above to leave him the victim of superstitious mummeries such as claim oftentimes the protection of his name. "To the law and to the testimony!" was his unfailing appeal; if any "spoke not according to this Word," it was because there was no life in them." "O Book! infinite sweetness! let my heart To clear the breast, to mollify all pain. "Thou art all health: health thriving till it make A full eternity. Heaven lies flat in thee, Subject to every mounter's bended knee. "Such are thy secrets; which my life makes good And comments on thee. Stars are poor books, and oftentimes do miss; Such was Augustine's daily inner life; and he who appreciates aright the lesson of that life, will go, with a deeper relish and on "bended knee," to the Word which was his daily all. Churches live and die, but the Church is eternal. Carthage and Hippo and the whole African Church are gone; but Augustine's Lord lives on, and Augustine, "being dead, yet speaketh." LONDON, Dec. 15, 1858. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Mother's Tears-The Family of Thegaste-The “Decrep- id Maid "-Monica's First Lesson- "Moulding the Thirst"-The Wine cellar-" Daily Littles"-"A Wine- bibber" - The Finger of God - Sovereign Grace- CHAPTER II. Bad Husbands and Good Wives-the Young Freeman-- "Choleric" - Unequal Yoke - "A Blessing above Riches" - The Honeymoon - Revels Patience and Prayer The Wife-beater-An "Indenture "—"Med- The Wheel of Providence-A Parallel-Goliath and David- ders"- Sins of Infancy-Evil Tempers-New Lessons -Who made sin?-The "Speaking Boy" - How he Learned to Speak-"Current Signs''-Monica-Secret Fireside-scene-A Colloquy-" To School "- ure"-" Tongue-science "-A Longing - School-mise- ries-A "Custom"-The Birch-"Mocked my Stripes' -First Prayer-"Not Heard"-Idleness and Business "Repose on Thee"-School-Life - The Hacked Bench - "Hates Greek". - Eneas Dido-- Tears-No Penitence--The Idol--A Task--" Smoke and Wind"-Classic Mythology-Crimes no longer Crimes- Kindred Spark-"A Hopeful Boy"-New Studies- "Corruptions"-Seared Conscience-" Clanks of tho Chain"-Father's Conversion-Year at Home-Harden- ing-Coral Island-Monica-"Womanish Advices"— CHAPTER VII. The Imposter--Manicheism-Spirit and Matter-The Student - Truth!"-Lime and the Spring-Monica-A Vision- The "Wooden Rule"-The Interpretation-" My Wak- ing Mother”—“Him Only”—Monica and the Bishop- The Waif-New Imposture-Nativity-Casters-Scenes in the Circus "Agonistic Garland"-Roman Proconsul The Colloquy-"Dupe of Lies"-Another Delusion- The "Ten Predicaments"-A Town Celebrity-Blind- ing Spell-New Experiment-Liberal Arts-Gilded CHAPTER IX. The Two Friends -Double Solitude- -“ Out of Two, One”— "Erred in Mind"-"Sore Fever"-"Death-sweat"-The Pride-Death-blow-" An Almsman of God"-Lowest Pit - |