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Why Miss (said he) so you might, but remember, I have your solemn promise, that you will read it carefully." "Well, (says she) though I never read it before, I'll give it a reading." Accordingly, she began to read it, and it soon attracted her attention. She saw something in it, wherein she had a deep concern; but her mind now became ten times more uneasy than ever. Not knowing what to do, she soon returned to London, resolved to try again what the diversions there would do to dissipate her gloom. But nothing of this kind answered her purpose. She lodged at the court end of the town, where she had with her a female companion. One Saturday evening she had a remarkable dream, which was, that she was in a place of worship, where she heard a sermon, but when she awoke, she could remember nothing but the text. This dream, however, made a deep impression on her mind; and the idea she had of the place, and of the minister's person, was as strong as if she had been long acquainted with both. On the Lord's day morning she told her dream to her companion; and said, "that after breakfast she was resolved to go in quest of the place, though she should go from one end of London to the other. They accordingly set out, and went into several churches as they passed along, but none of them answered to what

she saw in her dream. About one o'clock they found themselves in the heart, of the city, where they dined, and then set out again, in search of this place of worship. Being in the Poultry, about half an hour after two o'clock, they saw a great number of people going down the Old Jewry, and she determined to see where they went. She mingled with the company, and they conducted her to the Meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where Mr. Shower, was then minister. As soon as she entered the door, and surveyed the place, she turned to her companion, and said, with some surprise, "This is the very place I saw in my dream." She had not been long there before she saw Mr. Shower go up into the pulpit, and looking at him, with greater surprise, she said, this is the very man I saw in my dream, and if every part of it hold true, he will take for his text, Psalm xcvi. and 7th verse, Return to thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. When he rose up to pray, she was all attention, and every sentence went to her heart. Having finished his prayer, he took that very passage, which she had mentioned, for his text; and God was pleased to make the discourse founded upon it, the mean of her saving conversion. And thus, she at last found, what she had so long sought for elsewhere in vain, rest to her soul. And now she obtained that

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blessing, through God, the fountain of felicity, which pious Mr. Rogers, so many years before, had solemnly and fervently implored on her behalf.

REFLECTIONS.

This young lady, in the bloom of youth, uncontrolled, and with an ample fortune at her command, sought happiness in all the fashionable diversions of the age; but the search was fruitless, "The round, we are informed, was run over and over again, but all was in vain." And well it might, for the objects were empty-shadowy-unreal.

If the enquiry be, Where shall a soul, destined for endless existence-where shall a soul, worth more than a world, find happiness worthy of it? The depth of sensual gratification says, it is not in me; and the most elevated height of distinction. says, it is not in me. It is a blissfulness, which cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. Whence then cometh this suitable and substantial happiness? From the New Testament-the book recommended by this pious Apothecary. And Oh, may the glorious Gospel, in all its important sentiments, govern our hearts and lives; we shall then experience the hope, which

maketh not ashamed; feel the peace, which passeth all understanding; and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Respecting this extraordinary dream, the late valuable Mr. Newton remarks to a correspondent, "I have known more instances than one, of dreams resembling Mrs. Tooley's, and they are worth recording, when verified by the event; but this is not always the case. Dreams are to me, a sufficient proof, first, that we are surrounded by invisible agents, and liable to impressions from them, when our senses are asleep, and, perhaps, when they are indisposed by nervous disorders; but not when we are in perfect health, or distinctly awake. N. B. It is a great mercy that some of these agents are under a restraint, or we should be scared by dreams, and terrified by visions every night! Second, I infer from dreams, that there is a power belonging to the mind, adapted to the unseen state, which, though dormant when we are awake, is active in sleep. Then, we seem to perceive, by intuition. We are engaged in scenes we had no consciousness of before, and yet we know all that is going forward, take a part in the business, and are engaged and interested as if we were quite at home. This appears very wonderful to me. I think we know

very little of our own powers at present. Third, though some dreams are important, perhaps monitory, perhaps prophetical, as I believe that mentioned in my narrative was, yet there is so much uncertainty in their general character, that we should be cautious of laying much stress upon them, at the time. I had once a young lady a month at my house, who had the singular faculty of dreaming that she heard a sermon every night; and she usually told us the text, the heads, and much of the discourse, at breakfast. The preacher was sometimes one whom she knew, and sometimes an utter stranger. But when she married, she lost her gift, and poor thing, she has since met with many things, which she never dreamed of.”

THE SHIP IN THE AIR.

A fourth colony of New English Christians, in a manner stolen into the world, and a colony, indeed, constellated with many stars of the first magnitude. The colony was under the conduct of as holy, and as prudent, and as genteel persons as most that ever visited these nooks of America; and yet these, too, were tried with very humbling circumstances.