The devil's chain is greatly shortened since those days. He has great power yet, but he cannot exert it in these quarters as he was wont. Mr. Wesley visited Hull many times after that, but never again met with such a reception. He lived to see Methodism the glory of Hull. The last time he visited it was in 1790, when he made this touching entry in his Journal: "Sat., 26 June, was a day of satisfaction. I preached at seven in the morning and at six in the evening, to as many as our house could contain; the ground being too wet for the people to stand abroad. Mon., 28th. This day I enter into my eighty-eighth year. For above eighty-six years found none of the infirmities of old age; my eyes did not wax dim, neither was my natural strength abated; but last August I found almost a sudden change. My eyes were so dim that no glasses would help me. My strength, likewise, now quite forsook me, and probably will return no more in this world. But I feel no pain from head to foot; only it seems nature is exhausted, and, humanly speaking, will sink more and more, till

The weary springs of life stand still at last.'"

About eight months after, he slept in Jesus, and rose to worlds above.

On Monday night, 23d Dec., attended a missionary teameeting at the Victoria Rooms, Hull, and gave a short address. The Rev. William Illingworth, one of the stationed Wesleyan ministers, gave an excellent speech, and most ingenious and eloquent. His theme was Charity,her work at home and her mission abroad. At one point he paused and asked, "Shall Charity begin at home?” Yes," replied some voice, and "Yes," cried another. "Shall Charity always stay at home? "No!" shouted a full Yorkshire voice. "Shall Charity go upon an errand

of mercy to the heathen?” "Yes!" rejoined the zealous voice."How much will you give, then, to help pay her travelling expenses?" That was a clincher! The voice was silent, and the audience were highly amused. The travelling expenses of Charity, who should defray them, and why they should be paid, and the glorious results of her angelic-like mission,- afforded him a fine field. The effect was delightful, and left a most pleasing impression, and lasting, doubtless. Mrs. Osgood's pretty stanza would have been a good motto to begin with:

The collections on the Sabbath were £53 sterling. I preached again on Tuesday morning for the same cause, and got £20,-making in all $365 American currency. Thus Satan quite overshot himself, or his children did so for him; the thing recoiled on him and them, and I left Hull, on Tuesday afternoon, victorious and triumphant. Hallelujah! He will hardly allow such a trumpet to herald me again.

Dec. 25th, Huddersfield again. I arrived here last night from Hull, in time to preach. Had a very solemn time. While I was offering salvation to sinners, an unhappy man passed by and threw himself into deep water and perished. He was the owner of a low "show," which he had brought into town to take advantage of the Christmas holidays; but "lowness of spirits," as they talk, seized him, and suicide was the result. He had not attended any of the meetings, I believe. Sad to enter eternity on a Christmas eve, a self-murderer! at a period so full of joyful

interest to heaven and earth, to begin the sorrows of eternity is mournful in the extreme.

Eleven o'clock, Christmas night.- Blessed be God for one more birth-day of my risen Lord! A happy day it has been to my soul, and a busy one. Preached twice in Bux

ton-road Chapel. The forenoon was a gracious season. Prayer-meeting in the afternoon,- several saved. To a crowd at night urged the claims of God, and the terrors of eternity. Struck some hard blows on the necessity of restitution, which excited hard feelings in some. The power of God was wonderfully revealed. About thirty-five were converted, and fifteen sanctified. Brother John Unwin and a company of the Sheffield warriors were over and spent the day. They came over for what they call "a regular field-day;" and they had it,— the house of God the field,—and truly they acquitted themselves nobly. They were in action from morning till midnight. Such noble souls are invaluable in a work of God like this. The Lord reward them, for they have fought his battles this day with astonishing power. Bro. Unwin's prayer after the morning sermon was attended with an extraordinary influence upon the congregation.

I forgot to mention that the new converts in Hull are standing fast; very few of them have gone back; all seem marching forward for heaven at a rapid pace. Now, thanks be unto God, who causeth my soul always to triumph in him!

Dec. 27. - My soul is alive to God. Great sweetness and purity in morning prayer. Cramped some in preaching last night; overdid the night previous. My poor soul so lifeless, and feeling had no place. "We have this treasure in earthen vessels." It is well that the excellency of

the power may be of God, and not of us. went on as usual; a score or more were saved.

But the work

Dec. 28, Saturday morning. The necessity of holiness for a happy death-bed was my theme. The re-touching of life by dying persons convinced and touched many-sad retrospections make sorrowful death-beds. Besides, the existence of sin in the heart is painful at such a time; creates a sort of death-bed purgatory, so far as gloom and misery are concerned. The re-touching of a life of holiness, and comfort of such in dying, were contrasted. What a heavenly glow I felt within my soul! Thirty believers were sanctified in the prayer-meeting after the sermon, and twenty souls justified.

"The peace of God, beyond description sweet,
Filled every spirit humbled at his feet!"

Jesus is precious. His smiles are my sunshine. My soul shares in the prosperity of his cause. I share his honors somehow, as a wife those of her husband when he is honored, I feel so too.

Some have imagined that the sun shines brighter after an eclipse; my faith is certainly brighter since that sorrowful eclipse a few weeks since; and so it is, assuredly, with God's people, zeal for God fills their hearts. Now that God has lighted their candle (Ps. 18: 28) they are trying to give light to their neighbors who sit in the darkness and shadow of death. Activity for God is a consequence of a healthy soul, as green to a healthy leaf, as color to the rose, as weight to lead, as heat to fire, and as light and sunshine to the sun,-inseparable, where there is opportunity; consequently they are increasing in life, in numbers, in happiness and in holiness. "Everything," says some old writer "answers the end of its creation

the star shines, the bird sings, the plant bears, the Christian labors, the end of life is service." Just so! and he that does not answer the end of life in respect to usefulness cannot enjoy the end of his desires- happiness. It is in vain we look for that in ourselves, when we disappoint our Maker in the other. Our Lord speaks of "one pearl of great price, and again of a merchantman seeking goodly pearls. Every promise in the Bible is a pearl of great price. Faith makes a chain of pearls out of the promises, by which she graces her neck, and secures her armor; but activity is a thread of silver running through the chain of pearls! Usefulness does not impoverish, but enriches the soul, and faith. When we water others, we are watered, also, ourselves. Prov. 11: 25. Solomon says, again, "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty;" and again, "The liberal soul shall be made fat." Luther used to say, activity made faith grow fat! There is a liberality with the intellectual talent as well as the golden talent, the one enriches as well as the other. This is a great mercy, for many have the former who have not the latter, and some have the latter without the former; so none need have a poverty-stricken faith, unless they will it! Thus the poor saint may be equal with the rich saint,- sometimes, indeed, far above him, for covetousness is a malaria that hangs around the atmosphere of gold! There may be a large-heartedness in working, as in giving. We see this every day, where people are alive in religion. The ears, the eyes, the face, the tongue, the feet, the knees, may be as busy for God as the hand, and as profitable. The head and the heart may disburse as well as the purse. Actions in cross-bearing may save more souls than fractions in Mammon. Character, activity,