her own language, have rarely, if ever, ' been made, except dividing the account into Sections, with a short head to each, and such slight corrections, as an editor must almost invariably find needful, in preparing a work for the press. The Memoir was commenced in the seventy first. year of her age. CONTENTS. Section EEE. Several visits after her marriage.-Travels with Rebecca Wright-and at different Section EV. Page. MEMOIR, &c. Section E. From her Birth to the 25th year of her age. MARTHA ROUTH was born at Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, the 25th of the Fourth Month, 1743. She was the youngest of ten children, four of whom died in their infancy; and the rest were brought up by their parents, Henry and Jane Winter, with religious care. "By keeping us," she observes in her narrative," in subjection to parental authority, to do or leave undone what they thought best for us, and by being careful not to let their affection sway their better judgement, they very much prevented the necessity of correction, which I do not remember to have been made use of." The restraining hand of the religiously concerned parent, appears to have been, in her own case, early followed by the visitations of the Divine principle of Grace and Truth in the mind. "I felt," she says, "the convicting evidence thereof very early, so as to cause me to stand still in the midst of play, to which I was much inclined; yet I knew not what it was. But as conviction followed, from time to time, I felt desires raised, that I might be a better child, and become more steady and watchful. I had impressive thoughts of a future state, and often when in bed at night, felt troubled lest I might die before the morning. At such times I was constrained to offer prayer, that I might stand in awe, and sin not." About the seventh year of her age, her understanding became more fully opened; and then she could look back on her very infant days, knowing of a certainty, that what she had experienced, was the work which Truth had operated in her soul; and she felt a desire to cleave thereto. "Yet," she says, "I too often forgot myself; and although accounted by others a grave or sober child, I had to mourn in secret, that a contrary disposition would |