REV. GIDEON HAWLEY.

DR. DWIGHT'S "Travels" contain a deeply interesting account of the Rev. G. Hawley, a missionary to the Indians at Massapee, and who remained their pastor for fifty-six years, dying in 1807, in his eighty-first year.

At the time of the visit paid to him by Dr. Dwight, he had a favourite son, possessed of superior talents and learning, of distinguished piety and high reputation. He had lately come from his tutorship at Cambridge, and had just been ordained to the ministry. This lovely young man now lay in a dying state; for which, however, he was eminently prepared, looking forward to scenes suited to the elevated taste of an enlightened Christian, with the utmost serenity and confidence.

The venerable father was fully alive to the circumstances in which he was placed. He saw the setting of his fond luminous hopes in the night of the grave; and the lustre which played and trembled over this melancholy scene from the mind of his son, brilliant with hopes of immortal glory, exhibited, in their union and their alternations, a picture equally beautiful, solemn, and sublime. Into all these subjects, the father entered familiarly, and appeared equally willing to go with his son, or to stay behind. He felt deeply, but with a serene submission. He found high and sufficient consolation in the character of Him from whom the stroke came. He showed, in such a manner as to put suspicion out of countenance, the affection of a father; and Christian emotions, which a worldling or an infidel, if they could understand them, would deeply envy.

Nor was this manifestation of affection and piety, on the part of this venerable minister, without a happy effect. A young gentleman, who accompanied Dr. Dwight on this visit, who was educated in the gay world, and, as he himself declared, sufficiently addicted to its enjoyments, was entirely

overcome by the scenes of this interview. After they had left the house, he burst into a flood of tears, which he had with great difficulty suppressed till that time, and was unable to utter a word till they reached the inn. In broken accents he then declared, that he had never been so deeply affected in his life; that although he had not before been accustomed to think lightly of Christianity, he had now acquired new ideas of its excellence, and that, should he ever lose them again, he should consider himself guilty as well as unhappy. Yet the whole conversation had been rather cheerful, and every thing which it involved, of a melancholy nature, had been gilded by the serenity of hope.

A MINISTER.

A CLERGYMAN relates, that he was told by another Christian minister, that he one day gave to a poor man in his congrega. tion a tract; and, seeing him afterwards, asked him what he thought of it. "Oh, massa!" said he, "it do me soul good. I never knew before why da call 'em tracks; but when I read that little book, it track me dis way, and it track me dat way; it track me all day, and it track me all night: when I go out in de barn, it track me dare; when I go out in de woods, it track me dare; it track me ebery where I go; then I know why da call 'em tracks." This poor man became a sincere and devoted Christian.

REV. JOSEPH CRAIG.

the Baptist pioneers to Kentucky, was the eccent eph Craig. His brothers, Lewis and Elijah, were distinguished Baptist preachers in Virginia, and afterwards in the wilds of Kentucky. Joe, as he was familiarly called, obtained a license to preach also; for, though eccentric, and by no means gifted as an expounder of Scripture, he could exhort feelingly, and his moral character was good. His brothers were so dissatisfied with his pulpit efforts, after twenty years' experience, that, on a church-meeting day, Lewis gravely proposed to recall his license; and gave as a reason, that he never heard of but a single instance of the preaching of Joe profiting any one, and that was an old negro woman, who, in relating her experience, mentioned his rambling exhortation as the means of her conversion. By this time, Joe was on his feet, the tears running down his cheeks, and, clapping his hands repeatedly, he exclaimed, "Bless the Lord-thank God for that! I will preach twenty years more, to be the instrument of converting another poor African." Of course Joe retained his license.

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A UNIVERSALIST PREACHER.

DR. BAIRD has well observed, in his excellent volume on Religion in America," that it is a remarkable fact, established by the testimony of Universalists, on becoming converted to the Truth, that few can, however desirous, ever bring themselves to believe the doctrine of universal salvation. Most of them are like the New England farmer, who, at the close of a Universalist service, thanked the preacher for his sermon, saying that he vastly liked his doctrine, and would give him five dollars if he would only prove it to be true.

REV. DR. LIVINGSTON.

THE eminent, pious, and learned theologian, Dr. Livingston, related to me, says Dr. Alexander, not many years before his decease, a pleasing anecdote, which I communicate to the public more willingly, because I do not know that he has left any record of it behind him. While a student at the University of Utrecht, a number of pious persons, from the town and among the students, were accustomed to meet for free conversation on experimental religion, and for prayer and praise, in a social capacity. On one of these occasions, when the similarity of the exercises of the pious, in all countries and ages, was the subject of conversation, it was remarked by one of the company, that there was then present a representative from each of the four quarters of the world. These were, Dr. Livingston, from America; a young man, from the Cape of Good Hope, in Africa; another student, from one of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies, and many natives of Europe, of course. It was therefore proposed, that, at the next meeting, the three young gentlemen first referred to, together with an eminently pious young nobleman of Holland, should each give a particular narrative of the rise and progress of the work of grace in his soul. The proposal was universally acceptable; and, accordingly, a narrative was heard from a native of each of the four quarters of the globe; of their views and feelings, of their trials and temptations, &c. The result was highly gratifying to all present; and I think Dr. Livingston said, that it was generally admitted by those present, that they had never before witnessed so interesting a scene.

TWO CLERGYMEN.

A MINISTER was once speaking to a brother clergyman, of his gratitude for a merciful deliverance he had just experienced. "As I was riding here to-day," said he, " my horse stumbled, and came very near throwing me from a bridge, where the fall would have killed me; but I escaped unhurt.'

"I can tell you something more than that," said the other; "as I rode here to-day, my horse did not stumble at all." We are too apt to forget common mercies.

A BAPTIST CLERGYMAN.

THE following incident, says the editor of the Christian Secretary, was related to us by a gentleman who was present; and, as we happen to be acquainted with the persons alluded to, we take the liberty to publish it. Several years since, a young man who had just entered the ministry as a Baptist preacher, took passage in the stage from this city for Albany. Among the passengers was the then pastor of the Universalist society in this city. In the course of the day, a Congregational clergyman entered the stage. The parties were all apparently strangers to each other. The conversation turned upon religious subjects, when the Universalist gave the company to understand that he was a minister of the gospel, by relating the following circumstance; without, however, stating the particular denomination to which he belonged.

"I preached, last Sabbath," said he, "from these words: 'Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they