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On Wednesday, the 27th, she entered the dark valley, but not alone. While precious promises were being repeated, she joined: "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;" and when the 23rd Psalm was read to her, she said with deep feeling: "He is with me." Seeing her mother weep, she said in a tone of deep affection: "Mother, don't cry; I am going home."

Sorrowful watchers bent over her couch that night. The busy world heeded not that an angel had come down to bear away in triumph a glorious redeemed spirit to the bosom of its God. But so it was. The night wore on, and for a time she slept. The inspired description of the New Jerusalem had been read to her, and on awaking, her mother said: "The pearly gates will soon be open." They are open, mother," she earnestly replied; and again she slept.

Thus did life ebb out. It was well-nigh gone, when with great distinctness, she said slowly: "Salvation is by faith." It was her dying testimony to the doctrine that had sustained and blessed her, her watchword at the gate of heaven. A period of unconsciousness ensued. Then one bright momentary gleam as the invisible was revealed, and the spirit fled.

"Her's was another morn from ours."

In Memoriam.

Eliza.

IN the weary winter morning, some hours before the dawn,
Whilst the dark was at the window, and the frost lay on the lawn,
Dim lights were in the chamber, and fleet shadows on the wall—
A stranger had just entered that brought sorrow o'er us all.

An Angel had come downward in the darkness of the night,

He came to call our Sister, and he took her ere the light-
She long had looked for Him, but we had prayed the Lord with tears,
To spare that precious one, for we had loved her many years.

We watched her from a child, and we had heard her talk for hours, Of all the glorious charms she found in this grand world of ours; Each time she spoke she seemed as she had been to some far sphere, And learnt a higher lore than we might ever teach her here.

In the varied change of leaf and flower, in every breeze that blew,
She found a rarer loveliness than we could ever view;
And warmer grew her heart, the more her spirit seemed to be
Communing with some marvellous world, which we could never see.

We saw that she was changing fast-when evening airs grew chill, No more we heard her hearty laugh come ringing up the hill ; And the summer tints upon her cheek were withering one by one, As the autumn brought its faded leaves, and took away the sun.

We watched her grow in goodness, and in gentleness, and worth,
And the more she lived among us, yet the less she seemed of earth;
So we loved her, and we marvelled, and every gift being given,
She then became an Angel, and the Angel went to heaven.

She knew not why so beauteous seemed the hectic on her cheek,
She knew not why each day she grew so lowly and so meek;
She knew not why friends wept when they would kiss her pallid brow,
They'd given her smile for smile, and why were they so changed now?

O yes, she felt, she felt why now so beautiful she grew,

And why so long her soul had prized what now she felt so true,-
He'd loved her and prepared her all His goodliness to see,
The King of that good land where she, whilst here, would often be.

She waited for the Angel-he has been, and she is gone,-
We bade a long farewell to her, and we are left alone:

We know why she has lived so well, we know why she has died,-
That Angel yet shall come again, and take us to her side!

JANUARY, 1858.

J. E.

ERRATA:

Page 65, line 9, for Apocrypha read "Apocalypse."

Page 80, line 32, dele “his."

Page 134, line 6, for Sowing Society read "Sewing Society." Page 134, line 8, for five read "four."

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