And now we would, ere we part, say a few last words to the reader. Have you as you read felt moved by the tale of suffering, such as perhaps you never even imagined before? Then if you have, let the feeling _work_; for it has been well said, “When such relations in real life are listened to, without any efforts for the relief of the sufferer, the emotion is gradually weakened;” and that moral condition, “so abhorrent to our fellow creatures, so alien from the Divine Nature, is produced, which we call selfishness and hardness of heart.” And we might appeal even to this very selfishness; for that which is the case of our brethren now, may ere long be our own. We trust that through the sparing mercy of our God, and his blessing on our harvests, sought by our humiliation through the merits of the Redeemer, it may be averted from us. But “_as_” in such a case, _should_ it ever be your own, “ye would that men should do unto you, _even so_ do unto them.” “To-day harden not your hearts.” The Highlander too has a peculiar claim on our bounty, for he has ever been ready to minister to the wants of the stranger and the traveller. During a tour of some weeks among the mountains and the glens, we very frequently closed an evening ramble by a visit to their cottages. And never in one single instance, though we were a party of five, were we allowed to depart without partaking of their hospitality; nor would they receive remuneration in return. Their hospitality they can no longer offer, their meal chest is empty, their cow has long been gone, and is it not the time for us to render back what we so freely received? But they have a _higher_ claim. It is written,—“Do good unto all men, _specially unto them that are of the household of faith_,” and such are they. “And oh, may we all have grace so to deny ourselves that we may be enabled to follow the example of His compassion, Who, ‘though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor.’ And Who, though content for our sakes to endure himself the pinching pains of hunger and want, yet suffered not the multitudes to go hungry away.” FOOTNOTES: [1] Caillian, the gude wife. [2] Second Statement of the Destitution Committee. [3] “In many of the islands the pigs, being left without food, have literally disappeared, and the fowls, no longer fed at home, have wandered, and eagles, ravens, and carrion crows have fallen on them and devoured them.”—Second Report. [4] “Cast thy burden upon the Lord;” and it may be some man shall say, How? Roll it on him with the two hands of faith and prayer.—_Leighton._ [5] From a letter by the wife of a Clergyman in Argyleshire, dated March 25, 1847. [6] Letter from Dr. Aldcorn. BOOKS PUBLISHED BY B. WERTHEIM, ALDINE CHAMBERS, PATERNOSTER ROW. _By the late Right Rev. M. S. ALEXANDER, D.D., Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem._