LIFE OP 



copious streams from his feet run on the accursed tree, 

 and stain the grass with purple ! Behold his features, 

 though scarcely animated with a few remaining sparks 

 of life, yet how full of love, pity, and tranquillity ! A 

 tear is trickling down his cheek, and his lip quivers. 

 He is praying for his murderers ! O ray soul ! it is thy 

 Redeemer — it is thy God ! And this too for Sin — for 

 Sin ! and wilt thou ever again submit to its yoke ? 



8. Remember that the grace of the Holy Spirit of 

 God is ready to save thee from transgression. It is 

 always at hand : thou canst not sin withoi^t wilfully re- 

 jecting its aid. 



9. And is there real pleasure in sin? Thou knowest 

 there is not. But there is pleasure, pure and exquisite 

 pleasure, in holiness. The Holy Ghost can make the 

 paths of religion and virtue, hard as they seem, and 

 thorny, ways of pleasantness and peace, where, though 

 there be thorns, yet are there also roses ; and where 

 all the wounds which we suifer in the flesh, from the 

 hardness of the journey, are so healed by the balm of 

 the spirit, that they rather give joy than pain." 



The exercise which Henry took was no relaxation; 

 he still continued the habit of studying while he walked ; 

 and in this manner, while he was at Cambridge, com- 

 mitted to memory a whole tragedy of Euripides. Twice 

 he distinguished himself in the following year, being 

 again pronounced first at the great College examination, 

 and also one of the three best theme writers, between 

 whom the examiners could not decide. The College 

 offered him, at their expense, a private tutor in mathe- 

 matics, during the long vacation ; and Mr Catton, by 

 procuring for him exhibitions to the amount of £66 per 

 annum, enabled him to give up the pecuniary assistance 

 ■which he had received from Mr Simeon and other friends. 

 This intention he had expressed in a letter, written twelve 

 months before his death. " Wiih regard to my college 

 expenses, (he says,) I have the pleasure to inform you, 

 that I shall be obliged, in strict rectitude, to waive the 



