THE DOCTOR AND THE NEGRO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 69, 4 February 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE DOCTOR AND THE NEGRO.

The late Dr. Miller, of Princeton, as all his students will remember, abounded in anecdotes which ho. related to his classes from year to year, to illustrate the points made in his lectures. One of them occurs to us just now, as especially applicable to the new converts which have recently come into the churches. A celebrated judge was. in his his earlier years, sceptical as to the truth of the Bible, and especially as to the reality of experimental religion. lie had n favorite servant, \vho?iccompanied him iv his travels round his circuit. As they passed from court-house to court-house, they frequently conversed on the subject of religion, the servant, Harry, venturing at times to re- j monstrate'with bis master against his infidelity. As the judge had confidence in Harry's honesty and sincerity, lie asked him how he felt, and what he thought on various points. Among other things, Harry tod his master that he was sorely tempted and tried by the devil.

The judge asked Harry to explain to him how it happened that the devil attacked him. (Harry,) who was so pious a man, so sorely, while l<e allowed himself, who was an infidel and a sinner, to pass unnoticed and untesnpted. " Are you right sure, master, that he does let you pass without troubling you ? " aske i Harry. " Certainly I am," replied the judge ; " I have no dealing with him at all. Ido not even so much as know that there is any such being in existence as the devil. If there is any such being he never troubles me."

" Well," said Hairy, " I know that there is a devil, and that he tries me sure!}' at times."

Some days afterwards, when the judge had got through his docket, he concluded to go on a hunt for wild ducks on on« of the streams which lay across Ills road homeward. Hurry accompanied him As they approached the river, they espbd a flock of (hicks quietly floating on its surface. The judge stealthily crept up the hank and fired upon them, killing two or three and wounding as m:uty others, lie :it once threw down his gun, and made strenuous effoits, with the aid of clubs and stones, to sec-ire the wounded ducks, while he permitted the dead ones to float on, for the time unnoticed by him. Harry, aa he sat on the scat of the carriage, watched his master's movements with deep interest, and when he returned, said to him, —

" Mnssa, while you are a splashin1 in de water after dem wounded ducks, anil letting the dead ones float on, it jist come into my mind why it is dat de debil troubles me so much while he lets you alone. You are like de dead ducks; he's sure to get you safe. I'm like the woun led ones, trying to get away from him, and he's afraid I'll do it, so he makes all de fuss after me, and jist let you tloat on down the stream. He knows lie can get you any time; but he knows it's now or never with me. If you were to begin to flutter a little, and show signs like you were a-goiu1 to git away from him, he would make jist as big a splashin1 after you as he does after me."