place of a wild and luscious air, a beautiful modesty appeared.
And now to what shall I ascribe this astonishing alteration? Shall I say with our methodists and other visionaries, that it must be owing to immediate impulse, and proceeded from inward impression of the Spirit? No: this will not do. It was owing to be sure, to the word (not in-spoken) but taught by Christ in his gospel. When her friend Tench opened the New Testament to her, her good understanding inclined her to hearken. She began to consider: She pondered, and had a regard to the gospel, now laid before her, by that sensible and excellent young clergyman. She

became a believer. And as the Apostle says, We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us; that is, says Dr. Hunt, in one of his fine sermons, through the directions of Christ, and through the arguments and motives of the christian doctrine. Well said, Hunt. It must be our own choice, to be sure, to be good and virtuous. So far as men are passive, and are acted upon, they are not agents. Without power to do good or evil, men cannot be moral or accountable beings, and be brought into judgment, or receive according to their works.
Dr. Lardner, in his excellent sermon on the power and efficacy of Christ's doctrine, has a fine observation; — Would any say, that the necessity of immediate and particular influences from Christ himself, is implied in this context, where he says, that he is a vine, and his disciples branches, and that their bearing fruit depends as much upon influences from him, as the life and vigour of branches do upon the sap derived from the root of the tree? It would be easy to answer, that the argument in the text is a similitude, not literal truth. Neither is Christ literally a vine, nor are his disciples, strictly speaking, branches. Men have a reasonable, intellectual nature, above animals and vegetables. They are not governed by irresistible, and necessary, or mechanical powers. But it is sound doctrine,

and right principles, particularly the words of Christ, which are the words of God, that are their life, and may, and will, if attended to, powerfully enable them to promote good works, and to excell, and persevere therein.
But it is time to my own story. —While I lodged at Curl's, two Irish gentlemen came to see me, Jemmy King an attorney, and that famous master