a certain that precise state of the atmosphere essential to the formation of dew. So the mind needs a DEW-POINT, divine temperature, a stand-point, a position of power, a point d'appui, as a Frenchman would say; a point of support, a coalition of the divine and human; the spiritual and intellectual and physical giving a rallying-point and a base of strength, where ideas rally and form like troops on a battle-field, condense into language, file off from the lips in squadrons of fit words, to do battle for the King of kings and Lord of lords! Well, after all due preparation, I did attempt the sublime, with a single eye and pure intention. The Lord enabled me to take sure footing,- not, indeed, upon the sublimities of airy speculations, upon which sinners are not unwilling to gaze, nor where the Lord would not walk with me. No; but high amid the strong-holds and "mountainous fastnesses" of Jesus Christ and his apostles; I found them like the tower of David, where are hung a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men !— Cant. 4:4. And the Lord enabled me to lay them about me,- not as one beating the air, but upon the souls of the people,- scores and scores of whom were the slain and the saved of the Lord,— husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants, all knocking at Mercy's door, and none of them rejected. CHAPTER XXV. NOTES OF THE HUDDERSFIELD REVIVAL, CONTINUED. THE following chapter continues the record of the great revival in Huddersfield, which is interspersed, after Mr. Caughey's manner, with meditations, reflections and suggestions, which cannot but be profitable to candid and spiritual readers. One thousand souls had found Christ at the date at which this chapter commences. -- Feb. 11.- What a glorious work of God among the young people, many of whom were saved on Sabbath and last night! Not the world's leavings! not Satan's remnants, depreciated by his iniquitous clippings! No. Drygoods merchants have what they call remnants, ends of webs, leavings of whole pieces, sold cheaper than the rest. OLD sinners are but remnants of their former selves. Numbers of such saved, but the devil had nearly used them up, body and soul. But these young souls, from seventeen years to twenty-five old, fresh, vigorous, beginning their day's work for eternity in the prime of life's morning. how much good they may accomplish, if faithful, before they enter their rest above! Mr. Wesley used to say he loved and venerated a young man, because of the good he would be doing in the world when he was sleeping in the dust. Feb. 15, Saturday morning. - The work advances with amazing swiftness and energy. To look around and see one hundred new faces in the audience, saved within a few days past, many of whom are heads of families, melts the heart and the eyes. "The trembling gates of hell" seem to be shaken. The strength of the mighty is given to those who turn the battle to the gate. Isaiah 28: 6. Our troops seem as fresh, when they "stack their arms for the night, as in the beginning of the fight. Abraham had his "trained servants," or soldiers, Gen. 14: 14,born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen of them; with them he obtained a great victory, and returned from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and brought back the souls and the goods he and his army had carried away captives. The Romans also had their Fabricii,— brave warriors of a high order, who graced their battle-field, and who had never learned to spell the word retreat! Well, Methodism has in Huddersfield her trained soldiers, born within her ramparts, who never fail, in their encounters with the old Chedorlaomer of hell, to come off victorious, bringing all the souls back with them for which they fought, and which he had led into captivity; the brave Fabricii, who are determined never to spell, define nor illustrate, retreat! Amen. Monday, Feb. 17.— Faithfulness and tenderness in preaching yesterday;—-truth and sympathy. O, may my preaching never be wanting in either! They are the life and soul of an effective ministry; truth colonizes truth, and sympathy begets sympathy, as love begets love; and fair PERSUASION becomes what the ancients assigned to eloquence, queen-regent of the affections. This seems a gift of grace. I have no power to persuade sometimes, but my words are light and uninfluential as floating feathers. It was not so yesterday. My soul was filled with God. Persuasion, with sympathy, as a gushing, overflowing tide, passed over, reaching even to the neck, filling the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel, Isaiah 8: 8,- not, indeed, with the desolating rush of the Assyrian, but refreshing and fertilizing as the waters of Shiloah, that go softly.-Isaiah 8:6. There were few eyes that refused the waters, few hearts that did not feel; hearts bowed unused to bow, and eyes wept not apt to weep, -willing tears, as if they would not part with them "for all the smiles that dance about the cheek of mirth." How tears do follow some appeals to the natural affections, water followed the rod of Moses! Hallelujah! A sweet sight! The seal of truth stamps deeply through tears, and "The rainbow tints are only made, as Psalm 103: 23, 14, That was a sweet text for all this,-"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him: for he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." Fathers! mothers! How the sentiment moved them,-- that all the parental tenderness that has ever existed in the bosom of parents towards their offspring, from the days of Adam till now, is but as a drop to the ocean, when compared with the tenderness of God towards those who truly FEAR him, and who are in any sore trouble. Brothers, sisters, children! How sweet to watch the effects of those words of Jesus," Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? Ife, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts :nto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"Matt. 79, 10, 11; - followed up with Dr. Chalmers' fine comment, that Jesus presents God the Father, stepping forward from the dark recesses of his greatness, to tell us that amidst all the darkness and mystery that enshrouds the mode and manner of his existence, as well as providential dealings, [I cannot call up the exact words of the doctor] he has the feeling of a parent still. We are thrown back upon the days of our childhood, and when we call to mind all the tenderness and solicitude of our parents, we are brought to know what is in God our Father. He steps forward amid all the awe which the consciousness of his greatness cannot fail to inspire; and, instead of a master at the head of his servants, he reveals himself as a parent in the midst of his family. How could he do this better than by reminding us of those who stood by us in our infancy, who protected us from danger, and who cared for our wants? He lets himself down to the level of our understanding, takes hold of that good that has survived the ruin of the fall, and tells us that there is a parental tenderness in God our Father, even surpassing what is found in an earthly parent. Such sentiment, however, should be guarded better than my introduction of yesterday; though I spoke some sharp things regarding the devil having children, as well as God. John 8:44. 1 John 3: 10.—But I question whether any of those wasps sucked poison out of that domestic flower; or, if they did, they received an antidote at night that may serve. And the little ones of this world; and the hidden ones; and the faint and weary ones, who had felt their heavenly Father's rod and discipline; — there was something for |