"Not till you have extinguished the light," replied The earl had a whip in his hand, which he raised the brave girl. 'Not have him! There is not a lady in the land who would not marry Lord Penruddock." "May-be I am a lady born, and I would not, my lord. Let that fear sleep for ever. And the beacon on the Esgair is not mine, but my brother Carad's, who has saved as many lives as the false fires have lost. He is a man, and will face the world now that we know what the jack-o'-lantern is! A lantern after all! Put it out, my lord, and pass; or let me extinguish it." While they had been talking the earl's horse had moved towards Daisy's, and their heads touched. Daisy leaned over her saddle, stretched out her arm towards the lantern, and, before the earl could prevent it, turned it round, and unfastened it. The with intent to strike her, but she reined back her horse almost into the hedge, and so avoided the blow. "Pass on, my lord," she cried, waving the offending hand towards the gate. "Curse you for a witch!" exclaimed he. "And may God forgive you, not only for your curse, but for all your evil actions," she replied. The earl remained a moment uncertain, muttering words which the wind carried off, and which did not reach Daisy. Remembering their encounter on the cliff, however, she thought it possible that he might dismount and obstruct her passage in turn, and she resolved accordingly. He was, indeed, preparing to dismount, although she could not see him for the darkness. She stooped over her horse, and whispered, "Now Pen, up the down, thou knowest the way!" and gave him the rein, just as the earl had one foot on the ground the other in his stirrup. The wind was blowing a hurricane, but the horse breasted it at once, although it blew in his and his rider's face. He set off at a gallop, only slightly guided by Daisy, whose hat had fallen, and whose habit swelled in the gale. The discomfited earl glanced after them through the night, and re-mounted, resolving on bitter revenge. While the one trusted to equine sagacity on the wild mountain, midway of which stood the farm, and the other in the rocky road leading to the promontory on which was seated the castle, signals of distress reached them from the sea, and each felt sure that some hapless ship must have struck upon the quicksands. The light on the Esgair was put out-the canwyll corf had succeeded it! (To be continued.) 66 HE Consummation: "The end ever- we cannot fully understand now. lasting life," that for which holiness is begun in the soul, the issue for which the perfecting of it has been one continued preparation in the character. "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto He called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Thess. ii. 13, 14). In the life everlasting, which is thus the issue and Crown of holiness, there are various elements essential to it demanding consideration. 1. There is sight-the vision of God. Faith will be exchanged for sight in many ways which Without holiness no man shall see the Lord" (Heb. xii. 14). "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matt. v. 8). "Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face" (1 Cor. xiii. 12). Here we have but dispersed rays, scattered beams of heavenly light, by which to see; but hereafter the rays will be united, perfect, and full. We shall see Him as He is; Jesus Christ our Saviour will be the manifested Deity whom every eye shall see. Pregnant and suggestive, as spiritually understood, was the desire of the Greeks expressed to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus" (St. John xii. 21). But what was the sight of Him, in the days of His flesh, even to those who saw His glory, compared with what the sight of Him will be in the home of resplendence and perfection hereafter? The "glorified eye" will then look upon His glory, and apprehend and appreciate it as it never could before. And in the vision of God will be included all the glorified objects which heaven contains. The grandeur, beauty, perfection, and glory, to be contemplated then, surpass all our conception now. How much is the eye the instrument of enjoyment, elevation, and blessing to us on earth; but what will it be hereafter, when we see the glory of Christ, and by perfect meetness and absorbing love are prepared to appreciate it! But the sight which is enjoyed in heaven will be intellectual and mental, as truly as corporeal of the spiritual body, and with an expansiveness as marvellous. It is the sight by which we can approach the inaccessible light, by which we can see Him that is invisible, the knowledge peculiar to heaven when " we shall know even as also we are known.” There will be a continual discovery of God, in the unfolding revelations of Christ, and the principal exercise and felicity of the soul in heaven will be the admission or absorption, and the reflection of the rays of His glory. the greatness and the wonder of this mighty change?" In many things we cannot possibly become like God. He is the infinite creator, all-wise, almighty, supreme; we shall be ever His finite creatures. But we shall see Him with a divine intuition, belonging to our new nature when it is perfected; purity, love, and every grace, will be then in our finite nature even as they are in His infinite and ineffable being. Our likeness to Him shall be in respect of all those moral excellences which constitute His perfection. One spirit, one pulse, one principle, coming from Him at first, and pervading all His disciples, will rise up again to Him, so that their moral completeness will be in Him for ever. This is the end-immortal perfection!