ear there likewise? Are we
"clothed with humility," and arrayed in the wedding garment of a
redeemer's righteousness? Are we turned from idols to serve the living
God? Are we sensible of our own emptiness, and therefore flying to a
Saviour's fulness to obtain grace and strength? Do we indeed live in
Christ, and on him, and by him, and with him? Is he our all in all? Are
we "lost, and found?" "dead, and alive again?"

My _poor_ reader, the Dairyman's daughter was a _poor_ girl, and the
child of a _poor_ man. Herein thou resemblest her: but dost thou
resemble _her_ as she resembled Christ? Art thou made rich by faith?
Hast thou a crown laid up for thee? Is thine heart set upon heavenly
riches? If not, read this story once more, and then pray earnestly for
like precious faith.

But if, through grace, thou dost love and serve the Redeemer that saved
the Dairyman's daughter, grace, peace, and mercy be with thee! The lines
are fallen unto thee in pleasant places: thou hast a goodly heritage.
Press forward in duty, and wait upon the Lord, possessing thy soul in
holy patience. Thou hast just been with me to the grave of a departed
believer. Now "go thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and
stand in thy lot at the end of the days."

Elizabeth died May 30, 1801, aged 31 years.

{The Dairyman's Daughter's Grave: p89.jpg}

THE NEGRO SERVANT.

PART I.

If a map of the world, instead of being coloured, as is usual, with many
gay and brilliant tints, in order to distinguish its various continents,
kingdoms, and islands from each other, were to be painted with darker or
brighter hues corresponding with the spiritual character of the
inhabitants, what a gloomy aspect would be presented, to the eye of the
_Christian_ geographer, by the greater portion of the habitable globe!
How dark would be the shade thus cast over the larger districts of the
vast continents of Asia and America! and what a mass of gloom would
characterize the African quarter of the world!

Here and there a bright spot would mark the residence of a few missionary
labourers, devoting themselves to God, and scattering the rays of
Christian light among the surrounding heathen; but over the greater part
"the blackness of darkness" would emblematically describe the iron reign
of Mohammedan superstition and Pagan idolatry.

The Christian prays that God would have "respect unto the covenant; for
the dark places of the earth are full of