ful never expanded his views, but re tained all his humility, and even condesended to wash the feet of his disciples. Mahomet, like CHRIST, promised heaven to his followers; but Mahomet, brandishing, declared his sword was the key of heaven. JESUS CHRIST, on the contrary, opened the gates of heaven to the repentant: Here, he alarmed the conscience. With Mahomet, to conquer others was the crown of glory; with JESUS, to conquer oneself. To the followers of the one this world offered every thing; to the followers of the other, this world promised nothing, Mahomet opened a new world to the imagination, and added flame to a sensation of fire. What ori ental could hesitate to follow the ban

ners of Mahomet, when the houries of paradise, dancing among the palm trees, beckoned the fierce soldier to the delirium of eternal rapture? JESUS, with one hand laid on his heart, pointed upward with the other, and had no tie on his followers, but a sublime faith. Mahomet gained every thing; JESUS CHRIST suffered every thing; Mahomet lived a conqueror, and died gloriously, Jesus lived like a vagrant, and died like a felon. Mahomet established a new religion by bribing, JESUS CHRIST by taxing, the passions.

PASSING ON, JESUS saw two other fishermen, with their father, on shipboard. They were mending their

nets. "Follow me," said JESUS, and

they left all and followed him. Soon, the little company swells to a multitude. From all quarters, people of many descriptions flock to his presence. His fame is already extended to distant regions, even to Syria. Does the man not perceive he is hastening his own destruction? Is it not treason, under Tiberius, to be found in a Roman province, at the head of so many men? What is his object? Is it temporal power? What weakness, to collect an army without one soldier! Is honest fame, or the more imposing attractions of false greatness the object of his heart? What folly, to collect around him the most ignorant, the most obscure, and the most abandoned !

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Ar the head of this chequered multitude, few of whom knew the man, or knew the motives of each other; at the head of this suspicious collection of idle, curious, wondering fol lowers, JESUS, himself in appearance not less suspicious, ascended an eminence : and there seating himself, delivered to the crowd a moral lecture. Never, before, was the world illuminated with such a discourse. Never be. fore, did such sublime precepts distil from the lips of a mortal. The heathen sages, from that day, lost all their credit. Their fine-spun casuistry sunk under the weight of a sublime moral, their patch work morality was trampled under foot and disgraced forever; but all, all their good was melted in a mo

ment into this half-hour, moral har rangue. No wonder its force and nov. elty astonished the multitude. No wonder they stood looking to heaven in doubt, and were ready to follow him at hazard. How could they help reposing all their confidence in the man, whose unpremeditated discourse entered into every precinct of their hearts, and in humbling them, by discovering all that was base, at the same time elevated them above this world, by disclosing to them a sublime affinity? That man has surely found the governing principle of others, who after laying open to them their own hearts, can lead them at pleasure. We can only, at this day, imagine the expression of the man's countenance, the power of his