-to be like Christ, and to be with Him, world without end. 3. A further element of this everlasting life is satisfaction. "As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake with Thy likeness" (Ps. xvii. 15). The sight of the Divine glory is transforming, the influence of the transformation is satisfying. What is this satisfaction? Who can analyse or estimate its component parts? No one on earth; "for eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the thing which God hath prepared" for His saints in heaven. It is the rest of the soul in Him, the rest of the intellect in His truth, the rest of the heart in His love, the rest of the conscience in His will, the rest of the imagination in His fulness of goodness and beauty, the joyful rest of the whole being in Himself. This is the rest that remaineth for the people of God. Eternal serenity! with nothing to interrupt felicity or disturb peace any more; every want 2. Another element in this life is similarity or likeness to Christ. "We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is" (1 John iii. 2). This resemblance, therefore, is in some sense the result of the vision. Even on earth, "beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord we are changed into the same image from glory to glory." And if this is the influence of communion with Him in time, and of contemplation by faith now, what must it be in heaven, where the eye is glorified, the atmosphere unclouded, and the vision perfect? This similarity or likeness will be twofold-supplied, every desire gratified, every prospect sensible and spiritual. We are distinctly assured that the Lord Jesus Christ will change our vile body, the body of our humiliation, "that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body" (Philipp. iii. 21). "As we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory" (Col. iii. 4). How marvellous, then, this change! St. John tells us, regarding the personal manifestation of Christ, in the Apocalypse, "with His countenance as the sun shining in its strength," it was so transcendentally glorious that, when he saw Him he "fell at His feet as dead." But all the saints will by-and-by be like Him; then will be "the manifestation of the sons of God" for "which the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth" (Rom. viii. 19). How glorious and admirable the design, to transform men, and make them thus like Christ! "Were the dust of the earth turned into stars in the firmament; were the most stupendous poetical transformations assured realities, what could equal 66 realised. Eternal security! with no foe to harass, no difficulty to surmount, no conflict to wage any more for ever. Eternal vision begets in the heavenly saints eternal likeness. They at once behold and partake of His glory, "that their joy may be full." Our idea of the fulness of the blessedness of heaven is aided, when we compare it with what is said of the consolations and joys of religion in this life. Even here, amidst the imperfections and entanglements of this world we have "strong consolations" (Heb. vi. 17), “fulness of joy " (St. John xv. 11), a joy unspeakable and full of glory" (1 Peter i. 8), "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Philipp. iv. 7). Then what will this blessedness be hereafter, in the world into which there "cannot enter anything that defileth," and where everlasting joy is upon the heads and in the hearts of all who dwell therein! Wondrous declaration, that when you stand before God, and see what has been done for you, you shall be "satisfied," though never satisfied before. Oh! word that has been wandering solitary and without 66 NELLY'S CHAMPION. a habitation ever since the world began, and the morning stars sang together for joy! Has there ever been a human creature that could stand on earth, while clothed in the flesh, and say, "I am satisfied?"-sufficiently filled, filled full, filled up in every part! When God's work is complete we shall 319 stand before Him; and with the bright ideal and glorified conception of heavenly aspirations upon us, looking up to God, and back to ourselves, we shall say, each one for himself, and all in mighty choral swell,. "I am satisfied!" This is the crown of holiness for ever! TWO NAMES ON A TREE. ETWEEN the old wood and the sea I walked three springs ago, And there was one who went with me, He said that in a few short days He cut our names upon a tree, And said that we should stand, And read them hand in hand; Spring buds grew into summer bloom, I knew not anything of gloom, And changed to winter strife, I tried to think him in the right, GUY ROSLYN. NELLY'S CHAMPION. BY L. C. SILKE, AUTHOR OF SHAG AND DOLL," "HUGH'S HEROISM," ETC. CHAPTER I. MOST precocious young gentleman was Stumps, of Lamb Court, for though so diminutive in stature as to justify the name his companions had bestowed upon him (and which had been gradually contracted from Stumpy to Stumps), he yet possessed as much knowledge of the world, and as ready an acquaintance with its tricks and dodges, its shams and counterfeits, as many who have lived six times as long. Nay, there are multitudes who never gain one-fourth part of the insight into life at least, in one of its phases-with which Stumps was gifted. It was in the hard school of experience that he had acquired his knowledge; not by any royal road, but by the help of cuffs and blows, harsh words, and harsher deeds. For Stumps, though an only child, steered clear of the danger which so often threatens only children-of being spoiled by their parents. He certainly had not to complain of too great an excess of tenderness on the part of his, but, on the contrary, found himself brought up by them with an almost Spartan-like severity. resources, doubtless from far-seeing motives on their part, with a view to teaching him the grand lesson of self-dependence—of training and disciplining him early to take his part in the battle of life. Thus Stumps, forced to use his wits, and to look to no one but himself, had found those wits sharpened by the necessity of obtaining as best he could wherewithal to allay the pangs of hunger, and the urgent craving for food which so often came upon him. Little wonder that he was so precocious, so skilled in cunning and sharpness, so versed in the ways of the world, or rather of his world, which was one of harsh words and hasty blows, dirt and wretchedness, want and poverty, too often drunkenness and dishonesty. Poor Stumps! his young life had not dawned very brightly. As to his precise age, that was doubtful, for though his thin sharp features had none of the roundness of childhood, nor his keen, quick, sometimes suspicious eyes, the trusting confiding look that usually belongs to tender years, his small stature, and puny frame, seemed to proclaim him not more than seven years of age. His face, however, looked much older, That is, as long as they brought him up at all; and he was generally considered by the neighbours but he had long since been cast entirely upon his own to be about nine, though he himself existed in a |