You must renounce all other lords, and submit to Christ. If
you had offended an earthly monarchy to whom you could have access
only through his son, would you address yourselves to his _servants_,
rather than his _son_? And will you then, in the great concerns of
your souls, go to any other than the _Son_? Will you have recourse to
the _Virgin Mary_, or some favoured _servant_, rather than address
yourselves to Him who is 'the way, and the truth, and the life?' and
when God himself assures us, that _'there is none other name under
heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved_?'"

Having thus proceeded for the space of fifteen or twenty minutes, and
at a moment when the greater part of his audience were in tears, the
widow suddenly came running to M. ----, saying, with great agitation,
"_Monsieur! Monsieur_"

"What, madam, what?" said M. ----.

"I perceive," said she, "at a distance, the deputy mayor of a
neighbouring village, in company with several women, approaching with
a speedy step towards my house. These people are among our greatest
persecutors--shall I not call in our little band of brothers