INTERCESSORY PRAYER. 447 God should be neglected in proportion to the magnitude of His bounties ! May the writer be permitted to enrich the penury of her own meagre comp- sitiorl with a beautiful extract from one whose unequalled rhetoric was always warmed by a deep sensibility, and occa- sionally tinctured with religious feeling - the eloquent and almost prophetic author of Reflections on the Revolution in France : The English -people are satisfied, that to the great, the consolations of re- ligion are as necessary as its instructions. They too are among the unhappy. They feel personal pain and domestic sorrow. In these they have no privilege; but are subject to pay ;their full contingent to the contributions levied on mortality. They want this sovereign balm under their gnawing cares and anxieties, which being less conversant, about 'the limited wants of animal life, range without limit, and are diversified by infinite combin-, ations in the wild and unbounded regions
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