To ob serve the Sabbath was, however, a principle from which he could not swerve. He pre ferred risking the offered support to offending his God. He urged that, without the Divine blessing, his election could not prosper ; and that he could not expect that blessing while acting in opposition to the Divine commands. It was in vain that his new friends argued, entreated, and even threatened to withdraw their support. Dr. Hoj,e teas inflexible, and they finally yielded the point, thinking him, no doubt, an odd fellow, who could prefer re ligion to self-interest, and who would rather trust to the promises of God than to his own exertions." After removing to Hampstead, Dr. Hope never went out in his carnage but once, and that was to Highgate Cemetry, where he in ! tended to be buried. Without indulging un meaning fancies on the subject of his inter ment, he gave directions for it as for any other ordinary affair. Mrs.- Hope having I hinted the possibility of her attending the fu neral, be seized the idea with joy, and eagerly entreated that, provided it did no violence to her feelings, she would be present. Dr. Latham, the last time he saw him, in* quired if he t _" felt quite happy V -S "Perfectly so," was Dr. Hope's reply. " I have always been a sober-thinking man, and I could not have imagined the joy I now feel. My only wish is to convey it to the minds of others ; but that is impossible. It is such as I- could not have conceived pos sible." He was particularly anxious to convey a cheerful idea of death, and his own happiness in the prospect of it to the mind of bis son, who was at Chat age when all impressions sink deep into the mind. He oftett talked to him of his great gain-,, and used sometimes to say,—  • " You see, Theodore, what a lucky fellow I am. You have your fortune to make, but mine is ready-made for me. lam going to my heavenly inheritance. 