A STRANGER AT HOME.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."        Ephesians 2:8-9

An influential country gentleman, a patron of a church, who, in his way, showed great kindness to a clergyman, was hearing the minister preach on a subsequent Sabbath. When the patron had reached home, immediately after attending church, he said, "Here is gratitude for you, here I and my family have shown this man the greatest kindness, and the return he makes when he gets into the pulpit, is to tell us that we are great sinners unless we repent. He preaches that our good works go for nothing beforeGod. This sermon will do very well for a penitentiary, or Newgate ; but before a genteel and respectable audience, to tell them that they are sinners, is the most extraordinary conduct that I ever met with." from Biblical Anecdotes