lig BREAKING. 



among those, my memory furnishes me with' 

 instances? of two that happened in the pubUc 

 parts of different large towns ; one passion- 

 ately inflicted by a brother of the faculty, 

 the other by a son of the church ; the last 

 of which was e^lmost accompanied with so 

 singular a circumstance, that I cannot resist 

 the temptation of a short digression to re- 

 (iite it. 



Being a "man of very low stature, and 

 engaged to preach, for an absent friend, in 

 ail exceeding large church and high pulpit, 

 not a hundred miles from one of our univer- 

 sities, he delivered his text from that part 

 of scripture including the words, " In a little 

 time yoii shall see me, and in a little time 

 yon shall not ;'* at this moment, the stool 

 upon which he stood, to render himself con- 

 spicuous to the congregation, slipping from 

 under him, rendered him not only instantly 

 invisible, but proved the words of his text to 

 have been selected with the most prophetiif 

 inspiratiqn. 



Leaving to the force of imagination the 

 general consternation of his avuiitors and the 



