Every faculty of body and soul, when considered as a part of "the purchased possession" of the Saviour, assumes a new character.

How powerfully does the apostle on this ground urge a plea for holy activity and watchfulness! "What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." The Christian may derive much profit and enjoyment from the use of the memory as it concerns those transactions in which he once bore a part.

In his endeavours to recall past conversations and intercourse with deceased friends, in particular, the powers of remembrance greatly improve by exercise.

One revived idea produces another, till the mind is most agreeably and usefully occupied with lively and holy imaginations.
"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain.
Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Each, as the varied avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades; yet all, with sacred art, Control the latent fibres of the heart." May it please God to bless, both to the reader and the writer, this feeble attempt to recollect some of the communications which I once enjoyed in my visits to the Dairyman's dwelling.
Very soon after the receipt of the last letter, I rode for the first time to see the family at their own house.

The principal part of the road lay through retired narrow lanes, beautifully overarched with groves of nut and other trees, which screened the traveller from the rays of the sun, and afforded many interesting objects for admiration, in the flowers, shrubs, and young trees, which grew upon the high banks on each side of the road.