nhabitants of the desert, rather encountering the unenened savages, than stooping to extinguish, under the ession practised in Britain, the light that is within their minds. here I remained for a time, during the wars which the my maintained with Philip, a great Indian chief, or san, as he was called, who seemed a messenger sent Satan to buffet them. His cruelty was great; his dislation profound; and the skill and promptitude with ch he maintained a destructive and désultory warfare, ined many dreadful calamities on the settlement. I was, by ice, at a small village in the woods, more than thirty s from Boston, and in its situation exceedingly lonely, surrounded with thickets. Nevertheless, there was no of any danger from the Indians at that time; for men ed to the protection of a considerable body of troops, had taken the field for protection of the frontiers, and lay, or were supposed to lie, betwixt the hamlet and the ny's country. But they had to do with a foe, whom the 1 himself had inspired at once with cunning and cruelty. was on a Sabbath morning, when we had assembled to sweet counsel together in the Lord's house. Our temwas but constructed of unhewn logs; but when shall the t of trained hirelings, or the sounding of tin and brass s amid the aisles of a minster, arise so sweetly to Heaven, id the psalm in which we united at once our hearts and voices! An excellent worthy, who now sleeps in the H, Nehemiah Solsgrace, long the companion of my pilage, had just begun to wrestle in prayer, when a woman, disordered looks and dishevelled hair, entered our chapn a distracted manner, screaming incessantly, "The ans! The Indians!" a that land, no man dares separate himself from his dees; and whether in the city or in the field, in the ploughand or the forest, men keep beside them their weapons, id the Jews at the rebuilding of the temple. So we ed forth, with our guns and pikes, and heard the whoop mese incarnate devils, already in possession of a part of town, and exercising their cruelty on the few whom ghty causes or indisposition had withheld from public wor s remarked as a judgment, that, upon that -, Adrian Hanson, a Dutchman, a man well man, but whose mind was altogether given was shot and scalped, as he was summing s in his warehouse. e was much damage done; and although our ance into combat did in some sort put them g surprised and confused, and having no apof our band, the enemy shot hard at us, and ntage. It was pitiful to hear the screams of ildren, amid the report of guns and the whists, mixed with the ferocious yells of these they term their war-whoop. Several houses art of the village were soon on fire; and the flames, and crackling of the great beams as added to the horrible confusion; while the the wind drove against us, gave farther advanhemy, who fought, as it were, invisible, and whilst we fell fast by their unerring fire. e of confusion, and while we were about to perate project of evacuating the village, and, omen and children in the centre, of attempting e nearest settlement, it pleased Heaven to send assistance. A tall man, of a reverend apom no one of us had ever seen before, suddenly dst of us, as we hastily agitated the resolution His garments were of the skin of the elk, sword, and carried gun. I never saw any thing han his features, overshadowed by locks of gray ingled with a long beard of the same color. brethren," he said, in a voice like that which he flight, why sink your hearts? and why are ieted? Fear ye that the God we serve will yonder heathen dogs? Foliow me, and you s day, that there is a captain in Israel!" He brief but distinct orders, in the tone of one ustomed to command; and such was the influappearance, his mien, his language, and his mind, that he was implicitly obeyed by men ver seen him until that moment. We were ily divided, at his order, into two bodies; one of which ntained the defence of the village with more courage ever, convinced that the unknown was sent by God to rescue. this command, they assumed the best and most sheltered tions for exchanging their deadly fire with the Indians; le, under cover of the smoke, the stranger sallied from town, at the head of the other division of the New Engmen, and, fetching a circuit, attacked the red warriors he rear. The surprise, as is usual amongst savages, had plete effect; for they doubted not that they were assailed heir turn, and placed betwixt two hostile parties by the rn of a detachment from the provincial army. The thens fled in confusion, abandoning the half-won village, leaving behind them such a number of their warriors, the tribe hath never recovered its loss. lever shall I forget the figure of our venerable leader, n our men, and not they only, but the women and chil 1 of the village, rescued from the tomahawk and scalpKnife, stood crowded around him, yet scarce venturing pproach his person, and more minded, perhaps, to worhim as a descended angel, than to thank him as a w-mortal. "Not unto me be the glory," he said; “I but an implement, frail as yourselves, in the hand of Him is strong to deliver. Bring me a cup of water, that I allay my parched throat, ere I assay the task of offering aks where they are most due." I was nearest to him as he xe, and I gave into his hand the water he requested. At moment, we exchanged glances, and it seemed to me I recognised a noble friend, whom I had long since med in glory; but he gave me no time to speak, had ech been prudent. inking on his knees, and signing us to obey him, he red forth a strong and energetic thanksgiving for the ing back of the battle, which, pronounced with a voice I and clear as a war-trumpet, thrilled through the joints marrow of the hearers. I have heard many an act of otion in my life, had Heaven vouchsafed me grace to it by them, but such a prayer as this, uttered amidst the and the dying, with a rich tone of mingled triumph and beyond them all; it was like the song of the ess, who dwelt beneath the palm-tree between thel. He was silent; and, for a brief space, ith our faces bent to the earth, no man dar cad. At length, we looked up; but our deliv ger amongst us; nor was he ever again seen ch he had rescued. LESSON CLIX. Trust in God.-WORDSWORTH. beautiful this dome of sky! thills, in fluctuation fixed hand, how awful! Shall the soul, an these?-Be mute who will, who can, et Thee here; where Thou hast built, thou constitute a priest of thine, emple as we now behold thy presence: therefore am I bound , here, and everywhere, as one Come labor, when the worn-out frame requires Repose and hope among eternal things, And what are things eternal ?—Powers depart, But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, For our suppert, the measures and the forms, Whose kingdom is where time and space are not: Of other converse, which mind, soul and heart, Do, with united urgency, require, What more, that may not perish? Thou, dread Source, Prime, self-existing Cause and End of all, That, in the scale of being, fill their place, Above our human region, or below, Set and sustained ;-Thou,—who didst wrap the cloud Of infancy around us, that Thyself, Therein, with our simplicity awhile Might'st hold, on earth, communion undisturbed,- Or from its death-like void, with punctual care, -a frame This universe shall pass away— Glorious! because the shadow of thy might, |