I always told Walters so; and now," said he, exultingly, "see my predictions are verified." McCloskey seemed anxious to atone for the past by making an ample confession.

He told them all he knew of Mr.Stevens's present circumstances--how his property was situated, and every detail necessary for their guidance.

Then his confession was sworn to and witnessed; and the dying man addressed himself to the affairs of the next world, and endeavoured to banish entirely from his mind all thoughts of this.
After a life passed in the exercise of every Christian virtue--after a lengthened journey over its narrow stony pathway, whereon temptations have been met and triumphed over--where we have struggled with difficulties, and borne afflictions without murmur or complaint, cheering on the weary we have found sinking by the wayside, comforting and assisting the fallen, endeavouring humbly and faithfully to do our duty to God and humanity--even after a life thus passed, when we at last lie down to die the most faithful and best may well shrink and tremble when they approach the gloomy portals of death.

At such an hour memory, more active than every other faculty, drags all the good and evil from the past and sets them in distinct array before us.

Then we discover how greatly the latter exceeds the former in our lives, and how little of our Father's work we have accomplished after all our toils and struggles.