y had been supposed to excel. One
talked of his generosity, another of his courage, and a third of his
fortitude; but it proved on a close examination, that some of those
supposed virtues were merely the effect of a particular constitution
of body; the others proceeded from a false motive, and that not a
few of them were actual vices, since they were carried to excess;
and under the pretense of fulfilling one duty, some other duty was
lost sight of; in short, these partial virtues were none of them
practiced in obedience to the will of the King, but merely to please
the person's own humor, or to gain praise, and they would not,
therefore, stand this day's trial, for "he that had kept the whole
law, and yet had willfully and habitually offended in any one point,
was declared guilty of breaking the whole."

At this moment a sort of thick scales fell from the eyes of the
multitude. They could now no longer take comfort, as they had done
for so many years, by measuring their neighbors' conduct against
their own. Each at once saw himself in his true light, and found,
alas! when it was too late, that he should have made the book which
had been given him his rule of practice before, since it now proved
to be the rule by which he was to be judged. Nay, every one now
thought himself even worse than his neighbor, because, while he only
_saw_ and _heard_ of the guilt of others, he _felt_ his own in all
its aggravated horror.

To complete their confusion they were compelled to acknowledge the
justice of the judge who condemned them: and also to approve the
favorable sentence by which thousands of other criminals had not
only their lives saved, but were made happy and glorious beyond all
imagination; not for any great merits which they had to produce, but
in consequence of their sincere repentance, and their humble
acceptance of the pardon offered to them by the King's son. One
thing was remarkable, that whilst most of those who were condemned,
never expected condemnation, but even claimed a reward for their
supposed innocence or goodness, all who were really rewarded and
forgiven were sensible that they owed their pardon to a mere act of
grace, and they cried out with one voice, "Not unto us, not unto us,
but unto thy name be the praise!"

THE SERVANT MAN TURNED SOLDIER;

OR, THE FAIR-WEATHER CHRISTIAN.

William was a lively young servant, who lived in a _great, but very
irregular family_. His place was on the whole