so to speak, of BUNYAN'S matchless limnings, Mr. CHEEVER adds a thorough
knowledge and appreciation of all their high spiritual teachings.
Moreover, his own doctrinal views have given him a keen scent for the
intolerant evils against which BUNYAN warred, and of which he was the
victim. We had marked for insertion three or four striking and
characteristic passages, in the colloquy between BUNYAN, the Justice who
committed him to his twelve years' imprisonment, and the Clerk of the
Peace who came to remonstrate with him for his conscientious 'obstinacy;'
but are compelled to omit them for the present. These passages, however,
like his entire life, illustrate this eloquent sketch of Mr. CHEEVER:

'He kept on his course, turning neither to the right hand nor the
left, in his MASTER'S service, but he made all ready for the
tempest, and familiarized himself to the worst that might come, be
it the prison, the pillory, or banishment, or death. With a
magnanimity and grandeur of philosophy which none of the princes
or philosophers or sufferers of this world ever dreamed of, he
concluded that 'the best way to go through suffering, is to trust
in GOD through CHRIST as touching the world to come; and as
touching this world to be dead to it, to give up all interest in
it, to have the sentence of death in ourselves and admit it, to
count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say
to corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my
mother and sister; that is, to familiarize these things to me.'
With this preparation, when the storm suddenly fell, though the
ship at first bowed and labored heavily under it, yet how like a
bird did she afterward flee before it! It reminds me of those two
lines of Wesley:

'The tempests that rise.
Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies!'

So BUNYAN'S bark sped onward, amidst howling gales, with rattling
hail and thunder, but onward, still onward, and upward, still
upward, to heaven!'

EDITOR'S TABLE.

THE INNER LIFE OF MAN.--We are indebted to the kindness of an esteemed
friend who was present at the recent delivery of a lecture before the
'Young Men's Society' of Newark, New-Jersey, by Mr. CHARLES HOOVER, upon
'_The Inner Life of Man_,' for a few passages from that admirable
performance, which may be relied upon as very nearly identical with the
language that