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of life. To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. A man has frequent opportunities of mitigating the fierceness of a party: of doing justice to the character of a deserving man; of softening the envious, quieting the angry, and rectifying the prejudiced; which are all of them employments suited to a reasonable nature, and bring great satisfaction to the person who can busy himself in them with discretion. There is another kind of Virtue that may find employment for those retired hours in which we are altogether left to ourselves, and distitute of company and conversation; I mean that intercourse and communication which every reasonable creature ought to maintain with the great Author of his Being. The man who lives under an habitual sense of the divine presence keeps up a perpetual chearfulness of temper and enjoys every moment the satisfaction of thinking himself in company with his dearest and best of Friends. The time never lies heavy upon him: It is impossible for him to be alone. His thoughts and passions are the most busied at such hours when those of other men are the most unactive: He no sooner steps out of the world but his heart burns with devotion, swells with hope, and triumphs in the consciousness
