Having opened the case, M. ——­ found that forty-nine Bibles and Testaments had been thus distributed.  Some of his fellow-passengers were ready to believe that the box had been intentionally left open, but M. ——­ assured them that it had been carefully secured in the usual manner, and that not until his arrival at the spot where they alighted, had he known that any had fallen out.  Having made arrangements to have the case forwarded to the widow, and having addressed to her a note informing her of his intention to proceed to the large village of S——­, where he proposed tarrying a few days, during which time he hoped once more to visit her and her friends, M. ——­ resumed his seat in the Diligence, and arrived at S——­ the same night.  On the next day but one after his arrival, he was agreeably surprised, at an early hour in the morning, to find the hotel where he lodged surrounded by fifty or sixty persons, inquiring for the gentleman who had, a day or two before, presented to a number of their citizens THE BOOK, which, as they said, “contained a true history of the birth, life, sufferings, death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”  Others of them called it by its proper name, the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  All of them were anxious to purchase a copy of it.  As soon as M. ——­ ascertained the object of their visit, he appeared on the balcony, and expressed his regret that he had no more of those interesting volumes with him; informing them that, if it pleased God he should return to Paris, he would forward a hundred to his correspondent in that place, that each of them might be furnished with a copy.  This was accordingly done immediately after his return to Paris.  And during his residence there, M ——­ had the satisfaction to see, that more or less individuals from S——­, who came to solicit orders for their manufacturing establishments, also brought orders for an additional supply of the sacred volume.  And the number of Bibles and Testaments which were introduced into a dense catholic population, in consequence of the apparently trivial circumstance of the opening of the case in the Diligence, will probably never be ascertained until the great day of account; nor will it be known to what extent they have been instrumental in reclaiming and saving the souls of deluded men.

On the day following M——­ received a deputation from the Village in the Mountains, anxiously desiring to hear on what day and hour they might hope to enjoy his long-expected visit.  He proposed to be at the widow’s house the following morning, at 11 o’clock.  Furnished with a carriage and horses by one of his friends, he set out accordingly; and, on reaching the foot of the mountain, was met by a deputation of twelve or fifteen of these faithful followers of the Lamb, who greeted his approach with demonstrations of joy.  He immediately descended from the carriage, and was conducted to the house of the widow with every expression of the most sincere