The Love of God. 153

love toman. Yes, the clinging affection we feel
for thofe we have been kind to; our own power
of forgiving any thing to them; is an inftinét
which has been mercifully implanted in our hearts
to teach us to believe in that Love of God, which
is otherwife fo incredible to human reafon.

If you care to know what became of Theodore
and Reuben, you muft in fancy pafs over a few
years. Reuben foon had fo ftrong a wifh to go
to fea, that he entered the merchant fervice ; and
by the time he became Matter of his own veffel
and revifited the hall when he came afhore,
Theodore was to be found there with a kind and
gentle wife by his fide; and frolicking about the
ancient hall were a parcel of noify children, to
whom the arrival from fea of him whom they al-
ways unaccountably would call ** Uncle Reuben,”
was ever a gala treat. Dear readers, Farewell !

BENEDICITE.