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"I've been goin' on like a darned old porkerpine," he said to Haldane one evening," and if you don't git convarted soon you'd better git out of ood you couldn't stand er;" and the poor fellow felt that there was considerable truth in the remark

The mill closed at an earlier hour on Saturday afternoon, and he determined to visit Dr Marks if he could obtain permission fro He wrote a note to Mr Ivison, cordially thanking hi, frankly, that he could ard to hi to do right now, and that I aiven est in your note to me, but, in memory of certain relations to my old pastor, Dr Marks, I would rather see him than Dr Barstow, and if you will permit me to be absent a part of next Monday forenoon I will esteereat favor, and will trespass on your kindness no further I can go after mill-hours on Saturday, and will return by the first train on Monday"

Mr Ivison readily granted the request, and even became somewhat curious as to the result

When Mrs Arnot had learned from Haldane the nature of his present es That he illing to take and try to do such work rather than remain idle, or take what he felt would be charity, proved that there was ood metal in his composition than she had even hoped; but she naturally felt that the stinging annoyances of his position would soon becoh she was so letter: MY DEAR MRS ARNOT--You have been such a true, kind friend to me, and have shown so ive you a fuller insight into my present experiences and hopes You know that I wish to be a Christian You havethat I can ever possess, but Ireat change in me, or else in my circumstances As there is no immediate prospect of the latter, I have been led to hope that there can be such a change in me that I shall be lifted above andannoyances ofeven far e which Dr Barstow described so eloquently last Sunday evening, ht easily and alht now! If conversion will render ht to seek this change by every e in ained I a, to insult and annoyance At tie of recklessness Every one of the coarse creatures that I am co , burly felloho is so offensive that I cannot keep er if I remain my old self You also knohat a reception I nized The people act as if I were soe, but can, at least, shun with looks of aversion And then, when I get to Mr Growther's cottage I do not find ratitude to write this, but the good old eneral has groearisome, to say the least I want to be lifted out of myself--far above these petty vexations and my own miserable weaknesses