afterward for her cousin, and then for another of our family who was present. Her prayer was not long, but every word was weighty, and her manner very affecting-the purport was, that they might all be taught, and comforted by the Lord. About five in the afternoon she desired me to pray with her once more. Surely I then prayed from my heart. When I had finished, she said, Amen. I said, 'My dear child, have I expressed your meaning? She answered, O yes!' and then added, 'I am ready to say, "Why are thy chariot wheels so long in coming?" But I hope he will enable me to wait his hour with patience.' These were the last words I heard her speak.

"Towards seven o'clock, I was walking in the garden, and earnestly engaged in prayer for her, when a servant came to me and said, 'She is gone.' O Lord, how great is thy power! how great is thy goodness! A few days before, had it been practicable and lawful, what would I not have given to procure her recovery? yet seldom in my life have I known a more heart-felt joy, than when these words,She is gone,' sounded in my ears. I ran up stairs, and our whole little family were soon around her bed. Though her aunt and another person were sitting with their eyes fixed upon her, she was gone, perhaps a few minutes, before she was missed. She lay upon her left side, with her cheek gently reclining upon her hand as if in a sweet sleep. And I thought there was a smile upon her countenance. Never surely did death appear in a more beautiful, inviting form! We fell upon our knees, and I returned, I think I may say, my most unfeigned thanks to our God and Saviour, for his abundant goodness to her, crowned in this last instance by giving her so gentle a dismission Yes, I am satisfied, I am comforted. And if one of the many involuntary tears I have shed, could have recalled her to life, to health, to an assemblage of all that this world

could contribute to her happiness, I would have laboured hard to suppress it. Now my largest desires for her are accomplished. The days of her mourning are ended. She is landed on the peaceful shore, where the storms of trouble never blow. She is forever out of the reach of sorrow, sin, temptation, and snares. Now she is before the throne! She sees Him whom not having seen she loved; she drinks of the rivers of pleasure which are at his right hand, and shall thirst no more.

"She breathed her spirit into her Redeemer's hands a little before seven in the evening, on October 6, 1785, aged fourteen years and eight months."

4. ELLEN FOULDS.

ELLEN was blessed with pious parents, and when about three or four years old she gave proofs of a serious mind. She delighted in attending worship with her parents, and when quite young became a very attentive hearer. Sometimes her mind was so deeply impressed with the great truths of the Gospel that the tears would run down over her face. Thus was her heart early affected in relation to Divine things.

When Ellen was about six years old she was afflicted with the measles, and from that time was often unwell, and sometimes rather impatient. But in her last illness, which occurred in her eleventh year, she was very different in this respect, and seemed much changed in her temper, and became very serious.

During the last two months of her life her desires. were placed on heaven. She was not afraid to die, nor did she wish to get better.

Once her mother asked her why she was so desirous to die. She answered, "I long to go to heaven." Her mother then asked her if she never had any fears of

going to hell. She said, "No." She put the same question to her again, and received the same answer. She then asked her if she thought she had never sinned. She said, "Yes, many and many a time; but I think I shall be saved." She believed when she died she should see Jesus Christ and his holy angels, and be happy forever.

This good little girl loved to pray, and often wanted her father to pray with her. She desired her mother to read about the sufferings of Jesus Christ: this she was very fond of; and once when her mother read to her the account of our Saviour's sufferings in the garden, she was much affected with these words: "And His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." The tears ran down her cheeks, a pleasing smile sat on her pale face, and she seemed desirous of going to Jesus, to live in his presence.

She felt great love to Christ, and to all children who loved him. Jesus says, "I love them that love me, and they that seek me early shall find me.”

About two days before her death she said to her mother, "I think death is near-send for my father." On her mother replying he would be at home about eleven o'clock, she said, "But if he does not come soon he will be too late. If I see him no more, tell him to be sure to live to God when I am dead."

At these words her mother was much affected, and said, "The Lord bless thee, my lamb."

She replied, "I am blessed, and shall be blessed: do not weep for me; and do not weep when I am buried: I shall go to heaven. If I had lived till I had been a woman, very likely I might have gone through a deal of trouble, and perhaps might have been very wicked, and been lost at last; but if I die now I shall be saved. This world will soon be over, and then some must go to the right hand of God, and some to the left. Whatever

you do, be sure to live to God; and tell people, when I am dead, to be good, and let none of your children break the Sabbath."

In this way she talked as she could, till her strength failed her.

About two hours after she appeared very happy, and repeated, as she sat up in bed,

"For me my elder brethren stay,
And angels beckon me away,
And Jesus bids me come."

The day before she died some of her school-companions came to see her, whom she exhorted to fear and love God. She told them never to say any bad words, nor break the Sabbath; and when they left her, she bade them farewell, and said, "May God bless you, and bring you to heaven when you die."

At night she was very ill, and continued so until five or six o'clock the next morning, at which time she was much better; and seeing her father kneeling at her bedside, she said, "Father, you have a great deal to do in this world; but it will soon be over; and whatever you do, take care to live to God."

Upon her mother saying that she thought her sensible, Ellen looked at her, and replied, "Yes, I am sensible; and whatever you do, be sure to live to God; and tell people, when I am dead, to be good."

She begged of them to take care of her brother and sisters that she was going to leave behind her, and to bring them up in the fear of God.

A little before she died she said to her father, "I am happy."

He replied, "Then you are not afraid to die?"

She answered, "I am not ;" and soon after her happy spirit left this world to be blessed with the joys of paradise.

5. SOPHIA TRENTHAM.

WHEN about six years old Sophia went to the Sunday school, and was very constant in her attendance. Her conduct toward her school-fellows and teachers was such as gained their esteem.

While she continued in a state of health nothing could prevent her from going to school on Sundays: though idle girls sometimes wished her to stay away, she would not hear them; and however it might rain or snow, she was always present to receive instruction. Meekness, love, and kindness, were so manifest in all her actions, that she was beloved by all, and held up as a pattern for others.

She was very fond of her parents, and was always ready to do what she could to show her love to them.

At eight years of age she became more serious than ever she had been before, and gladly received religious instruction. From this time she became very earnest in prayer, and often in the evening she would have all the family together to pray with them, and afterwards would retire to bed with praises in her mouth.

When she was about eleven or twelve years of age she had a clear testimony of the favour of Heaven, and knew that she was a child of God.

A little before she was taken ill, she was talking to her mother about the goodness of God to her, and of her own weakness; and seemed to have such a view of herself that she could not forbear saying, "O that it would please God to take me to himself! I had much rather die before I commit any more sin."

When she was first afflicted, she told her mother she believed she should die. "Yes," she said, "I shall