be carried was to set it up on end in the basket attached to the back of the Diligence; and such was the weight and size of the box, that it was with no small difficulty, and by the assistance of several men, that it was safely adjusted.  At first the passengers objected to taking their seats with such a weight behind, lest they should meet with some accident, or be impeded in their progress.  After much persuasion, however, and after presenting a number of Religious Tracts to each passenger, and requesting the conductor to drive slow, they were prevailed on to proceed on their journey.  The course they were pursuing led through a part of the country solely inhabited by Roman Catholics, where, the year before, M. ——­ had distributed a number of Bibles and Tracts, the reading of which, he had subsequently ascertained, had been forbidden by the priests, who had not only demanded them, but consigned most or all of them to the flames.  M. ——­ thought necessary, in this journey, to suspend his distributions in this immediate vicinity.  But the providence of God had other views, and so ordered it, that, without the instrumentality of men, the sacred records should be scattered among that people.  On reaching the place of his destination at the foot of the mountains, and alighting from the Diligence, M. ——­ discovered that the case had opened at the top, and that not a few Bibles and Testaments had been scattered along the way.  Travellers were soon seen coming up, some in wagons and some on horseback, some with a Bible and some with a New Testament under their arm.  They informed him, that, for eight or ten miles back, the inhabitants had been supplied by the Diligence, as the books had fallen out whenever they descended a hill, or travelled over rocky and uneven ground.

While taking the case from the Diligence, several more persons came up, each bringing his Bible or Testament, which they most readily offered to return to M. ——­, but which he as cheerfully requested them to accept, observing to them, that they had been destined for their perusal by that Providence whose unseen hand directs all human events.  Though ignorant of the contents of the volume which God had thus given them, they expressed many thanks to M. ——­ for his generosity, and were about to proceed on their way, apparently rejoicing, when M. ——­ dismissed them by saying:  “My friends, I feel peculiarly happy in thus being the instrument of putting into your hands that volume which contains the records of eternal life, and which points you to ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’  If you faithfully read it, and imbibe its glorious and precious truths, and obey its precepts, it will render you happy in this life, and happy during the endless ages of eternity.”