die." She was the most concerned that she was kept from her school and from the means of grace.

Owing to her complaint, she could talk but little : however, she told her mother again that she should die. Her mother began to weep over her: but she said, "Don't cry, mother; I shall be happy! happy! very happy!" which was all she could then say.

About two days after, one of her teachers called to see her, who asked her how she found the state of her mind. She answered, "Very happy." After she had been still a little, she pointed to one part of the room, and said, "See! see! there are angels!-there are angels!" Joy beamed in her face, and she seemed as though her time was fully come.

Sometimes she smiled; her lips were seen to move, and she was heard to say, "I am coming! I am coming!" and immediately resigned her soul into the hands of her God. She died in 1802, aged fourteen years.

6. THE LITTLE BOY'S LAST PRAYER.

A PIOUS little boy, who attended the Sabbath school, a few hours before his death broke out into singing, and sung so loud as to cause his mother to inquire what he was doing.

"I am singing my sister's favourite hymn, mother." "But why, my dear, so loud?"

"Why?" said he, with peculiar emphasis; "because I am so happy!"

Just before his death, with uplifted hands, he exclaimed, "Father! Father! take me, Father!" His father went to lift him up, when, with a smile, he said, "I did not call you, father; but I was calling to my heavenly Father to take me; I shall soon be with him:" and then expired.

7. MARY FRANCES RIGHT.

MARY FRANCES RIGHT departed this life, in the city of New-York, on the 24th of October, 1850, aged eight years and ten months. She was a child of most amiable disposition, and delighted in her Sabbath school. Her father preceded her a few months to the eternal world; and her mind became deeply interested in the things of death and heaven.

When first taken sick, she seemed to anticipate her departure; but it did not in the least disturb her peace. She frequently asked her mother and friends to sing; and seemed to long to join in the praises of God. Looking up to her mother, she said, "You have been a kind mother to me;" and then, musing a moment, she added, "Though father is dead, I have a kinder Father and Friend in heaven." When so weak that she could not remember the Lord's prayer, she desired her mother to help her, and seemed to take great delight in breathing out its petitions to her Father in heaven. She said she wished to be buried by the side of her dear papa, and she knew she should be with him in heaven.

At one time, just before she died, she appeared very happy; and in her ecstasy, looking up and around, she cried out, "I see heaven, and the angels are round about my bed." Her mother asked whether she would rather die or live. To which she replied, "I would rather die, and go home to heaven."

Thus departed this little girl, giving the most unmistakable evidence that the seeds of truth sown in her youthful breast had been productive of the most blessed fruit.

8. "I HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST."

A LITTLE boy, who was educated in one of the London Hibernian schools in the county of Roscommon, was seized by sickness, and confined to his bed. In a few days his dissolution seemed to be near. The parents of the boy being Roman Catholics, sent immediately for the priest, to have the rites of their Church administered, which, in their estimation, was the needful preparation for heaven. On the arrival of the priest, the boy seemed much confused, and astonished at his coming. "Your visit," said the boy, "was altogether unnecessary; I have no need of your help or assistance: I have a great High Priest at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him. He lives forevermore, to make intercession; and He is such a Priest as I require." The priest, perceiving it to be in vain to reason at such a time, and knowing the boy to have been made acquainted with the Bible, went away. The child requested his parents to send for his schoolmaster, who stated that he never witnessed such a scene; it was altogether unexpected. The boy was always silent; though he was attentive to the instructions given at school, he never once hinted a change in his sentiments. In the course of conversation he was asked if he was afraid to die. "No," replied the boy; "my Redeemer is Lord of the dead and living; I love him for his love to me, and soon I hope to be with him to see his glory."

9. SON OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.

A CONSUMPTIVE disease seized the eldest son and heir of the duke of Hamilton, which ended in his death. A little before his departure from the world, he lay ill at the family seat near Glasgow. Two ministers had come to see him; the duchess, fearful of fatiguing him, said to one of them, "Mr. if my son, when you go in, asks you to pray with him, I wish you to decline it.'

He bowed, and entered the room where the youth lay. After a conversation on subjects relating to the soul and eternity, they rose to depart.

"You will pray with me, Mr.

youth, "before you go."

-," said the lovely

The minister bowed, and begged to decline it. "Why?" said the

young duke.

"Her grace rather wished me not to do so."

And pray, sir," said he to the other minister, "did

her grace lay any such injunction upon you?"

He replied, "No."

"O, well, then," said he, "you may do it without disobeying her."

After the minister had prayed, the dying youth put his hand back, and took his Bible from under his pillow, and opened it at the passage, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day-and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing." "This, sirs," said he, "is all my comfort."

As he was lying on the sofa, his tutor was conversing with him on some astronomical subject, and about the

nature of the fixed stars. "Ah," said he, "in a little while I shall know more of this than all of you together."

When his death approached, he called his brother to his bed-side, and, addressing him with the greatest affection and seriousness, he closed with these remarkable words:" And now, Douglas, in a little time you will be a duke, but I shall be a king."

10. THE DYING MINER BOY.

THIS story relates to a poor boy, who worked in a coalmine in the north of England. The love of God dwelt in his heart, and made him diligent and obedient. Every night, after his toil was over, he read the Bible to his mother.

At length a terrible accident happened. By a sudden rush of water into the mine all communication with the outer world was cut off for a time, and seventy-five persons, who were at work in the interior of the pit, perished for want of fresh air. The boy we have mentioned, and his father, were among the number; though another child of the family, named Johnny, who was nearer the mouth of the pit when the water came in, escaped. When the bodies of the dead were brought out, a box which the boy had with him in the mine, was carried to his mother. What must have been her feelings, when she discovered on the top of the box these words :"Fret not, dear mother, for we were singing while we had time, and praising God!" The thoughtful and kind boy, amid the darkness of the pit, had written this with a bit of sharp iron, to console his mother. On the other side of the box he had also written for his father, who could not write himself, this message:— "If Johnny is saved, be a good lad to God and thy mother."