our children, for whom you have done so much? They are the pictures of health, and their growing faculties render them children of great promise. But these flowers must fade, these children must die.

Our greatest concern is to train them up for God, and in the way that they should go. Help by your prayers. And may the Lord bless you, and your children, and bring us all to meet in glory when time is no more.

Extract of a letter written from Maine to Vermont.

Respected Friends,

Through the great goodness of God, I am favored with an opportunity of writing to you, and gladly lay aside the pressing cares of life, and employ a pleasant moment in reflecting on your many acts of benevolence to me and mine, when a stranger with you; especially the trying hour of sickness. Receive my sincere and hearty thanks, for all the kindness shown me, which I shall remember, and often with that tenderness of heart, which causes my tears to flow in abundance.

Yea, I go to the throne of grace, and cry to God for you, and plead his precious promise, to such as visit the sick, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, relieve the oppressed, and entertain the stranger. But Ah! What will all my tears, and prayers, together with those of my companion, and all the Israel of God, avail, unless you comply with the offers of salvation, as recorded in the Bible? Let

me inquire, are your souls in health? Are you travelling in the narrow, happy way, that leads to everlasting bliss? If so, I congratulate you on your pilgrimage journey. All hail ye redeemed of the Lord-ye children of the most high God! Go on. By the grace of God I will meet you in glory.

"There to sing and shout our sufferings o'er,
On that eternal happy shore."

Or are you negligent about the important concerns of the soul? Are you halting without securing the precious pearl of inestimable worth? If so, you have reason to fear (after all) lest a promise being left you-any of us should come short of it.

Forgive my boldness of speech, for I realize that we are eternity bound souls, who must exist as long as God exists, in happiness or woe. Prepare to meet thy God: That when he comes to make up his jewels, we may be found joyful on God's right hand.

My health, that of the children, and my husband's, is good as usual. May you and yours enjoy a like blessing.

With esteem, F. N.

Extract of a Letter written from Calais to Readfield, Maine.

The Lord has been very good to me. My health is as good as usual. I have been sick, but the Lord has raised me up. I enjoy my mind, and am resolved to serve the Lord, all the days of my ap

pointed time, until my change comes. I mean to redeem my time with great industry, so that when I am called to leave this world, I may finish my course with joy, and not with grief. Then it will be easy dying! May the Lord grant that we may prove it true, by blessed and happy experience!-With joy I received your letter, and read your desires to serve the Lord; and my cry was, Amen! May that dear woman follow on to know the Lord, and the increasing light, like the dawning morning, will be to you the light of life. Happy living, and easy dying. For your encouragement, reflect, God requires the whole heart. Ŏ give it to him without O reserve. A broken and contrite heart is a sacrifice well pleasing in the sight of God. Truly, it is a great thing to be a Christian! But it is possible to be such an one as the Lord will accept, and love. Genuine piety is a change from nature to grace, Christ the hope of glory formed in the soul; as Paul says, "Christ in you the hope of glory." Time is short. Be faithful. Consider your Christian privileges; the meanest place in the cause of God is glorious-a door keeper is better than to dwell in the tents of sin. The love I have for perishing souls makes hard things easy. 'Tis like death to me to live in sloth and cold indifference. Let us then arise and shine, for the light is come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon us.

F. N.

Extract of a Letter from Calais to Readfield, Me.

Dear Youth,

I take my pen with pleasure to answer your let

ter, and with you, hope that it will not be the last. But life is uncertain. These lines may come to your place of abode and you, like a rose plucked in the bloom, may be gone! And your charming beauties may be sunk in death's cold embrace. Or should you live to read what I have written, I may be gone from the earth far away. With these thoughts, I look to God for wisdom, that my time in writing, and your time in reading, may not be spent in vain, or wasted like too many of our precious moments already gone, eternally unimproved.

You expressed a wish, that all the prayers and exhortations with which you had been blessed, might not be lost upon you, but that they may leave impressions never to be worn off. Amen, was my reply; so let it be, O Lord. The Bible shows us, that there is a possibility of such a loss; for the word of God saith, (Hebrews iv. 2,) "The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." In order, then, to come to God in a spiritual way, you must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. But when asked, Do you believe he is? you answer, Yes. Do you believe that he is a rewarder of all who diligently seek him ?-silence, or a reply, he cannot reward such a sinner as I am, is made. Here you see the lack of faith. Another hindrance is the lack of humility. Joseph did not make himself known unto his brethren, till humility had pressed them down, and he saw the anguish of their hearts, and heard them confess their guilt in seeking their brother Joseph's ruin. So Christ will save none who have passed the time of accountability without faith and repentance.

Faith is composed, I might say, of three things

first, assent of the understanding; secondly, consent of the will; thirdly, affiance of the heart. Let me say to you, be wise to know your gracious day.

Harbor pride, and unbelief, and they will carry you down the splendid current of this world's glory, and bar Christ and heaven out of your heart, and ripen you for that ruin that will assuredly overtake the wicked. Fly then to Christ. He is able and willing to save all who come to God by him. Think it not hard, that he requires something of you. Be willing to rank among those saved in the days of his sojourning on earth. Bring the question home to your own heart,-Dost thou believe that I am able to do this? All things are possible to him who believeth. As thy faith, so be it done unto thee. But a hint in your letter, that doubts, whether it is true, perplex you at times. Leave them as not worthy of a place in your mind. Be on the sure side. Live according to the Divine requirements, and it will be for your true happiness, even in this present life, and never can harm you on a bed of sickness and death, to reflect that you have practised holiness in the fear of God. Jesus, who knew well what was in both worlds, has said, "O that thou hadst known, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes."

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O then let us fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, you and I come short. My young friend, I have written a long letter, receive it as my good will; weak and imperfect as it is. My prayer is, that you may be stimulated to attend to that more sure word of prophecy, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your heart. Then