heard by the family bidding farewell to the setting sun, returned to her chamber and her bed, which she did not leave until she exchanged it for a coffin. She expressed no wish during her confinement but to be absent from the body, that she might be present with the Lord.

He

I knew another son of her's. He was rarely endowed. When a little more than fourteen years old, he had qualified himself for studying one of the learned professions. He was wondered at by all his acquaintances, and doated upon by his friends. had been reared upon the plan of Eunice the mother of Timothy, and his death, according to human speculation, was as premature as his mind was precocious. After a sickness of a few weeks, he said,

See truth, love, and mercy, in triumph descending,

And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom,

On the cold cheek of death, smiles and roses are blending,
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb;

and died!

I loved a young lady who had been the companion of my boyhood-I loved her because she was amiable, but my love was that of a friend. Notwithstanding, humanly speaking, she was so good, yet, until about eighteen months before her death, she was entirely careless about her eternal interests. There was at the time of which I am thinking, much excitement in the Presbyterian church of the village in which she lived; many were anxious about their souls, some of whom still adorn their profession by a walk and conversation which become the gospel of

Christ, and some have gone to glory. On a weekday evening, there was a meeting for prayer and inquiry at the house of an elder of the church, and a Presbyterian clergyman conducted it. An elder sister of the young lady about whom I write, who was eminently pious, and a member of the Methodist church, attended the meeting. The clergyman, who knew her character, asked her some question which I did not hear distinctly: she said "my sister," and burst into tears. I soon discovered that she considered her sister not only careless, but in a hopeless condition. Her adviser told her to pray for her, and not to despair. He asked her if she did not remember the woman who continued to pray to our Saviour, and whose prayer was granted, although he had called her a "dog"? Very few hours elapsed before I saw that careless, hardened sister at a similar meeting, and in very few hours more, she was on the side of the people of God. She was introduced to the kingdom of heaven by Presbyterian and Methodist instrumentality, but she was from that time a zealous, indeed an ardent Episcopalian. I was near her when she died-I watched her dead body. Her death was a glorious death! Her attendants had supposed for some time, that the agony, except the last gasp, was finished: suddenly, a smile so radiant lighted up her face, that they thought she would laugh aloud: "Beautiful! beautiful!" (said she with great emphasis) "I see angels! Father, forgive my sins for Jesus's sake"-and breathed her life out.

I have spoken of Presbyterians and Episcopalians

-I write now of a Methodist "after the strictest sect," and the "leader" of a "class" of members of that church according to the terms of the Wesleyan Discipline. He was in very humble life, and a poor man. He had been married a short time, and was the father of one child. His health had been sound, he was young, and his prospect for long life was good; but "the Master" came and called for him, and he willingly obeyed the summons. A little while before the occurrence of the few incidents which I shall notice, one of his neighbours had been convinced of sin, and had for several days endured horrible sufferings on account of it; whilst the subject of this notice was praying "with him and for him" under a crab-tree, he experienced that "peace of God, which passeth all understanding." A little while before his death, (his disease was short and violent, but did not affect his mind at all) whilst surrounded by relatives and friends, that neighbour entered his house, and found him in fine spirits. "Ah! brother D-" said he, "I have not forgotten the crab-tree." Soon after another neighbour was added to the company. "Brother B-," was his salutation, "I am glad to see you—I was about to send for you. I wish you to make my coffin, and to have me decently buried in the yard of the little meeting-house where we have had so many good meetings." His friends and family wept much: "Do not distress yourselves on my account," said he, "I am as happy as I now wish to be, but I shall soon be a great deal happier." His weeping wife then seated herself beside his bed, and

held up in his view their infant; the trial was a sore one, and he felt it; but he triumphed, and sung with great animation,

"Hinder me not,

For I will serve God, and praise him when I die," and soon afterwards passed over Jordan.