no wealth or learning at its command. It was derided by the great, and rejected by the obscure; ridiculed by the scholar, and persecuted by the rabble. Its only friends were a few ignorant fishermen, whose insignificance made their cause still more contemptible in the opinion of mankind.

Yet, with the friendship of these poor unlettered men, it was at length enabled to secure a foothold, and began ere long to assume an importance sufficient to take from opposition its condescending sneer. Its enemies now rose against it in banded hosts, bent upon its extermination; its friends were seized, scourged, and put to death; but in losing one advocate it won a thousand; and continued to extend the presence of its power till, without force, without a return of evil, without a retaliating word or look, and breathing only the language of forgiveness, compassion, and good-will to men, the whole civilized world lay prostrate at its feet.

Though centuries have intervened, empires that were have disappeared, new continents been discovered and peopled, unprecedented systems of idolatry and superstition introduced, and the moral features of the whole globe changed, yet it is the same religion that the Christian is now endeavoring to extend, and by the same means. Human nature, too, has undergone no change; it is now what it was in the days of the apostles; and it will be in the last man what it was in the first. Truth is also immu

table; its clearness and force may at times be obstructed by circumstances foreign to itself, but when fully apprehended, its effect must ever be essentially the same pure and unmixed conviction; so that the Christian has now the same instrument, and the same material to operate upon, as had the primitive disciples.

If successes were achieved then, they can be achieved now; if skepticism and infidelity were routed then, they can be routed now; if false religions, sustained by temples, shrines, and oracles, were overthrown then, they can certainly, without these stupendous auxiliaries, be overthrown now. Only let the truth be brought to bear with clear and constant rays upon the human mind, and disbelief must vanish, doubt and cavil disappear, like the lingering shadows of night before the risen orb of day.

The enterprise, therefore, in which the Christian is engaged, if prosecuted with a becoming zeal and faith, cannot finally fail. He who has made it a duty upon the Church, who has connected it with his visible glory, and sanctified it with his blood, will not withhold from it the energies of his omnipotent grace it will move on with increasing majesty and strength, till it fills the world with the trophies of its transcendent purity and power. Then will be realized on this earth the prophetic vision of him who saw the wilderness and solitary place made glad, the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose, the hills break

forth into singing, the trees of the field clap their hands, and the ransomed of the Lord come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads,-then will

"The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks
Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops
From distant mountains catch the flying joy;
Till, nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round."

CHAPTER XVI.

O RISEN, self-devoted martyrs! ye

Have, circling in your veins, the blood of those
Whose bones are hearsed in bleak Thermopyla:
Though weeping friendship may not interpose,
Your gathered strength shall gain your liberty:
If banded despots rise, let death foreclose
Their being; let their broken sceptres be

The scoff, the jest, the by-word of the Free.

DEPARTURE FROM ATHENS -FEELINGS ON LEAVING GREECE - REASONS FOR WRITING THIS JOURNAL-ARMENIAN BRIDE-ENTERTAINMENT ON BOARD SHIP- SENTIMENT OF AN ATHENIAN GENTLEMAN WASHINGTON'S LAST INJUNCTION-PASSAGE TO MAHON-ARRIVAL OF FRIENDS

-WINTER
TRASTED.

AMUSEMENTS -THE WALTZ AND CAMP MEETING CON

FROM the splendors of that millennial vision into which my feelings unintentionally wandered, the reader will now come back with me to the poor and desolate strand of Athens. If anticipated triumphs and happiness inspirit the mind, and render us superior to present disappointments, afflictions deepen the tone of its sympathies, and inspire those fraternal feelings in which the best impulses of the heart are exhibited. The dazzling parade of power and the sumptuous show of wealth may awaken sentiments of ambition, envy, or exultation, but it is the meek face of sorrow, directing our thoughts to our own infirmi

ties and the sufferings of those around us, that teaches us how to estimate human life aright, and die with dignity and composure.

Let him who would repine at his lot, and murmur at the dispensations of Providence, think, for a moment, of the millions who are without a shelter for their heads, and without the known means of a naked subsistence let him look at the Grecian mother, anticipating the light in her willing task, and denying herself repose and comfort, that she may provide for her orphan children: the tears fall on her distaff as she works, but they are not shed in despondency; they are in recollection of one whom she never more will see. O God! though sickness waste this frame, and the blessings of thy bounty be denied, yet never more shall a complaining word escape these lips, or a distrusting sigh heave this heart.

I have left no place with such a clinging fondness and sympathetic grief as I felt when my last footstep parted with the soil of Greece: not that I had ever drank deeply of her sacred founts, or more than tasted her ambrosial fruits. But there was something in the splendors of her past condition, the still surviving relics of her transcendent genius, contrasted with her present helplessness and woe, that tenderly wed me to the spot. It was as if the face of the one we love, and over whom the grave hath closed, were to revisit us in our dreams.

No man of any susceptibility can come to this coun