every thing. Still no one suggested to me that my calling might possibly be at home. One came to me and asked me to become patróness to a society-another begged to put my name upon a committee-a third requested me to be visiter at an infant-school-a fourth wanted me to get up a repository-a fifth to be treasurer of a saving-fund-a sixth to be president of a working society-a seventh to be inspector to a tract society-an eighth to open adult schools-a ninth to reform prisons-a tenth to convert catholics-an eleventh to free slaves-a twelfth-but why go on? More than a hundred solicitors came to me; each one assuring me that what she proposed was a field of unbounded usefulness, in which she had exerted herself, she hoped with the blessing of God, to the benefit of others and her own. And I believe that each one spoke the truth. She had known her calling, pursued it ardently, and obtained a blessing whence she had expected. I loved their zeal, coveted the rich reward of their success, determined to imitate them all, and undertook every thing that was proposed to me.

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And now I was involved in incessant occupation. The days were not long enough for my charitable labours. I was never in my house but when a committee was assembled there. My name was upon every list, and my presence in every place. What good I did, God only knows-if any, he will look graciously on the record he has kept of it. There was good done: but I often thought not more than would have been, had I not been there. I had no particular turn for business. I had nothing of that strong, hard, bustling character, usually called management. On most occasions I was an important and well-looking cipher, saying "aye" to what others proposed. My money and my name were all that was really useful, I believe. Or if otherwise, the good I did I never knew, what I left undone was but too apparent. Having no time to attend to my children, I committed the management of them to others. They had

governesses, to whom I left them with unbou fidence, till by accident I saw something amiss, I sent them away and got another; till, it appe children were beyond every body's manageme them off to school. They owe not to their m thing they know or are-for what they are mother may be questioned. As I was never my servants were left to their own discretio them no religious instruction, advice, or su ence. I gave them no habits of domestic reg knew not, in short, how they spent their timn conducted themselves. To my husband's soc came almost a stranger, and brought little bu fort to his home. If he was disposed to comm had no time to listen: if he needed my counsel, busy to attend to him. He could not receive h or must receive them alone, because I was a gaged. He could not have his children, beca drawing up reports and could not be disturbed had no participation in my pursuits, and I no lo any interest in his, sympathy decreased bet communion of thought and feeling became less the prayer of each went up to heaven alone; he resumed those solitary studies, of which in t part of our union he so often communicated t to me, having now no time to learn, I lost the lectual, and I believe I may add the greates advantage that had ever been bestowed on grandmother-she is dead. The attention of and all that money can purchase, lightened her years-but I had no time to administer to her s In short, while my name has stood in public as t of all good, and been echoed and lauded from i to institution through the land, the savour of ho not characterized my house, nor its peace abid bosom. I am now five-and-thirty. The loss from fatigue and irregularity confines me to ti and has obliged me to give up all my unde

And now it seems to me that for seventeen years I have laboured, though ardently, in vain. I have succeeded in nothing. The good I have done is known only to God-that which I have left undone looks me every moment in the face, in the disorder of my neglected family, and the sinfulness of my neglected heart."

So reads our narrative. In the few remarks the Listener is allowed to make upon what he hears, I cannot comment on the particulars of the story. I hope there are few so unfortunate; but it is worth attention. All these things mentioned are great and important duties-they are the things of which the Saviour said, "These ought ye to have done, and not left the other undone." Each of them, I believe, is somebody's duty; but all of them not anybody's. And in this day of pious occupation, it is especially necessary that each one should know his own calling. From the impulse of a good desire on the whole, though not unmixed with the pride of importance and the love of distinction, there is a great eagerness to be doing all that we see others do, to appoint ourselves to what heaven never appointed us, and to engage in a multiplicity of projects without considering our circumstances or capacity. Meantime the duties, less stimulating and less acceptable to our ardent spirits, that may belong to our home and our condition, are distasted and overlooked; and our own minds, I fear, too often left waste and uncultured. This needs to be particularly guarded against by the young and inexperienced in the present state of society. It is contrary to the whole bearing of the divine precept. All there is required to be "done in order." Each one is to pursue diligently his own calling. If ministry, on ministering: if teaching, on teaching-he that exhorts, on exhortation; he that ruleth, with diligence. Are all apostles? All prophets? All teachers? We may covet indeed the best gifts-though still Paul says there is a better way-but we must wait till they are bestowed before we attempt to exercise them. An earthly monarch

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has freedom to appoint different persons to offices of his state, according as they are cap strange indeed would be the confusion if each o appoint himself to all. Yet of such confusion the kingdom of Christ is in danger, from the zeal of his inexperienced servants. To be the of communicating blessings from heaven to ea greatest honour that can be conferred on a being; and may justly be-nay, must be, if are right, the first desire of our bosoms. are conferred, not ravished. Watching for where, ready for it any way, and when the Providence points the way, as ready to follow i ness and obscurity as before an approving c path of usefulness will be shown us, as soon capable of being useful or worthy to be used. wanting bumility as to assume our capability possession of every body's post, follow eve calling, and restlessly covet every body's su shall probably learn it in the bitterness of defea appointment.

SERIES OF ESSAYS ON THE SUBJ ARCHITECTURE.

ESSAY THE TWELFTH.

Saxon Architecture.

WE concluded in the former volume the slig we proposed to give of ancient architecture-c all to which the term Order is applicable, or any rule of proportion can be applied. We Saxon style and Gothic style, but the term Or be totally inapplicable to the rude structure of or the fantastic proportions of the other.